teaching social sciences at a post-soviet university: a survey of challenges for visiting lecturers in the former USSR

Integrating practice into Russian social work education: Institutional logics and curriculum regulation

“…The Bachelor national standard even contains the learning outcome 'know how to shape the spiritual potential [formirovat' dukhovnyi potentsial] of participants in national welfare programmes', echoing attempts by both the Russian government and Orthodox Church to promote a particular code of morality (see Zigon, 2011). Overall, the current national standards emphasize administrative practice and formal academic work to the detriment of critical analysis, ethical reflection and practical application (see Umland, 2005). Tellingly, the national standards were not developed with significant input from employers, service users or practitioners.…”

Social Science Knowledge Commercialization: The Case Study of Social Sciences at Tbilisi State University

“…Słowa klucze: nauki społeczne, komercjalizacja wiedzy, uczelnie wyższe, Tbiliski Uniwersytet Państwowy, nowy instytucjonalizm tion is quite different in "inexperienced" states. In formerly communist, and especially former Soviet republics, characterized by highly centralized educational systems, social sciences and economics had been essentially isolated from western disciplinary researchers and societies (Tarnopolsky, 1988;Umland, 2005). The real and appropriate case to consider in this respect is Georgia, a country in the South Caucasus with an education background that had been strictly centralized in Soviet times, and the present challenges under the country's ongoing Europeanization and democratization processes (Tabatadze, 2021).…”