Ability For Self-development Research Articles

Muslim Pole of the World Economy and the Genie of Globalization

The article explores a process of gradual consolidation of disparate set of Muslim economies into an increasingly influential, though internally contradictory center of geo-economic and geopolitical gravity in contemporary multipolar world. It uses a theory developed by the authors explaining the patterns of formation and succession of models of global economic development. The article builds upon this theory by testing quantitative and qualitative parameters of the process on a specific geo-economic case. The contemporary developments within the economic basis of the Muslim pole and the practical requirements of economic analysis reveals the need for categorical correction and refinement of political economy. Two following terms «Muslim economy» and «Islamic economy» must be differentiated. «Muslim economy» is a civilizational form of national economies in Muslim countries and an integral part of the global economy, including both the economic life and welfare of the global Muslim population and the economic potential, sustainability and the ability for self-development of the economies of Muslim states. «Islamic Economy» is an economy that implements in practice the primacy of Shariah norms over conventional market norms, procedures and mechanisms. Both of them constitute important material conditions for sustaining the Muslim civilizational identity In recent academic literature political, legal and religious aspects of Muslims upholding their identity have been sufficiently researched. In contrast the process of Muslim’s world achieving a new qualitative status of a global economic power center (not to speak about its competition with other old and new powers for a place within a new global economic order), is practically absent from the Russian and international research. The authors propose a vision of a new quality of Muslim economies in the global balance of power, in emerging model of the global world order, in financial globalization and global governance – the gradual consolidation of the Muslim world. The article argues that this process is still very far from reaching mature forms. Today it is hardly possible to reliably predict specific configurations of the future self-organization of the «Muslim pole» in the polycentric world and the nature of its influence on specific issues of the global world order. However, the point of no return is already passed, and the painful and contradictory process of development of such a center is unlikely to stop.

PSYCHOHYGIENIC ASPECTS OF THE ACTIVITY IN ENTREPRENEURS

Introduction. The paper presents the authors’ view on the psychohygiene of the activity in entrepreneurs under which, on the one hand, the assessment of the business environment, on the other one - psycho-prevention and psycho-correction measures to preserve the mental health of the subjects engaged in business are understood. These conditions included economic, psychological, social aspects of entrepreneurship, which tend to cumulate, lead to a blockade of the ability and opportunities for self-development of the individual and subsequently to the emotional burnout syndrome of entrepreneurs. The peculiarities of psycho-correction work and the methods of preventing the emotional burnout syndrome were revealed. Results and their discussion. Among those who appealed for counseling, 67.9% of the entrepreneurs felt psychoemotional, physical and intellectual overloads. The starting mechanism for the formation of preneurotic sub-depressive states included maladaptation in relation to the professional role performed. However, the development of the emotional burnout syndrome is a reversible process, which, in turn, allows being successfully leveled using psychotherapy and psycho-correction. Conclusion. In the development of psycho-prevention and psycho-correction measures to preserve the mental health of the subjects engaged in business, the following ones are fundamental: the work with the entrepreneur to understand his emotional problem, identifying the source of stress from the position of self-organization, training the entrepreneur to grade stress, transforming the problems in favor of his own development. Primary psycho-prevention helps to predict the impact of negative factors on the psyche of entrepreneurs, the secondary one forms the correct perception of negative circumstances and the ability to cope with stress. Time management, the correct organization of the workplace, knowledge of modern technologies enhances the psycho-correction effect. In addition, the basic model of psychological aid to entrepreneurs should be complemented by anti-stress management training.

