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6 - Literacy Education and Development in Russia

from Part I - Regional Variations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 November 2023

By
Olga Velichenkova  and
Margarita Rusetskaya
Edited by
Ludo Verhoeven ,
Sonali Nag ,
Charles Perfetti  and
Kenneth Pugh
Ludo Verhoeven
Affiliation:
Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
Sonali Nag
Affiliation:
University of Oxford
Charles Perfetti
Affiliation:
University of Pittsburgh
Kenneth Pugh
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
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Summary

This chapter goes into literacy education and literacy development in Russia. The understanding of literacy in Russia requires analysis of several issues. To begin with, historical changes in the provision of education in the region, and the introduction of a modern educational system in preschool (kindergarten age four-to-six years) and primary school (Grades 1-4) need to be considered. This is because, in recent years, a transformation has been recorded in both the number of educational institutions and the nature of the educational process. Furthermore, the Russian scholarship on writing and reading disorders requires examination alongside several internal contradictions and inconsistencies in the approaches to psychological and pedagogical support available for children with these disorders. The situation may be described as a disconnection between the diagnostic processes and remedial methods used in Russia and the international experience. This chapter starts out with a description of the Russian writing system. This will be followed by an overview of teaching and assessment methods used over the past decades. Finally, a reflection will be provided on the identification of children with reading problems and remediation of those problems.

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LiteracyeducationdevelopmentRussiareading problems
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Global Variation in Literacy Development , pp. 118 - 132
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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