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Warford, Mark K. – Teaching and Teacher Education: An International Journal of Research and Studies, 2011
Toward the end of his short life, Lev Vygotsky found himself teaching teachers in a remote part of the USSR. Though his influence as a developmental psychologist is well-established, little is known about his approach to teacher development. This article applies the researcher's core concept, the zone of proximal development to teacher education.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education Curriculum, Educational Theories
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Asanova, Jazira – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2007
This paper analyses Kazakhstan's new generation literature textbooks for Kazakh-medium schools, with a focus on national identity and citizenship constructs that the revised textbooks promote. By comparing the literature textbooks of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods, the paper discusses Soviet institutional and cultural legacies that continue to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, Literature, Nationalism
Govako, Boris Ivanovich – Soviet Education, 1990
Presents results of survey and questionnaire research on how both single and married young people spend their leisure time in the Soviet Union. Finds that a number of traditional leisure pastimes are being crowded out by new technical and artistic activities. Expresses concern that student families have little leisure time largely because of…
Descriptors: Extracurricular Activities, Family Life, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
Mitkin, A. – 1987
Reported are three series of experiments analyzing the development of the visual function of infants. The first experimental series was aimed at the investigation of infants' reaction to moving objects. The second experimental series dealt with the analysis of the development of binocular vision in infants. The goal of the third series was to…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Depth Perception, Eye Movements, Foreign Countries
Snegireva, T. V. – Soviet Education, 1990
Discusses a study of psychological development in 37 Soviet ninth and tenth grade students. Applies cluster analysis in categorizing types of self-determination in terms of subjects' estimation of their past, present, and future selves. Finds the most common pattern, a critical attitude toward childhood accompanied by moderately high…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Cluster Analysis, Content Analysis, Foreign Countries
Avtamonov, Anatolii; Malyshev, Mikhail – Soviet Education, 1990
Discusses a survey involving over 800 Soviet secondary school students. Reports that 55.9 percent were satisfied with labor instruction, production practice, and productive labor. Reviews other findings. Considers needs to improve career guidance and cooperative education programs. Advocates early adolescent participation in school-labor…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Career Awareness, Career Guidance, Cooperative Education