Community, change and survival: staff attitudes at a vocational teacher education college in Moscow

Abstract

The authors discuss staff attitudes at a vocational teacher education College in Moscow. A questionnaire and interviews given to the predominantly women staff reveal a strong sense of professional and personal commitment, sustained with growing uncertainty as the market economy threatens every aspect of their lives. Findings are related to recent studies of Russian women, to definitions of feminism, post-modernist debate on respect for diversity; on the need for values and the understanding of community.