06. Shafranov-Kutsev G.F., Gulyaeva L.V. Research of competitive orientation among secondary school seniour students: current trends and prospects for nurturing (case study of Tyumen Region)

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UDK 37.013:371.212-053.6(571.12)

DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.089.021.201704.651-668

Research of Competitive Orientation Among Secondary School Seniour Students: Current Trends and Prospects for Nurturing (Case Study of Tyumen Region)

Gennady F. Shafranov-Kutsev
Research Supervisor, Tyumen State University (6 Volodarskiy St., Tyumen 625003, Russia), Dr.Sci. (Philosophy), Professor, ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7823-0525, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Lyudmila V. Gulyaeva
Seniour Researcher, Laboratory of Sociological Research, Tyumen State University (6 Volodarskiy St., Tyumen 625003, Russia), Ph.D. (Sociology), ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0463-4743, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Introduction: the priorities of socio-economic development facing our country set new requirements to secondary education; a graduate should not only have a certain amount of knowledge, but also be able to build an effective communication strategy, to be prepared for constant professional self-development, to take the initiative, to interact under conditions of rivalry, in other words, to be competitive. Addressing these issues will contribute to the creation of conditions in which objective requirements of the social system would have found understanding among secondary school students, therefore it is necessary to form competitive thinking. The aim of the study was to consider the factors enabling secondary school students to accept knowledge, values and skills of a competitive person needed for further su stainable development.
Materials and Methods: a questionnaire survey of high school students was selected for its reliability and validity in studying competitive skills. The design of the questionnaire was developed by the team of the Sociological Laboratory of the Chair of General and Economic Sociology at Tyumen State University. IBM SPSS Statistics 23 software product was used to process and ana lyse the obtained data.
Results: the research provides important insights into the dynamics of the social well-being of secondary school students, defines the main determinants of the formation of skills in competitive environment. The results of this study highlight obstacles to this process as well.
Discussion and Conclusions: this paper argues that self-dependent decision-making, critical perception of information, willingness to compete enable to form a competitive personality. The findings from this study have significant potential implications for future educational practice. These research materials are relevant for improving the methods and skills of teaching activities and for development of youth policy. Possible areas for further research in the field of studying the characteristics of competitiveness of high school students can be the study of the influence of residence (comparison of the level of competitiveness of students in urban and rural schools); relations with teachers in the context of the formation of motivation for competitive activities; studying the dynamics of the level of competitiveness (conducting repeated sociological research).

Keywords: competitiveness, social attitudes of senior pupils, development of competitive orientation in students, value orientations, school, professional self-determi nation

Acknowledgements: the study was carried out with the financial support of the State Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation within the research programme “Formation of competitive orientation and competitiveness of youth in Russian society in the context of modern socio-cultural dynamics” (Project no. 28.2941.2017/4.6).

For citation: Shafranov-Kutsev G.F., Gulyaeva L.V. Research of competitive orientation among secondary school seniour students: current trends and prospects for nurturing (case study of Tyumen Region). Integratsiya obrazovaniya = Integration of Education. 2017; 21(4):651-668. DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.089.021.201704.651-668

Contribution of the authors: Gennady F. Shafranov-Kutsev – scientific management; development of methodology; providing resources; securing financing; collection of data and evidence; critical analysis and revision of the text. Lyudmila V. Gulyaeva – visualisation and presentation of data in the text; word processing; writing the draft; formalised data analysis; study of the concept.

All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

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