Aesthetic Skills Research Articles

Teaching four Skills of English Language Writing, Reading, Speaking, and Listening through Literature

English is considered one of the most challenging languages in the world due to its complex structure and rich grammar, which significantly impact the teaching and learning process. Additionally, globalisation's influence has increased the importance and widespread use of the English language, especially in educational and professional fields. English literature opens the gate to all aspects and structures of the English language. It is written coherently, enabling students to learn the language successfully. English literature is written to educate audiences on how to navigate the world around us, regardless of differences in positions and jobs. It helps the audience, especially students in intermediate schools, learn how to read, write, listen, and speak, as their age allows them to absorb a wide range of topics. Literary texts are composed of poetry, prose, etc., characterised by artistic beauty that influences both the listener and the reader. They serve as a vessel for good literary heritage and can be used to develop linguistic, expressive, stylistic, and aesthetic skills among students. As cultural and humanistic material, studying them helps learners understand human nature. Literary texts represent a learning process aimed at intentionally changing learners' cognitive, psychological, social, and perceptual behaviours. Additionally, as linguistic material, they aim to contribute to proper pronunciation, effective performance, eloquent delivery, accurate understanding of what is heard or read, and enriching the learners' vocabulary, which leads to achieving the goal.

The tourist pose: aesthetic labour, social media, and new gendered tourism geographies

The concept of the ‘tourist pose’ is developed to examine the feminised aesthetic labour involved in ‘post-selfie’ tourist self-portraiture for social media consumption, and its role in vernacular geographies of tourist visitation. We elaborate on what constitutes the tourist pose, its linkage to distinctive cultural groups and practices, and altered tourism geographies. Young female Chinese tourist-influencers visiting Sydney, Australia, combine photography, fashion, colour, text, and compositional skills, to curate high-end social media posts within a culturally-inflected community of practice. Their aesthetic labour also creates new distinctive geographies of ‘marked’ (daka) places. Democratisation of photography through smartphones and social media platforms, notably Xiaohongshu, has encouraged tourists to discover and recommend distinctive sites, beyond the mainstream, selected for their colour and curatorial possibilities. The tourist pose and accompanying aesthetic labour, fuel creativity and performances of femininity, extending the tourist gaze while diffusing tourism geographies. Visitation patterns associated with the tourist pose are dispersed and small-scale, and eschew managerial interventions. The point is not to ‘develop’ chosen sites for commercial gain, but to acknowledge tourists’ vernacular social practices and accompanying gendered performances. The tourist pose reveals how visitors find meaning, refine aesthetic skills, perform gendered identities and explore vernacular creativity, in distinctive places.

Advocating for Ecoartivism: Sculpting sustainable choice with nature-based solutions

This paper presents the term Ecoartivism, for a novel nature-based strategy to address ecocide. Ecoartivism evolved from my ecoart practice, which sought pragmatic answers to chaotic environmental conditions. I advocate for how Ecoartivism draws from many influences to embrace a more intuitive but sustainable relationship between art, science, and law based on our values. I will track how my practice began layering basic aesthetic skills with science to restore degraded ecosystems, (Ghost Nets and Blue Rocks 1990–2005); inspired an original premise, trigger point theory, that small points of deliberate intervention can effect systemic change; and led to an Ecoartivist symphony and then an opera, (Blued Trees (2015 - present). My thinking has felt informed by Traditional Environmental Knowledge (TEK) and what some Indigenous communities term reciprocity, the idea that humans must live with mutual respect and as part of an inclusive vision of nature. Blued Trees developed a novel legal theory about ownership and what we choose to value. That redefinition led to Ecoartivism as a nature-based solution to sustainability. GPS located sentinel trees were identified as tree-notes in an aerial "score" composed of 1/3-mile increments across North America in forested corridors where natural gas pipeline installations were proposed. In a 2018 mock trial an injunction was handed down in favor of protecting the Blued Trees project on the basis of standing (a legal term establishing formal rights for due consideration in a court trial). I will explain how trigger point theory could support legal standing for Earth rights and ecosystem resilience. Blued Trees continues as an opera-in-progress to expand and deepen arguments for making ecocide accountable with serious penalties at the International Court of Justice at the Hague. This discussion will illustrate how ecoartivist strategies may support habitat contiguity, inspire and drive novel nature-based solutions to ecocide, deepening partnerships with scientists who can test and build on provocative insight.

