Institute of Education

Research & Expertise to Make a Difference in Education & Beyond

Established in 2012, the Institute of Education (IOE) is one of the key R&D units at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the leader of the QS Rankins in Education Russia.

At IOE, we research, train, and network to craft a better world through better education. Our supreme commitment is to contribute to robust, evidence-centric policy and practice so everyone benefits from positive change in education and development.

We boast world-class expertise brought by 250+ research and teaching faculty, including academics of international renown, who have diverse backgrounds and are into various scholarly strands.

Our R&D portfolio comprises a vast range of projects—including high-caliber partnerships with QS top-rank institutions and global policy powerhouses—that cut across educational realms.

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News

Narratives We Live By: Sequentiality and Timeliness in Temporal Structuring of Action, a recent study by sociologist and cultural theorist Dmitry Kurakin, delves into the intricate ways narratives shape human behavior over time. Published in Theory and Society, the paper bridges theoretical innovation with empirical analysis, offering a fresh perspective on how individuals navigate the interplay between personal timelines and societal expectations.
June 20
In his 2025 study published in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, Ivan Ivanov of IOE’s Pinsky Center of General and Extracurricular Education delves into the complex evolution of children's after-school activities across the vast expanse of the fifteen former Soviet republics. The research uncovers the multifaceted journeys these nations have embarked upon since the dissolution of a once-unified system, painting a vivid picture of continuity, divergence, and the persistent quest to shape young lives outside the formal classroom.
June 08
A group of students, faculty, and alumni from the HSE Institute of Education’s Master’s program in Education Administration recently took part in a short-term study trip to China, where they explored the local education system. Their itinerary included visits to Tsinghua University in Beijing, East China Normal University in Shanghai, six schools, and a kindergarten.
May 11

Publications

  • Book

    Structural and Technological Transformation of Education in the Post-Pandemic Period. Problems and Prospects

    Springer, 2025.

  • Article

    Mikhaylova O.

    A feminist eclectic approach to sociological studies of mental health and illness: transdisciplinarity and intersectionality

     

    Drawing on Ritzer's paradigms, this paper proposes a feminist eclectic perspective that classifies and bridges general and feminist approaches in the sociology of mental health and illness. I argue that the classification results show that the sociology of mental health and illness does not have a distinct general approach that can be categorised as a component of the social behaviour paradigm. Some feminist research within the sociology of mental health and illness does not align with Ritzer's paradigmatic framework, as these studies adopt an activist orientation focused on social transformation through therapeutic interventions and the creation of new psychiatric classification systems. The approach I propose assumes that a researcher will employ transdisciplinarity, be intersectional at all stages of the research, and be limitless in their methodologies and theories. Such an intersectional, transdisciplinary approach is necessary to integrate the strengths of diverse sociological ideas about mental health and illness and beyond, which is accomplished through transdisciplinarity, and to maintain the critical focus on inequality through intersectionality.

    Australian Feminist Studies. 2025.

  • Book chapter

    Dvoretskaya I., Uvarov A.

    Innovative ICT-Supported Teaching and the School’s Digital Renewal Stages

    Evolving digital technologies are infiltrating schools nowadays. This process is taking place by stages that are viewed as the schools’ digital renewal process (SDRP), the complex and multidimensional one. It includes changes in the educational environment (physical and virtual), the educational process, and the way how school operates. The use of innovative ICT-supported teaching (IITST) can be considered as one of the key indicators of a school’ digital renewal process for measurement of its progress. The aim of the study is to evaluate the status of innovative IITST within the framework of SDRP. During the monitoring of the digital transformation of Russian general education in 2021 data on IITST ware collected. More than 500 schools from all regions of Russia participated in the study. The data collected show that schools in different regions of the country are unevenly progressing along the path of digital renewal. The report presents results obtained during the monitoring and discusses the reasons for the uneven movement of schools along the path of digital renewal in Russia.

    In bk.: Structural and Technological Transformation of Education in the Post-Pandemic Period. Problems and Prospects. Springer, 2025. Ch. 1. P. 3-9.

  • Working paper

    Antipkina I., Ivanov A., Guzhelya D.

    Explicit continuum scale format reduces the ceiling effect in self-report questionnaires comparing to Likert response format

    This study presents a methodology for developing a new questionnaire format called explicit continuum scenario scales, in the example of a client focus questionnaire. Elements of the Rasch Guttman scenario scale methodology were used in its development. In three consequent studies, different aspects of the scale functioning were investigated. In Study 1, on the sample of 100 respondents, it was shown that the explicit continuum scale produces reliable results and helps avoid the ceiling effect shown in the Likert response format version of the client focus questionnaire. In Study 2, the scale was administered in a competition environment, in a sample of 735 people. Despite the positive shift of scores, the instrument shows excellent psychometric characteristics and still resists the ceiling effect. In Study 3, new items were included, and the scale was presented in an interactive format. In the sample of 65,000 university students, it demonstrated the robustness of its psychometrics characteristics including dimensionality. The results of the three studies show that the explicit continuum format has the advantage of the stable dimensionality similar to the expanded format and is promising for measurement in social sciences.

    Basic research program. WP BRP. National Research University Higher School of Economics, 2024

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