Vol 26, No 4 (2022)

Introduction. Ensuring the consistency of regional vocational education systems with the labor markets demands is a nationwide task of strategic importance. It causes the development of methodological tools instrumental in a quick and objective assessment of the current state of regional educational systems in the context of their interaction with the region’s labor markets. The aim of the article is to develop indicators of the relationship between the system of vocational education and the labor market and to test the calculation of these indicators in the Russian regions.

Materials and Methods. The research methodology includes substantiation, development and formalization of indicators of the interrelation between the education system and the labor market. The first indicator characterizes the potential of the regional vocational education system to provide places for the admission of its own graduates of the 9th and 11th grades of schools. The second indicator assesses the supply of the regional labor market with graduates of the regional system of vocational education. To calculate the proposed indicators, official statistical reporting data are used.

Results. In the course of research, using statistical data for 2018–2020, the proposed indicators were calculated for all Russian regions. Based on the cluster analysis of the indicators calculated values, a typology of Russian regions was made, during which five types of stable regions associations with homogeneous characteristics were identified. The strengths and weaknesses of regional educational systems are identified, including in the context of their interaction with the region’s labor markets.

Discussion and Сonclusion. The developed indicators allowed to quickly assess the potential of the regions, on the one hand, to provide school graduates with vocational education, and on the other hand, to meet the economy staffing needs by graduates of universities and vocational educational organizations. The results of the study are of undoubted practical significance and will be useful to executive authority in developing recommendations for bringing education systems in line with regional development priorities, strengthening and developing regional educational systems.

Introduction. The discussion of the shaping of a digital image of university faculty member is driven by the need for effective educational interaction between students and faculty in the context of digitalization. However, there are practically no studies of the faculty’s image as a system, as well as technologies for modeling the faculty’s digital image. The objective of this study is to model faculty’s digital image for purposes of decision-making in the process of managing digital image in educational interactions.

Materials and Methods. Secondary data were received through methods of content analysis and systemic and structural-functional evaluation of information. Primary data were obtained through comparative marketing study of faculty’s digital image on a sample of 400 students and 92 faculty members of a Moscow-based and a regional university and through an expert survey. Methods of multivariate scaling and analysis of statistically significant differences were also applied.

Results. Novelty of the study lies in incorporating basic and instrumental core components in the model of university faculty’s digital image due to a dual role of “digital competence” element. The image modeling technique is also developed. It is noticed that faculty’s digital competence is not only an element in the structure of faculty’s image, but also a tool that transmits the image to external environment. Based on results of the study, recommendations on implementation of technique of faculty member’s digital image modeling are proposed. Revealed differences in opinions of students and faculty of two universities can be attributed to unequal access to digital technologies in different regions.

Discussion and Conclusion. Conclusions made by authors contribute to development of scientific thought on shaping and promotion of university faculty’s digital image. Results of the comparative study will enable the Moscow-based and regional universities faculty to differentiate and precisely approach issues of shaping and promoting personal digital image.

Introduction. As the number of scientific publications on the problems of education increases, it is increasingly possible to detect the desire of authors to consider them as sociological. Meanwhile, many of them do not meet the requirements for articles based on data from sociological empirical studies. In this regard, there is a need to separate publications of different nature, orientation, and functions, which focus on the problems of education. The purpose of the article is to analyze the criteria for attributing publications to the disciplinary field of sociology of education and to identify their specifics. Achieving this goal will clarify the issue of trust in scientific publications, research results, and the appropriateness of their use for making managerial decisions in the field of education.

Materials and Methods. The object of the research is scientific journals that publish articles on education issues on a regular basis, including under the heading “Sociology of Educationˮ. The sample includes relevant publications and publications in them for the last 5 years. The subject of the study was the content of publications that were classified either by publications or by the authors of articles as sociological. The main methods used were content analysis and historical and sociological analysis.

Results. The specifics of the subject field of sociology of education and the trends of its formation and development are determined. The main criteria for determining the differences of publications in the field of sociology of education are formulated.

Discussion and Conclusion. The article is devoted to the experience of science-based research. In the process of discussing the results obtained, attention is drawn to the specific nature, special tasks and functions of sociological research and publications in the field of education. The importance of these results for improving the quality of empirical studies of education and publications based on them, as well as the possibility of using them to solve its practical problems, is shown.

Introduction. The article presents the analysis of the ways teachers cope with situations of conflict at secondary school and destructive behavior of learners. Highly functional coping teachers’ behavior is the main problem of the study. The purpose of the article is to present the results of a study of the relationship between various parameters of teachers’ aggressiveness and priority ways of responding to situations of conflicts between learners, as well as to test the assumption that there is a relationship between the chosen method of coping with adolescents’ aggressive behavior and teachersʼ idea about the permissibility of aggression.