Practice of Entrepreneurial Orientation in the Governmental Sector

The reason of conducting this research is that there is no reliable study measures entrepreneurial orientation (EO) at government entities. EO among commercial organisations is widely addressed in previous research and literature due the intense market competition where this type of organisations should invigorate and accelerate EO to lead markets. Nevertheless, there is quite small number of research works that examine EO among semi-governmental organisations. However, those research works are not sophisticated enough to measure the impact of adopting and implementing EO within governmental organisations. The four principles of EO, which are innovation, autonomy, risk-taking and pro-activeness are applied to examine the extent of implications among governmental sectors and impact of EO on an organisation’s performance. Continually, organisations’ performance is been identified by three elements. These are stimulating internal environmental effectiveness, ability to achieve the organisation’s goals and individual ability for self-development. The research is applied among Saudi governmental sectors in Tabuk City. Measurement items and instruments adopted from previous studies. Then, the exploratory factor analysis performed to determine applicability of EO factors among governmental sectors. Exploratory factor analysis proves that some factors, such as innovation and autonomy have a significant reason to be applied. The research results show that innovation has an impact on the internal environment to stimulate internal environmental effectiveness. However, the research could not find any link between innovation, ability to achieve organisation’s goals and individual ability for self-development. On the other hand, the internal environment’s effectiveness and ability to achieve an organisation’s goals can be increased if there is quite good margin of autonomy. Furthermore, whenever risk-taking attitude is high, individual development ability is clearly high as well. Finally, pro-activeness has a slight link with ability to achieve organisation’s goals.

PHILOSOPHY OF INNOVATIVE EDUCATION

The article examines the goals, objectives, principles, and technologies applied in innovative education. The author has demonstrated that innovative education is an organized process, which is based on the development of broad professional skills and the learner»s ability for self-development and creativity. The theoretical basis for this investigation is provided by J. Dewey»s philosophy of education. Innovative education is best revealed in project teaching. The results of the investigation have found practical implementation at the Institute of Social Engineering at Reshetnev Siberian State University of Science and Technology for training bachelors under the major «Advertisement and public relations».

Manipulatives Implementation For Supporting Learning Of Mathematics For Prospective Teachers

Manipulatives are needed by teachers to facilitate students understand of mathematics which is abstract. As a prospective mathematics teacher, the student must have good skills in making manipulatives. Aims of this study is to describe the implementation of learning courses of manipulative workshop in mathematics education courses by lecturer at Universitas Muhammadiyah Semarang which includes the preparation of learning, general professional ability, the professional capacity specifically, ability of self-development, development class managing, planning and implementation of learning, a way of delivering the material, and evaluation of learning outcomes. Data collection techniques used were questionnaires, interviews, and observation. The research instrument consisted of a questionnaire sheet, sheet observation and interview guides. Validity is determined using data triangulation and triangulation methods. Data were analyzed using an interactive model. The results showed that the average value of activities in preparation for learning, fosters capabilities of general professional, specialized professional, self-development, manage the classroom, implementing the learning, how to deliver the material, and how to evaluate learning outcomes are 79%, 73%, 67%, 75%, 83%, 72%, 64%, and 54%, respectively

METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO STUDIES OF THE FORMATION OF AN INTEGRATION MODEL OF THE GRADUATE FROM THE MASTER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME

The system of higher education undergoes cardinal changes, the essence and orientation of which is determined mainly by the process of the formation of the state and its transition to market economy. Implementation of the state policies aimed at creation and effective functioning of an essentially new model of higher education meeting the demands of democratic society development needs elaboration and scientific justification of an integration model of the graduate from the Master’s educational program. Modern educational system determines the necessity to form a set of professional competences and skills of undergraduates in the process of their training in higher educational institutions as a fundamental factor of developing the future qualified specialists. Based on the analysis of scientific literature and requirements to graduates of magistracy of scientific and pedagogical educational institutions, the integration model of magistracy graduates was developed. Educational trajectory of training undergraduates is built on the principles of integration of convergent, divergent and synergetic approaches. It enhances their fundamental knowledge of methodology of science, practical skills in the field of their specialty, ability for self-realization and self-development. Such integration helps to gain effectively fundamental knowledge, research skills and practical abilities in education process of higher educational institutions.

Fractal metaphor LIFE IS A STORY in biographical narrative

Abstract The paper applies an interdisciplinary perspective to a fictional text showing that fractals as mathematical models are a powerful tool for conceptualizing life experience in biographical narratives. The multilevel construction of Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd is explored on the basis of fractal metaphor theory. This research focuses on the LIFE IS A STORY conceptual fractal metaphor which is built up on analogical mappings, mental space connections, and blends. The fractal model of metaphor in biographical narrative, which is assigned to the formula LIFE IS A STORY f (1) + f (2) + f (3) + … + f (n), contains the mental space of the intentional source domain story, which provides a way to structure the understanding of the limiting target domain of the concept life. Fractal metaphors aim at making the conceptual metaphor flexible and dynamic, renewing its ability of self-development and self-perfection, transforming itself into one of the means of changeable conceptualization of reality.

