Master Of Arts Research Articles

Peter F. Merenda (1922-2019).

Presents an obituary for Peter F. Merenda (1922-2019). Peter received his bachelor of science in math and physics and master of arts in education at Tufts, where he was also in the Navy Reserve Officers' Training Corps. He became an ensign and served in the Navy during World War II. After the war he served as director of research at the Naval Training Center and earned his PhD in counseling and statistics at the University of Wisconsin in 1957. In 1960, Peter cofounded the Departments of Psychology and Computer Science/Statistics at the University of Rhode Island. He was chair of psychology for 12 years at the University of Rhode Island and president of the New England Psychological Association (NEPA), the Rhode Island Psychological Association (RIPA), and the International Council of Psychologists (ICP) as well as chair of ICP conventions in Norway, East and West Germany, England, and Paris. And Peter was a captain in the Navy, a position of which he was particularly proud. Inspired, in part, by his Sicilian heritage, Peter served for 5 years as codirector of Project Talent in Sicily. This project informed national development plans for manpower and priority occupations. Peter's contributions were honored by awards from his community; state (RIPA); region (NEPA); APA Karl Heiser Presidential Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions (Division 5); James McKeon Cattell Fellow Award; and awards from Portugal, the Republic of China, and Italy. Peter's contributions also included being influential in building an outstanding quantitative psychology specialty. Over the years, faculty like Wayne F. Velicer (1944 -2017), Lisa Harlow, and Joseph S. Rossi have been recognized as high-impact authors in quantitative and health psychology. Amazing it is that one person could accomplish so much and so well, while being so close to his wife, Rose, whom he met in elementary school when they were both 12. Rose (1922-2014) was a professor at Rhode Island College and an expert in early childhood education. Peter Francis Merenda was a remarkable individual who lived an extraordinary life, impacting people far and wide. In his 97-plus years, Peter accomplished much and gave back much to others- his family, friends, colleagues, students, community, country, and internationally. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

СУЧАСНІ ТЕНДЕНЦІЇ У ПРОФЕСІЙНІЙ ПІДГОТОВЦІ МАЙБУТНІХ ПЕРЕКЛАДАЧІВ

The objective of this paper is to study the current trends in professional translator training within masters of art in translation study programs of world leading universities. The analysis of study programs represented on the web-sites of Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, European Master’s in Translation, Keystone MASTERSTUDIES, MastersPortal, Postgrad is aimed at finding out the important and successful features in the context of teaching translation in the educational domain to studentsphilologists. Aspects and practices of translator training organization and implementation are studied. The analysis results reveal that preparation of professional translators is distinguished by a strong emphasis on practical translation work and is delivered through a combination of practice classes, workshops, translation project management practices, translation internship in close cooperation of universities with translation service providers, clients, organizations for professional translators, partner universities from the countries whose language is studied within the MA program, translation-related software providers. Practice classes and workshops are taught by staff who are professional translators, editors, reviewers, proofreaders, translation managers. Translation project management is realized in the mode of a simulated translation company staffed and run by students and authentic translation projects preparation and delivering. These project methods are an integrated part of the curriculum that earns credit points. Translation internship is arranged in translation agencies home and abroad, under the guidance of freelancers, in international organizations such as the European Parliament, the United Nations, translation departments of governmental and non-governmental institutions, media, cultural funds, museums, art galleries, local businesses and authorities. Affiliate membership of organizations for language practitioners provides students with useful contacts for building career, as well as interview coaching. Academic editions of translation tools familiarize them with terminology databases, translation memory software, computerassisted translation systems. Aspects and practices of MA in translation training under consideration are important from the point of view of translation pedagogy and have a great potential for being incorporated into the process of teaching translation of texts on education issues to students-philologists as they are aimed at increasing employability of graduates in the domain of translation.

