On the eve of the birthday of a well-known specialist in a wide range of issues of education, training, development and application of information and communication technologies for training, guest editor, Professor Nicholas Rushby, his colleagues - scientists from the Institute of Psychology and Education - spoke about working with him.
Nick Rushby, visiting professor at the Institute of Psychology and Education, is currently co-editor of the journal Education and Self-Development.
“It was with Nicholas that the Institute of Psychology and Education began to enter the international community of scientists in the field of education,” says Roza Valeeva, professor, head of the Department of Pedagogy, IPO KFU.
According to the memoirs of Rosa Alekseevna, they met him in 2013 at a foreign conference, where representatives of Kazan University came for the first time.
- This amazingly wise, attentive, tactful man, a real British gentleman with the sensitivity of an intelligent person, supported us in our first "appearance".
Six months after we met, during the international conference of the British Association of Educational Researchers (BERA), he organized a special section especially for us so that we could present our reports and enter the rhythm of life of scientists in the world. In addition, he helped complete an internship at the University of London.
It so happened that it was Nicholas Rushby who introduced us to the University of Oxford professor, then President of the British Association for Educational Research, Ian Menter, who was one of the leading scholars in the field of teacher training.
The scientific work of Kazan scientists in this area became so interesting for foreign colleagues that in 2016 Oxford University included KFU in an international research project that had already begun by that time, where, in addition to Russia (Institute of Psychology and Education of KFU), eleven other countries took part. This was followed by a proposal to write a chapter for the Oxford Encyclopedia. As a result, a monograph was published in Oxford University Press, the chapter of which was written by scientists from the IPO KFU.
But the main merit of Nicholas Rushby, of course, in the work that he did to bring the journal "Education and Self-Development" to international standards and the entry of the magazine into the fourth quartile.
- After the inclusion of our magazine, the blacklist of Dissernet, Professor Nicholas Rashby, being at that time the editor-in-chief of the magazine, confidently took up the robot of clearing the "Augean stables", - says Director of the Institute of Psychology and Education Aydar Kalimullin.
One of his first demands was to withdraw scientific articles that did not meet international requirements. As a result of the titanic work carried out by Nick and the editorial board, the journal was not only excluded from the "Dissernet" blacklist, but in 2018 it became the second Russian journal in the field of education and the first humanitarian journal of Kazan University to be included in the Scopus database.
Dinara Bisimbaeva, a researcher at the Scientific Educational Center for Pedagogical Research of the IPO KFU, has been working in the editorial office headed and supervised by Professor Rashbi for three years. For a young scientist, he became for her a model of a true scientist, a talented organizer and a well-educated person who rightfully enjoys well-deserved authority and respect.
- I was able to see that Rashby is a real professional in his field. Surprisingly, for all his heavy workload, he finds time to participate in conferences, forums, meetings of professional communities. This is the person who helps not only in word, but also in deed.
- Nick Rushby was at the origin of many of our projects: IFTE Forum, Education and Self-Development magazine. He became a scientist for the Institute of Psychology and Education, which, with its authority, prompted many world-renowned scientists to cooperate with KFU.
Meetings with such interesting people as Nick Rushby change our view and perception of another country and culture. I confess that, due to my communist upbringing in the Soviet era, I was distrustful of the capitalist world and its representatives. In particular, England was perceived by me as a rather gloomy, forever foggy country where prim British lived. Growing up, I began to learn a lot of important and interesting things about this amazing country, which in some periods played a leading role in world economic and political history.
And now, many years later, I was lucky to meet a real Englishman who opened England to me from the human side - John Nicholas Rushby, or as he sometimes likes to call himself in Russia - Ivan Nikolaevich.
Our first meeting was not accidental. At a dinner during an international conference in 2013, he, together with his wife Dorit, walked past us several times in search of an empty seat and responded to our offer to keep us company, sitting down at our table and immediately conquering with his kindness
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