Professional Educational Organizations Research Articles

Documenting ‘The Early Childhood Music Collaborative’: A multi-organizational response to early childhood music in the time of COVID-19

When the COVID-19 pandemic began impacting countries around the globe in the early months of 2020, music education professional organizations in locations worldwide mobilized to provide remote teaching suggestions and interpret new research related to minimizing the virus spread in music-making settings. In June and July 2020, the National Association for Music Education released a set of research-based recommendations for music teaching in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic. Discussion of young children and recommendations for early childhood settings were noticeably absent. The purpose of this article is to document the processes by which several dozen individuals and representatives from three professional entities came together at the beginning stages of the COVID-19 pandemic to address the lack of guidance for responsive early childhood music education. We describe the outcomes of the collaboration between June 2020 and June 2021, reflections about our learning and share the group’s next steps. As the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue, reading documentation of our collective might serve the profession and encourage international collaborative teams working to improve access and equity of early childhood music education.

Birthing #blackboyjoy: Black Midwives Caring for Black Mothers of Black Boys During Pregnancy and Childbirth

BackgroundStructural racism mediates all aspects of Black life. The medicalization of pregnancy and childbirth, and its detrimental impacts on Black birth, is well documented. The Black Lives Matter movement has elevated the national consciousness on all aspects of Black life, but significant attention has been directed toward the murder and dehumanization of Black men and boys. Black midwives, caring for Black people, using the Midwives Model of Care© which consistently demonstrates its efficacy and better outcomes for Black people, are uniquely positioned to witness the physical and psychosocial experiences of birthing Black boys in America.MethodsBetween 2011 and 2013, the first author conducted interviews with 22 Black midwives to understand their perceptions of, and experiences in, predominantly white midwifery education programs and professional organizations. Convenience and snowball sampling were used. This paper investigates previously unreported and unexamined data from the original study by focusing on the witness and insight of nine midwives who provided care for Black mothers of boys during pregnancy and childbirth.FindingsThe data presented three themes: It’s a Boy: On Restlessness and Complicated Uneasiness; Desensitization of Black Death; and, Physiological Impacts of Toxic Stress.ConclusionsThe findings demonstrate that caring for Black people must be simultaneously theorized and executed within an anti-racist, relationship-centered, reproductive justice framework. Black midwives are uniquely positioned to do this work. Greater attention, in practice and in research, is needed to investigate the birth experiences of Black mothers of boys.

Color-evasive free speech ideology: a conceptual analysis of free speech as racial oppression in U.S. higher education

ABSTRACT In this essay, I draw on the socio-historical context of free speech and hate speech in U.S. public higher education and the concepts of color-evasiveness and free speech ideology to conceptualize a color-evasive free speech ideology. The ideology I conceptualize is characterized by a prevailing belief that protecting and defending free speech rights is the only way to ensure democracy and equality, regardless of the racial harm and violence enacted by speech, and to the degree that those who challenge racist hate speech should be punished as a threat to free speech. I then explore three recent events to contextualize color-evasive free speech ideology: higher education professional organizations’ responses to the release of Executive Order 13864 (Improving Free Inquiry, Transparency, and Accountability at Colleges and Universities) in March 2019 and two institutional-level examples of controlling student behavior through selective and racialized protection of free speech. I discuss the examples to illustrate how color-evasive free speech ideology upholds white supremacy and conclude with implications for scholars and practitioners, urging a critical troubling of color-evasive free speech ideology in future research and practice.

The Need for Regional Labor Markets for Mid-Level Specialists and the Priorities of Graduates of Secondary Vocational Education in Employment Issues

The article considers the problems of imbalance of supply and demand in regional labor markets, as well as the role of career guidance in choosing a profession. The article discloses the main management decisions for regulating reception targets, taking into account labor market requirements. The authors give examples of calculating the imbalance of supply and demand in personnel in regional labor markets using the example of the region’s need for mid-level medical workers. The article considers the aspects of employment of graduates of professional educational organizations, including labor migration and international experience. As a result of the study, the authors identified and formulated the general laws of labor migration of graduates of professional educational organizations and solutions to reduce the outflow of labor resources from the region. Separately, the authors examined the employment of graduates of the SVE (secondary vocational education) system in Moscow and St. Petersburg. The article was completed within the framework of the topic of the State Task of the RANEPA N 11.5 “Study of models for the transformation of regional systems of secondary vocational education and their need for resource support” for 2021.

