Involving Students in the Movement of the First: the Role of Education Actors

The involvement of students in the activities of public and state associations is an important task of the state youth policy. However, in modern conditions of individualization and atomization of society, it is difficult to form the interest of young people in participating in the activities of public organizations. The positions and actions of various subjects of educational relations serve as a resource for activating such interest and social activity of the younger generation. Among them are teachers and administrators of educational organizations, regional education authorities, and parents of students.

The purpose of the article is to examine the activities of key actors in Russian education to involve schoolchildren and students of educational institutions in the Movement of the First.

The empirical basis of the article is the results of a sociological study «Activation of the participation of students of the Sverdlovsk region in the public-state organization “Movement of the First”», conducted in February–May 2024.

Data analysis shows that teachers, as well as classroom teachers (curators), play a key role in informing schoolchildren and students about the Movement of the First. Parenting directors’ advisers and parents play a much smaller role in informing. The executive authorities do not influence the decision of students to join the Movement of the First, but their support is necessary for teachers and curators.

The novelty of the study lies in the fact that for the first time, the interest of students from one of the subjects of the Russian Federation in a leading public and state organization was measured and the reasons for its lack of formation and instability were determined. In addition, for the first time, the role of the four actors of education in enhancing youth participation in the Movement of the First, the conditions and opportunities for realizing the potential of their influence on the interest of schoolchildren and students is revealed.

The practical significance of the study is related to the possibility of using the obtained sociological data to develop practical recommendations to the governing bodies of the Movement of the First, in particular, to create a Roadmap for involving students of the Sverdlovsk region in the Movement of the First.

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