Interdisciplinary teaching strategy of multimodal data fusion in college aesthetic education curriculum using intelligence methods

In China, aesthetic education at the college level is essential for students’ quality because it improves their understanding of art, helps them progress in their professional career development, and helps them comprehend more fully the attractiveness of creative creations. As a result, it needs to prioritize aesthetic education at the institution and endeavor to nurture students’ feelings progressively and improve their aesthetic abilities at different levels. Artificial intelligence (AI) is used in this project to create a novel, interdisciplinary teaching technique that will maximize students’ artistic and intellectual potential and help them make more, better art. In this research, the Osprey Optimization method improves the interdisciplinary teaching technique for aesthetic education based on a light Exclusive gradient-boosting mechanism (OOM-LEGBM). The exploration-exploitation dynamics of the OOM are incorporated into LEGBM, providing the students with a tangible and relatable technique to understand complex-solving processes. This research develops an enhanced quality framework for college aesthetic education based on the multi-model data fusion system about the implication and necessity of aesthetic education. The influence of college aesthetic education on students’ creative capacity and artistic literacy was investigated to inform instructional activities better to develop students’ aesthetic skills. The experimental findings suggest that the proposed approach achieved an improved accuracy of 99.90%, higher precision of 99.88%, and greater recall of 99.91%. Moreover, it obtained a minimum Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) of 0.26% and a lower Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 0.34%, showing that the suggested model greatly improved preference learning accuracy while keeping overall accuracy at an identical level. Innovation capacity building in college aesthetic education can help students become more self-aware, improve their study habits, visually literate, and more comprehensive.

The promotion of a literary educa

This article reports the development of a literary education project in the 1st year of primary school. With this project, we was intended to develop the literary education to children and families in a close relationship with the teacher and the school. The project developed focused on the methodology of the work by project. After the project, we concluded that children developed their knowledge of the world, expanded its literary and aesthetic skills, began to like books and reading and began their training as critical and reflective readers.

Design and Practice of Painting Courses for STEM Students in Chinese Universities

This paper explores the design and implementation of painting courses for STEM students at Chinese universities, underscoring the importance of art education for the comprehensive development of STEM students and its positive contribution to societal advancement. The article identifies current challenges in art education within STEM fields, such as the imbalance between professional knowledge and artistic cultivation, and offers a reform strategy aimed at transcending disciplinary boundaries to nurture well-rounded, interdisciplinary talents. The paper elaborates on the educational objectives and the curriculum planning of the painting courses, aiming to enhance students' capabilities in interdisciplinary knowledge, innovative thinking, and aesthetic skills through a method that integrates theory with practice. This approach is intended to cultivate students' critical thinking and diverse cognitive patterns. The anticipated outcome is to provide STEM students with a comprehensive artistic educational experience that enriches both their learning and life with the arts.

Information Sharing and Expression of Ideas among Street-Based Female Prostitutes (SBFPs) in Sri Lanka

In this study, two main objectives have been investigated. The first was to find out the techniques of information sharing between women involved in street prostitution in Sri Lanka, while the second was to discover the practices they use to express their feelings. Understanding the socio-demographic characteristics such as age, civil status, education and family background of the SBFPs were the sub-objectives of the study. Survey and case study methods were adopted for the study. Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia and Ratmalana were selected as the research area, and the data was collected using simple questionnaires and in-depth interviews. The snowball sampling method was used to select the sample of 20 SBFPs who were engaged in prostitution in the streets. The data for this study was analyzed by using qualitative methods. Descriptive statistics was used for the demographic characteristics of the subjects. The results of this study revealed that there is a subculture among street prostitutes. They engage in competitiveness in their profession and this subculture has introduced certain dictions. Such street prostitutes adapt their way of communication through signals. Results indicate that there are literate women with aesthetic skills found among the prostitutes in the community.

