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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «POLITOLOGIYA. RELIGIOVEDENIE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES»
ISSN 2073-3380 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2024. Vol 47

Qualitative Characteristics of School Education: Relationship with the Level of Development and Geographical Location of Countries

Author(s)
P. L. Popov, A. A. Cherenev, V. G. Saraev, D. A. Kuznetsov
Abstract
The correlations between the qualitative characteristics of school education and the human development index and its components, according to UN data, are examined using sets of countries. They take into account educational characteristics, indicators of schoolchildren’s performance, identified in various countries by the international programs TIMSS, PISA, PIRLS and the number of gold medals at international olympiads in various academic disciplines. Components of human development – life expectancy, gross national income, average and expected years of schooling. Positive correlations, in most cases significant, between the phenomena under consideration have been established. The distribution of educational indicators taken into account by region of the world is considered. Using the world-system analysis, it was found that there is no complete correlation between the country's place in the international system and the level of schoolchildren's academic performance and medalists in school discipline Olympiads. It is noted that the Russian Federation and many countries geographically close to it are characterized by a gap between the quality indicators of school education and the level of development. It is suggested that the quality of school education is a strong and insufficiently implemented prerequisite for the development of the Russian Federation.
About the Authors

Popov Petr Leonidovich, Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Senior Research, Laboratory of Theoretical Geography, V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, 1, Ulan-Batorskaya st., Irkutsk, 664033, Russian Federation, e-mail: plp@irigs.irk.ru

Cherenev Aleksei Anatol'evich, Candidate of Sciences (Geography), Senior Research, Laboratory of Geo-Resource Studies and Political Geography, V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, 1, Ulan-Batorskaya st., Irkutsk, 664033, Russian Federation, e-mail: tcherenev@irigs.irk.ru

Saraev Vladimir Grigor'evich, Candidate of Sciences (Geography), Senior Research, Laboratory of Economic Geography and Territorial Planning, V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, 1, Ulan-Batorskaya st., Irkutsk, 664033, Russian Federation, e-mail: soclab@irigs.irk.ru

Kunetsov Denis Aleksandrovich, Postgraduate, Laboratory of Geo-Resource Studies and Political Geography, V. B. Sochava Institute of Geography SB RAS, 1, Ulan-Batorskaya st., Irkutsk, 664033, Russian Federation, е-mail: kuznetsovden15ochka@yandex.ru

For citation
Popov P.L., Cherenev A.A., Saraev V.G., Kuznetsov D.A. Qualitative Characteristics of School Education: Relationship with the Level of Development and Geographical Location of Countries. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2024, vol. 47, pp. 111-122. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2024.47.111 (in Russian)
Keywords
geography of education, world system analysis, schoolchildren’s performance, international Olympiads, countries and regions of the world, components of the level of development, human potential, world-system analysis.
UDC
371.01
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2024.47.111
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