Kazakhstani School Education Development from the 1930s: History and Current Trends Aigerim Mynbayeva* and Victoria Pogosian** How to cite Mynbayeva, A., & Pogosian, V. (2014). Kazakhstani School Education Development from the 1930s: History and Current Trends. Italian Journal of Sociology of Education, 6(2), 144-172. Retrieved from http://www.ijse.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014_2_7.pdf Authors’ information *Department of General and Ethnic Pedagogy, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan. **Department of Teaching Modern Languages to Young Learners, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia, Russia. Contact authors’ email addresses *
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[email protected] The online version of this article can be found at http://www.ijse.eu/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/2014_2_7.pdf Article first published online June 2014 Additional information of Italian Journal of Sociology of Education can be found at: About IJSE Editorial Board Manuscript submission Kazakhstani School Education Development A. Mynbayeva and V. Pogosian Kazakhstani School Education Development from the 1930s: History and Current Trends Aigerim Mynbayeva and Victoria Pogosian ______________________________________ Abstract: This article analyzes the development of school education in Kazakhstan focusing on its two periods - the Soviet period (when Kazakhstan was a part of the USSR) and the post-Soviet period that started after the fall of the Soviet Union. The analysis includes the main goals, features, strengths and weaknesses of school education of each period. The stages of the development of school education within each period are described on the basis of legislation development focusing on the economic political and demographic contexts as the driving forces of the education reforms.