EDUCATIONAL REFORM AND INTERNATIONALISATION: THE CASE OF SCHOOL REFORM IN KAZAKHSTAN

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