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Organisational Culture in Higher Education: Caring for and about Students
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This chapter examines faculty-student interactions as a key site through which organisational culture in higher education is produced and sustained. Drawing on qualitative evidence from non-elite, post-socialist universities, we introduce the concept of the Pastoral University to capture an organisational configuration in which care functions as a central mode of governance. Shaped by a teacher-training legacy, education-centred academic identities, and cohorts of academically underprepared students, the Pastoral University assumes the role of a guiding and guarding second parent. Care is inseparable from practices of supervision, regulation, and paternalism aimed at smoothing students’ transition into university and compensating for limited external support structures. We show that this socialising function has ambivalent effects: while care entails control, it can also operate as a resource for student empowerment in contexts with restricted opportunities for academic and social mobility. By situating care and pastoral power within organisational culture, the article reconceptualises it as a contested and multifaceted phenomenon, offering a new framework for understanding how care, control, and socialisation intersect in peripheral higher education systems.
Ulyanina O. A., Vikhrova E. N., Marunevich O. V., Вестник Самарского государственного технического университета. Серия: Психолого-педагогические науки 2026 Vol. 23 No. 2 P. 187–200
Abstract. This study addresses the need to understand educational well-being in the context of digital transformation, where learning extends beyond conventional classroom formats. The social significance lies in identifying conditions that support students’ psychological comfort and engagement in both human- and technology-mediated settings. The aim is to reconstruct students’ subjective representations of a comfortable learning ...
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Maloshonok N., Kseniia Vilkova, Plos One 2024 Vol. 19 No. 11 Article e0313357
This study proposes the multidimensional concept of ‘student behavior at university’ and methodology for its quantitative investigation. Unlike previous concepts related to aspects of the student experience, the idea of student behavior considers the combinations and interrelations of individual and environmental characteristics affecting student experience and outcomes. It provides a new lens for viewing student ...
Added: November 18, 2024
Shcheglova I., Costley J., Gorbunova E. et al., Innovations in Education and Teaching International 2025 Vol. 62 No. 1 P. 31–44
Although satisfaction with academic experience in the context of higher education has been an area of research for nearly 40 years, it is still unclear how pedagogical practices in the development of thinking skills are related to students’ satisfaction. This study aims to investigate the relationships between students’ satisfaction and the levels of thinking skills ...
Added: April 1, 2024
Никольский В. С., Рубин Ю. Б., Sorokin P. et al., Высшее образование в России 2023 Т. 32 № 6 С. 38–53
On April 5, 2023 a round-table discussion on “Entrepreneurship Education as a
Subject of Research” was organized by the Editorial Board of the “Higher Education in Russia” Journal with the Moscow University for Industry and Finance “Synergy” in the framework of the International Scientific Congress “The Role of Business in Society Transformation – 2023”. Entrepreneurship education ...
Added: October 24, 2023
Romanenko K., Makareva A., Высшее образование в России 2023 Т. 32 № 4 С. 156–168
The article examines a new non–traditional actor in higher education: educational
bloggers “studytubers” who being students themselves record informal and non-professional videos
on the topic of learning, productivity, popular science, and education in general. The objectives of
this study included a description of the phenomenon of the studytube itself, its history, context,
specifics, then in revealing the ways educational ...
Added: April 24, 2023
Gabdrakhmanov N., Gruzdev I., Leshukov O. et al., Мониторинг общественного мнения: Экономические и социальные перемены 2022 № 6 С. 154–172
Student experience in the first year of study is crucial for the en-tire educational trajectory at university. Previous studies show that academic and social integration into the university environment takes place in the first year. By turn, social and academic integration during the first year largely determine student success for the subsequent years of study. Based on ...
Added: December 30, 2022
Iarskaia-Smirnova E. R., Goriainova A., Europe-Asia Studies 2022 Vol. 74 No. 3 P. 426–448
The development of regulatory frameworks has accelerated in Russia after the ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in 2012. Using public opinion poll data and interviews with school administrators, teachers, assistants and parents, the authors show the challenges of moving towards inclusive education in contemporary Russia. The development of ...
Added: May 11, 2021
Vilkova K., Shcheglova I., Dremova O., Higher Education in Russia and Beyond 2021 Vol. 27 No. 2 P. 12–14
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Added: April 27, 2021
Zakharova U., Vilkova K., Egorov G., Educational studies 2021 No. 1 P. 115–137
Transition to distance learning during the COVID‑19 lockdown in spring 2020 was a challenge to the education system in general and higher education in particular. Applied Sciences were unanimously recognized as the most affected due to their focuson practical skills, being closely tied to the institutional infrastructure, and a moderate curriculum digitalization. This article describes ...
