A BRIEF LIFE AND ACTIVITY SKETCH OF

Energy Institute (AEI) was created on the bass of energetic faculty 
of KazPTI. This year he entered graduate school at AEI.
The Ministry of Higher Education of the USSR allocated to 
the new institute one place for postgraduate study in Germany for 
training personnel abroad. A. Kussainov was awarded this grant 
and admitted to doctoral studies at the Higher Technical School in 
Ilmenau, Germany, where he continued his studies.
In 1979 Askarbek Kabykenovich successfully defended his 
thesis and received the degree of Doctor of Engineering. He was 
the first scientist in Kazakhstan who studied the technical field 
abroad and received a Doctor-Engineer degree.
In 1979-1991 he worked at the AEI as a senior teacher, 
associate professor and department head.
In 1991-1997, he was as the Head of the Department for 
Prospective Development and New Educational Technologies, 
Head of the Leading Department of Education Development 
Strategies, Director of the Department for Inspection of 
Universities and Colleges, Deputy Head of the Main Directorate 
of Higher Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and 
Science of the RK. He was a member o f the Collegium of the 
Ministry.
In 1997-2003, he was the First Deputy Editor-in-Chief of 
the “Kazakh Encyclopediasy” main editorial office. Director of the 
Republican Publishing House “Rauan” (Mektep), President of 
Y. Altynsarin Kazakh Academy of Education (KAO). He was a 
member of the Collegium of Ministries.
In 2000-2005, he was a professor at al-Farabi KazNU; in 
2005-2012, headed the Department at Kazakh National Women’s 
Pedagogical University; in 2012-2015, he was a Professor at Abay 
KazNPU. Since 2015, he is a professor at al-Farabi KazNU.
In 2004, Prof A. Kussainov has initiated the establishment 
of the Republican public association “Academy of Pedagogical 
Sciences of Kazakhstan” (APNKK) and officiates as Chairman of 
the Board since then.
In 1991, the Minister of Education and Science, 
Prof. Sh. Shayakhmetov invited him to work at the Ministry, where 
he was instructed to study other countries’ education systems and
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determine how to use their positive experience in Kazakhstan. This 
is the core subject of CP.
He managed to combine the responsible tasks from the 
ministry with scientific work. In 1993 he completed a scientific 
internship at the Technical University of Aachen, and in 1994 - at 
the Ministry of Science and Education of North Rhine-Westphalia, 
Germany.
In 1996 he defended his doctoral thesis on the topic, 
“Development of education in the Federal Republic of Germany 
and the Republic of Kazakhstan (comparative pedagogical 
characteristics).” His thesis was the first scientific work on CP in 
Kazakhstan.
During that time, A. Kussainov headed temporary research 
teams created to prepare the ministerial programs, such as 
“National program of state support for education” (1993) and 
“State program of reforming and development of the education 
system of the Republic of Kazakhstan” (1996). While developing 
these programs he has got a holistic vision of the education 
system’s problems from a state position.
A. Kussainov participated in writing the State Program 
“Education” which was approved by the President of the Republic 
of Kazakhstan in 2000, and the Law of the Republic o f Kazakhstan 
“On Education” (in the new edition approved in 2006).
As the president of Y. Altynsarin Kazakh Academy of 
Education, Prof. A. Kussainov worked a lot on developing state 
education standards. In 2002 A. Kussainov, M.Zh. Zhadrina and 
S.D. Mukanova supervised the development and approval of a 
6-volume collection of “Basic provisions o f the state compulsory 
standard of secondary education o f the Republic of Kazakhstan” 
and “State compulsory standards of secondary education.” The 
collection included 41 standards in 34 academic subjects. 
Hundreds of scientists, teachers, and methodologists were 
involved in this work. These standards have made a great 
contribution to the development o f the education system in 
Kazakhstan.
Whatever the job was, he always studied the materials on 
CP. The value and significance o f his scientific research and
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articles rely on the fact that he utilized the experience of developed 
countries and local practice to find ways to solve the existing 
problems. This feature denotes a real scientist.
He authored the first higher school textbook on CP, the 
textbook “Methodology and Techniques of Comparative 
Pedagogy,” the model curriculum for CP and many monographs 
on this issue. He initiated CP’s introduction into the Kazakhstani 
higher school curriculum and delivered the first lectures in the 
subject.
He reported on CP at international conferences, symposiums 
and Congresses of the World Council of Comparative Education 
Societies (WCCES) held in more than 20 countries.
A. Kussainov initiated the creation of the Council of 
Comparative Pedagogy of Kazakhstan (SSPK) at the APNK. 
CCPK became a full member of the WCCES at the 2006 WCCES 
meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii, and Professor A. Kussainov became 
a member of the WCCES Executive Committee.
He members the Hong Kong CP Society and the 
Comparative Education Society of Asia (CESA). His name is 
mentioned in the The Encyclopedia of comparative education and 
national systems o f education.
Since 2008 APNK annually holds an International Scientific 
and Practical Conference dedicated to important CP problems.
A famous comparativist A.N. Dzhurinsky wrote in his book 
“Comparative Pedagogy” that “Comparative pedagogy has got 
new leaders, along with traditional ones: B.L. Wolfson, 
A.N. Dzhurinsky, N. D. Nikandrov (Russia); F. Altbach, 
M. Crossley, M. Eckstein (USA); M. Bray (Hong Kong); 
K.A. Torres (Argentina); R. Cowen (England); J. Schriever 
(Germany); Val Rust, Farik Joubish (France); A. Kussainov 
(Kazakhstan); Yukiko Sanavo, T. Endo (Japan) and others” 
(Moscow: Yurayt Publishing House, 2013 
26 p.). Thus, he
mentioned 
A. 
