Interview with Liubov Vasil'evna Shtyleva

Abstract

Liubov Vasil'evna Shtyleva graduated from Murmansk Pedagogical Training College and N.A. Nekrasov Kostroma State Pedagogical Institute. From 1975 to 1984, she worked as a school teacher of history, and later as a director of the Young Pioneers and Schoolchildren Club in Murmansk. In 1986, she defended her dissertation and received an advanced degree as a Candidate of Educational Sciences. For 15 years she taught educational science and psychology at the Murmansk State Pedagogical Institute, in 2013 she began work at the Institute for Social Pedagogy at the Russian Academy of Education. From 2015, she has served as principal research associate at the Institute of Childhood, Family and Upbringing at the Russian Academy of Education. In 1992, she participated in an internship in the US in Women in the Political Process Program, and in 2004 she served in an internship with an expert program on issues of gender equality in Canada. In 1998 she participated in the First All-Russian School on Gender Research in Tver', in 2000 she participated in the program on gender research methodology for university lecturers at the Moscow Center for Gender Studies, then later in 2000-2001, she led an educational research project entitled Promoting Gender-based Approaches in Pre-school Education." The first Russian teaching aid on gender approaches in pre-school education was published under her guidance under the title Gender-based Approach in Pre-school Education: Theory and Practice (Murmansk: Milori, LLC, 2001). From 2002 to 2005, she served as a project consultant for the Regional Program for the Support of Women "A Path for Success," in 2005-2010, she was coach and organizer of the project "Women Can!" (with the support of the Norwegian People's Aid).