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Natallia Yakavets

Position/Status

Senior Research Associate

Wolfson College Research Associate

E-mail Address

ny250@cam.ac.uk

Phone

+ 44 (0)1223 767685

Qualifications

  • PGCTLHE University of Cambridge
  • PhD The Open University
  • MRes The Open University
  • MA University of Warwick
  • BA History Social & Political Sciences BSU

Membership of Professional Bodies/Associations

  • British Educational Leadership Management and Administration Society (BELMAS)
  • European Educational Research Association (EERA)
  • Comparative and International Education Society

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Profile

Natallia Yakavets joined the Faculty of Education to work on Kazakhstan Educational Programmes. Before coming to Cambridge she taught Research Methods at the Institute of Education University of Warwick. She holds a PhD in Educational Leadership and Management from the Open University and has substantial experience of international collaborative research projects in the fields of educational policy educational leadership and management curriculum reform teacher preparation and continuing professional development in Eastern Europe. The central focus of her current research is on internationalisation and school reform in Kazakhstan the challenges of rapid fundamental development reform in post-Soviet economies and leadership preparation and practices.

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Research Topics

  • educational policy
  • social capital and leadership development
  • complex multi-agency partnership
  • comparative education
  • curriculum reforms and educational transformations in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
  • teacher education
  • qualitative/quantitative research methods

Current Research Projects

  • Internationalisation and Education Reform in Kazakhstan Research Project (IERK)

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Teaching

  • Supervisions MEd/MPhil: Educational Leadership and School Improvement
  • Please note I am not accepting doctoral students.

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Principal and Recent Publications

Refereed Journal Articles/ Book Chapters

Yakavets N. Winter L. Malone K. Zhontayeva Z. & Z.Khamidulina (2022). Educational reform and teachers' agency in reconstructing pedagogical practices in Kazakhstan. Journal of Educational Change.[DOI: 10.1007/s10833-022-09463-5]

Yakavets N. Bridges D. Shamatov D. (2017). On Constructs and the Construction of Teachers’ Professional Knowledge in a Post-Soviet Context Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy.Vol.43 (5) 594-615. DOI:10.1080/02607476.2017.1355086

Yakavets N. (2016). Societal culture and the changing role of school principals in the post-Soviet era: The case of Kazakhstan. Journal of Educational Administration 54 (6) 683-702. [DOI: 10.1108/JEA-12-2015-0118]

Yakavets N. (2016) Negotiating the Principles and Practice of School Leadership: the Kazakhstan Experience. Educational Management Administration and Leadership [DOI: 10.1177/1741143216628537]

Yakavets N. Frost D. & Khoroshash A. (2015) School Leadership and Capacity Building in Kazakhstan International Journal of Leadership in Education: Theory and Practice [DOI: 10.1080/13603124.2015.1066869]

Yakavets N. (2014). Reforming Society through Education for Gifted Children: the Case of Kazakhstan Research Papers in Education 29(5) 513-533 [DOI: 10.1080/02671522.2013.825311]

McLaughlin C. Winter L. Fimyar O. and Yakavets. N. (2021). Reforming a Whole School System. The case of Kazakhstan in Ruby A. & McLaughlin C. (Eds.) Implementing Educational Reform Cambridge University Press pp. 67-90.[Doi:10.1017/9781108864800.005]

McLaughlin C. Yakavets. N and Ayubayeva N. (2017). The reform of teacher education in pedagogical institutes in Kazakhstan: Debates and Issues in Ruby A. and Hartley M. (Eds.) Higher Education Reform and Development: The Case of Kazakhstan. Cambridge University Press Cambridge 83-106.

Yakavets N. (2014). Educational reforms: the first decade of independence in D. Bridges (Ed.) Educational Reform and Internationalisation: The case of school reform in Kazakhstan. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Link

Yakavets N. and Dzhadrina M. (2014). Educational reforms in Kazakhstan: ‘Entering the world arena’ in D. Bridges (Ed.) Educational Reform and Internationalisation: The case of school reform in Kazakhstan. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Link

Fimyar O.Yakavets N. and Bridges D. (2014). Educational reform in Kazakhstan: the contemporary policy agenda in D. Bridges (Ed.) Educational Reform and Internationalisation: The case of school reform in Kazakhstan. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.

Frost D. Fimyar O. Yakavets N. and Bilyalov D. (2014). The role of the school director in education reform in Kazakhstan in D. Bridges (Ed.) Educational Reform and Internationalisation: The case of school reform in Kazakhstan. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Link

Rouse M. Yakavets N. and Kulakhmetova A. (2014). Towards inclusive education: swimming against the tide of educational reform? in D. Bridges (Ed.) Educational Reform and Internationalisation: The case of school reform in Kazakhstan. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge. Link