Dzhanzakova Sholpan Issagaliyevna

Dzhanzakova Sholpan Isagaliyevna is a Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences and a Professor. She was born on November 13, 1960, in the city of Atyrau (formerly Guryev). In 1978, she graduated from Secondary School No. 1 named after Гагарин in Guryev. She then entered the Faculty of Biology and Chemistry of the Guryev Pedagogical Institute, majoring in “Teacher of Biology and Chemistry,” and graduated with honors in 1983. She began her professional career as a biology and chemistry teacher at Secondary School No. 7 in Guryev, where she gained valuable pedagogical experience. Since 1988, she has continued her academic and teaching career in higher professional education at Kh. Dosmukhamedov Atyrau University. She started as a lecturer at the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology and advanced through various academic and administrative positions. In 1991, she became a senior lecturer of the department; in 2000, Head of the Department of Psychology; in 2005, Dean of the Faculty of Accelerated Distance Education. In 2008, she served as Academic Secretary of the Joint Dissertation Council BD 14.61.02 for awarding the degree of Doctor of Pedagogical Sciences at the university. In 2010, she was appointed Professor of the Department of General and Folk Pedagogy, and from 2011 to 2023, she headed the Department-Laboratory of Pedagogy. Her scientific interests include general pedagogy, social pedagogy, ethnopedagogy, issues of national schools and upbringing, and the theoretical-methodological foundations of ethnopedagogy. She was among the first scholars to scientifically substantiate ethnopedagogy as an independent academic discipline. At the Institute of National Education Problems of the Russian Scientific Center in Moscow, under the supervision of the distinguished scholar and academician G. N. Volkov, she conducted in-depth research on Kazakh ethnopedagogy. She successfully defended her Candidate dissertation entitled “Ethnopedagogization of Environmental Education of Primary School Students in the Kazakh School,” and her Doctoral dissertation entitled “Scientific Foundations for Establishing Ethnopedagogy as an Independent Academic Discipline” (2008). In 2011, she received the academic title of Associate Professor in Pedagogy. Scientific projects: • 2016–2017 — “International Cooperation as a Factor in the Development of the Intellectual Potential of Future Specialists in the Context of Globalization” (jointly with KazNPU and the International Center for Advanced Training and Scientific Information, Düsseldorf, Germany); • 2020–2022 — “Formation of Teachers’ Pedagogical Mastery in the Context of New Educational Trends as the Basis for Successful Professional Activity” (jointly with the State Social University of Moscow, Russia, and KazNPU); • 2020–2022 — “Psychological and Pedagogical Support for the Socio-Cultural Adaptation of International Students in Higher Education Systems of Multicultural Regions of the Southern Federal District of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan” (Elista).