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Huisman, Jeroen, Ed.; Smolentseva, Anna, Ed.; Froumin, Isak, Ed. – Palgrave Studies in Global Higher Education, 2018
This open access book is a result of the first ever study of the transformations of the higher education institutional landscape in fifteen former USSR countries after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It explores how the single Soviet model that developed across the vast and diverse territory of the Soviet Union over several decades…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Social Change
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Gevorgianiene, Violeta; Sumskiene, Egle – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2017
This article focuses on the situation of persons with intellectual disabilities in the developing post-Soviet countries and aims to review the extent to which services offered to them promote values of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and empower these persons to lead fulfilling lives. Interviews with experts revealed that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intellectual Disability, World History, Educational History
Silova, Iveta – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2010
The essays in "Globalization on the Margins" explore the continuities and changes in Central Asian education development since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Reflecting on two decades of post-socialist transformations, they reveal that education systems in Central Asia responded to the rapidly changing political, economic, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Teacher Shortage, Active Learning