Visionary hopes and technocratic fallacies in Russian education

Comparative Education Review

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 219-222

  Johnson, Mark S ^a  

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EID: 0031494270     PISSN: 00104086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/447434     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Eduard D. Dneprov, Shkol'naia reforma mezhdu "vchera" i "zavtra" (School reform between "yesterday" and "tomorrow") (Moscow: Federal Institute for Educational Planning of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Education, 1996); Stephen P. Heyneman, et al., Russia: Education in the Transition/Rossiia: obrazovanie v perekhodnoi period (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Europe Central Asia Country Division III, Human Resources Division, 1995).
2. Eduard D. Dneprov, Shkol'naia reforma mezhdu "vchera" i "zavtra" (School reform between "yesterday" and "tomorrow") (Moscow: Federal Institute for Educational Planning of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation and the Russian Academy of Education, 1996); Stephen P. Heyneman, et al., Russia: Education in the Transition/Rossiia: obrazovanie v perekhodnoi period (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Europe Central Asia Country Division III, Human Resources Division, 1995).
3. On this period, see also E. D. Dneprov, V. S. Lazarev, and V. S. Sobkin, Rossiiskoe obrazovanie v perekhodnoi period: programma stabilizatsii i razvitiia (Moscow: Ministry of Education of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, 1991); Ben Eklof and Edward Dneprov, eds., Democracy in the Russian School (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1993); E. D. Dneprov, "Reform of Russia and Government Policy in the Sphere of Education," East/West Education 14, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 13-24, and Chetvertaia shkol'naia reforma y Rossii (Moscow: Interprake, 1994).
4. On this period, see also E. D. Dneprov, V. S. Lazarev, and V. S. Sobkin, Rossiiskoe obrazovanie v perekhodnoi period: programma stabilizatsii i razvitiia (Moscow: Ministry of Education of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, 1991); Ben Eklof and Edward Dneprov, eds., Democracy in the Russian School (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1993); E. D. Dneprov, "Reform of Russia and Government Policy in the Sphere of Education," East/West Education 14, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 13-24, and Chetvertaia shkol'naia reforma y Rossii (Moscow: Interprake, 1994).
5. On this period, see also E. D. Dneprov, V. S. Lazarev, and V. S. Sobkin, Rossiiskoe obrazovanie v perekhodnoi period: programma stabilizatsii i razvitiia (Moscow: Ministry of Education of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, 1991); Ben Eklof and Edward Dneprov, eds., Democracy in the Russian School (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1993); E. D. Dneprov, "Reform of Russia and Government Policy in the Sphere of Education," East/West Education 14, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 13-24, and Chetvertaia shkol'naia reforma y Rossii (Moscow: Interprake, 1994).
6. On this period, see also E. D. Dneprov, V. S. Lazarev, and V. S. Sobkin, Rossiiskoe obrazovanie v perekhodnoi period: programma stabilizatsii i razvitiia (Moscow: Ministry of Education of the Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, 1991); Ben Eklof and Edward Dneprov, eds., Democracy in the Russian School (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1993); E. D. Dneprov, "Reform of Russia and Government Policy in the Sphere of Education," East/West Education 14, no. 1 (Spring 1993): 13-24, and Chetvertaia shkol'naia reforma y Rossii (Moscow: Interprake, 1994).
7. For a defense of this agenda by some of its non-Russian architects, see Jan De Groof, ed., Comments on the Law on Education of the Russian Federation (Leuven, Belgium: ACCO, 1993); and Charles L. Glenn, Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, rev. ed. (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1995).
8. For a defense of this agenda by some of its non-Russian architects, see Jan De Groof, ed., Comments on the Law on Education of the Russian Federation (Leuven, Belgium: ACCO, 1993); and Charles L. Glenn, Educational Freedom in Eastern Europe, rev. ed. (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1995).
9. Mark S. Johnson, "Russian Education Reform in the 1990s," Harriman Review (in press). For useful English language overviews of the Dneprov years and their aftermath, see also John Dunstan, ed., Soviet Education under Perestroika (London: Routledge, 1992); Eklof and Dneprov, eds.; Jan de Groof, ed., Educational Policy in Russia and Its Constitutional Aspects (Leuven, Belgium: ACCO, 1994); Anthony Jones, ed., Education and Society in the New Russia (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1994); and Brian Holmes, Gerald H. Read, and Natalya Voskresenskaya, Russian Education: Tradition and Transition (New York: Garland, 1995).