Актуальность и задачи проведения профессионально-общественной аккредитации образовательных программ в области управления персоналом

The article is devoted to the development of the practice of applying the procedures of professional and public accreditation of educational programs in the field of human resource management. An overview of the regulatory and methodological framework for conducting accreditation examinations is presented. The key issues of interaction between the Council for Professional Qualifications, the accrediting and educational organization are identified, their content is disclosed and recommendations for educational organizations on preparing for the accreditation examination are presented. The article presents an analysis of the main advantages that educational organizations receive when conducting professional-public accreditation of educational programs and the reasons for their resistance, among which a low level of awareness of the accreditation procedure, the benefits of its implementation in the short and long term, is highlighted. A number of prospects for the development of professional-public accreditation and the use of its results have been substantiated, which can contribute to an increase in the interest of participants in the educational services market.

Professional Standard "Demograph" as a Factor of Formation of a New Human Resources Model

The article defines the prerequisites for the development of the professional standard “Demographer”, which is a fundamental stage for the formation of a new model of human resources in the field of demographic development. Content analysis of approved / valid documents revealed the absence of professional and educational standards for training specialists in the field of demography. Generalization and analysis of information on the subject area revealed existing problems, primarily in the field of public administration in the field of ensuring demographic security. The synthesis of modern methodological approaches made it possible to formulate the conclusion that demography as an independent type of activity (along with practical, scientific, etc.) has its own specialized (demographic) technologies and in modern conditions there is an urgent need to train professional personnel – “demographers”. Comparison of the All-Russian Classifier of Occupations (OKZ) with the International Standard Classification of Occupations 2008 (ISCO-08) and the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) and the emerging need for specialists-demographers were the basis for the implementation of the Institute for Demographic Research FCTAS RAS of an initiative project to develop a professional standard “Demographer”, which determines the conditions and opportunities for the development of education in the field of demography. The pool of developers makes it possible to formulate professional knowledge and skills (competencies) of both specific and interdisciplinary nature as much as possible, which determines the possibilities of work of demographers in various fields of science and practice. The professional standard “Demographer” will fully present and systematize uniform requirements for labor activity, as well as formulate requirements for graduates of professional educational organizations. The purpose of the study is to develop a systematic approach to the formation of a new model of human resources in the field of demographic development. The development of the professional standard “Demograf” is considered to be the basic stage in the formation of a modern system of training highly qualified personnel. As a result of the adoption / approval of the professional standard “Demographer”, the possibilities of training specialists-demographers will be revealed both within the framework of the currently implemented areas of education, and in the future, to single out an independent direction of preparation of higher education “Demographer”, to develop educational standards for the bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

Professional education of the future teacher: a discussion about conceptual provisions //

Introduction. In the article, the author analyzes the conceptual provisions of the organization of professional education of a future teacher in the space of a pedagogical university. The modern trends in the socio-cultural space and changes in educational reality taking place in the present are analyzed. The period of powerful growth of technologization, the pace of globalization and the emergence of a pandemic allow us to speak of an unprecedented rate of change and change in society, when we have already gone beyond the image of the notorious VUCA world to the unknown and unpredictable world. The author analyzes the essence of the educational result and educational space. The article presents the reasoning about the phenomenon of the goal in the professional education of the teacher, the essential core of which is the professional worldview of the future teacher, who absorbs the complex phenomenon of his professional life.Materials and Methods. The methods of analysis, systematization and generalization of scientific literature on the research problem were used. The purpose of the article is to determine the conceptual provisions of the professional education of the future teacher.Results.The goal of professional education of a future teacher is defined as the formation of a professional worldview based on the development of the basic spiritual and moral imperative of the individual. The methodology of organizing professional education in the space of a pedagogical university is determined by the methodological unity of the conventional, spatial, event-driven and axiological approaches. By the principles of professional education, the author defines the principle of freedom and awareness, faith, conventions of generations, cohabitation of educational reality. The environmental solution to the implementation of professional education is the conventional co-existence of a teacher and a student.Discussion and Conclusions. In conclusion, the author emphasizes the need to study the pedagogical conditions for the implementation of conventional practices in the educational space of a pedagogical university, as well as to search for overcoming the problems of organizing professional education of a future teacher, which is the prospect of further research. The article is addressed to the scientific pedagogical community, researchers of education in higher education, organizers of educational activities in pedagogical universities.

