SURVEY OF SCHOOL SOCIAL ORGANIZATION.
Project coordinator: Daniel Alexandrov
The aim of this project is to create new instruments for studying social organization of contemporary Russian schools. In 2010 new instruments were created and tested using previously collected interviews and methodology of our American and European colleagues.
The inquiry was held in 4 city boroughs in St.Petersburg and Leningrad oblast. The schools in the boroughs were selected by quota samples. All-in-all 2700 questionnaires from teachers and students of 48 schools were collected. The data allow to compare effectiveness of various questions and to design different scales of perception and evaluation of interaction in school (for example, evaluation of collective efficacy and sense of belonging). For further research another test will be needed for scale perfection and model verification on more variative sample of schools.
School and Community Interaction Mechanisms
Project coordinator: Inessa Tarusina
This project studies the process of integration of the local communities (one of the districts of Leningrad Oblast is taken as an example). SInce 2007 to 2010 SESL researchers collected interviews with community leaders from various social institutions as well as statistical data about the development of villages.
The aim of this project is to describe and analyse school and community interaction mechanisms. The scholars elaborate methods and instrument for such analysis as well as techniques for leader's revelation. The most part of the project is based on the qualitative data, but now we add network analysis to this study. It will help to describe specific characterictics of the local intitutions of the community.