Kussainov 
among 
the 
world’s 
leading 
comparativists, highly appreciating his works on CP.
In 1991, after Kazakhstan gained independence, the Kazakh 
language received the status of the state language. The number of 
schools with the Kazakh language of instruction started increasing;
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universities began to conduct classes in Kazakh. At this time, there 
were practically no industry-specific terminological dictionaries 
(TD). A. Kussainov deeply understood the need for TDs to 
improve the quality of education. Therefore, he wrote the first 
Russian-Kazakh TD in Electrical Engineering and Power 
Engineering and a voluminous explanatory dictionary in the 
subjects he taught at AEI. He wrote a textbook in Kazakh. While 
working at the Ministry of Education, he participated in organizing 
the first republican scientific and practical conference on creating 
national industrial TDs.
Prof. A. Kussainov could fully implement the idea of 
creating industrial TDs when working as a director of the 
“Mektep” (“Rauan”) publishing house. In 1999-2000, he 
supervised and co-authored a 31-volume series of Kazakh- 
Russian, Russian-Kazakh TDs (with about 5 thousand terms in 
each volume). In 2012-2014, they prepared and published another 
30-volume serial of Kazakh-Russian, Russian-Kazakh TDs (with 
more than 10 thousand terms in each volume). More than 
500 scientists and industry specialists took part in the preparation 
of those dictionaries. Together, they managed to form a fund of 
more than 200 thousand terms in Kazakh.
An ethnographic dictionary of any nation gives a broad view 
on national identity, national customs and traditions, way of life, 
types o f clothing, dwelling, property, livestock, utensils, tools, 
implements of labor, and cultural life. Only a nation with a special 
history of development and culture can create a versatile 
ethnographic dictionary. Kazakhs are among such nations. In 
2007, Prof A. Kussainov initiated the creation of a Concise 
Kazakh Ethnographic Dictionary in 6 languages (English, Arabic, 
Chinese, German, Russian, and Turkish), with over 1,000 terms. 
The dictionary was presented at EXPO-2017 in Nur-Sultan; 
copies of it were distributed to the exhibition participants and 
guests. Such a dictionary was published in our country for the first 
time.
Since 1992, a lot has been done in the country to create 
national textbooks. There were no local specialists in creating 
textbooks since, during the Soviet times, all textbooks in
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Kazakhstan, except for the textbooks in the Kazakh language and 
literature, were translated from other languages.
Working 
in 
the 
“Mektep” 
publishing 
house. 
Prof. A. Kussainov began to study the theory of creating 
educational literature. In 2000, together with U. Asylov, he co­
authored a monograph called “Actual problems of textbook 
studies” in Kazakh which has been the first scientific text in this 
field of science. Later he continued the research.
In 2018, a group of scientists led by A. Kussainov developed 
a methodological guide, “Criteria for assessing the quality of 
textbooks” supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of 
the RK. Together with the Republican Scientific and 
Methodological 
Center “Textbook” they developed and 
implemented a System of new criteria for determining the quality 
of textbooks, developed Guidelines for improving the quality of 
educational literature. The APNK Textbook Studies Center 
delivers courses to improve the competence of the authors of 
educational literature.
In 2021 Academician A. Kussainov published a monograph 
“Theory of a textbook ereation and assessment” aimed to improve 
the professional level of authors and experts.
In 2010 the Doctors of Pedagogical Sciences A. Kussainov, 
Y. Nabi and Sh. Taubayeva co-authored a reference and analytical 
review “Theses in Pedagogy and Psychology” in Kazakh and 
Russian languages. The book systematically presents the materials 
of 231 doctoral and 1659 candidate theses in pedagogy and 15 and 
21 theses in psychology, respectively, defended in 1985-2009. The 
authors provided their analysis, indicated the priority areas, and 
recommended future research topics. Till today, research has been 
carried out and theses defended in many of those indicated areas 
and topics.
P rof A. Kussainov initiated the establishment of the 
Academy aimed to consolidate the efforts of scientists, teachers 
and educators to support the Ministry of Education and Science of 
the Republic o f Kazakhstan in developing the system of 
continuous education and pedagogical science.
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The Academy carries out research and social projects and 
publishes monographs and scientific articles, partners with many 
national and foreign institutions. The CCPK, the Center for 
Textbook Studies and the Institute for Advanced Studies created at 
the Academy are working successfully. The Academy Bulletin is 
indexed among rated journals with an Impact-Factor.
Today, the Academy consists of 204 full members 
(academicians), 185 corresponding members, 11 honorary 
academicians, 
23 
foreign members, 
179 members and 
50 collective members. It has become a renowned scientific center.
Academician A. Kussainov is an author of 4 textbooks, four 
teaching aids, 23 teaching publications, 19 monographs, eight 
books, eight standards, 3 USSR inventor’s certificates, 
19 certificates of state registration of an intellectual property 
object, six dictionaries and more than 200 scientific papers. Of 
them, he personally authored four textbooks, one teaching 
publication, 13 monographs, five books, nine certificates of state 
registration of an intellectual property object and more than 
100 scientific papers.
About 200 papers published in mass media. He is a member 
of the Union of Journalists of Kazakhstan.
He is a scientific supervisor of doctoral, candidates, Ph.D., 
and master’s theses.

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