Authenticity in vocational education

An attempt was made to apply an authentic approach to teaching, which consists in creating conditions for the accumulation of students’ own experience in vocational education. The concept of “authenticity” establishes a connection between training and real production conditions and determines the quality of the personnel potential of enterprises.The work is based on theoretical studies of authentic education, the practice of training specialists in professional educational organizations. The solution of the set tasks was facilitated by the study of state regulatory documents, orders of the leaders of the railway industry on interaction with public organizations using methods of comparative analysis, comparing the data obtained, pedagogical observation, working out the practice of network interaction.An interpretation of the concepts “quality of personnel resources”, “quality of education” is proposed, the term “professional authenticity” is specified. The conditions for the formation of an authentic specialist are identified, indicators of the formation of professional authenticity are determined, the content of the interaction of a professional educational organizations and production is concretized to achieve an authentic goal. Rethinking the concept of “authenticity” made it possible to identify and describe the complex of organizational and pedagogical conditions for the formation of the professional authenticity of a future specialist.An authentic approach to education has gained relevance in the international educational community due to the applied nature and proposed new methods and technologies for training specialists, which causes the need for its further research.

Volunteer movement in institutions of secondary vocational education

Volunteer activity is gaining popularity among students of professional educational organizations as one of the forms of social activity of the younger generation.Today, in many educational organizations, not only higher, but also secondary vocational education, volunteer associations operate on a permanent basis. The number of young people in Russia engaged in volunteer activities is constantly growing.Volunteering today is a driving force that helps to effectively solve many educational problems. Involving young people in volunteer activities is of great importance: by taking part in certain events or social projects, children gain invaluable practical experience; help specific people. And communication with people of different ages, social status, assistance in solving their problems, experience contribute to the moral development of young people. Based on modern scientific literature, of Internet sources identified the key characteristics of volunteering: independence, versatility, cohesion in certain situations of a team of like-minded people, creativity, interest, decision-making, socialization of volunteers. The movement of volunteering and its dynamics in modern Russia are considered on the example of the Elets Technical School of Railway Transport — branch of the Rostov State Transport University.

МЕТОДОЛОГИЯ И МЕТОДИКА В ОБУЧЕНИИ ПОЛИЦЕЙСКИХ ПРОФЕССИОНАЛЬНОЙ ЭТИКЕ В РОССИИ И ПОЛИЦЕЙСКОЙ ЭТИКЕ В ЕВРОПЕ

The article makes sense of the influence of the methodology of competencies in vocational education on the methods of training on the example of the discipline Professional ethics and service etiquette in professional educational organizations of the police. The methodology for training professional police personnel has manifested itself with regard to training in police ethics. In different ways, a set of methods for teaching professional (police) ethics to employees of internal affairs bodies has developed in Russia and a number of European countries. Attention to the moral culture of a police officer, traditionally significant in Russian educational organizations, is the essence of the new methodology. It is methodically correct to immediately combine the acquisition of knowledge with the second stage of the formation of the moral consciousness of the person – the transformation of the ethical knowledge of listeners into their own norms and beliefs. The selected ethical content is provided in the very first classes, which forms the moral consciousness of the police officer related to the professional activities of the police. The methods of competent training in police ethics training emphasize its applied nature. A significant increase in the number of practical classes allows you to apply active methods: modeling professional situations in the audience, writing essays on a given topic. The deontological method, which is a system of working with texts that record the moral duty of the police, is relevant. The new Russian Code of Ethics and Official Conduct affects police officers through the consolidation of standards of conduct in the service and abroad, bringing requirements to the personnel, awareness of their importance by each employee. The change in the methodology of professional education rearranges not only the methods of organizing the educational process, but also the choice of educational disciplines, which will certainly affect the level of professional morality in the Russian police.

Организация и развитие психологической службы в системе профессионального образования Томской области на период до 2025 года

The program-project “Organization and development of psychological services in the system of professional education of the Tomsk region for the period up to 2025” promotes the organization, systematization and development of the activities of psychological services in the system of profession-al education in the Tomsk region. In the system of professional education of the Tomsk region today, the activities of social and psychological services, mediation services, reconciliation services, psychological support services and others, which include a fairly narrow circle of specialists (education-al psychologists, social educators). The program-project is being implemented in the following areas: psychological, social, educational. An important advantage of the program-project is the possibility of creating a model of professional psychological and pedagogical support of participants in the educational process in professional educational organizations and its integration into the activities of psychological services of professional educational organizations of the Tomsk region.

