Research question: How is curriculum internationalisation of a secondary school identified in the school documents and policies?

The aim of the research was to explore the conception of curriculum internationalisation found in the documents within a Kazakhstani secondary school.

Documents are considered as one of the most valuable and timesaving forms of data collection (Fetterman, 1989). They are produced by people and for people. Therefore, they can influence the attitudes, perceptions and ideas of the people. In addition, there are often some reforms or polices in education which do not exist as a text (i.e. marketization, globalisation, performativity) but influence education to a great extent. Globalisation is often perceived as discriminatory and oppressive. This oppression is not only economic but also intellectual. This is self-evident in the dominance of Western educational models, the dominance of the English language in research (Leask, 2015). Curriculum internationalisation is closely connected with globalisation.

There is not much research in curriculm internationalsiation and even that amount of research is mostly carried out in the Western countries by Western researchers. That is why, the defintion of internationalsiation is to a great extent influenced by the Western educational models, Western ideologies, policies and research. Therefore, it is important to research curriculum internationalisation within the culture where the students' learning is happening. This is especially relevant for the developing countries.

Kazakhstan is a developing country. It gained its independence only 25 years. The government of the country has an ambitious aim of becoming one of the 30 most developed countries by 2020. Education is perceived as the most powerful tool for achieving that aim. Therefore, there has been a lot of investments into education. Consequently, the model of education has changed immensely since Kazakhstan became independent - shifitng from the traditional Soviet model to an innovative Western model.

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