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Date sent:      	Thu, 01 Jul 1999 09:05:29 -0400
To:             	71524.2205@compuserve.com
From:           	riley <riley@cet.com> (by way of Fred Battey <fredb001@dreamscape.com>)
Subject:        	Russian-American Partners


Hello all:
     Appreciate all the updates and perspectives. Thanks.
     The best source I have found on educational changes in Russia can be
found at the Smith Research Center 102 at Indiana University, Bloomington.
the Institute for the Study of Russian Education was established in 1989
and keeps apace the changes.
     Their mission is to collect and disseminate information, make
contacts, exchanges. "ISRE participated in the Sochi conference, the
springboard for the book "Creating and Managing the Democratic School".
(Use interlibrary loan search). For those who missed an earlier message
the salient points of this book outline the elements of a social
democratic state dedicated to educating its citizens in participatory
governance and creating autonomous minds in the 'upbringing' (vospitanie)
of children. Parents are totalitarian if they instruct children in any
form of 'doctrine' which is an anathma to the educrats who wish to
'educate for democracy', but they see this type of upbringing the essence
of self-determinism and I'll bet the most expedient way to disinherit
children from God's blessings and grace and chip away any memory of our
Republican form of government in future generations.


     The website lists some of the partnerships.
1. Global Awareness Program at Florida International University.
2. West Virginia University, where an annual teacher-training seminar
familiarizes educators with classroom practices in Russia. 3. british
Study Group on Education in Russia. 4. Institut fuer Paedagogik at
ruhr-Universitat Bochum, Germany 5. St. Petersburg Pedagogical U. . . etc.


Board of Advisors:
Edward Dneprov, special advisor to President Yeltsin, Stephen Kerr Prof.
of Education at Un. of Washington, Elena Lenskaia (aks Yelena Lenskaya),
dir. of international projects, Elizabeth Talbot of Un. of Illinois and
Janet Vaillant, at Harvard.
http://www.indiana.edu/~isre/NEWSLETTER/vol6no2/oecd.htm an OECD report.


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