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Uzbekistan
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In the early 1990s, the greatest controversy in curriculum policy was
which language should be used for teaching in state schools. In 1992 Uzbek
and the other Central Asian languages were made the official languages of
instruction, meaning that Uzbek schools might use any of five Central
Asian languages or Russian as their primary language. Uzbek and Russian
language courses are taught in all schools. After independence, a new
emphasis was placed on courses in Uzbek history and culture and on
increasing the short supply of textbooks in Uzbek in many fields. For a
time, the Karimov regime closed Samarqand University, which taught in
Tajik, as part of a broader crackdown on the country's Tajik minority.
The expansion of curricula, including the addition of courses in French,
Arabic, and English, has placed new stress on a limited supply of teachers
and materials. In the mid-1990s, a major curriculum reform was underway to
support the post-Soviet economic and social transformation. Among the
changes identified by Western experts are a more commercial approach to
the mathematics curriculum, more emphasis in economics courses on the
relationship of capital to labor, more emphasis in social science courses
on individual responsibility for the environment, and the addition of
entirely new subjects such as business management. Because such changes
involve new materials and a new pedagogical approach by staff, the reform
period is estimated at ten to fifteen years.
Data as of March 1996
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