Том 26, № 3 (2022)
- Жылы: 2022
- ##issue.datePublished##: 30.09.2022
- Мақалалар: 10
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1991-9468/issue/view/25273
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International Experience in the Integration of Education
Strategic University Management in the Context of Digitalization: The Experience of the World’s Leading Universities
Аннотация
Introduction. The research paper’s aim is to study the ongoing digitalization in all spheres of economy, which inevitably impacted on the strategic university management. It explains how universities and higher educational institutions strategically positioned themselves and searched for the novel pathways for innovation and development, which was further reinforced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the digital surge it brought.
Materials and Methods. The authors analyzed the strategic university management in the context of digitalization using the literature review and their own analysis. They focus on the experience of the world’s best universities for inspiring the institutions of higher education in other countries and regions, helping them to improve information and communication technologies and digital skills.
Results. Our results corroborate the ongoing digitalization in all spheres of economy and social life which was pushed further by the COVID-19 pandemic contributed to the transformation of the higher educational institutions challenging them to embark upon the path of in-depth transition, restructuring, and re-thinking their role and their mission with regard to the new challenges and novel technologies that are available on the market.
Discussion and Conclusion. The outcomes present interesting possibilities for their application in practice for some countries, most notably Russia. They can be of a special interest not only for the government officials responsible for fostering higher education and devising guidelines for the strategic management of universities and higher educational institutions, but also for the academic environment with its researchers and lecturers who seek to innovate based on the most recent and advanced trends in higher education (e.g. ministries and national authorities responsible for science, research, and education in different countries, such as the Ministry of Science and Higher Education, Ministry of National Education, Ministry for Research, as well as National Educational Authority or the World Bank, just to name a few).
402-417
Attitude to Labor among Learners of Industrial Colleges in Russia, China and Iran
Аннотация
Introduction. A contradiction which we are able to observe over a few recent decades between necessity to participate in innovative processes and their natural stressogenic character has underlined the importance of developing programs for proactive organizational socialization which will be capable of building up successful behavior competences in VUCA environment in Industry 4.0. When self-actualization in labor is being devalued, attitude to labor is now considered as a key competence. Purpose: to reveal features of attitude to labor as a basis of professional socialization of learners studying at industrial colleges in countries which are now entering the new technological reality with a different degree of success: Russia, China and Iran.
Materials and Methods. The analysis draws on the data obtained with WorkBAT method developed by J. Spence and A. Robbins, and their correlation with the values of organizational cultures which are characteristic of industrial colleges. The data on organizational cultures were obtained with OCAI method developed by C. Cameron and R. Quinn.
Results. Russian students do not feel the changed nature of labor, their attitude to it is substituted by a wish to strengthen clan-based and loosen hierarchical components of the organizational cultures. Iranian students have a negative attitude to labor in a real hierarchical environment and a positive attitude to it in an innovative market environment, which suggests that they would be engaged and emotionally satisfied. Chinese students, having experienced specific organizational cultures of innovative companies in real life, have a positive attitude to labor in a hierarchical environment of stability and certainty.
Discussion and Conclusion. The findings contribute to the development of scientific understanding of the role of value-based work readiness in the turbulent environment of a modern enterprise and the psychological mechanisms of proactive organizational socialization, taking into account socio-cultural country specificity.
418-432
Modernization of Education
Anti-Corruption Mechanisms in University Education Governance
Аннотация
Introduction. Corruption in higher education continues to spread in modern society. Changing social relations in higher education can exacerbate corruption offenses in the educational environment. The purpose of the study is to analyze the anti-corruption mechanisms of university education management and make an empirical assessment of their effectiveness.
Materials and Methods. With the help of comparative and theoretical analysis, a model of anti-corruption management of university education is constructed. The modeling method made it possible to interpret the term “anti- corruption management mechanism in higher education”. The empirical base of the study rides on the results of a survey of 345 graduates of Yekaterinburg universities to identify the causes of corruption, the corruption situation, ways to prevent it, and an empirical assessment of the effectiveness of the proposed anti-corruption mechanisms of university education management.
Results. The classification of types and the content of anti-corruption mechanisms for managing university education is proposed on the basis of the policy pursued by the state. The developed model of anti-corruption management in university education includes four interrelated mechanisms: socio-psychological, legal, moral, and economic management ones.