Self-face and self-body recognition in autism

The advantage in responding to self vs. others’ body and face-parts (the so called self-advantage) is considered to reflect the implicit access to the bodily self representation and has been studied in healthy and brain-damaged adults in previous studies. If the distinction of the self from others is a key aspect of social behaviour and is a precursory ability of later conceptual self development, it is interesting to investigate these functions in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Here we investigate the implicit access to self representation in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and in children with typical development (TD). Children with ASD were submitted to a visual matching-to-sample task with stimuli depicting their own or other people's body or face-parts. Participants were required to decide which of the two vertically aligned images matched the central target stimulus. The performance of children with ASD was compared to the performance of children with typical development (TD). Children with ASD were less accurate compared to children with typical development. Interestingly, children with ASD performed the task better when they visually matched their own, compared to others’ stimuli showing the self-advantage effect, as well as children with TD.

Using cloud technologies to enhance students' independent work

Improving the quality of higher education today involves abandoning the transfer of knowledge from the teacher to the student in ready-made form. It is necessary to transform a future specialist from a passive consumer of knowledge into an active searcher of knowledge, who can formulate a problem, analyze the ways of its solution, find the best result and prove its correctness. Strengthening the role of students' independent work means a fundamental revision of the educational process organization at a higher education institution, which should be built so as to develop the ability to learn, form a student's ability for self-development, creative application of acquired knowledge, teach ways of adapting to professional activities in the modern computerized world. Independent activity is one of the most accessible and reliable ways of improving the effectiveness of learning and enhancing the learning process.

Eastern Europe and the world in the light of forecasting scientific and technological activity

The restructing of the world's leading countries is so great that the very nature of their pattern of socio-technical functioning is changing. At the same time, Eastern Europe is falling into regression, the society being gradually fragmented. At a higher level of structural integration in developed countries, production and scientific and technical activities show qualitatively new system properties — the ability of strategic self-development. Eastern Europe is still in the state of disfunctioning, the complex, non-linear and undividable innovation process being disrupted into parts and linearized by the totalitarian centralistic hierarchy. The change of functioning in the leading countries is also manifested in the new role of innovative management, its new philosophy of systems organization, and the evolution affecting forecasting and strategic planning. Non-linear innovative activity and creativity cannot be predicted, but the routine elements of work organization allow us to discover the dynamics of an innovation process, and to foresee, to some extent, the functioning of the system. At a qualitatively higher level of structural integration, the value of forecasting lies in its strategic mobilizing effect. Under the influence of the world trends, the innovative entrepreneurs in Eastern Europe are mobilizing their abilities to show that they are no less enterprising then their partners in industrially developed countries in both strategic forecasting and implementation.

Education

The author points out that a college course should turn out men who have acquired habits of clear thinking, concentration, perception, observation, and decision. These men should have some knowledge of the details of the subject on which they plan to specialize in later life, but this knowledge is purely incidental and is acquired in illustrating the broad principles which are useful in all phases of engineering education. It doesn't really matter much on what a young man thinks he will specialize when he leaves school, if he has clearly in mind that the purpose of education is to train his mind to enable him to acquire as much fundamental knowledge as possible, and also to acquire an incidental knowledge of the specific applications of such fundamental knowledge. The obvious point to the paper is that mental training is the principal thing, assuming, as a matter of course that physical and moral training are sufficient to physically support an active mind. The man has well begun his education who has acquired the inclination and the ability for self study and development, and who graduates with the thought that he has merely begun a lifetime of self education. His college education has served its purpose if it has given him a good start. The author suggests that the instructors in our colleges should be given an opportunity thoroughly to acquaint themselves with the industry for which they are training men by spending one year out of three in industry, the other two years to be spent in teaching.