Teaching dynasties: how useful they can be to the city and the local community

The article is devoted to the problem of the contribution of intergenerational social mobility to the reproduction of a professional group of teachers, in particular, “regional” professional dynasties as a sub-group with special characteristics and as a resource that can contribute to the long-term development of areas where families and generations of highly qualified specialists live and work. Dynasties are an important component of any professional group, a resource for the development of communities, as well as a factor affecting their external environment. The empirical framework is based on the collection of works which presents descriptions of teaching dynasties in one city. This collection has a number of features: no strict criteria for classification as “a dynasty” in terms of the structure and scope of pedagogical work; the description in historical sequence; the description of dynasties by the representatives who worked and made a significant contribution to the formation of the institution of education in the particular city...