SSL Moscow SDD Educational Reforms

SSL SDD Educational Reforms Report Title Educational Reforms in Russia Project SSL Educational Reforms Triggering Question "What specific actions, changes, or reforms could transform our schools into democratic institutions in which learners are empowered to achieve whatever they desire and promote social mobility?" Location Moscow Dates 2/12/2017 Lead Facilitator(s) Yiannis Laouris Assistant Facilitator(s) Valeriya Lokotina Alexander Nenashev Daria Khlopova Author(s) Timur Zhabbarov Editor(s) Yiannis Laouris Total Duration 150 person hrs Statistics Participants=25 Number of ideas=25 Number of Clusters=8 Ideas received Votes=22 Ideas on MAP R=13 Spreadthink ST=85% Situational Complexity SCI=

Executive Summary

The SDD was organized on the invitation of Timur Zhabbarov of the Social Sciences Lab and his team comprising Valeriya Lokotina, Alexander Nenashev, and Daria Khlopova. Yiannis Laouris was invited to a public TED-like talk attended by over 200 people in Moscow on December 1, 2027, titled Can we fit 1,000,000 educational goals in a single school curriculum?, conduct the SDD co-lab reported here also in Moscow on December 2, 2017 (9.00-19.00), and subsequently deliver a second public talk at St. Petersburg on How does school influence person's life? on December 3. Twenty-five talented, forward-thinking young educators from across Russia were invited to offer their responses to the Triggering Question shown below.

The SDD was conducted in Russian. The Facilitator did not understand what the participants were saying. This served as an experiment to test a hypothesis previously proposed by [[Aleco Christakis] that an SDD Facilitator is capable to facilitate an entire process without having to follow the content. The second experiment involved the use of IdeaPrism without prior warning. Participants were asked to download it from the stores at the launch of the process. Eighteen were able to set-it up and post their contributions, i.e., a single-sentenced proposal and a one-two paragraph clarification online. The others used the Facilitator's device utilizing the masking function.

The Triggering Question (TQ)
What specific actions, changes, or reforms could transform our schools into democratic institutions in which learners are empowered to achieve whatever they desire and promote social mobility?
Russian: Как трансформировать школы в демократические институты, поддерживающие социальную мобильность, где ученики могут добиваться любых целей?

In response to this TQ, the 25 participants came up with 25 proposals, which were categorized in 8 clusters. Following the voting process, 47 ideas received one or more votes and were structured to create the influence MAP shown below.

Influence tree from the Actions SDDP of the Social Science Lab co-Laboratory.

According to the participants of this Co-Laboratory, appear to be the most influential were:

• 19: (7 Votes) ОЛЬГА- ОТКАЗ ОТ ЛИШНИХ РЕГЛАМЕНТОВ-РАЗВИТИЕ ОТВЕТСВЕННОСТИ ЧЕРЕЗ СВОБОДУ
• 2: (3 Votes) КАТЯ-ОТМЕНИТЬ СИСТЕМУ ВСЕОБЩЕГО ОБЯЗАТЕЛЬНОГО ОБРАЗОВАНИЯ
• 11: (5 Votes) ЕЛЕНА-УЧИТЕЛЬ -НЕ ТРАНСЛЯТОР,А ФАСИЛИТАТОР АКТИВНОСТИ ДЕТЕЙ
• 14: (5 Votes) ЕКАТЕРИНА-ПРОЯВЛЯТЬ ИНТЕРЕС К УВЛЕЧЕНИЯМ ДЕТЕЙ
• 24: (4 Votes) АНДРЕЙ-ЗНАНИЕ КАК МАТЕРИАЛ ДЛЯ СОЗДАНИЯ ЧЕГО-ТО МАТЕРИАЛЬНОГО

Sponsor

The initiative was sponsored by the Social Sciences Lab.

Report

Transforming Russian schools into democratic institutions