| № |
Parameters |
Characteristics |
| 1. |
Age |
15 – 18 years old. |
| 2. |
Social status |
Families are of lower middle class or working class origin. Parents work in construction, at factories or plants, as employees for small businesses. |
| 3. |
Hierarchy of values |
Education is usually regarded as an instrumental value and is placed in the intermediate position in the hierarchy of values. The upper tiers, i.e. terminal (intrinsic) values are occupied by steady sufficient income and financial well-being. |
| 4. |
Future job perception |
Most students and graduates are rather unwilling to be engaged in any kind of industrial production. |
| 5. |
Attitude to VET |
is contradictory: on the one hand, it is an opportunity to maintain or improve the existing family level of education; on the other hand, the majority of VET graduates are dissatisfied with the quality of VET and ready for further education. |
| 6. |
Social qualities |
Russian millennials are highly critical, quite pragmatic, exhibit relative social passiveness and rigidness toward entering ‘adult’ roles along with their sufficient realisation; possess comparatively higher degree of adaptation as well as somewhat narrow scope in its traditional meaning. |
| 7. |
Experience in learning a foreign language |
9 out of 10 college applicants have been learning English at secondary school. The majority is able to demonstrate either elementary or pre-intermediate level, which leave them dissatisfied. Yet, they are rather incapable of self-studying or using the Internet educational resources for further personal development. |
| 8. |
The influence of the Internet and technological devices connected to it |
Such devices are regarded as higher status symbols, generate positive emotions, have beneficial influence and partially assume the function of socialisation. |
| 9. |
Collective or archetypical qualities |
The Russian millennials possess comparatively higher creative potential, display higher functional performance and productivity of cognition, use different informational channels, while surfing the Internet, experience from moderate to high cognitive drive. |
| 10. |
Motivational sphere pecularities |
These teens keenly realise the contradiction between an evident social position and ambitions moulded within the process of socialisation. As a result, there is an increase in the inner learning motivation in comparison with previous developmental periods. |
| 11. |
Novelties in the leading activity motives |
Individual motives prevail over communal ones: tendency towards self-understanding and self-perfection; ambition of self-fulfillment at a socially valuable job; self-esteem at work, tendency to participate in it in order for self-development, for gaining a certain position towards workmates; self-assertion; the development of certain characteristics necessary for independent life. |
| 12. |
New features of cognition |
high potential for the development of practical intelligence; computerised mental activity: hypertextual organisation of cognitive structures, multivariance, nonlinearity. |
