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Introduction
. Studying the image of an ideal scientist among modern young Russians
is important for understanding their professional preferences and desire to engage
in scientific activities in modern conditions of science. The research concentrates on
structural and substantial characteristics of the image of a scientist among students
and working young people, and also their factors.
Materials and Methods
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The stages of the research included methods of semantic
differential, laboratory experiment, and factor analysis.
Results
. The main stage of the research made it possible to construct the semantic
space reflecting the characteristics of the images of an ideal scientist and various
cinematographic images of scientists among students and working young people.
The
image of an ideal scientist had cognitive (ability to formulate problems
and express ideas, tolerance for uncertainty, and the discipline of thinking) and
personal
(purposefulness,
resoluteness, adherence to principle, focus on results, high
working capacity, versatility, originality, rich imagination) qualities.
Discussion
. The students for whom the assimilation of scientific knowledge is the
basis for educational activities construct the image of a scientist being guided
by their knowledge about real scientists and the idea about scientific activity
as a thinking and intellectual work. Assessing cinematographic images reflects
this. Working young people have a lack of scientific research in the content
of professional activity; they are estranged from scientific reality and suffer
from a lack of objective information. Thus, working young people construct the
image of a scientist on the basis of their representations about scientists and
also cinematographic images, reflecting stereotypes of scientists (often through
demonstrating the tools of scientific work). This testifies to the simplification of the
image of a scientist among working young people.
Substantial characteristics of the image of an ideal scientist are analogous among
working and studying young people. However, the image forming foundation differs
in the two studied groups.
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