Kazakhstan Programme Research Team and the Faculty of
Education were delighted to welcome Iveta Silova to Cambridge with a short
research visit, during which she delivered two seminars and had individual
meetings with PhD students and staff. Iveta Silova is an Associate
Professor and Director of Comparative and International Education program
at the College of Education, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania, USA. Her
research and publications cover a range of issues critical to understanding
post-socialist education transformation processes in the context of
globalization, including gender equity trends in Eastern/Central Europe and
Central Asia, minority/multicultural education policies in the former
Soviet Union, as well as the scope, nature, and implications of private
tutoring in a cross-national perspective. Iveta is the co-editor (with Noah
W. Sobe) of a quarterly peer-reviewed journal *"European Education: Issues
and Studies.". *
Iveta’s recent books include:
*- Globalization on the Margins* *(2011)*
*- Post-Socialism is not Dead: (Re)reading the global in comparative
education (2010)*
*- How NGOs React: Globalization and Education Reform in the Caucasus,
Central Asia, and Mongolia* *(2008 *coedited with Gita Steiner-Khamsi),
*- From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism:
Re-conceptualizing Minority Education in Post-Soviet Latvia* *(2006)*
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