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The Social Status of Children with Disabilities and Their Families as Determined by Census Data
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Tyndik, A. O.; Vasin, S. A. – Russian Education & Society, 2016
Russia's ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) has necessitated that regular monitoring studies of the social situation of people with disabilities and families with disabled members be conducted. These studies have exacerbated the issue of obtaining accessible data that is suitable for these purposes.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Social Status, Children, Disabilities
The Portrait of a Twenty-First Century Innovator in Education
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Koroleva, D. O.; Khavenson, T. E. – Russian Education & Society, 2015
The article analyzes the social and professional characteristics as well as the value orientations of the contemporary innovator in the field of education. The study was conducted among 304 participants in the 2014 Competition for Innovation in Education. The value orientations were revealed using Schwartz's Portrait Values Questionnaire. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Profiles, Competition
Children as the Potential for the Social and Demographic Development of Russia
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Rimashevskaia, N. M. – Russian Education and Society, 2012
The future of Russian society is manifested in the new generation, the community of children and young people. To a large extent, the country's social and economic development depends on the health and education of the rising generation, on its social values and orientations, its spirituality and morality, and its level of cultural accumulation.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society), Children, Youth
The Dynamics of the Level of Education of the Population of Russia in the Twentieth Century
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Rutkevich, Mikhail Nikolaevich – Russian Education and Society, 2008
The author analyzes three basic periods in the development of the level of education of the population of Russia over the span of a hundred years. The first period runs from 1897, when a nationwide census was carried out for the first time, to 1917. The second period, the Soviet era, runs from 1917 to the late 1980s. The third period started with…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Attainment, Educational History, Politics of Education
Migrants' Children's Orientations toward Acquiring a Higher Education
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Tiuriukanova, E. V.; Ledeneva, L.I. – Russian Education and Society, 2006
The article, based on a study carried out in 2003, discusses Russia's migrant children's orientations toward acquiring higher education in the Russia Federation. The focus of this study was to determine the educational factors that motivate migrants to relocate to the Russian Federation. Immigrants in Russia make up more than 5 percent of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Educational Attainment, Social Environment
Young People's Favorite Leisure Activities
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Zvonovskii, Vladimir; Lutseva, Svetlana – Russian Education and Society, 2004
This article presents a study based on surveys conducted annually for the past nine years by the Samara Foundation for Social Research, commissioned by the committee for youth affairs of the administration of Samara Oblast. The sample consists of about 800 young people aged fourteen to thirty. In the present study the authors have focused on…
Descriptors: Leisure Time, Recreational Activities, Foreign Countries, Surveys