TRENDS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR DEPROFESSIONALIZATION?

Introduction. Student population is the most important social resource of development of post-industrial information society. Therefore, those students will take places of leading experts and will define the level of social and economic wellbeing of the country and its competitiveness in the world i...

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Main Authors: Yu. R. Vishnevsky, D. Yu. Narkhov, Ya. V. Didkovskaya
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Language:Russian
Published: Russian State Vocational Pedagogical University 2018-02-01
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author Yu. R. Vishnevsky
D. Yu. Narkhov
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description Introduction. Student population is the most important social resource of development of post-industrial information society. Therefore, those students will take places of leading experts and will define the level of social and economic wellbeing of the country and its competitiveness in the world in the near future. In this regard, it is important to find out the potential of the student's environment in order to convert it without any loss into social and cultural capital of the state. First of all, this potential is made up by education, qualification and profession and students’ valuable relation to their occupation. Thereby, such valuable relation depends on a degree of a future specialist’ personal maturity, a degree of his/her responsibility for the activity, and readiness for professional selfimprovement.The aims of the present publication are: to analyse the processes of professional self-determination among students; to reveal the tendencies of students’ professional self-determination.Methodology and research methods. The methodological basis of the research involves modern scientific theories formulated within branches of Sociology – Sociology of Education and Sociology of Youth. Representative quota-cluster selective questionnaire survey was used as the main method; that was carried out in seven steps in 1995–2016. The total amount of selection involved 9133 students studying in higher education institutions of Sverdlovsk region – one of the largest administrative territories of Russia.Results and scientific novelty. The results of a unique long-term monitoring are generalized and interpreted. In the course of the monitoring, the dynamics of professional self-determination of student youth was traced by means of such key indicators as follows: motives of the choice of the sphere of employment and educational institution; personal importance of future profession for students; professional plans of students after graduating from a higher education institution. The obtained data refer to a complex of problems and contradictions of functioning of institutes of education and a profession during the period of societal transformations. The main conclusion drawn by the authors consists in the fact of growing tendency towards the deprofessionalization of students.Practical significance. The materials of the research could be useful to design and update vocational guidance of young people.
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spelling doaj-art-901f70b603924da78716a104d7b49e202025-02-03T11:51:52ZrusRussian State Vocational Pedagogical UniversityОбразование и наука1994-56392310-58282018-02-0120115217010.17853/1994-5639-2018-1-152-170684TRENDS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR DEPROFESSIONALIZATION?Yu. R. Vishnevsky0D. Yu. Narkhov1Ya. V. Didkovskaya2Institute of Public Administration and Business; Institute of Physical Culture, Sport and Youth Policy, Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. YeltsinInstitute of Physical Culture, Sport and Youth Policy, Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. YeltsinInstitute of Public Administration and Business, Ural Federal University named after the First President of Russia B. N. YeltsinIntroduction. Student population is the most important social resource of development of post-industrial information society. Therefore, those students will take places of leading experts and will define the level of social and economic wellbeing of the country and its competitiveness in the world in the near future. In this regard, it is important to find out the potential of the student's environment in order to convert it without any loss into social and cultural capital of the state. First of all, this potential is made up by education, qualification and profession and students’ valuable relation to their occupation. Thereby, such valuable relation depends on a degree of a future specialist’ personal maturity, a degree of his/her responsibility for the activity, and readiness for professional selfimprovement.The aims of the present publication are: to analyse the processes of professional self-determination among students; to reveal the tendencies of students’ professional self-determination.Methodology and research methods. The methodological basis of the research involves modern scientific theories formulated within branches of Sociology – Sociology of Education and Sociology of Youth. Representative quota-cluster selective questionnaire survey was used as the main method; that was carried out in seven steps in 1995–2016. The total amount of selection involved 9133 students studying in higher education institutions of Sverdlovsk region – one of the largest administrative territories of Russia.Results and scientific novelty. The results of a unique long-term monitoring are generalized and interpreted. In the course of the monitoring, the dynamics of professional self-determination of student youth was traced by means of such key indicators as follows: motives of the choice of the sphere of employment and educational institution; personal importance of future profession for students; professional plans of students after graduating from a higher education institution. The obtained data refer to a complex of problems and contradictions of functioning of institutes of education and a profession during the period of societal transformations. The main conclusion drawn by the authors consists in the fact of growing tendency towards the deprofessionalization of students.Practical significance. The materials of the research could be useful to design and update vocational guidance of young people.https://www.edscience.ru/jour/article/view/915studentsmotivation of professional choiceprofessionalism and deprofessionalizationtrans-professionalizationlife plans
spellingShingle Yu. R. Vishnevsky
D. Yu. Narkhov
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TRENDS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR DEPROFESSIONALIZATION?
Образование и наука
students
motivation of professional choice
professionalism and deprofessionalization
trans-professionalization
life plans
title TRENDS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR DEPROFESSIONALIZATION?
title_full TRENDS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR DEPROFESSIONALIZATION?
title_fullStr TRENDS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR DEPROFESSIONALIZATION?
title_full_unstemmed TRENDS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR DEPROFESSIONALIZATION?
title_short TRENDS IN HIGHER VOCATIONAL EDUCATION: PROFESSIONALIZATION OR DEPROFESSIONALIZATION?
title_sort trends in higher vocational education professionalization or deprofessionalization
topic students
motivation of professional choice
professionalism and deprofessionalization
trans-professionalization
life plans
url https://www.edscience.ru/jour/article/view/915
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