Materials and Methods. 5 086 teachers from seven regions of the Russian Federation (five federal districts) took part in this study. The study was implemented in the form of an anonymous online questionnaire. The following statistical analysis methods were used: Student and Mann-Whitney criteria, correlation analysis (Spearman coefficient). Data processing was carried out in R Studio (R version 4.0.0) and SPSS.

Results. Respondents with a high level of physical aggression, anger and hostility (compared to respondents with a low level) are significantly less likely to choose an active form of reaction and significantly more often – passive and emotional forms. Teachers who actively react to the aggression of adolescents do not consider aggression an acceptable form of behavior. Teachers who prefer a passive and emotional way of responding to aggression are more likely to consider aggressive behavior at school acceptable.

Discussion and Conclusion. The results conceptualize various aspects of the teacher's attitude to adolescent aggression and, in many respects, directly indicate the risks of “normalizationˮ of adolescent aggression as a form of behavior in the minds of teachers with high rates of various aspects of aggressiveness.

Introduction. The problem of professional burnout of teaching staff is especially relevant. Despite the numerous publications on this topic, there are practically no studies on the perception of leadership in the school environment and its impact on the emotional burnout of Russian teachers. The purpose of the research paper is to determine the relationship between the perception of school leadership and emotional burnout with the level of organizational commitment of teachers, as well as the relationship of emotional burnout and the perception of school leadership with the intentions of Russian teachers to change their profession.

Materials and Methods. The following methods were used for the analysis: a questionnaire for assessing professional burnout (C. Maslach), a scale of subjective well-being of a teacher (T. Renshaw), a questionnaire on the perception of school leadership in schools and the city’s education department (K. Crosby), the confidence level questionnaire (L. G. Pochebut), the scale of organizational commitment (R. Collie). 426 teachers from the regions of Russia took part in the survey. The SPSS 19.0 software was used for data processing.

Results. The analysis of foreign publications allowed us to summarize that emotional burnout is negatively associated with teachers’ support of learners, with parental relationships, and it is also associated with low learners’ performance in many subjects and insuffi level of skills to be gained in learning. In addition, emotional burnout correlates with learners’ aggressiveness, hyperactivity and attention problems, but is not associated with emotional distress (anxiety, depression and emotional control), and also negatively correlates with a positive outlook (optimism and subjective perception of happiness). The majority of respondents do not regret their chosen profession and remain faithful to it, considering themselves competent, and their teaching methods effective and successful. Emotional burnout is expected to be higher among those teachers who consider their professional choice to be erroneous. In addition, emotional burnout is negatively associated with the organizational commitment of teachers. Comparative analysis has shown that Moscow teachers have a more developed reduction of personal achievements, and teachers from other regions have a more obvious depersonalization. The degree of hostility and the level of trust were expected to be interrelated with professional burnout among teachers.

Discussion and Conclusion. The results of the study contribute to pedagogical psychology, the psychology of the teacher's work and his professional training in terms of understanding the phenomena of perception of the status of a leader and emotional burnout among teachers. The materials of the article will be useful to teachers and the pedagogical community involved in the teacher training system.

Introduction. Recently, multilingualism and translanguaging have received considerable attention and are always a topic of interest and public debate in language education. However, to our knowledge, studies on pre- service EFL teachers’ beliefs about multilingualism with respect to translanguaging in the Indonesian context have not appeared in the literature. Therefore, to address this gap, this research investigated beliefs about multilingualism with respect to translanguaging, including language separation, language use/mixing, and language support, among pre-service EFL teachers in the Indonesian context.

Materials and Methods. This study is quantitative in nature, adopting a survey research design. We collected data from 270 pre-service EFL teachers using an online Likert scale questionnaire that lacked any potentially sensitive questions. They were between the ages of 17 and 26, and were English teacher candidates majoring in English education at higher education institutions on the Indonesian islands of Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and Kalimantan. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, which included the percentages and frequency distributions of the participants’ Likert scale responses.

Results. The current study’s findings corroborate previous research indicating that teachers believe multilingualism and collaborative use of languages are potential assets that can benefit their students’ language learning.

Discussion and Conclusion. Language separation in EFL classrooms appears to be a point of contention for the majority of pre-service EFL teachers surveyed, with a preference for and support for multilingualism and translanguaging over language separation in EFL classrooms. They agree on the importance of using or mixing other languages in their classes. On the one hand, they believe that it is critical to avoid other language support in classrooms; on the other hand, they believe that other language support can benefit students, offering a wave of optimism about future language education. Therefore, there is a need to gradually introduce and include pedagogical translanguaging to the existing curricula. The integration of new multilingual facts and the implementation of translanguaging pedagogies are part of a larger educational renewal. There is a need to intentionally create a multilingual space (translanguaging space) in EFL classrooms to fully utilise studentsʼ multilingual capabilities creatively and critically because today many teachers struggle to reconcile the disparities between monolingual educational policies and the realities of multilingual classrooms.