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What Does the Brain Look Like When Doing Math?

What Does the Brain Look Like When Doing Math?
In her open lecture on November 17, Dr. Marie Arsalidou, Head of the HSE Neuropsy Lab and Co-Director of the Science of Learning and Assessment (SOLA) Master’s at IOE, will share enthralling insights from neuroscience into what happens to our brain when we engage in solving math problems and how this knowledge could help bolster learning and development.

Computational Perspectives on Class Distinction-Making through Etiquette

Computational Perspectives on Class Distinction-Making through Etiquette
On October 5, the Moscow Culture Workshop series 2021/22 by the IOE Center for Cultural Sociology will host Session 2 titled, ‘Class Distinction-Making through Etiquette, a Computational Approach.’

How Schools Have Been Navigating COVID-19: Evidence from Across Nations

How Schools Have Been Navigating COVID-19: Evidence from Across Nations
‘Primary and Secondary Education during COVID-19,’ an international volume recently published in open access by Springer, shares accounts by research teams from over a dozen countries of how systems of general education in these respective nations have been steering through a challenging environment of the COVID pandemic.

IOE Launches International Workshop Series in Cultural Sociology

IOE Launches International Workshop Series in Cultural Sociology
On September 28, the inaugural session of the newly launched Moscow Culture Workshop series by the IOE Center for Cultural Sociology will host a talk titled, ‘Nature as Iconic Object: Its Performative Creation’ by Prof. Jeffrey C. Alexander (Yale University, USA)

Universities’ Pandemic Experience to Be Studied at the International Level

Universities’ Pandemic Experience to Be Studied at the International Level
Russian and international researchers should intensify their joint efforts to analyze the changes in higher education over the past year and a half.    Speaking at a round table held in the International Multimedia Centre of the Rossiya Segodnya (Russia Today) news agency, HSE Rector Nikita Anisimov suggested that this work be done as part of the International Observatory for Higher Education Transformations—a global research programme launched by HSE University and the Polytechnic University of Milan.

A ‘Digital Professor’ on How to Combine Education with Entertainment

A ‘Digital Professor’ on How to Combine Education with Entertainment
Dr. Ger Graus, OBE, a world-renowned authority on children’s learning & development through entertainment who is Global Director of Education at KidZania and a Visiting Professor with the Pinsky Centre for General and Extracurricular Education at IOE, has delivered a series of seminars on ‘Schooling vs Education’ for students in IOE’s ‘Educational Administration’ Master’s programme.  

The Age of Edutainment: Exploring the Case of KidZania

The Age of Edutainment: Exploring the Case of KidZania
Understanding the role of children’s interactive environments that blend learning and entertainment in modern-day educational ecosystems.

Remote Learning during COVID-19: How Families Are Navigating Change

Remote Learning during COVID-19: How Families Are Navigating Change
On July 26, a cohort of global experts who are into various strands of educational and socio-economic R&D will come together online for an open session as part of the World Bank – HSE University joint series of monthly seminars on education amid and post COVID-19. This time, the session will focus on how families have been able to steer through the challenges and struggles of doing education remotely.

Educational Inequality: Studying Country-Specific Solutions to a Global Problem

Educational Inequality: Studying Country-Specific Solutions to a Global Problem
Educational inequality is a universal problem, but it manifests itself in different countries in different ways. Comparing the issue across different contexts is always interesting—even more so if the person doing the comparing has a diverse set of examples to draw upon. Adam Gemar earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in the US before earning his Doctoral degree at Durham University (UK). Now he is a Postdoctoral Fellow at HSE University’s Institute of Education, where he is studying educational inequality in Russia with the Centre for Cultural Sociology. In his interview, he spoke about his research, life in Moscow, and Russian winters.

(De)Centralized Governance in Higher Education: How Do Different Systems Cope with Change?

(De)Centralized Governance in Higher Education: How Do Different Systems Cope with Change?
On June 25, a cohort of experts in various strands of higher education scholarship will meet online for this year’s Session 4 by the Observatory for Higher Education Transformations, an initiative to advance HE research and networking that spans IOE alongside a number of other leading academic hubs from across the globe. This time, the open expert discussion will focus on how HE systems with centralized and decentralized governance have been navigating an environment of uncertainty and change amid the COVID-19 emergency.