Elena (Helen) Aydarova

Aydarova, E. (2024). Accelerating the passage of research into policy: Challenges and opportunities. Invited panelist. National Academy of Education, October 26. 

Aydarova, E. (2024). Science of reading and the educational reform movement: Actors, networks, agendas. International Literacy Research Coalition, October 1. 

Aydarova, E. (2024). Science of reading and educational reforms. Invited panelist. Defending Early Years Summer Institute, June 24-26.

Aydarova, E. (2024). Multiple faces of policy advocacy: Reclaiming educators’ voice, knowledge, and authority in the struggle for equity and social justice. Invited panelist for the International Research Workshop on Teachers as Lifelong Learners: Policy and Practice. UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, Shanghai, China, June 12-14.

Aydarova, E. (2024). Caught in a story: Science of reading advocacy and the educational reform movement. Keynote panelist, Education Policy Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin – Madison, Wisconsin, March 8.

Aydarova, E. (2023).“Science of reading” and the educational reform movement: Actors, networks, and agendas. Invited speaker. University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, November 13.

Aydarova, E. (2023). Russian educational reforms as political theater. CREECA Fall Roundtable. Invited Panelist. Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia. University of Wisconsin – Madison, Wisconsin. September 7.

Aydarova, E. (2021). Decolonizing global education. Invited panelist. Longview Foundation.

Aydarova, E. (2020). Disrupting the disruptors: Reimagining policy advocacy in a post-truth era. Pennsylvania Association of Teacher Educators Keynote Address, virtual event, October 28-30, 2020.

Aydarova, E. (2020). Multiple faces of policy advocacy: Reclaiming teacher educators’ voice, knowledge, and authority in the struggle for equity and social justice. Association of Teacher Educators Keynote Address for the General Research Session, Atlantic City, New Jersey, February 15-19, 2020.

Aydarova, E. (2020). Teacher education reform as political theater. Women’s Studies Program, Auburn University. 

Aydarova, E. (2019). Teacher education reform as political theater. CITED/Teachers College, Columbia University.

Aydarova, E. (2019). Building a one-dimensional teacher: The rise of technocratic regimes in teacher education. College of Education, University of Florida.

Aydarova, E. (2019). Peeking behind the curtain: Political Theater of Russian education reforms. Book talk sponsored by the College of Education, the Center for European Studies, the Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere at the University of Florida.

Aydarova, O. (2015). Russian teacher education reforms in the context of global educational transformations. Invited foreign expert address at the All-Russian Conference on Teacher Education Modernization, Moscow.

Aydarova, O. (2014). Professional teacher preparation in the United States and liberal arts education. Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

Aydarova, O. (2014). What you see from the margins: Observations on cultural differences. Novosibirsk Military Institute, Novosibirsk, Russia.

Aydarova, O. (2014). US teacher education: Tensions, contradictions, and current dilemmas. American Center, Moscow, Russia.

Aydarova, O. (2013). Second language teacher education in the United States. Herzen State Pedagogical University, Saint Petersburg, Russia.