Discussion and Conclusion. The results obtained contribute to the anti-corruption activities of the state. The proposed model of anti-corruption management is universal. Social management mechanisms have the least impact on the effectiveness of anti-corruption management.
433-448
Schoolchildren’s Perceptions of STEM Professions and Careers in Russia: Results of a Pilot Study
Аннотация
Introduction. The world of work is undergoing a global shift fuelled by technological innovation, demographic changes and environmental problems. This heightens the demand for STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) competencies which are seen as a catalyst for social and economic development. The purpose of this study was to investigate learner views on STEM professions, the learners’ overall attitudes regarding STEM, as well as their aspirations and willingness to choose a career in STEM and identify factors which are crucial in forming young people’s interests in studying STEM and pursuing STEM careers.
Materials and Methods. This pilot study was conducted in May 2019 across three schools in the Moscow region. The authors used a slightly modified version of the learner questionnaire used by the European study “ECB-inGenious” to investigate perceptions of STEM careers among Russian learners in grades 8–9 and 10–11.
Results. Overall, it was determined that a combination of intrinsic (cognitive and attitudinal) and extrinsic (social, cultural and economic) factors were responsible for learner engagement in STEM. Learners showed a strong awareness of STEM’s significance to society and displayed positive perceptions of STEM careers, although jobs in industry appeared less popular than those in other areas of STEM. Some factors, such as a learner’s personal experiences of STEM in and out of the classroom can even play a decisive role in shaping aspirations towards STEM careers. Younger learners expressed more enthusiasm for STEM careers than their older counterparts. Learners enrolled in classes specialising in STEM and learners whose parent(s) worked in STEM-related professions showed stronger positive attitudes to STEM careers.
Discussion and Conclusion. To make an informed decision, learners require practical information and advice regarding STEM careers; schools can play an important role in this process. This guidance must begin early, ideally from primary school when learners are more enthused and interested in learning about STEM careers. It is also advisable for learners to be given more opportunities to join extracurricular STEM activities; consequently, a learner’s understanding of STEM subjects is expanded outside the academic curriculum which can spark a longlasting interest in the subject. Additionally, STEM subjects’ curriculums require enriching with real-life examples and should be contextualised in terms of relevant careers. Finally, schools should be encouraged to organise regular engagements with STEM professionals.
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Psychology of Education
Self-Assessment of Pedagogical Abilities in the Professional Training of Elementary School Teachers
Аннотация
Introduction. The article analyzes the development of self-esteem of the pedagogical abilities of students – future primary school teachers. The relevance of the study is determined by the ambiguity of modern data on the nature of the influence of self-esteem on the professional training of teachers and the need to manage the development of the personality and activities of the future teacher in the context of the introduction of updated educational standards. The purpose of the article is to establish the psychological features of the development of self-esteem of the pedagogical abilities of students, as well as the nature of its connection with the motivation for learning and the reflection of educational and professional activities.
Materials and Methods. The study sample consisted of 1st–4th year undergraduate students of the Pedagogical University studying in the field of “Primary Education” (n = 104). In order to study the psychological characteristics of self-esteem of pedagogical abilities, motivation for learning and reflection of activity, self-assessment scales and standardized questionnaires were used. Processing of the results was carried out by methods of primary descriptive statistics, methods of comparison and correlation analysis.
Results. The dynamics of changes in the perceptions of students - future primary school teachers about the correspondence of their abilities to the teaching profession is analyzed. The role of self-esteem of abilities in the development of learning motivation at the university and reflection of educational and professional activities is shown. It has been established that a high self-esteem of pedagogical abilities has a negative impact on adaptation to study at a university and the adoption of new means and methods of educational and professional activities for a school graduate. The psychological mechanism for launching the development of a professional educational program is the realization of the discrepancy between the developed methods of educational activity and the requirements of the university.
Discussion and Conclusion. The results of the study contribute to pedagogical psychology, the psychology of the teacher’s work and his professional training. The conclusions and generalizations presented in the article make it possible to improve not only the process of professional pedagogical education, but also the system of psychological and pedagogical support for the development of students – future primary school teachers.
466-482
The Problem of Personal Security: An Analysis of Basic Concepts and Approaches to Modeling
Аннотация
Introduction. The problem of security is extremely relevant for humanity as a whole and for the individual in particular. It is closely connected, for a person, with the main concepts – “life” and “death”, is interdisciplinary and the key to all arts and a huge number of sciences. However, the largely isolated development of their thesauri and model tools led to the formation of very eclectic conceptual and model apparatuses, exacerbated the problem of generalization (conceptual synthesis) and reduction in the dimension of the problem field. The purpose of the work is to analyze the basic concepts and model tools of the problem field of personal security.
