Vadim V. Kovrigin
Head of the Department of History and Social Studies Teaching Methodology at the State University of Education; Associate Professor at Plekhanov Russian University of Economics.
PhD in Education (Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences), Associate Professor. I study the content of school history textbooks across countries, work on education quality assessment and write on education policy.
About
I was born and spent most of my life in Lipetsk, Russia. I graduated from the Faculty of History of Lipetsk State Pedagogical University in 2004 and defended my PhD thesis, The Reflection of World War II History in Russian and Foreign School History Education, in 2008. In 2012 I earned a second degree in law at Lipetsk State Technical University, and in 2020 I completed the MBA programme at the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University.
I now live and work in Moscow. Alongside the department, I serve as an accredited expert of the Federal Service for Supervision in Education (Rosobrnadzor) and as an expert of the Russian Academy of Education on the inclusion of textbooks in the federal list, and I am the author of textbooks published by INFRA-M.
Research
My work sits at the intersection of history education, textbook studies and education policy.
Comparative textbook analysis
How school history textbooks in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States construct the national past — and what students are taught to remember.
World War II in school history
Historiography of the Second World War and the Great Patriotic War in Soviet, Russian and foreign textbooks; the problem of falsification and its classroom consequences.
Ethnocentrism in education
Forms and typology of ethnocentrism in textbook content, its role in national identification, and ways to reduce its negative effects — the subject of my 2013 monograph.
Teaching methodology and assessment
Concept work in social studies lessons, school research projects, assessment of learning outcomes, and the preparation of history and social studies teachers.
Selected publications
Works chosen for an international reader; the full list of more than sixty publications, with PDFs, is on the Russian site. Original Russian titles are given under the English ones; each entry opens the publication's page on the Russian site.
Books
Each cover opens the book's page on the Russian site, with a description and a link to the publisher.
Data Processing in Python for Sociologists
Fundamentals of Financial Literacy
Social Studies: A Textbook for Vocational Colleges
Social Studies: A Study Guide for the Unified State Exam
Ethnocentrism in the Content of Russian and Foreign School Textbooks
Contact
Profiles
Affiliation
State University of Education
Moscow, Russia
In Russian
Blog, media commentary and a Telegram channel on education policy: vkovrigin.ru, t.me/vkovriginru