Faculty

Sergei Pishun
Academic director of the program
Ph.D, Professor
Russian Academy of Political Science, Academician
Chair of Theology and Religious Studies, Head
School of Education, Director

Academic Courses Taught:

• Research work

More than 20 post-graduates under his supervision received a Ph.D.

Honors and Awards:

• Annual Grant from Governor of Primorskii Region (1997)
• Grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation (2002)
• Grant of President of the Russian Federation (2005)
• Grant from the Russian Humanitarian Scientific Fund (2008)
• Honorary breastplate “Honorable Worker of Higher Education in the Russian Federation”

Membership:

• Regional Dissertation Council of DM 212.055.05 on philosophical sciences at Far East State Technical University
• Regional Dissertation Council of DM 218.003.02 on philosophical sciences at Far Eastern State Transportation University
• Regional Dissertation Council of DM 212.006.01 on philosophical sciences at the Amur State University
• Doctoral Dissertation Council D 212.056.03 on political sciences at Far Eastern State University.
• Methodological Council on Philosophical sciences at the Ministry of Education and Science.
• Editorial board of Journal “The Humanities And Social Studies in the Far East”
• Editor in chief of the Collection of Scientific Papers «Humanitarian researches» and «Young Scientists in research»

Publications:

The author of over 70 scientific and scientifically-methodical works in Russian and English languages. The basic publications:

Monographies

• Pishun S.V. Social philosophy of V.V. Rozanov. - Vladivostok: Publishing house FESU, 1993. - 156 p.
• Pishun S.V., Pishun V.K. «Religion of a life» of V.V. Rozanov. - Vladivostok: Publishing house FESU, 1994. - 209 p.
• Pishun S.V. Orthodox personology and the spiritually-academic theism of XIX century. Ì.: «Prometey», 1996. - 428 p.
• Pishun S.V., Kurbenkov V.A. Conceptual foundations of the political doctrine of B.A. Kistyakovsky. - Vladivostok: Dalnauka, 2005. - 128 p.

Manuals

• Pishun S.V. Course of lectures on history of ancient Chinese philosophies. Ussuriisk: Publishing house USPI, 2000. - 116 p.
• Pishun S.V., Kurbenkov V.A. Political views of Vasily Vasilevich Rozanov. Ussuriisk: Publishing house USPI, 2006. - 48 p.

Research Interests:

• The history of Russian religious philosophy and the Russian political science,
• philosophy of religion, philosophy of culture, philosophical anthropology.

Denis Leonidov, PhD, Associate Professor,
Department of Research Projects, Director

Academic Courses Taught:

• Fundamentals of Educational Research
• Research Methods in Inter-Ethnic Studies
• Grant Writing in Education

Research Interests:

• Religious Studies, Cultural Studies in Education, special interest to cultures of syncretistic type, their ethnical and confessional characteristics

Irina Turuntaeva, PhD, Associate Professor

Academic Courses Taught:

• ICT in Teaching and Learning

Research Interests:

• Methodology of Research in Humanitarian Studies (IT context), Projects in Informational Educational Environment

Tatiana Kopus, PhD, Associate Professor,
International Academic Programs, Director

Academic Courses Taught:

• Curriculum Development in Effective Teaching for Diversity
• Globalization and Education
• Intercultural Communication in Education
• Adult Teaching and Learning

Research Interests:

• Intercultural Communication, Globalization and Education,Curriculum Development, Linguistics (conceptual framework, cultural diversity in representing similar ideas verbally), Linguistics in cross-cultural aspect, Discourse Analysis in Linguistics, Identity Work in Discourse Analysis

Olga Samoylenko,PhD, AssociateProfessor,
Chair of Education in Romance and Germanic Languages(interim), Head

Academic Courses Taught:

• Russian Holidays and Traditions in Regional Communities
• History of Education

Research Interests:

• Cross-cultural communication, concepts and conceptual analysis, teaching methodology.

Elena Semchenko, Senior Lecturer

Academic Courses Taught:

• Teaching and Leading for Diversity
• Management in Education

Research Interests:

• Country-specific studies; democratic processes in India.

Ekaterina Tarlyisheva,
PhD, Associate Professor,
Courses of Russian as Foreign Language, Director

Academic Courses Taught:

• Russian as Foreign Language

Research Interests:

• teaching methodology

Sergei Karpenko,
PhD, Associate Professor

Academic Courses Taught:

• Cultural Anthropology and MultiEthnical studies in Education
• Business Foreign Language (English)

Research Interests:

• Cognitive Linguistics, Cognitive Semantics.

Research Interests:

• Linguistics, Bias and anti-bias education, Mentoring and support for school leaders, Teaching styles, Innovative and instructional strategies and student academic success, Creativity development.