Феноменологический анализ эстетического опыта художника

Based on the aesthetic-phenomenological analysis of the artist’s creativity, the article shows how intentional experiences ‘work’, enriching the aesthetic skills of the artist. They produce new meanings, building new horizons of intersubjective relations with the world and oneself. The intentional structure of creative acts with certain activity-psychological attitudes makes it possible to reveal the process of life-functioning of the author’s consciousness as a non-linear system of correlation of the interpenetrating layers of intentional experiences. A special role is given to existential experiences as a special way of being, prerequisites and conditions for the artist’s creativity.

A Comparative Analysis of Literary Elements Junior High School English Textbooks with Special Reference to The People’s Education Edition, Shanghai Education Press and Foreign Language Press

<span>According to the "English Curriculum Reform for Compulsory Education (2022 Edition)" formulated by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China, the nature and orientation of compulsory education are combined with the emphasis on adjusting and optimizing the curriculum to cultivate socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of moral, intellectual, physical, and aesthetic skills. This paper focuses on the problems of low level of content and a single form of literary elements in junior high school English textbooks and the lack of emphasis on existing literary elements in the current textbooks. The study also aims to find out the actual usage of the textbooks among front-line teachers and students through questionnaires and interviews, summarize the form of presentation of literary el</span><span>ements in the three editions, analyze their shortcomings through comparison, and learn from and supplement each other.</span>

Mothers’ self-representations and representations of childhood on social media

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine mothers’ social media accounts that focus on children’s fashion. The authors probed children’s fashion photo practices as representations of the mothers’ extended self and the kind of childhood representations produced by the social media accounts. They also investigated mothers’ perceptions of children’s privacy when engaging in sharenting – the sharing of information about children or parenting online.Design/methodology/approachThe study is based on 16 semi-structured interviews with Finnish mothers who had Instagram accounts focusing on children’s fashion.FindingsChildren’s fashion photos play a diverse role in mothers’ identity work. The photos can be used to express a mother’s taste and aesthetic skills, to express values, to fit into peer groups and to store memories of oneself and the children. Through the photos, representations of the prevailing Finnish childhood ideals, such as authenticity, naturalness and playfulness, are reproduced. The mothers perceived the children as part of their extended self and justified sharenting with mother- and child-centered arguments.Originality/valueThrough shedding light on the practices of social media fashion photography, this paper provides insights into how commercialism and social media shape cultural expectations for both motherhood and childhood. The paper contributes to previous research on sharenting, extending it to the context of fashion photography.

THE ROLE OF APPLIED ART IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF AESTHETIC SKILLS OF STUDENTS

In this article, Aesthetic skills represent a system of attitudes and values that are inextricably linked with the spiritual and emotional activity of a person. the social-pedagogical necessity of developing aesthetic skills of teachers, development of creative abilities in the drawing education system, formation of aesthetic skills of future drawing teachers is a topical issue.

The Poet as a Cultural Ambassador and Social Critic

Poetry is oral literature with aesthetic skills. It is a performative form of a cultural infusion of traditional and contemporary realities of the human world. Poetry in its true nature is political, economic, and sociological. Poetry is largely human. Previous studies have examined poetry as entertainment and poetic orature to neglect cultural significance and social criticism. Therefore, this study examines as poetry an embodiment of cultural identities and an element of social criticism. The anthology of Femi Abodunrin, entitled “It Would Take Time: Conversation with Living Ancestors” would be examined. This is in a bid to see how a poet serves as a cultural ambassador of his/her country and, at the same time, a social critic. Femi Abodunrin is a Nigerian-born poet. Schechner's Performance, Freudian, and Jungian psychoanalytic theories were used to analyze the selected collections. The selected poems are subjected to performance and literary analyses.

