Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Embedded in Russian social reality school teacher profession has been demonstrating its crisis condition throughout the post-Soviet decades. In Russian research papers the problems of aging of the teacher corps, low competence, low economic returns from labor, and declining professional prestige were described among other things (e.g. the COVID-19 epidemic has become a significant challenge for schools and the teaching profession). However, against this background, we observe relative stability of the teacher profession in the country. This situation requires to hypothesize that there are factors and causes which allow to overcome crisis both at individual and institutional levels. This study is based on a long-term series of interviews with teachers conducted during the so-called “emergency learning”, throughout the years of coronavirus widespread. The article shows that the ethical core of the teaching profession in Russia ensured stability of the profession during the years of transit from Soviet to post-Soviet society. However, in COVID-19 years this professional ethos, which dates back to the ideas of the Enlightenment, has been in a state of visible erosion. Teachers, especially those of younger generations, were forced to look for new professional landmarks and new substance of professional ethos. Sustainability of the modern teaching profession in Russia, including the efficiency of its reproduction, depends on the success or failure of the ethos change and transition. The contours of the new ethos, which is dependent today on technological change, are formed by the ideas of lability rather than rigidity, stability comes from productivity, adaptability and reaction speed.
Authors: Дмитрий Попов, Екатерина Григорьева, Дарья Шестакова
Language: Russian
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4402513636