Materials and Methods. Systematic and interdisciplinary approaches and methods were applied: analysis and conceptual synthesis; analogy and transfer of knowledge; generalized method of qualitative structures; modeling, including the idea of multimodel descriptions and model games when used for these purposes, adequate to the reality of the collision of opposing models. In the case of insufficient evidence to confirm the hypotheses put forward at specific levels of the system hierarchy, we carried out the transition to the super system, as required by the conclusion following from the proofs of Kurt Gödel’s well-known theorems “On incompleteness”.
Results. When understanding the problem of the security of the personality of a multidimensional person, the benefits of the transfer of knowledge and meaningful procedures, according to generalizations of concepts. Using the concept of “personality” as an example, the effectiveness of using the GMQS by I. M. Kalinauskas – B. V. Shmakov for the purposes of conceptual synthesis. The prospects of a multi-model description of the vast problem field of personal security by opposing models and model games of the type of “Life Strategy of a Creative Personality” by G. S. Altshuller – I. M. Vertkin. It is hypothesized that the current problem of “identity depersonalization” in thesauri and modeling, as well as the design and construction of multi-aspect systems for ensuring the personal safety of people in the future, can be removed in the process of creating their individual model “digital twins”.
Discussion and Conclusion. The conducted research contributes to the development of ideas about the scale and depth of the problematic field of personal security. The materials of the article will be useful to a wide range of researchers and practitioners engaged in research and solving not only the aggravated “eternalˮ problems, but also new problems of ensuring the security of an individual that arise in the conditions of digitalization of the life of modern society.
483-502
The Potential of a Teacher’s Psychological Safety through Learners’ Evaluations
Аннотация
Introduction. An important role in ensuring the psychological safety of the educational environment belongs to the ability to measure it. Despite the numerous publications on the problem of ensuring psychological safety, there are practically no studies on measuring the indicator of safety in education. Such an integral indicator, according to the authors, may be the potential of a teacherʼs psychological safety. Therefore, the goal is to assess the potential of the teacherʼs psychological safety as an integral diagnostic indicator and to test the authorʼs questionnaire to measure it.
Materials and Methods. To measure the potential of a teacher's psychological safety, the authors developed a questionnaire based on a structural model of potential. It is represented by three blocks, including the personal, professional and communicative qualities of the teacher. The potential was measured by the feedback method through student assessments.
Results. The factorization of empirical data made it possible to determine the factor load of individual features in the structure of each of the three components of the teacher’s psychological safety potential. Analysis of the total variance made it possible to determine the central qualities of the potential: sincerity, confidence, persistence, the ability to conduct a lesson remotely, find a compromise in communication, organization of group communication, charm. And to the peripheral include: stress resistance, erudition, cheerfulness, enthusiasm, humor, integrity, artistry, dedication to the profession, objectivity in the assessment, attentiveness, interest, explains clearly, ease, self-control, tact, compliance.
Discussion and Conclusion. The study conducted by the authors made it possible to argue the multidimensionality of the potential of the teacher’s psychological safety as an integral indicator of the safety of the educational environment. Understanding its component composition will make it possible to identify the resources of the teacher to ensure the psychological safety of schoolchildren. The data obtained allow us to outline the continuation of the study in the direction of studying the features in the structure of the components of the teacher’s potential, depending on the gender and age of schoolchildren, to determine the deficits of the student himself in the process of ensuring his psychological safety in various educational situations. This will help to specify the individual trajectory of psychological work in ensuring the safety of participants in educational relations.
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Cyberbullying of Vietnamese High Schoolers during Social Distancing due to COVID-19
Аннотация
Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of the problems encountered by Vietnamese schoolchildren during the period of strict restrictions in the form of social distancing to combat the 4th wave of COVID-19 in Vietnam. This is the first systematic study in Vietnam that uses reliable research tools to assess cyberbullying among adolescents during COVID-19 social distancing.
Materials and Methods. The study draws on a survey of 787 (grades 6–12) Vietnamese teenagers randomly selected from provinces and cities in the north of Vietnam. An expert survey of students was conducted using the Google Form service. The reliability of the results of the study was verified using the alpha coefficient (ANOVA test) and factor analysis EFA.
