Gimranova, Aliya2018-12-132018-12-132018Aliya Gimranova (2018) Implementation of new curriculum reform in secondary education of Kazakhstan: Study of teachers’ perspectives. Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education.http://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/3678The purpose of this study is to examine primary school teachers’ perspectives on the new curriculum reform and factors influencing the implementation. The research questions explore how teachers implement the new primary curriculum reform; what factors support the implementation; and what factors constrain the implementation. A qualitative research method was used, within it the collective case studies were conducted to do in-depth examination of two cases: a rural and an urban mainstream school. Maximum variation purposeful sampling was used to select twelve teachers as the participants. Data were mainly collected through eighteen individual semi-structured interviews. The secondary data collection tool was document analysis...enAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United Statescurriculum reformcurriculumsecondary education of KazakhstanMaster's thesis