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Lost in Transition: Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republic

Lost in Transition: Redefining Students and Universities in the Contemporary Kyrgyz Republic

DeYoung, Alan J.

Paperback

Series: International Perspectives on Educational Policy, Research and Practice

General Education

ISBN10: 1617352306
ISBN13: 9781617352300
Publisher: Information Age Publishing
Published: Jan 27 2011
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Being a student has been and remains a highly desirable status for young people and their families in Kyrgyzstan. Giving their children education (dat detyam obrazovaniye) - meaning higher education - has become an imperative for many parents, even in a time of serious economic and social decline. The numbers of universities and university enrollments have increased dramatically - in fact quadrupled - since Kyrgyz independence from the former USSR in 1991. All this is happening just as the overall system of secondary education has basically collapsed. School quality and outcomes of learning for most Kyrgyz youth have become increasingly marginal - even as those who run universities widely proclaim quality improvements and desires/intentions to join international higher education space. The book thus seeks to explain the manifest versus the latent functions of higher education in Kyrgyzstan. Relying on explanations of lived experience, the research attempts to explain how the seeming contradiction of a declining resource and intellectual base of universities yet appeals to parents and students as the system continues to expand with easily compromised accountability measures. The study approaches these topics by seeking to define what it now means to be a university student in Kyrgyzstan, as well as what many state universities have turned into in contrast in contrast to how they were remembered by those who attended and taught within them two decades ago. The work also considers a number of private and inter-governmental universities which are allowed to operate in Kyrgyzstan and award both state and international diplomas. I portray the different organizational and ideological pursuits of these universities as they contrast with those of the state universities.

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