Definition
Russian university tradition is a combination of ideas, university models, and practices, that were implemented during the historical development of higher education in Russia.
Introduction
The Russian university tradition is complex. It combines several patterns of higher education development and ideas about what constitutes a university. As the term “tradition” usually refers to the perceptions of the past, the national university tradition therefore represents a sophisticated product of reflections and opinions (Vishlenkova 2014; Vishlenkova and Dmitriev 2013).
It would not be appropriate to consider the Russian university tradition as the outcome of a continuous evolutionary development. It is rather the cumulative result of several periods, which represented alternatives to each other. However, at least one peculiarity remained constant throughout the history of the Russian university: its coherence with the state (e.g., Clark 1983, pp. 98–99), and whatever goals the...
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Froumin, I., Semyonov, D. (2017). University Traditions: Russia. In: Shin, J., Teixeira, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of International Higher Education Systems and Institutions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9553-1_3-1
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