Criterial framework for internal and external evaluation of the form tutor’s activity

Introduction. In modern conditions, the problem of setting the criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the form tutors’ activity is becoming relevant in virtue of the importance of education and the absence of a unified methodology and techniques for evaluating the efficiency of the form tutor’s activity. The purpose of the study is to develop and substantiate the criterial framework for evaluating the efficiency of the form tutor’s activity. Materials and methods. A total of 230 form tutors from educational organisations representing 7 regions of the Russian Federation took part in the survey. The service record of 54% of the respondents was over 20 years, 30% – 11 to 20 years and 16% – less than 10 years. Methods: the key theoretical methods were system analysis, synthesis and generalisation of scholarly literature on the problem of developing the criteria and efficiency parameters of the form tutor’s activity, modelling the criterial framework of evaluation. The following was used as the main empirical methods: questioning of form tutors, method of observation, expert examination of the developed criterial framework. Results. A criterial framework for evaluation of efficiency of the form tutor’s activity, based on the selected theoretical and methodological foundations, was developed, being structured as three blocks: personality, process and efficiency. Certain criteria and of efficiency indicators were selected for each block with regard for the key invariant directions of the form tutor’s activity: work with the learner’s personality, learners’ stream, parents, subject teachers, social partners. It was revealed as a result of the empirical research that the most important component in the developed criterial framework, according to 41% of the respondents, is the efficiency block; it is followed in importance by the process block (39%) and the personality block (20%). The necessity to include invariant directions of the form tutor’s activity in each block was noted by 75% of the respondents. The rating results on the each block criteria showed that 67% of the respondents noted the foremost importance, when considering the processual aspect, of the criterion “Organisation and facilitation activity aimed at education and socialisation of learners in cooperation with all actors of the educational process” (KP-4); when considering the personality aspect, 75% of the respondents placed the criterion “Competence in organisational and pedagogical support of educational process” (KL-4) at the top. When assessing the criteria of the efficiency block, the respondents’ rating showed that 72% and 87% of the form tutors placed the criteria “level of cohesion of children’s team, parents, teachers, the staff, the level of development of children and adult community” (KR-6) and “level of learners’ mature experience as based on the system of values inherent in a Russian citizen” (KR-7), on the first place. Conclusions. The obtained results confirm the importance and necessity of creating a criterial framework that acts as an evaluation matrix of the form tutor’s activity efficiency. The personality, processes and efficiency aspects forming its basis take into account the complex of the form tutor’s invariant activity. The further research will be connected with the creation of methods for assessing efficiency of the form tutor’s activity and those related with automation of this process.

ACTIVITIES OF THE SPIES OF ATAMAN NECRASOV IN THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN STATE (1708 - 1720s). Part 1

The author investigates the reasons, forms and methods of sending spies from the territory of the Kuban, part of the Crimean Khanate. The spies "subversive" activities were most often directed by the ataman Ignat Nekrasov. For the first time in academic literature, the author systematically analyzes the tasks assigned to these Nekrasov‟s spies, as well as the conditions that both facilitated and hindered their implementation. Achieving the goal and objectives of this article, general investigative and special historical methods are used. The article is based on written historical sources of XVIII c. from several Russian federal and regional archives. The paper focuses on the geography of the "subversive" activities of such people, their composition and the peculiarities of training to perform tasks that are not always associated with the collection of intelligence information on the territory of Russia. In addition, the reactions of various categories of Russian citizen who communicated with the Ignat Nekrasov‟s spies are identified and studied. Numerous search activities and preventive measures of the Russian authorities aimed at suppressing / preventing the activities of the Nekrasov‟s spies, as well as at their capture and organization of interrogations are systematically analyzed.

Territorial factor of segregation of Russian citizens living abroad

A person’s place of residence often plays a significant role in his fate; moreover, it can act as a discriminatory moment. Specifically, the place of residence of a Russian citizen contributes to his reckoning with a certain caste, which can only be changed by changing the place of residence, and even then not always. In the conditions of modern Russian society, Russian citizens living abroad, especially in the countries of the “black list”, are often impaired in their rights; find themselves in a discriminatory position, which may indicate a kind of unofficial segregation. At the same time, legislatively at the federal level, this defeat in rights depending on the place of residence does not exist; however, it is implemented through laws of a lower order, as well as in the form of an unofficial policy in diplomatic missions, which, according to the convention, should, on the contrary, protect the interests of fellow citizens. Taking into account migration statistics, this type of segregation affects about 16-18% of Russian citizens, and this is a large part of Russian society. Such unofficial segregation can definitely deform Russian society in two directions: lead to a change in the structure of Russian civil society with the allocation of different degrees of citizenship to those more or less impaired in rights - this would legitimize Russia as a country disloyal to its own citizens - or force it to abandon discriminatory laws and traditional concepts, raising a new generation of officials and diplomats, which would contribute to strengthening the international authority of Russia in the world.

Moral values and environmental responsibility for future generations: case study of Russia

Annotation. Spiritual and moral values and motives are historically the basis of the mental matrix of the Russian citizen, determining the development and acting as a psychological coping mechanism in a crisis. In the modern world, it is spiritual values and motives that are being transformed. Mental protection of a personality based on the integrity of primal archetypes of the collective unconscious, creating mental traits and identity is interrupted, which leads to destructive changes, specifically, deprivation, alienation, deviance. In this regard, the purpose of the article is to identify the features of the transformation of spiritual and moral values of modern Russians. In the course of four sociological studies in 2007, 2009, 2010, 2019 in the regions of Russia, the values of schoolchildren (15-17 years), students (17-22 years), working youth (23-29 years) were studied. The research was based on personal, activity oriented, systemic and subjective approaches. It resulted in the consideration of the dynamics of personal values’ changes from 2007 to 2019, revealing the integrity of basic, spiritual, and moral values, which are fundamental for the personality formation of a Russian living in a particular historical and geographical environment.

