Elena Aydarova is Assistant Professor of Social Foundations at Auburn University.

"Aydarova's work is brilliant and will prove useful to a variety of scholars and educational stakeholders such as ethnographers, anthropologists, K–12 educators, higher education educators and education policymakers in understanding the impacts of transnational neoliberal discourse on national education reform." — International Review of Education"This book provides an unprecedented ethnographic look into the making of national education policy. The setting, amazingly, is Russia, but the volume raises questions about how ideas become policy in other nations as well. It is thus a highly provocative and fascinating case study that should get the attention of anyone interested in national and global education policymaking." — Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, coeditor of Comparing Ethnographies: Local Studies of Education Across the Americas

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Historical Context: Sowing the Seeds of Discontent Part II. Directing Social Change: Russian Policy Dramas 1. Actors2. Masks and Guises3. Dress Rehearsals and Missing Directors4. Light and Shadows5. Props, Scripts, and Playwrights6. Money MattersEpilogueAppendix A. Summary of the PolicyAppendix B. Theoretical FoundationsAppendix C. Methodology and Data AnalysisNotesReferencesIndex

Elena Aydarova is Assistant Professor of Social Foundations at Auburn University.

"Aydarova's work is brilliant and will prove useful to a variety of scholars and educational stakeholders such as ethnographers, anthropologists, K–12 educators, higher education educators and education policymakers in understanding the impacts of transnational neoliberal discourse on national education reform." — International Review of Education"This book provides an unprecedented ethnographic look into the making of national education policy. The setting, amazingly, is Russia, but the volume raises questions about how ideas become policy in other nations as well. It is thus a highly provocative and fascinating case study that should get the attention of anyone interested in national and global education policymaking." — Kathryn Anderson-Levitt, coeditor of Comparing Ethnographies: Local Studies of Education Across the Americas

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart I. Historical Context: Sowing the Seeds of Discontent Part II. Directing Social Change: Russian Policy Dramas 1. Actors2. Masks and Guises3. Dress Rehearsals and Missing Directors4. Light and Shadows5. Props, Scripts, and Playwrights6. Money MattersEpilogueAppendix A. Summary of the PolicyAppendix B. Theoretical FoundationsAppendix C. Methodology and Data AnalysisNotesReferencesIndex