Social Sustainability and Professional Migration in the Educational Space of Russian Schools Based on the Results of a Sociological Study

Dmitry Valentinovich Kataev, Alexey Nikolaevich Tarasov, Irina Viktorovna Burmykina, Alla Viktorovna Bogomolova and Nina Vladimirovna Fedina
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Dmitry Valentinovich Kataev: Department of Sociology and Management of the Institute of History, Law and Social Sciences, Lipetsk State Pedagogical P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University, 398020 Lipetsk, Russia
Alexey Nikolaevich Tarasov: Department of Philosophy, Political Science and Theology of the Institute of History, Law and Social Sciences, Lipetsk State Pedagogical P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University, 398020 Lipetsk, Russia
Irina Viktorovna Burmykina: Rectorate, Lipetsk State Pedagogical P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University, 398020 Lipetsk, Russia
Alla Viktorovna Bogomolova: Department of Sociology and Management of the Institute of History, Law and Social Sciences, Lipetsk State Pedagogical P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University, 398020 Lipetsk, Russia
Nina Vladimirovna Fedina: Rectorate, Lipetsk State Pedagogical P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky University, 398020 Lipetsk, Russia

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: This research aims to substantiate the legitimacy of the simultaneous application of two competing sociological paradigms in studying professional (labor) migration of teachers and teacher education graduates, i.e., to use the “strategy of mixing methods”: the mobilities turn and the place attachment. This synthesis-based methodological approach includes micro and macro levels and neo-positivistic and individualistic phenomenology. It was substantiated during a sociological survey in 18 regions of the Russian Federation in August–September 2021. The survey respondents were 3065 teachers and 1132 teacher education graduates, and 255 respondents acted as experts, including six rectors of higher educational institutions of Russia, heads of regional and municipal education authorities (47 persons), and 202 directors of Russian schools. This study has highlighted the unique characteristics of labor migration in the educational space of the Russian school. As empirical research has shown, the reasons for professional migration, in general, and the migration of teachers and teacher education graduates, particularly, are largely similar and stem primarily from material factors. It has also shown that the reasons associated with personal and professional development opportunities should be considered. The identification of ideal factors was made possible by dividing respondents into five groups by criterion of integrating micro- and macro-problems.

Keywords: social sustainability; professional migration; mobility; Russian school; teachers; university graduates (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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