The Tale of Academician D. E. Okhotsimsky (on the 100th anniversary)

The article presents materials about the outstanding scientist and the Russian citizen academician D.E. Okhotsimsky. Dmitry Yevgenyevich Okhotsimsky is an outstanding scientist, inspirer in modern national mechanics and control processes, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Hero of Socialist Labor, who did an invaluable contribution for the national space science development, one of the founders of modern space flight mechanics.

“I Kept No Silence...” (on the Peculiarities of N. M. Karamzin’s Civil Position)

The article examines the forms and methods of manifestation of Karamzin’s civic position. The novelty of the approach lies in the fact that the stated problem is considered in the context of the literary evolution of the writer, in chronological sequence, as well as in the aspect of addressing. The author analyzes odes dedicated to Russian rulers, “Historical praise to Catherine II”, historical essays, journalistic articles by Karamzin, “History of the Russian state”, a note “On ancient and new Russia...”, “Opinion of a Russian citizen”, as well as the historiographer’s direct oral and written appeals to Emperor Alexander (conversations with him, letters to him). In the course of the study, the image of the Russian historian-citizen, proclaimer of truth, a wise mentor, who appears as an intermediary between the people and the government, indicates to the monarch and compatriots specific directions and methods of activity, is revealed. That makes obvious Karamzin’s transition from mythologizing Russian rulers in the genre of ode and “Historical Praise to Catherine” to documentary substantiation and rigor in their assessment, to direct instructions to the tsar in the note “On Ancient and New Russia...”, in the “Opinion of a Russian Citizen” and, finally, to the eloquent silence.

SUBJECTIVITY AS THE BASIS OF INFORMATION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL SECURITY

The current article proposes a model of the loss of identity, society and state subjectivity, as a target of information warfare. Subjectivity is considered as a unity of motivational (“I WANT”), competence (“I CAN”) and moral-psychological (“I NEED”) components. The task of stopping or changing the corresponding activity by the opponent is solved through information and psychological impact on his “WANT”, “CAN”, “NEED”. Both effectively counteracting and information-psychological protection requires increased attention to the factors that ensure the subjectivity of the Russian citizen, society and state. Institutions and processes of formation of ethnocentric motivation of citizens, education and upbringing of the Russian citizen should become information and psychological security installations.

Values and Identities in the North Caucasus: Meanings and Discourses

The present study considers the systems of norm and values, as well as the system of identities in the North Caucasus. The priority of the systems of norm and values that affect the system of identities of an individual and social groups in many respects de-pends on social discourses that dominate in the region. The ability to take into account the diversity and variability of interethnic, interfaith and intercul-tural interactions in the North Caucasus, as well as the specifics of political and social and economic processes in the region is not only a task and a re-quirement for state structures dealing with regional governance, but it is also one of the priority tasks of various research structures engaged in the analysis of the North Caucasus development. Despite a ra-ther complex and sometimes even contradictory structure of identities existing in the North Cauca-sus, the dominant identity is a civic identity (“I am a Russian citizen”). The empirical data obtained dur-ing the research allow to record that the respond-ents have of a system of multilayered identities, among which the civic identity is the dominant one. All this testifies to the fact that against the back-ground of the growth of ethnic self-awareness, at the same time, there is a complication of under-standing of the notion ethnic in the Caucasian worldview.

Interethnic tenets of the population of the Republic of Buryatia (on the results of sociological research)

The subject of this research is interethnic tenets of the population of the Republic of Buryatia. In order to preserve stability of interethnic relations in a multi-ethnic society, it is necessary to maintain favorable interethnic tenets and openness of different ethnic groups towards positive interaction with the representatives of other nationalities. This research is conducted within the framework of a larger research, conducted during 2018-2019 titled “Interethnic harmony in the Republic of Buryatia under the changing sociopolitical conditions”. A total of 900 respondents took part in this research. The results demonstrate that the population has an overall positive stance on interethnic relations in the Republic of Buryatia, but not everyone is ready to interact and accept members of other ethnicities. The election of levels of interaction, national or regional, family or neighbor, somewhat depends on age, nationality, place of residence and level of education. The respondents would more readily accept the other as a Russian citizen, than a citizen of Buryatia, and the closer the circle, the less willing are all groups of the population to accept a person of different ethnicity. The most favorable tenets are observed among young respondents, urban residents and respondents with higher education, regardless of ethnicity.

Fan’s book “Political ontology of a Russian citizen: content versus form”. Ekaterinburg: Ural Institute of Management — RANEPA branch, 2018

The authors consider the philosophical and political problem of citizenship, for a number of reasons constantly relevant to the Russian culture. A peculiar methodological bias of consideration gives originality to the work: the ontology of the phenomenon of citizen and citizenship. The emphasis is made on studying the factors and mechanisms for implementing the political and private rights of a nominal citizen, which shows that the current political order in Russia is characterized by the contradiction between the formal norms of externally modern political institutions and the informal practices of their functioning, the Russian Constitution does not exist in the form of existing law as a system of obligations observed by the parties, and it is reasonable to talk about the existing rental estate order and resource allocation.