Digital technologies: potential for piano education

ABSTRACT Playing musical instruments involves a high level of skill based on the harmonious and esthetic reproduction of notes. The main aim of this study is to determine the impact of MusicFlow, an interactive music composition system, on the development of students’ piano skills. The article also used a survey to determine the potential of using digital technology in piano education. To achieve this goal, the authors used the questionnaire method and the method of experimental research. Analysis of the final music aptitude test showed that only the overall average of piano skills differed significantly between groups (Z = −2.53, p = .031). The results of the survey showed that digital technologies contributed to the correct positioning of hands for 27% of university students and 25% of school students who learn song compositions, which was associated with the visualization of each stage during training. 87% of respondents confirmed that the curriculum influenced significantly the speed of learning and contributed to learning not only during lessons, but when preparing homework. The results of the paper are important for musicians of various levels who focus on improving technical and aesthetic skills while playing the piano.

Research on Business Model and Profitability of the Short Video: TikTok as a Case Study

With the rapid development of the world economy and technology, the short video industry has gradually emerged. The short video has become a common social and lifestyle in society. But there are relatively few studies on its business model and profitability. At the same time, under the development and progress of education, teenagers and adults are enthusiastic about aspiring for beautiful art and improving their aesthetic skills. Meanwhile, with a huge number of users under successful operation and management, TikTok has become one of the most successful social media platforms. The study focuses on the business and profit model of TikTok in new technological times by using case studies and literature review research methods. Through its lean operations and applying reasonable internet traffic algorithms, plus the help of big data, TikTok has created a unique success path and profit channel and has harvested a large number of users during a short period of time. TikTok's great success is worth learning from other business companies.

Repicturing the Restoration: New Art to Expand Our Understanding

Repicturing the Restoration: New Art to Expand Our Understanding

Analyzing the Influence of College Aesthetic Education Teaching on College Students’ Innovation Ability and Artistic Literacy Based on Decision Tree Classification Model

University-level aesthetic education can help students develop their aesthetic sensibilities, enhance their artistic and creative skills, maximise their artistic and creative potential, and produce more and higher-quality works of art. Aesthetic ability is crucial for students’ quality because it helps them better appreciate the appeal of artistic creations, enhance their art education, and advance in their future growth and development. Therefore, it should place a high value on aesthetic education at the university and work at various levels to gradually cultivate students’ sentiments and enhance their aesthetic skills. A new “Big Data era” has emerged as a result of the expanding and widespread use of IT and the massive amount of data that needs to be stored and used. There are several widely used methods for classifying data, including decision trees, Bayesian classification, Bayesian networks, and neural networks. In order to more effectively develop students’ aesthetic ability in college aesthetic education teaching activities, the impact of college aesthetic education on college students’ creative ability and artistic literacy was examined. This was done on the basis of a decision tree classification model. According to the experimental results, the decision tree model significantly increased the accuracy of preference classes while maintaining the same level of overall accuracy. The F-value of the decision tree model on various data sets was improved by 0.318 and 0.221, respectively, in comparison to the SVM algorithm. The development of innovation ability in university aesthetic education is crucial for developing students’ personalities, bettering study habits, enhancing aesthetic literacy, and developing comprehensive ability. As a result, we analyze the impact of university aesthetic education on college students’ innovation ability and artistic literacy using the decision tree classification model.

ANALYTICAL READING FOR STUDENTS-PHILOLOGISTS IN THE ENGLISH CLASS

The study aims to investigate the higher education students’ and teachers’ perception of using literary text in the foreign language course; to evaluate learners’ progress in the foreign language communicative competence throughout the experiment period; to outline the policies and strategies of using analytical reading in the English class, which lead to increasing motivation to learn foreign languages with a focus on literature. The study involves 85 Bachelor’s degree students and 35 teachers from linguistics and translation departments of three universities: Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, National Aviation University, Kütahya Dumlupinar University during the spring term in the school year 2021/2022. The students from these universities were using analytical reading in foreign language learning during this term. The quantitative research method allowed us to assess the students’ progress in the development of their foreign language analytical reading skills, that included the understanding of the culture of foreign language, literary and aesthetic skills, vocabulary and foreign language skills, critical thinking and problem solving, inferential and interpretational skills. The qualitative research method was used to interpret the data of the experiment. Three questionnaires were employed as an instrument to assess teachers’ and learners’ perceptions of using literary texts in foreign language teaching/learning; to monitor the development of student’s skills in analytical reading. The students-philologists involved in the research increased their motivation to learn English as a foreign language through literary texts and showed progress in the development of analytical reading skills up to 16%. The results obtained can be implemented into the practice of foreign language teaching as literary texts enriched the language input in the classroom and stimulated language acquisition, and analytical reading involved students-philologists emotionally challenging their imagination and creativity.