Results. The final statistical data obtained showed a significant influence of factors: gender, course of study (age), place of residence, purpose, time of use and type of social network on cyberbullying of Vietnamese teenagers and young men. The negative strategy of combating cyberbullying and the experience of cyberbullying (as a subject or victim), which are factors strongly influencing cyberbullying in Vietnamese adolescents and young men, has been identified. During social distancing, Vietnamese teenagers and young men developed a tendency to abuse social networks for entertainment and communication purposes. During social distancing, the manifestations of bullying through social networks in Vietnamese teenagers showed an increase at an alarming rate, focusing mainly on 2 groups of behavior, including “mental violence and invasion of privacy” and “online fraud and sexual harassment”. A closed causal cycle of cyberbullying has been identified, in which the mediating factor contributing to this cycle is the way a teenager reacts negatively to cyberbullying during social distancing due to COVID-19.
Discussion and Conclusion. The results of the study are an important basis for the creation of prevention and psychological intervention programs to help Vietnamese adolescents and young men during social distancing due to COVID-19 in order to prevent cyberbullying, contributing to mental health.
518-538
Integration of Education and Upbringing
Parents in the School System in Europe
Аннотация
Introduction. To determine the prospects for the development of the social community of parents as a subject of civil society in Russia it is necessary to analyze foreign practices of social and civil activities of parents. In this sense, the activities of European parents are of interest, reflecting the experience of countries with a developed civil society (France, Germany, Sweden). The aim of the article is to analyze the institutional opportunities and practices of European parentsʼ participation in the system of school education.
Materials and Methods. The methodological framework for the study of parentsʼ involvement in childrenʼs education was the concept of D. Epstein. To achieve this goal, the content of normative documents regulating the participation of European parents in the education of their school children was studied; a secondary analysis of statistical information and scientific publications was carried out.
Results. The study showed that despite the common European space, parents of the analyzed countries have different institutional opportunities to participate in the education of their children. Two basic principles of state policy in relation to the parent community, which affect the peculiarities of their participation in school education, are highlighted. The first principle is the restriction of the freedom of individual choice of parents in the field of school education to ensure equal access to public school education. The second is the priority of childrenʼs rights over the rights of parents. The interaction of the school with parents is focused on the education of politically correct parents who fulfill the requirements of the school. It is noted that the Russian parent community can more actively use at least two European practices for the implementation and protection of parental and children rights and interests in the field of school education: collective forms of protection of rights and interests; consolidation with the local community for the implementation of parental and children needs and interests.
Discussion and Conclusion. The obtained results contribute to the development of the sociological concept of the parent community as a subject of civil society. The materials of the article will be useful to scientists analyzing the problems of the development of Russian civil society; representatives of educational management engaged in the development of programs for the harmonization of relations between parents and schools; civil activists.
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Factors in the Formation of Patriotic Values and Attitudes in High School Seniors (Case Study of Siberian Federal District)
Аннотация
Introduction. The issue of patriotism tends to be one of the most discussed in official discourse on the Russian youth. Still the issue lacks explicit conceptual interpretation and consistent mechanism of implementation at different levels. The article aims at evaluating the scope of influence of the specifics of the regions, their socio-cultural, informational and institutional environment on the way senior school children understand patriotism, the type of patriotism dominating their conscience and their attitude to patriotic education in Russia.
Materials and Methods. The article draws on the surveys of the pupils of 8th–11th grades of secondary schools in 10 regions of Siberian Federal District (n =2 050 people; non-linked quota samples with monitoring age, grade, type of locality and region). The data were collected through direct questionnaires at the respondentsʼ place of study.
Results. The article has revealed prevailing emotional interpretation of patriotism by senior school children. The model of “blind” patriotism and its activity-orientated interpretation are wide-spread among school children of national republics, while “constructive” patriotism is spread among school children of administrative regions. The factors determining this split are peculiarities of the environment, values, current and prospective political involvement of the youth, the level of its trust for social and political institutions. The article has traced the influence of the dominant models of patriotism and the degree of school children involvement into the system of patriotic education on their attitude to this system, their evaluation of its forms and methods. Based on the conducted survey the article has proved the consistency of applying models of “constructive” and “blind” patriotism to composite societies on both a country and a region level.
Discussion and Conclusion. The conclusions and the materials of the research can be useful for state departments of youth policy, youth social and political organizations, institutions of education as well as for research in politics and sociology of youth.
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