VOCATIONAL CHOICES MADE BY CHILDREN OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF THE NORTH IN REGARD TO COMPLETING SECONDARY EDUCATION IN SENIOR SCHOOLS OF THE REPUBLIC OF SAKHA (YAKUTIA)

Problem. The article presents a study of factors that determine the career choice of indigenous children – Evenks, high school students in secondary general schools located in extreme climatic and landscape zones on the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). The purpose of the article is to identify the main factors affecting the choice of careers for children - representatives of indigenous small peoples of the North, Siberia and the Far East.

Methodology. The study was conducted on the basis of field work on the territory of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Field research completed on the territory of Arctic Region and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) resulted in analysis of the factors defining the career choices made by the Evenk indigenous peoples' children, in particular senior school students’ completing secondary general education in their respective territories located in extreme climatic and landscape zones.

Results. These children's parents lead a traditional life with a traditional economy (hunting, migratory reindeer breeding, and fishing). The teachers’ school stuff also resides in the Arctic Region territories under extreme conditions, thus, have a huge impact on the formation of images of success with senior school students. The 2016 field research resulted in approbation of methodology aimed at revealing the correlation between the senior students' career choice, their parents' opinions, and teachers' opinions. The methodology application will allow identification of either the presence or absence of actual contradictions in actual parents' or teachers' impact on the career choices made by senior school students.

Conclusions. The completed complex research proved there to be an increase in the territorial and economic educational differentiation of school students observed in post-Soviet Russia. The conditions for obtaining secondary education and the routine experience of school students from the Arctic indigenous peoples is insufficient for guarantying their free career choice and its compliance to the students’ own ideas about what a successful life contains. Political management established within the Arctic Region territories is subject to education inequality and must take measures to liquidate this.