School Administrators: Agents and Victims of Paper Pressure

Occupation: Prof.; Chief Researcher
Affiliation:
A.I. Hertzen Russian State Pedagogical University
Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University
Address: Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Veliky Novgorod

Vyacheslav V. Matveev

Occupation: Head of the Sociology Laboratory
Affiliation: Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University
Address: Russian Federation, Veliky Novgorod

Natalia A. Matveeva

Occupation: Prof.
Affiliation: Altai State Pedagogical University
Address: Russian Federation, Barnaul

Tatiana I. Vorontsova

Occupation: Prof.
Affiliation: A.I. Hertzen Russian State Pedagogical University
Address: Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

Journal name

Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya

Edition

Issue 9

Pages

71-79

Abstract

The article presents results of an interregional study of the administrative personnel of secondary schools analyzing sample surveys data related to job satisfaction in the education system in its specific aspects and attitudes towards existing education system and its shortcomings, data on the amount of paperwork of school administrators comparing groups of school workers. It shows that the excess volume and the nature of their work is alien to the mission of education, it negatively affects activities of general education school personnel. Growing amount of reporting complicates management of school education at the level of the institution, of municipal school system regionally and nationally. School administrators, although a link in bureaucratic management and an agent of paper pressing as the leading technology of the current model of state educational policy, become victims of this pressing avalanche and participate in latent resistance to it.

Keywords

education, public school administrators as social-professional group, bureaupathologies in education, professional wellbeing of educators

Acknowledgment

Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation (Altai state pedagogical university, Additional agreement № 073-03-2021-043/2)

Received

03.09.2021

Publication date

27.09.2021

Number of characters

22392

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GOST	Osipov A., Matveev V., Matveeva N., Vorontsova T. School Administrators: Agents and Victims of Paper Pressure // Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya – 2021. – Issue 9 C. 71-79 [Electronic resource]. URL: http://ras.jes.su/socis/s013216250014215-9-1-en (circulation date: 20.04.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S013216250014215-9
MLA	Osipov, Alexander M, Matveev, Vyacheslav V, Matveeva, Natalia A, Vorontsova, Tatiana I "School Administrators: Agents and Victims of Paper Pressure." Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya 9 (2021):71-79. DOI: 10.31857/S013216250014215-9
APA	Osipov A., Matveev V., Matveeva N., Vorontsova T. (2021). School Administrators: Agents and Victims of Paper Pressure. Sotsiologicheskie issledovaniya (9), pp.71-79 DOI: 10.31857/S013216250014215-9

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