Abstract:
This book includes contributions from 31 authors from Kazakhstan, the UK, and the US, and
analyses reforms to the secondary education system of Kazakhstan. The primary purposes of
these reforms were twofold: first, to “nationalise the curriculum to reflect the cultural and
ethnic history of Kazakhstan” (p. xxxi); second, to internationalise the curriculum and improve
educational quality to enable the country to compete in a global economy. Many authors were
involved in enacting these reforms and in studying them