Sadykova, Assel(Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education, 2022-05)
Kazakhstan is among the countries introducing English medium instruction (EMI) programs in higher education. Despite the rapid spread of EMI, students whose first language is not English have difficulty adjusting to an ...
Saniyazova, Aray(Graduate School of Education, 2016)
This mixed-method study examines and develops in-depth understanding of first-year university experience of undergraduate students at Nazarbayev University, an elite international university, located in Astana, the capital ...
Tazabek, Sholpan(Graduate School of Education, 2022-09)
This qualitative study explores how faculty members in higher education understand and experience internationalization. Driven by the idea that understandings of internationalization of higher education are strongly connected ...
Ivatov, Serik(Graduate School of Education, 2022-12)
Local actors play a crucial role in policy implementation as their actions may affect policy success. Although there has been the proliferation of studies on policy implementation and interpretation, there is the relative ...
Ablayeva, Moldir(Graduate School of Education, 2022-04)
Much attention has been focused on educational accountability globally. Therefore, teacher appraisal has become a high-stake teacher certification process in many contexts with the growing demand to enhance the quality of ...
Lopez Lara, Marcelo Jorge(Graduate School of Education, 2022-02)
In Kazakhstan, ungraded schools account for 56.5% of all schools (Yakavets & Dzhadrina, 2014). The State Program of Education Development for 2011-2020 (Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, 2010) ...
Ibrayeva, Laura(Graduate School of Education, 2022-05)
The significance of creativity and fostering creativity in the educational sphere is widely recognized internationally. Kazakhstan’s renewed curriculum emphasizes the importance of developing creativity in schools. Actual ...
Khanin, Stanislav(Graduate School of Education, 2022-08)
As advocated by many researchers, policymakers, and educational authorities, critical thinking, in its many forms and definitions, is a key to sustainable development, life, and career readiness, and therefore an essential ...
Makhmutova, Alfira(Graduate School of Education, 2022-04)
This study investigates Uyghur community stakeholders’ attitudes in relation to the trilingual education policy and Uyghur language maintenance in Kazakhstan. The Uyghurs form a minority group (1.4%) of 224,000 people in ...
Turmukhambetova, Lyazat(Graduate School of Education, 2022)
Initial teacher education (ITE) is attributed a special role, as it prepares teacher candidates to meet the constantly evolving teaching standards tailored in accordance with the national contexts (Bridges et al., 2014; ...
Nurpeissova, Aigul(Graduate School of Education, 2022-04)
Kazakhstan, being dependent on the world economy due to international cooperation in various aspects of the economy has been facing the economic issues in the world economy. During twenty-five year of independence, Kazakhstan ...
Makhmetova, Zhadyra(Graduate School of Education, 2021-07)
The double role of pre-service teachers (PTs) as future teachers and as students challenges the findings of many studies on PTs’ understanding of assessment. Only a few studies consider PTs as both students and teachers ...
Rydchenko, Viktoriya(Graduate School of Education, 2021)
The last decades witnessed substantial changes occurring in the higher education curriculum across the world. The transition to the knowledge-based economy has become the focus of the political agenda in many countries, ...
Namyssova, Gulnara(Graduate School of Education, 2021)
The role and status of teachers have been key agenda items of education reform in Kazakhstan since its independence. The evolving conceptualizations of teaching and teacher in Kazakhstan necessitate a deeper understanding ...
Kuchumova, Gulfiya(Graduate School of Education, 2021-05)
To prepare researchers who can “make important contributions to frontier research” (Bogle et al., 2010, p. 3) is a primary function of PhD education. PhD (doctoral) students grow as researchers by acquiring research ...
Assanbayev, Arman(Graduate School of Education, 2021)
This study discusses inclusive education in the Kazakhstani context. Next, the chapter elaborates on inclusive education policy context of Kazakhstan. Since the thesis covers the topic of Technical Vocational Education and ...
Orynbassarova, Dilara(Graduate School of Education, 2021-07)
This study aims to map the interaction of university, industry, and government (UIG) partnerships in research in Kazakhstan and pursues two major goals. First, the research aims to analyze the patterns of UIG partnerships ...
Apergenova, Renata(Graduate School of Education, 2020-05)
The aim of this study was to explore faculty perceptions and experiences of autonomy reforms at three Kazakhstani public higher education institutions.
Kazakhstan has taken great steps toward institutional autonomy since ...
Kambatyrova, Assel(Graduate School of Education, 2020)
Trilingual education policy is fomenting much debate among scholars and public intellectuals in Kazakhstan. However, parents’ ideologies in relation to trilingual education are not heard although their participation in ...
Tursunbayeva, Xeniya(Graduate School of Education, 2018)
The introduction of critical thinking into the national curriculum has recently become one of the aims of educational reforms worldwide. The international agencies present critical thinking as a 21st-century skill contributing ...