Условия развития рефлексивных способностей как ресурс развития самоопределения студентов психолого-педагогических специальностей

The development of reflexive abilities of students is an important condition for the development of professional competence of future specialists, which affects the life and professional self-determination of studying universities. The article describes the conditions for the development of reflexive abilities of students of higher and secondary professional education organizations studying in the areas of “Education and Pedagogical Sciences” and “Psychological Sciences”: a reflexive environment as a system of conditions favorable for the development of the intellectual and personal spheres of students; reflexive activities aimed at developing skills in the analysis and evaluation of personal strategies and actions; a clear system for assessing the quality of performance of reflexive tasks and works; psychological and pedagogical support for the process of self-determination of students. It is noted that the creation of the above conditions requires certain resources, including the qualifications of university employees in the field of organizing the developing educational environment of an educational institution, material, technical and organizational conditions, and the university has an expanded network of social partners.

Comparison of distance education problems during the COVID-19 pandemic

The object of research: distance learning in higher educational institutions of Ukraine and the world during the COVID-19 pandemic.
 Investigated problem: building a higher education system during the COVID-19 pandemic, capable of quickly adapting to adverse conditions and providing a high level of training.
 The main scientific results: explored trends regarding the study of the impact of the pandemic on higher education, the effectiveness of distance education. Analyzed Ukrainian studies of distance education in universities. Held by students of the KNTEU Kharkiv Trade and Economic College. Based on the research results, conclusions and recommendations were made regarding the improvement of the quality of distance education in the field of higher education.
 The area of practical use of the research results: higher education and professional education organizations.
 Technological innovation: identified the problems of distance education during the COVID-19 pandemic, based on them, recommendations were developed to improve the quality of education in higher educational institutions of Ukraine.
 Scope of application for technological innovation: practical activity in higher education and relations with stakeholders of educational organizations.

Experience of automation of colleges in the Chuvash Republic

The article presents the stages of implementation of complex automation of colleges in the Chuvash Republic. The regulatory framework for the use of information technologies and automation processes in educational institutions is described, in particular, the “Concept of regional automation”, approved by the Government of the Russian Federation on December 29, 2014, which sets the main goals and areas of activity for the use of information and communication technologies in the subjects of the Russian Federation. The article provides information on the inclusion of the Chuvash Republic in the all-Russian process of automation of organizations of secondary vocational education, which was determined by the order of the Ministry of Education and Youth Policy of Chuvashia “On the implementation of a set of measures for the development and implementation of an automated information system in state professional educational organizations of the Chuvash Republic” dated September 11, 2014. The process of automation of the educational process in the system of secondary vocational education of the Chuvash Republic based on 1C is traced. Provides information on the implementation of the software 1C:College in educational institutions of the republic; creation of an information and analytical system of secondary vocational education of the Ministry of Education and Youth Policy of the Chuvash Republic, through which reporting information is collected and aggregated; development of the module “Personal web account of an applicant for 1C:College” for receiving documents from applicants on the basis of the Novocheboksarsk Chemical and Mechanical College.

Allocation of funds of the standardized safety stock of compulsory health insurance funds for advanced training of medical workers, purchase or repair of medical equipment: new procedure

The article is devoted to a new procedure for medical organizations to use the funds of the standardized safety stock of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund and the territorial compulsory medical insurance fund, which is aimed at financing the organization of additional professional education of medical workers under advanced training programs, as well as the acquisition and repair of medical equipment. The main provisions of this Order, which entered into force on March 1, 2021, are considered. It is noted that starting from 2022, the maintenance of the plan and territorial plan of events for the use of these funds, as well as the reporting provided by medical organizations based on the results of such events, will be organized in electronic form using the state information system of compulsory medical insurance.

Дополнительное профессиональное образование взрослых как элемент непрерывного образования

The article reflects the main stages of the formation of additional professional education. The authors analyze Russian and foreign scientific works, provide normative legal sources, and reveal the role of education as an element of continuous adult education. The article evaluates the current socioeconomic conditions for the reproduction of the professional educational potential of the society, using the example of the organization of professional education by employees of the penal system, as well as monitoring the quality of educational services provided in the Russian State Social University, according to the results of which the authors identified the need to develop new approaches to assessing the quality of additional professional programs. Based on the results of the study, the authors propose to optimize the system of additional professional education by improving the regulatory framework and requirements for the structure and content of programs.

