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Direct linkBorusiak, Liubov' – Russian Education and Society, 2012
It is acknowledged that the value of reading has gone down in today's Russian society, and this is rated as unequivocally negative. Instead of "the most well-read country in the world," Russia is now called a "society of TV viewers" by the some observers; it is not a nation of independent thinkers but passive objects of the influence of the state…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Intellectual Experience, Cultural Maintenance
Dubin, Boris – Russian Education and Society, 2012
In this commentary, the author stresses that reading habits in Russia have changed since the Soviet era, and the more intellectual journals and magazines in particular have lost their importance. Audiences for books and magazines have fragmented, and there are fewer sources of commonly shared information and ideas than was true a few decades ago.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Reading Habits, Age Differences, Periodicals
Download full textRussell, William Benedict, III, Ed. – International Society for the Social Studies, 2010
The "ISSS Annual Conference Proceedings" is a peer-reviewed professional publication published once a year following the annual conference. (Individual papers contain references.) [For the 2009 proceedings, see ED504973.]
Descriptors: Social Studies, Proverbs, Social Justice, Global Approach
Roberts, Peter – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2014
Fyodor Dostoevsky ranks among the most accomplished and respected figures in the history of literature. Almost a century and a half after his death, the major works for which he has become known--"The Brothers Karamazov," "Crime and Punishment," Demons", and "The Idiot" (Dostoevsky 1991, 1993, 1994, 2001,…
Descriptors: Novels, Authors, Nineteenth Century Literature, Russian Literature
Hillery, Leanne B.; Henkel, Harold L. – Public Services Quarterly, 2010
This article recounts the experience of the Regent University Library in planning and implementing a festival of Tolstoy and Russian culture as part of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Big Read initiative. The NEA launched the Big Read in 2006 to counter the alarming decline of literary reading documented in its 2002 report Reading at…
Descriptors: National Organizations, Art Activities, Program Development, Reading Programs
Dronov, V. P.; Kondakov, A. M. – Russian Education and Society, 2010
Practically no one will dispute that the future of Russia depends on the successfulness of the multifaceted modernization of Russian society, a task that cannot be confined solely to the socioeconomic sphere. The most fundamental task is that of changing the societal system of values and institutions. If Russia is to modernize successfully, the…
Descriptors: World Literature, General Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change
Gold, Jeff; Anderson, Lisa; Clarke, Jean; Thorpe, Richard – Action Learning: Research and Practice, 2009
This paper considers the work of the Russian social philosopher and cultural theorist, Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin as a source of understanding for those involved in action learning. Drawing upon data gathered over two years during the evaluation of 20 action learning sets in the north of England, we will seek to work with the ideas of Bakhtin to…
Descriptors: Business Administration Education, Experiential Learning, Foreign Countries, Group Dynamics
Sankin, L. – Russian Education and Society, 2007
On 28 November 2006 Russia observes the one-hundredth anniversary of Dmitrii Sergeevich Likhachev. By an edict of President V.V. Putin 2006 has been designated the year of D.S. Likhachev. A scientist of encyclopedic scope and a renowned researcher into Old Russian literature, Academician Likhachev became, starting in the second half of the 1980s,…
Descriptors: Unions, Foreign Countries, Russian Literature, Educational Environment
Maeots, Olga – 2000
This paper provides historical background on the Jews in Russia and relates the development of children's literature to historical events and situations such as the discriminatory national policy of Tsarism, the fall of Tsarism and the abolishment of discrimination, the political repression of the 1930s, World War II, and Stalin's anti-Jewish…
Descriptors: Authors, Childrens Literature, Foreign Countries, Jews
Chronicle of Higher Education, 2004
"Chronicle of Higher Education" presents an abundant source of news and information for college and university faculty members and administrators. This October 8, 2004 issue of "Chronicle of Higher Education" includes the following articles: (1) "Game for Anything" (Ruggill, Judd Ethan; Neelakantan, Shailaja); (2) "Starting Over" (Waite, James;…
Descriptors: Part Time Faculty, Teacher Employment Benefits, Drinking, Standardized Tests
Lauer, Ilon – Quarterly Journal of Speech, 2004
This essay analyzes the ways that Augustus's Res Gestae elaborates on the conditions of imperial rhetoric and power. Augustus's text documents the augmentation of the religious foundations of his power through the redefinition of the concept of authority, auctoritas, and through a vigorous effort to blend civic and religious spaces. The…
Descriptors: Rhetoric, Religion, Russian Literature, Organizational Climate
Byford, Andy – History of Education, 2004
Research into the history of Russian education has been primarily concerned with the sociopolitical dynamics of the educational field?concretely, with government policies on education and science, with the social composition of the teaching and academic corps, and with the broadly ideological attitudes and activities of government officials,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Secondary Education, Russian Literature
Peer reviewedGray, Esther – Stage of the Art, 2003
Explains a process drama which was constructed to help high school juniors better understand country life in Russia, and to help them empathetically bond with the characters in the short stories they were assigned to read. Describes how this role-playing challenged the false notion held by students that serfdom in Russia was similar to slavery in…
Descriptors: Cultural Education, Drama, Instructional Effectiveness, Role Playing
PDF pending restorationTejerizo, Margaret, Ed. – Rusistika: The Russian Journal of the Association for Language Learning, 1997
This journal focuses on the teaching and learning of Russian. Selected articles include the following: "Soviet Cinema: Women's films"; "Learning and Teaching Russian"; "Russian in a Weekend?""Words Having a Religious Connotation in Russian"; "Grammar and Communication: The Ab Initio Russian Course"; "Borrowing of Foreign Words and Reflected…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Communicative Competence (Languages)
WGBH-TV, Boston, MA. – 2001
In 1870, after the successful publication of "War and Peace," Leo Tolstoy began imagining a story about a high-born society woman, "Anna Karenina," who destroys her life by having an adulterous affair. By presenting his adulteress as a sympathetic character, Tolstoy aimed to expose injustices in such Russian institutions as government, urban…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Classics (Literature), Critical Viewing, Cultural Context
