Tatyana Larkina received a grant to write a manuscript from the Khamovniki Foundation for Historical and Cultural Studies.

Starting November 1, 2025, with the support of the Khamovniki Foundation for Social Research, a project will begin. As a result, our laboratory's junior research fellow, Tatyana Larkina, will describe the daily work routines of Russian teachers, reveal the social drama of teaching, and demonstrate how employees of general education organizations repeatedly make numerous choices in situations of value conflicts and contradictory and uncertain demands on their professional roles.

The forthcoming book is based on the results of a field study of Russian teachers' daily work, conducted by the author from within the teaching profession and as part of her master's and PhD dissertations (from 2017 to 2022, the researcher worked in two public schools in Russia's Central Federal District). The theoretical lens of the research is sensitive to the lived experiences of staff in general education organizations and takes into account the ceremonial dimension of their work. This allows for a new perspective on the emerging gap between the design of educational policy and its implementation at the level of individual schools and classrooms.

This book is likely to attract the attention of scholars studying bureaucratic structures and professional groups; educators and education managers; and readers interested in social policy issues. We wish Tatyana a speedy publication!