Statistical Analysis of the Dynamics of Performance Indicators of Russian Universities

The article presents the results of a study based on statistical methods for analyzing trends in the Russian higher education system over the five-year period preceding the global crisis provoked by the coronavirus pandemic COVID-19. This study is one of the first attempts at a large-scale analysis of the growth rates of the performance indicators of universities in recent years. Its results, according to the author, make it possible to form both a general picture of changes in Russian higher education and a detailed picture for individual groups of universities.The author has analyzed the dynamics of six indicators of the activity of organizations of higher professional education (535 universities from 80 constituent entities of the Russian Federation): the passing score of the Unified State Examination (USE), the qualifications of academic staff, their publication activity, the internationalization of the student body, the profitability of activities and the provision of educational and laboratory premises. Trends in the change in the values of these indicators are revealed depending on the form of ownership, specialization and status of the university.It was found that, in general, the average values of the indicators for five years increased: the passing score of the USE - by 5%; the share of the teaching staff with an academic degree in the total number of teaching staff - by 5%; the number of publications per one scientific and pedagogical worker (SPW) - 2.2 times; the share of foreign students in the total number of students - 1.5 times; profitability of activities - 1.3 times; the total area of educational and laboratory premises - by 8%.At the same time, in non-state universities, the USE passing score has decreased, and they lag behind state universities in terms of growth in the publication activity of the teaching staff and the internationalization of the student body. However, their results are higher in terms of the growth of profitability of activities and provision of educational and laboratory premises.Specialized universities have achieved an increase in the indicators of the publication activity of academic staff and the internationalization of the student body. Among the negative trends, a decrease in the passing score of the USE in medical universities, as well as in the equipment of teaching and laboratory facilities of medical and sports universities, was revealed.The highest growth in the publication activity of SPW was observed in national research universities (24.5%), and in the internationalization of the student body - in federal universities (33.3%).Changes in the operating conditions of universities during a pandemic are likely to have an ambiguous effect on the analyzed indicators in subsequent periods. For their adequate assessment, it may be necessary to adjust the methodology for calculating indicators of the activity of higher education institutions, taking into account their intensive use of distance learning technologies.

Peculiarities of the integration of medical care and the system of professional education in the Tyumen region in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic

The article assesses the current state of integration of medical care, medical science and the educational process in vocational education and healthcare institutions in the context of the pandemic of the novel coronavirus infection. The role of professional educational organizations in the implementation of practical assistance in medical care for patients with COVID-19 in accordance with the innovative requirements of modern Russian education and healthcare is highlighted.

The ecological situation of the metropolis: introduction from region to region

The article is revealed the main stages and results of the project "Plant wealth of Russia: from region to region". The project aim is to develop the environmental competence and the overall environmental culture of students of higher and secondary professional educational organizations, young scientists. The project is focused on the study of the practical application, conservation and protection of plants in the regions of Russia. Each stage of the project is designed to expand the target audience. In the future, the author plans to implement the project in the format of all-Russian festivals in different regions.

Developments of the Graduates' Competences for Modern Labor Market

In the context of the penetration of digital technologies into various areas of socioeconomic activity, it is necessary to orient the education system towards a qualitative update of the goals and objectives of the educational process, the modernization of educational technologies, to the benefit of developing creative and social capital for future specialists. The authors investigate the program of providing the Russian labor market with demanding specialists with the necessary relevant knowledge, skills and capabilities. Furthermore the conditions for systematic improvement of the quality and possibility of continuing education of all categories of citizens due to the development of an open and accessible electronic educational environment are determined. Modern technologies, networking, scientific potential and experience of educational organizations, the best practices of online learning, existing online platforms and business projects become tools of such transformation. To achieve the goal of the study we chose the path of systemic interaction between universities, organizations of additional professional education and employers. It’s necessary to identify main tasks facing each part in the process of forming the dynamics of improving the quality of educational processes. The objectives of the university will be the development of common competencies to ensure adaptation to the labor market in the context of society and the economy digitalization. The survey has shown that such qualities are formed by the structure of the educational process of the university and its corporate culture. The task of additional professional education organizations is to provide a target substantive professional orientation in order to prepare and develop practical skills. With modern qualified personnel, companies will be able to provide the specified pace of technological progress and competitive advantages, and to solve complex modernization tasks. Thus, the result that must be achieved in the process of educational activity is the training of a highly professional specialist, in demand on the labor market, with creative and social capital, able to approach professional activities from the perspective of a researcher and initiator, aimed at self-development and self-realization.
 Keywords: digitalization, human capital, competency profile, labor market