Added: April 8, 2021
Zakharova U., Vilkova K., Егоров Г. В., Вопросы образования 2021 № 1 С. 115–137
Transition to distance learning during the COVID‑19 lockdown in spring 2020 was a challenge to the education system in general and higher education in particular. Applied Sciences were unanimously recognized as the most affected due to their focuson practical skills, being closely tied to the institutional infrastructure, and a moderate curriculum digitalization. This article describes ...
Added: March 19, 2021
Maloshonok N., Higher Education Research and Development 2020 Vol. 39 No. 3 P. 515–531
Patterns of students’ time-use can provide important insights into student learning and development in higher education. Previous empirical studies conducted in developed countries do not allow us to generalize findings on time-use patterns for students from countries with different national systems. This paper aims to identify national differences in undergraduate patterns of timeuse and their ...
Added: November 1, 2019
Shcheglova I., Monitoring Obshchestvennogo Mneniya: Ekonomichekie i Sotsial'nye Peremeny 2019 No. 6 P. 111–121
Such abilities as to think critically and collaborate with others have never been more important than in the 21st century. These skills constitute a fundamental element of success in the job market, and become an essential aspect of the universities curriculum. Educators and policy makers around the world are in search for ways to develop ...
Added: October 9, 2019
Romanenko K., Froumin I., Tertiary Education and Management 2020 Vol. 26 No. 2 P. 233–245
University mergers are a common practice in higher education systems around the world. Merger-related aspects such as the transformation of organizational and administrative structures, the impact on the internal funding allocation mechanisms, or changes in academic strategies and profiles, are well researched. However, the role of students in university mergers and their understanding of these processes are hardly investigated. ...
Added: May 20, 2019
Shcheglova I., Koreshnikova Y., Parshina O., Educational studies 2019 Vol. 1 No. 1 P. 264–289
This study explores the link between academic research, extracurricular engagement and the development of critical thinking of undergraduate students using a single statistical model. Empirical basis of the research was provided by the results of the Student Experience in the Research University (SERU) survey conducted in one of Russian national research universities in 2017 (N=3,344). ...
Added: April 11, 2019
Glaser M., Социологические исследования 2014 Т. 4 № 360 С. 38–45
Article in the context of modern sociology examines the key ideas Axel Honnet’s social theory – the method of normative reconstruction, concept of recognition, phenomenon of "forgotten" recognition, the right to freedom. ...
Added: October 3, 2018
Байтимерова С. И., Богомазова Л. В., Grigorieva E. et al., Журнал социологии и социальной антропологии 2018 Т. XXI № 1 С. 136–160
The present paper reviews professional activity of economic journalists in Russia in unfavorable institutional environment. As a special professional group, both in terms of required skills and role in society, economic journalists often face a number of difficulties in the course of their career. This idea could be confirmed by real incidents (dismissal of the ...
Added: June 2, 2018
Romanenko K., Higher Education in Russia and Beyond 2018 Vol. 15 No. 1 P. 16–17
Mergers are common practice in higher education systems around the world, and merger-related aspects, such as the transformation of organizational and administrative structures, the impact on internal funding allocation mechanisms or changes in academic strategies and profiles, are well researched. Besides the issues of funding after a merger or organizational structure transformation, one of the ...
Added: May 16, 2018
Barandova T., Публичная политика 2017 № 2 С. 51–68
Despite the inclusion in the Constitution of Russian Federation human rights and democratic citizenship as the foundation of the post-Soviet welfare state principles, the visual manifestation in communications of national human rights protection institutions and their organizational culture remains inertial. Socio-normative system of regulation in society allows the violation of rights, which associated both with ...
Added: January 31, 2018
Romanenko K., Вопросы образования 2018 № 1 С. 154–173
The “human factor”, i. e. the conflict and protest behavior of students and faculty, often becomes a key problem during and after university consolidations. This paper provides an insight into reorganization-related university transformations that are perceived as tangible and important by students, approaching the issue from the viewpoint of the radical organizational change theory. Four ...
Added: December 8, 2017
Shcheglova I., Thomson G., Merrill M., / Series CSHE.10.17 "Research & Occasional Paper Series". 2017.
American research universities have recently joined the march for internationalization and now are putting explicit efforts into finding ways to create an international focus. Within a short number of years, missions have been transformed, incorporating elements of globalization. Universities now declare the importance of preparing students to live and work in a multicultural and global ...
Added: October 25, 2017
Melkumyan E., Pavlyutkin I., Prutskova E., Tertiary Education and Management 2015 Vol. 21 No. 3 P. 215–228
Higher education is valued as one of the main sources of civic participation and social benefit. In spite of the significant growth in the number of students over the last 20 years, Russia is still considered to be a country with a low level of civic engagement. Our study aims to respond to this contradictory standing ...
Added: July 25, 2015