Детские морские объединения России – пространство профессионализации или самоопределения?

Педагогика и психология образования. 2023. № 2. С. 9–22.

Зенкин М. А., Ivanov I.

Children’s extracurricular education in  Russia and abroad is  increasingly seen as  a  tool to  strengthen the  state’s global competitiveness, including through career training. Based on the material of a network of organizations of  children’s extracurricular education implementing specialized programs in marine and river field in Russia, the article discusses various career guidance models in the light of contrasting industry attitudes to recruiting personnel – the attitude to universal personal development by means of specialized training and orientation to a wide labor market. The research focuses on a wide range of  participants in  the  educational process: directors of  children’s maritime associations, teachers working with 14–17  year-olds, as  well as  graduates who at the time of the study were cadets of branch universities and colleges subordinate to the Russian Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot). The  online survey covered target  groups with the  sample of 1583 people in 37 Russian regions. The results of the study showed that for the majority of children’s maritime associations in Russia, career guidance is  not a  priority and gives way to  the  tasks of  socialization and personal development of students, which is similar to the situation abroad. The data obtained provide grounds for adjusting the concept of staffing in the industry, as  well as  for developing the  primary approaches to  assessing the  effects of early career guidance based on specialized training.

Keywords: maritime extracurricular activities, sea cadets, children’s maritime associations, дополнительное образование детей в сфере морской деятельности, детские морские объединения, морские кадеты, профориентация