10. Mark S. Johnson, "Russian Education Reform in the 1990s," Harriman Review (in press). For useful English language overviews of the Dneprov years and their aftermath, see also John Dunstan, ed., Soviet Education under Perestroika (London: Routledge, 1992); Eklof and Dneprov, eds.; Jan de Groof, ed., Educational Policy in Russia and Its Constitutional Aspects (Leuven, Belgium: ACCO, 1994); Anthony Jones, ed., Education and Society in the New Russia (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1994); and Brian Holmes, Gerald H. Read, and Natalya Voskresenskaya, Russian Education: Tradition and Transition (New York: Garland, 1995).
11. Mark S. Johnson, "Russian Education Reform in the 1990s," Harriman Review (in press). For useful English language overviews of the Dneprov years and their aftermath, see also John Dunstan, ed., Soviet Education under Perestroika (London: Routledge, 1992); Eklof and Dneprov, eds.; Jan de Groof, ed., Educational Policy in Russia and Its Constitutional Aspects (Leuven, Belgium: ACCO, 1994); Anthony Jones, ed., Education and Society in the New Russia (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1994); and Brian Holmes, Gerald H. Read, and Natalya Voskresenskaya, Russian Education: Tradition and Transition (New York: Garland, 1995).
12. Mark S. Johnson, "Russian Education Reform in the 1990s," Harriman Review (in press). For useful English language overviews of the Dneprov years and their aftermath, see also John Dunstan, ed., Soviet Education under Perestroika (London: Routledge, 1992); Eklof and Dneprov, eds.; Jan de Groof, ed., Educational Policy in Russia and Its Constitutional Aspects (Leuven, Belgium: ACCO, 1994); Anthony Jones, ed., Education and Society in the New Russia (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1994); and Brian Holmes, Gerald H. Read, and Natalya Voskresenskaya, Russian Education: Tradition and Transition (New York: Garland, 1995).
13. Mark S. Johnson, "Russian Education Reform in the 1990s," Harriman Review (in press). For useful English language overviews of the Dneprov years and their aftermath, see also John Dunstan, ed., Soviet Education under Perestroika (London: Routledge, 1992); Eklof and Dneprov, eds.; Jan de Groof, ed., Educational Policy in Russia and Its Constitutional Aspects (Leuven, Belgium: ACCO, 1994); Anthony Jones, ed., Education and Society in the New Russia (Armonk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1994); and Brian Holmes, Gerald H. Read, and Natalya Voskresenskaya, Russian Education: Tradition and Transition (New York: Garland, 1995).
14. The report was produced by an international study group led by Stephen Heyneman. The full list of those involved appears in Heyneman, et al., Annex I, pp. 1-3. See also the earlier analyses by Stephen P. Heyneman, "Education in the Europe and Central Asia Region: Policies of Adjustment and Excellence," no. IDP-145 (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, Office of the Vice President, Europe and Central Asia Region, 1994), "Issues of Education Finance and Management in ECA and OECD Countries," Human Resources Development and Operations Policy Working Papers no. 26 (Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1994).
15. For an earlier overview of these trends, see Philip W. Jones, World, Bank Financing of Education: Lending, Learning and Development (London: Routledge, 1992); see also Stephen P. Heyneman, "America's Most Precious Export," American School Board Journal (March 1995): 22-26, and "Educational Choice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: A Review Essay," Education Economics (in press), both of which discuss the perils of unregulated privatization and voucher driven choice in conditions of economic collapse and ethnic conflict.
16. For an earlier overview of these trends, see Philip W. Jones, World, Bank Financing of Education: Lending, Learning and Development (London: Routledge, 1992); see also Stephen P. Heyneman, "America's Most Precious Export," American School Board Journal (March 1995): 22-26, and "Educational Choice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: A Review Essay," Education Economics (in press), both of which discuss the perils of unregulated privatization and voucher driven choice in conditions of economic collapse and ethnic conflict.
17. For an earlier overview of these trends, see Philip W. Jones, World, Bank Financing of Education: Lending, Learning and Development (London: Routledge, 1992); see also Stephen P. Heyneman, "America's Most Precious Export," American School Board Journal (March 1995): 22-26, and "Educational Choice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: A Review Essay," Education Economics (in press), both of which discuss the perils of unregulated privatization and voucher driven choice in conditions of economic collapse and ethnic conflict.