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Teacher Identity in the Context of Current School Reforms in Kazakhstan

Khegay, Yuliya (Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education, 2017-12)

Kazakhstan is currently experiencing tremendous reforms in secondary education trying on best practices and experiences borrowed from abroad. Important figures at this stage are Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools (NIS) created ...
Teachers’ Experiences of Using CLIL in Kazakh Language Classrooms

Kakenov, Ruslan (Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education, 2017-12)

This paper investigates teachers’ experiences of teaching the content and language simultaneously by using the Content and Language-Integrated Learning (CLIL) approach when delivering social science subjects, such as ...
TEACHING (AND STUDYING) THE MUSIC OF THE GRATEFUL DEAD

Felix, Brian (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

This article aims to provide answers to two questions: why teach about the music of the Grateful Dead, and how to do so? In an effort to engage the former, this article examines the ways that the Grateful Dead provides a ...
Teaching Approaches: Theory and Practice

Akimenko, Olessya (NUGSE Research in Education, 2016)

While according to some authors, teaching approach is the way of teaching students, implying the kinds of teaching and learning activities that a teacher conducts and the ways in which teacher engages students with the ...
TEACHING THE GRATEFUL DEAD, HAPPENINGS, & SPONTANEOUS PEDAGOGY

Slesinger, Ryan (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

To teach a course on the Grateful Dead I developed a praxis I call “spontaneous pedagogy” that pairs academic rigor with flexible curriculum details to enable creativity and engagement among students in a truly student-centered ...
TEACHING THE GRATEFUL DEAD PHENOMENON AND CULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Dollar, Natalie (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

Communication studies is particularly well-situated for teaching a course about the Grateful Dead phenomenon and using the phenomenon to teach discipline-specific content. This combination, teaching “the” Grateful Dead and ...
TEACHING THE GRATEFUL DEAD WITH NIETZSCHE’S BIRTH OF TRAGEDY

Spector, Stanley J. (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

Friedrich Nietzsche published his first work, The Birth of Tragedy out of the Spirit of Music in 1872 and his last work, Ecce Homo in 1888. In not only these two works, but also in his other writings as well, one of the ...
TEACHING WITH THE DEAD: A SHORT PERSONAL REMEMBRANCE

Weiner, Rob (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

This essay is a personal remembrance of teaching an Honors course related to the Grateful Dead, the Beat Generation, and the Counterculture at Texas Tech University during the Spring of 2019. It describes the readings, ...
The benefits of blogging

Yessenova, Aisara (2016-06)

Blogging is an unconventional way for students to hone their academic writing skills. Blogs are "a chronological publication in which personal thoughts and opinions are posted" (Lai & Chen, 2011, p. 948). The introduction ...
The Key Drivers of the Unified National Test in Kazakhstan: A Critical Analysis of its Impact on School Leavers

Jumabayeva, Zhanna (NUGSE Research in Education, 2016)

This study is aimed to identify the key drivers of the Unified National Test in Kazakhstan and to determine its impact on school leavers. The main key drivers of implementing the new assessment policy include the ...
The Promise of Publication: Reflections from a PhD Student

Jumabayeva, Zhanna (NUGSE Research in Education, 2017)

Publishing can be useful in a wide range of ways, including the professional growth, worldwide recognition, knowledge acquirement and self-learning that is involved in the process. I would like now to share my experience ...
The role of language policies in developing plurilingual identities in kazakhstan

Syzdykbayeva, Rizagul (2016-06)

Kazakhstan is a multicultural country that conducts democratic policy towards every ethnic group living there; therefore, major language policy documents raise the importance of maintaining and developing all languages in ...
The Role of the Mentor in the First Year of Teaching

Kadyrova, Samal (NUGSE Research in Education, 2017)

This article explores the effectiveness of mentorship relationships in addressing first year teachers’ challenges at the beginning of their career at one of the Kazakhstani private schools. The study examines the concept ...
THESEUS LOSES HIS WAY: VIKTOR PELEVIN’S HELMET OF HORROR AND THE OLD LABYRINTH FOR THE NEW WORLD

Traweek, Alison (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2014)

This article explores the relationship between the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur, and Viktor Pelevin’s 2006 adaptation of it, The Helmet of Horror, particularly how it can serve as a case study for the nature and ...
“THIS CABAL GUY COULD BE RIGHT”: NUMERIC CORRELATIONS IN MAURY YESTON’S IN THE BEGINNING

Vandegrift, Leonard (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2018)

The study of gematria and isopsephy, the numeric conversion of Hebrew and Greek words, yields an abundant harvest of biblical insight. Though applying this method to more secular literature is rare, we have a unique set ...
THE TIN WOODMAN, CAPTAIN FYTER, AND CHOPFYT: L. FRANK BAUM’S PORTRAYAL OF BODY IMAGE AND PROSTHESES IN THE WAKE OF WORLD WAR I

Gethins, Marie (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2020)

Nineteenth and early twentieth-century children’s literature frequently depicts characters with disabilities as flat stereotypes — villains or saintly invalids. L. Frank Baum’s The Tin Woodman of Oz (1918) provides a sharp ...
To Be or Not To Be: A Teacher Commitment in Meeting Students’ Diverse Needs

Saduakas, Kymbat (Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education, 2018-12)

This case study presents the experience of a young teacher at a private educational center, who enthusiastically works as an English teacher, and has forty academic hours per week including additional responsibilities of ...
A TOUCH OF GREY: PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ON TEACHING THE GRATEFUL DEAD TO SENIORS

Trudeau, Robert (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2022)

This essay reflects on several occasions in which I was a facilitator introducing the music of the Grateful Dead to groups of senior citizens. Several themes emerge: First, there is the need to separate the facilitator’s ...
TRIPLE THREAT OR TRIPLE OPPORTUNITY: WHEN A POP CULTURE COURSE GOES ONLINE AT A COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Eaton, Lance; Rockey, Alex (Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy, 2020)

Teaching popular culture comes with many opportunities and challenges in a traditional classroom, but equally interesting and valuable are the possibilities that teaching such a course online can provide. This article ...
University sustainability in relation to higher education funding model in Kazakhstan in the context of transition period

Mhamed, Ali Ait Si; Ibrasheva, Alima; Kasa, Rita; Nurmagambetov, Amantay; Sagintayeva, Aida; Vossensteyn, Hans (NUGSE Research in Education, 2018-06)

For the past four years, the international team of Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education’s researchers and faculty members has jointly worked with local policy makers, practitioners and stakeholders on the ...