Shugaeva Gulshat Konyratovna

Shugayeva Gulshat is a Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences and an Associate Professor. She was born on November 22, 1964, in the village of Balykshy, Balykshy District, Atyrau Region. Her total professional experience is 38 years, including 35 years in higher education. In 1981, she graduated from Abay Secondary School in Balykshy District, Atyrau Region. In 1981, she entered the Guryev Pedagogical Institute, which she graduated from in 1986. In 2016, she graduated from Kh. Dosmukhamedov Atyrau University. From 1986 to 1989, she worked as a school teacher in secondary schools of Balykshy District. Since 1989, she has been working at Kh. Dosmukhamedov Atyrau University at the Department of Pedagogy and Psychology, starting as a lecturer. From 1991 to 1993, she served as Scientific Secretary of the University Academic Council; from 2005 to 2009, as Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Correspondence and Accelerated Education; and from 2014 to 2022, as Head of the Department of Psychology and Special Education. In 1990, she completed advanced training courses at the Institute of Professional Development under the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences in Moscow. From 1994 to 1997, she studied in full-time postgraduate studies at Kh. Dosmukhamedov Atyrau State University. In 2006, she defended her Candidate dissertation in the specialty 13.00.01 — “General Pedagogy, History of Pedagogy and Education, Ethnopedagogy” on the topic “Development of Rural Small-Scale Schools in Kazakhstan (1930–1960)” and was awarded the degree of Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences by the Committee for Control and Attestation in Education and Science of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan on May 19, 2006. She is the author of about 60 scientific articles on current issues in pedagogy and psychology, published in central journals, foreign journals, and proceedings of national and international conferences, as well as the author of 1 textbook, 2 teaching-methodological manuals, 4 study guides, and 1 electronic textbook. She also holds a copyright certificate for the methodological guide “Methodological Guidelines for Project-Based Learning.” She participated as a research team member in the international Canada–Jordan–Kazakhstan project under the supervision of Professor Robert Williamson (Simon Fraser University, Canada) on the topic “Comparative Study of Educational Practices for Children with Special Educational Needs.” She is also a participant in the grant project of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan titled “Building a System of Continuous Professional Development of Teachers in the Context of Education for a Complex World: Paradigm, Methodology, Digital Tools.” In addition, she participated in the internal university project “Creation of a Virtual Museum-Laboratory Based on Trilingual Digitalization of the Scientific Works of Kh. Dosmukhamedov.”