Since the beginning of its publication by V.I. Andreev in 2006, the “Education and Self-Development” journal has been addressing the most pressing problems of pedagogy and psychology. The problem field of the journal is quite wide: it includes issues of pedagogy, andragogy and eutagogy; publishes articles on the conditions for ensuring access and equality of opportunities in education, paying serious attention to social inclusion. Didactics of general and higher education occupies a special place in the scope of the journal, including aspects of individual and group, open, distance and blended learning; development and application of systems, tools and technologies of training; content of education; monitoring, control and evaluation of the quality of education in schools, colleges, universities, professional institutions, covering all age groups of students. The issues of leadership and management in the field of continuing education, as well as vocational education, are no less relevant in the journal’s problems.
Author : Roza A. Valeeva
Motivation of Student Teachers’ Professional Career
The negative consequences of an incorrectly chosen profession affect both the person himself/herself and his/her social environment. The right choice of profession helps to reduce staff turnover and increase labor productivity. This truth is directly related to the teaching profession. The problem of motivating a professional teaching career, as well as the problem of motivating human behavior and developed. There are practically no special studies that would trace the relationship between the motives for choosing a pedagogical career and the motivation for pedagogical activity among students at the initial stage of teacher education.
The purpose of the study: to identify the career orientations preferences of first-year student teachers from various types of universities implementing teacher education programs: the capital’s pedagogical university, federal university, classical university, regional multidisciplinary university in the national region, regional pedagogical university and regional university of humanities and technology.
E. Shein’s method of studying professional career motivation (adapted by V.E. Vinokurova and V.A. Chiker) was chosen as the research method. First year students of six Russian universities enrolled in the Pedagogical Education program participated in the study.
The study presents the student teachers’ career orientations on the following scales: professional competence, management, autonomy, job stability, residence stability, service, challenge, lifestyle integration, entrepreneurship. Dispositions, value orientations and social attitudes of students that influence career orientations are also presented.
Family Upbringing Styles and Methods vs Youth Propensity for Aggression
The study of the propensity of young people to react aggressively (readiness for aggression) is relevant
because it affects everyone and is the cause of many disasters, crimes, and the growth of aggressive
behavior of young people, which are reflected in the statistics of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Scientists are trying to identify the reasons, factors contributing to the manifestation of aggressive
forms of behavior among young people. However, no Russian research was found in which the
influence of parenting practices (styles of education, methods of education) on the development
of readiness for aggression among young people was studied in a comprehensive manner. The
purpose of this research was to study the influence of family education practice on the development
of readiness for aggression among young people. The experiment involved 237 people aged 18-24,
who were randomly selected. Of these, 110 were girls and 127 were boys. All respondents were
from complete families. The survey was carried out using the following methods: ‘The interpersonal
behaviors inventory’, ‘Retrospective inventory of child rearing practices’, ‘Retrospective
questionnaire of parenting styles’.
The authors identified what forms of readiness for aggression are expressed among Russian youth,
as well as gender characteristics. Emotional-Impulsive Readiness was found for girls and Habitual-
Cognitive Readiness for boys. Mothers are perceived by young people as being more democratic
while fathers, in the opinion of their children, used more often authoritarian and liberal (dismissive)
parenting styles. The results of the study showed that mothers most often used positive and punitive
parenting methods. College-educated fathers used positive parenting methods. The results obtained
will be of interest for specialists working with families.
The phenomenon of “victimization” in modern Russian and foreign studies
Victimization of children and adolescents, as well as other groups in society is an important issue
and complex issue that needs to be better understood so that measures can be put in place at every
level to prevent and correct these phenomena. This study was based on the bibliometric analysis
of relevant scientific literature in both Russian and foreign publications. The resulting qualitative
analysis indicated a variety of viewpoints on the concept of victimology, with different approaches,
theories of victimization, and concepts of specific aspects of prevention, minimization, correction,
and individual assistance. A large number of publications are devoted to the relationship of
victimization and other phenomena, especially in the school environment. Despite the diversity of
the scientific field, the study identified differences in the knowledge of this definition in the global
databases and an increasing number of publications dealing with this problem by both foreign and
Russian researchers. The phenomenon of “victimization” requires a further in-depth approach
to research of an interdisciplinary nature, as well as the development of conditions, models and
methods of de-victimization at various levels.
Editorial: The International Forum on Teacher Education 2018
This special edition includes works of international standing presented at the IV International
Forum on Teacher Education held on 22-24 May, 2018 in Kazan (Volga region)
Federal University (IFTE-2018)1. The changes taking place in the modern education
system make it necessary to improve the skills and professionalism of the teacher. The
main goal of modern education is to meet the current and future needs of an individual,
society and the state, and to prepare a diversely developed personality of a citizen capable
of social adaptation in society, self-education and self-improvement(Bolotov, 2014). A
free-thinking teacher, capable of predicting the results of their activities and modeling
the educational process is the guarantor of the achievement of these goals. Thus, the demand
for qualified, creatively thinking, competitive teachers, able to educate a person in
a modern, dynamically changing world, has increased sharplyKalimullin, 2014; Valeeva
& Gafurov, 2017).