Vocal improvisation using interactive music technology

ABSTRACT This paper aims to study the features of vocal improvisation using interactive musical technologies. The survey method contributed to determining the level of vocal skills of 214 respondents auditioned before the experiment. The authors developed a training programme based on previously received information. It included breathing, technical, aesthetic, and vocal improvisation skills. The results showed that 93% of the experimental group believed that interactive technologies had advantages in the educational process, and 63% of the control group believed that they had no advantages. The survey of the students allowed identifying elements that required improvement or changes in the curriculum. The students of the experimental group showed that using national Chinese instruments for accompaniment was important for 32% of the respondents, 27% chose the answer “other”, which included systematic and more frequent cross-sections of knowledge, the involvement of foreign approaches to learning. The calculation of the level of knowledge obtained showed that 88% of the students demonstrated a high level in the experimental group, a low one was only in 2%. Study prospects relate to studying technical and aesthetic elements to be applied during classical and folk vocal performance.

To the Question of Updating the Educational Programs of the Light and Engineering Profile at Ogarev Mordovia State University Taking into Account Professional Standards

Light and engineering education in Russia is now bringing forward new priorities, which are reflected in the updated major professional educational programs both bachelor’s and master’s degree. The modern labour market in the field of light and engineering today requires the training of highly qualified specialists who possess modern information technologies, are technically literate, who know regulatory regulations and environmental requirements.This trend is observed not only in Russia, but also noted by European researchers. In the labour market, the most in demand are engineering and technical workers with knowledge of intelligent lighting control systems, the Internet of Things technologies, with ability to implement energy saving measures, as well as specialists who are able to develop and implement lighting design projects, both indoor and outdoor. The analysis of the major professional educational programs implemented in Ogarev Mordovia State University showed that the timely release of professional standards (PS) 29.013 and 29.014 allowed us to formulate professional competencies (PC) of graduates of the lighting profile, which are relevant today and will contribute to the successful career building of young professionals. Much attention is paid to the formation and development of digital competencies of specialists in the lighting industry when updating major professional educational programs. Disciplines that allow engineering and technical specialists to develop artistic and aesthetic skills and imaginative thinking are introduced. Students learn through a project-based approach, consider multi-variant solutions, getting acquainted with the current nomenclature and databases of lighting devices (LD) from various manufacturers. By creating projects, they not only learn to develop lighting installations (LI) in accordance with the regulatory quantitative and qualitative parameters, but also gain practical design skills, taking into account the visual light and colour comfort, style design. They learn to implement intelligent lighting control systems, design LD based on LED light sources. In order to further improve the educational process, it is necessary to involve more practitioners, to involve students in the implementation of real projects. Strengthening the interdisciplinary nature of graduate training, whose planned activities are related to the development of lighting design projects, requires the preparation of educational and methodological support.

The Children’s Songs Composition: A Contribution to Fill in The Absence of Children’s Songs in Indonesian Preschool Education

The song is one of the teaching media used by preschool teachers around the globe. Indonesian preschool teachers face a rising problem: the government regulates a standard curriculum where the educational song is compulsory. Yet, there is no concern to facilitate and fill in the absence of children's educational songs. This study aims to unveil the creative process of non-music education graduate teachers in composing educational songs as required by the curriculum. This study employs a qualitative design based on a case study of thirty-three teachers from eleven different preschools in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia. The researchers analyze the preschools' curriculum, teachers' interviews, field observations, and documentation. The findings show that teachers can use their creativity to create songs with educational messages projected in a collective poetry singing performance. Poetry singing allows students' aesthetic skills development through continuous song probe and response between teachers and students.