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SOCIAL POTENTIAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHERS OF THE THIRD AGE: PROBLEMS AND NEW CHALLENGES

Year 2019, Volume 5, Issue 15, 293 - 299, 07.01.2020
https://doi.org/10.18768/ijaedu.593877

Abstract

Introduction
Russian teachers of the third age are a social group that is currently in a difficult and ambiguous situation. On the one hand, raising the retirement age in Russia sets them the task of further professional development. On the other hand, the level of professional requirements associated with increasing the competitiveness of Russian higher education in the global educational space is sharply increasing. The purpose of the article is to answer the question - how the accumulated social potential of the third age's teachers allows them to adapt to new conditions, to increase the level of competitiveness, to act as a factor in the development of the University teaching community and higher education in general.

Materials and methods   
The article is based on the materials of research team in the Ural Federal University (2017-2019). The article uses quantitative data of the mass survey of teachers in the Ural Federal district, implemented by the method of questioning. The population is 51 University of the Ural Federal district. Quota sampling was implemented in the study. The volume of the teachers' sample is 810 people. Social community of the third age's teachers was 38.5% of the total sample.

The results of research

The social potential of University teachers was considered in the context of the following structural elements: professional qualification, innovation, cultural, civil. Teachers of the third age have higher professional and qualification potential (qualification and status characteristics) than other age groups. The innovative potential realized in research activity and educational process is also high. This applies to innovation activity implemented in research projects and scientific communication. Their cultural practices are quite diverse, and the activity of cultural consumption is even higher than that of colleagues of other age groups. Civic activity of the third age's teachers is manifested in various forms of public participation, implemented through interaction with authorities of different levels and public organizations. The specificity of their civic activity is the implementation of expert functions that require high qualification, which has this group of teachers. 
At the same time, the teaching community of the third age notes the lack of sufficient institutional conditions for effective development, manifested primarily in the low level of social protection in the professional sphere.

General conclusions

University teachers of the third age have sufficient adaptive potential in the new challenges of the social environment. At the same time, the basic problem of their development is the creation of institutional conditions for professional activities and the effective realization of their social potential.

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Year 2019, Volume 5, Issue 15, 293 - 299, 07.01.2020
https://doi.org/10.18768/ijaedu.593877

Abstract

References

  • Vakhitov R. R. “Diseases” of our universities: Soviet universities in the post-Soviet era // University management: practice and analysis. 2017.V.21. No. 2 (108). S. 14-23. Kuzminov Ya. I., Peskov D.N. Discussion “What future awaits universities” // Educational issues. 2017. No3. S. 202-233. Abramov R.N., Gruzdev I.A., Terentyev E.A. Academic profession and ideology of "slow science" // Higher education in Russia. 2016. No. 10. P. 62−70. Kurbatova M.V., Kagan E.S. Opportunism of university professors as a way to adapt to strengthening external control of activities // Journal of Institutional Studies. 2016. No. 3. P. 116−137. Borman W. C., Hedge J. W. The Oxford handbook of work and aging. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Bal P. M., Kooij D. T.A.M, Rousseau D. M. Aging Workers and the Employee-Employer Relationship. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2015. Klepikova E.A., Kolosnitsyna M.G. Ageism in the Russian labor market: wage discrimination // Russian Management Journal. 2017.Vol. 15. No. 1. P. 69-88. Liu Sze Yan, Kawachi Ichiro. Discrimination and Telomere Length Among Older Adults in the United States: Does the Association Vary by Race and Type of Discrimination? // Public health reports. 2017. № 132(2). Р. 220-230. Fisher G. G., Truxillo D. M., Finkelstein L. M. Age discrimination: Potential for adverse impact and differential prediction related to age // Human resource management review. 2017. Vol. 27, no. 2. P. 316-327. Evans L. University professors as academic leaders: professorial leadership development needs and provision. Educational Management Administration & Leadership. 2017; 45(1): 123–140. Weijden I., Belder R., Arensbergen P., Besselaar P. How do young tenured professors benefit from a mentor? Effects on management, motivation and performance. High Education. 2015; 69: 275–287. Uteeva E.N. Model of social activity at the third age // Social policy and sociology. 2009. No. 11 (2). S. 168-175. Shmerlina I. A. Age constructs and lifestyle at an older age // Monitoring of public opinion: economic and social changes. 2014. No. 1. S. 181-187, No. 2. S. 190-198. Dolzhenko R.A., Lobova S.V. The relationship of precarization of employment and labor mobility of scientific and pedagogical workers of regional universities: statement of the problem // University Management: Practice and Analysis. 2018. Volume 22, No. 2. S. 83-96.

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Primary Language English
Subjects Education and Educational Research
Journal Section Articles
Authors

Elena SHUKLİNA This is me

Russian Federation


Mariya PEVNAYA This is me

Russian Federation

Publication Date January 7, 2020
Submission Date October 30, 2019
Acceptance Date January 1, 2020
Published in Issue Year 2019, Volume 5Issue 15

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