Russia

Capital: Moskow
Area: 17.098.200 km²
Population: ca. 142,2 Mio.
official Languages: Russian and 27 co-official languages in various regions.

Webtips:
Governmet
Ministry for Education and Science
Department for Education in the Regoin of Yaroslavl

St. Petersburg

Since 1995, the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture and KulturKontakt Austria have supported the exchange of experience in central areas of education reform with institutes of education in the northwestern region of Russia through bilateral and multilateral projects.

Key Focuses:

Dealing with cultural diversity and difference at the school level

Quality development in the field of in-service training

German as a foreign language

Examples

Needs-Based Continuing Education for School Principals

The project “Needs-Based Continuing Education for School Principals” is being realised by the provincial school board of Styria, the University of Teacher Education Styria, KKA and representatives of the school supervisory authority of the Yaroslavl region (Russia), working in cooperation. The objective is, on the one hand, to support the local institute for education development in developing more flexible, needs-based continuing education for school principals in the Yaroslavl region and, on the other hand, to enhance the competence of school principals and municipal representatives to define their institutional needs with respect to continuing education.

“Diversity as an Opportunity”

Together with the Finnish National Board of Education, the Education Committee of the City of St. Petersburg, the In-Service Teacher Training Academy of St. Petersburg and the University of Education Vienna, the second phase of the project “Diversity as an Opportunity” was launched. In the first project phase, experts and in-service teacher training institutes in all three countries supported seven Russian school teams in implementing projects devoted to the subject of “dealing with diversity at the school level”. Based on these experiences, a second phase was planned, in which core teams of the methodology centres of the city of St. Petersburg will be trained in the development of new programmes for schools focussing on dealing with cultural diversity. In addition, the exchange of experience between the In-Service Teacher Training Academy of St. Petersburg and the international partner institutions will be supported.

Quality Management in Multicultural Schools

The project centres on dealing with cultural diversity as an aspect of quality development at schools in Vienna and St. Petersburg. Within the context of the project, the Education Committee of the City of St. Petersburg conducted a survey to determine the number of pupils with a mother tongue other than Russian and both working groups developed a framework for a catalogue of quality criteria for dealing with cultural diversity that can be used both for external and internal evaluation. Additionally, the University of Education Vienna and the St. Petersburg Academy of Post-Graduate Pedagogical Training are working on a list of criteria for in-service teacher training in this field.

Contact
Evelyn Punz