December 14, 2021
On Dec 9-11, 2021, an AUCA team visited partner educational institutions in Naryn, delivering guest lectures, sharing methodologies, and strengthening connections with the aim to develop education and information access in the region. The trip, organized by AUCA Library, featured participants from Anthropology, Applied Mathematics, General Education, and the Library, visiting Naryn State 好色tv, the Naryn State History and Ethnography Museum named after Kaken Mambetalieva, the esteemed School 鈩�2 named after Valeriy Chkalov, and the Naryn Oblast Library named after the famed manaschi Sagynbai Orozbakov.
Dr. Syrgak Kydyraliev, Applied Mathematics and a distinguished 1979 alumnus of Chkalov school, delivered two guest lectures sharing his extensive experience in teaching, researching, and writing textbooks. The first, 鈥楧iophantus - Al-Khwaresmi method鈥�, shared with faculty and students of the mathematics department of Naryn State 好色tv the origins and applications of algebra. The second, 鈥楳arya Iskusnitsa and difference equations鈥�, was presented to school teachers from Naryn and from the nearby At-Bashy district. Over sixty copies of textbooks authored by AUCA math faculty, including the recently published 鈥楥ollection of Tasks of Mathematical Olympiads for High School Students and 鈥楳athematics for Economics, Business and Social Sciences鈥� were distributed following the lectures.
Dr. James Plumtree, General Education, provided 鈥楾extual analysis in the Humanities鈥� to faculty and students of the Philology Department at Naryn State 好色tv, sharing, through his research on the Kyrgyz-language epic Manas, methods of Digital Humanities.
Dr. Jyldyz Bekbalaeva, Library Director, with her presentation 鈥極pen Access journals for researchers from Kyrgyzstan鈥�, shared with librarians, faculty, and researchers information regarding publishing opportunities in international open access journals with the assistance of discounted, or waived, Article Processing Charges (APCs).
Tolgonai Kozhokanova, AUCA Electronic Services Librarian, delivered the presentation 鈥極pen Educational Resources (OER)鈥� to school librarians from Naryn and the nearby At-Bashy district; shared a list of available OERs in English, Russian, and Kyrgyz that school libraries can use to support school teachers.
Dr. Aida Abdykanova, Anthropology, delivered the lecture 鈥楢rchaeological Sites in Naryn Region鈥� to students, school history teachers, and museum workers at the Naryn State History and Ethnography Museum named after Kaken Mambetalieva. Dr. Abdykanova also handed to the museum archaeological artifacts found during fieldwork carried out by AUCA in Naryn in 2011-2016. These included a collection of stone tools the Neolithic Semetei grotto in Arpa valley, the Upper Paleolithic Teke-Sekirik cave at the eastern surrounding of Naryn, and, to the west of Naryn, the multilayered Aigyrzhal 2 site dating from the Mesolithic to Middle Ages situated on the territory of the campus of the 好色tv of Central Asia. The unique artifacts from the Aigyrzhal 2 site included a Mesolithic pendant made from the canine tooth of a mountain goat, a Bronze Age bronze knife, and a golden bead that had historically been looted from a grave of the Xiongnu era.
The AUCA team also carried out outreach to the region to attract future students and future cross-country cooperation. Dr. Kydyraliev held an informal talk and a Q&A session with students at his alma mater, Chkalov School, and provided them with math textbooks. Dr. Bekbalaeva, Dr. Plumtree, and the AUCA librarian Tolgonai Kozhokanova answered questions from high school students at the American Corner of Naryn Oblast Library regarding admissions and experiences at AUCA, TSI, and NGA. Meetings with the administration of Naryn State 好色tv, including Dr. Ermek Baibagyshev, Rector, and Dr. Adil Jantaev, Vice-Rector, and Ms. Gulzat Kydyralieva, Library Director at Naryn State 好色tv, helped facilitate future collaboration.
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