Lecturers’ Difficulties in Arranging Research Activities
Author(s)
Larisa A. Tsvetkova, Doctor of Sciences (Psychology), Professor, Vice-Rector, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4080-7103, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
48 nab. r. Moika, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 191186, tel.: +7 (812) 6437767, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Olga V. Fishcheva, Head of the Department of Scientific Research, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6808-4368, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
48 nab. r. Moika, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 191186, tel.: +7 (812) 3124272, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sergey Yu. Trapitsin, Doctor of Sciences (Pedagogy), Professor, Head of the Department of Education Management and Personnel Management, ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3752 8848, Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
48 nab. r. Moika, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, 191186, tel.: +7 (812) 5700875, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract. This paper presents the study of problem situations and typical difficulties faced by the lectors of modern higher education in carrying out research activities. The most important objective of the university administration is to create favorable conditions for undertaking this activity, provide it with the necessary resources, including organizational, pedagogical, psychological, methodological, financial, and other support for lectors, who are actively engaged in scientific activities and demonstrate high performance in it.
In the course of the study aimed at identifying typical difficulties encountered by university lectors in the process of research activities, more than 200 applications were recorded and differentiated by category of scientific and pedagogical workers: young scientists (teachers without a degree under the age of 30 (inclusive); teachers with a Ph.D. degree up to 35 years (inclusive); lectors who conduct initiative scientific work; and lectors who are executors and/ or managers of funded research projects. Cluster analysis allowed grouping the subjects of requests (typical problems) into several blocks:
– problems of determining the ways and prospects for the development of research activities;
– problems of lector competence;
– socio-psychological problems.
The practical significance of the research lies in obtaining reliable and necessary information to plan the professional and personal development of a lector, solve organizational, methodological, resource, and other problems of managing research activities. Further research will experimentally verify the models proposed to support research activity and evaluate their effectiveness.
Keywords: research activities at the university; research and teaching staff; problems and difficulties in the implementation of research activities; organizational and pedagogical support of research activities
For citation: Tsvetkova L. A., Fishcheva. O. V., Trapitsin S. Yu. Lecturers’ Difficulties in Arranging Research Activities. Pedagogicheskiy IMIDZH = Pedagogical IMAGE. 2021; 15(3):264-273. DOI: 10.32343/2409-5052-2021-15-3-264-273 (In Russ.).
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UDС: 378.12
DOI: 10.32343/2409-5052-2021-15-3-264-273