RETRACTED ARTICLE: The representation of Yemen War in ideologically-stuffed newspaper headlines: A critical analysis

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image sizeView retraction statement:Retraction: The representation of Yemen War in ideologically-stuffed newspaper headlines: A critical analysis Additional informationFundingThis research received no specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.Notes on contributorsSaber Naji Mohammed HaimedSaber Naji Haimed, is currently a Ph. D. scholar, Department of English, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, India. He works as a lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Education, Albaydha Univesity, Yemen.Yasser AlrefaeeYasser Alrefaee is an assistant lecturer of Linguistics and Translation in Albaydha University, Yemen. He has also taught Translation in the National University, Civilization University, Future University, Yemeni Jordanian University, and QAU University, Yemen. His research interests include ELT, Pragmatics and Translation. He has published papers in WOS and Scopus journals.Salim AlshageriSalim Alshageri works as a lecturer at the Department of English, Faculty of Education, Albaydha Univesity, Yemen. He has got Master of Arts in English. His areas of interest include cultural studies, critical and literary theory, pragmatics, linguistics, discourse studies and English language teaching.

From Knowledge Sharing to Reflective Thinking: Using Focus Group to Promote EFL Teachers’ Reflectivity

Educational research literature has underscored the key role of collaboration and interaction among teachers. As such, the present study, as its main objective, sought whether knowledge sharing in a reflective focus group improved English as a foreign language (EFL) student teachers’ reflective practice. In addition, it explored the benefits and challenges to knowledge sharing in a reflective focus group. To this end, a survey of reflective practice, and a semi-structured interview were employed to investigate research questions. Eleven Iranian Master of Arts (MA) students who were, at the same time, EFL teachers in languages schools served as the participants of the study. The results indicated that the focus group platform could enable EFL teachers to improve their reflective practice through interaction with colleagues. Among other factors, receiving constructive feedback, and recognizing the possible relationship between theory and practice were the benefits of knowledge sharing through reflective practice. Regarding the barriers to using reflective focus group, various inhibitors were reported by the participants that can be classified into personal, institutional, and educational factors. The implications of the study are also presented.

Robert Kilwardby by José Filipe Silva

Reviewed by: Robert Kilwardby by José Filipe Silva R. James Long Robert Kilwardby. By José Filipe Silva. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020. Pp. xvi + 304. $99.00 (hardcover). ISBN 978-0-19-067475-5. There is little question that the Dominican Robert Kilwardby deserves a place in Oxford University Press's "Great Medieval Thinkers" sesries under the editorship of Brian Davies. Following the tragically early death of the gifted Osmund Lewry, O.P., there have been few scholars devoting attention to the only member of the Order of Preachers to have assumed the archbishopric of Canterbury. It is appropriate, therefore, to acknowledge the contribution of José Silva. The book presents a comprehensive view of the current state of knowledge respecting the life and impressive range of works of the English Dominican, [End Page 507] including his metaphysics, logic, epistemology, ethics, theology and (more specifically) the Incarnation, focusing on the third book of Peter Lombard's Sentences. In the first chapter, entitled (curiously; all the chapter titles are active participles) "Living," Silva sketches what several decades of scholarship have revealed of the life and works of Kilwardby, but there remain unresolved questions respecting chronology as well as patrimony. He belongs to a school, or perhaps better a movement, that falls under the title of "Augustinianism," the central teaching of which was a quite non-Augustinian title of "universal hylomorphism," the view that all beings—including spiritual substances such as angels—are composed of the principles of matter and form. This view was common among the Dominicans, at least until the triumph of Thomism. It is for this reason, moreover, that the early Dominican masters such as Roland of Cremona (†1236), Robert Bacon (†1248), and Richard Fishacre (†1248) are so difficult to place vis-à-vis Kilwardby. To claim, however, that the aforementioned thinkers may have been "among other figures who were critical of Aquinas" (48) is to ignore the fact that all three had departed the scene before Aquinas had even begun his theological studies, never mind his not yet having written anything. Kilwardby's most popular and influential work, at least judging by the number of extant manuscripts (eighteen complete and two partial) is De ortu scientiarum, composed circa 1250 and probably at Oxford, according to the work's editor, Albert Judy. This treatise would seem to demarcate the end of Kilwardby's career as Arts master and the launch of his career as Master of the Sacred Page, thus virtually ruling out inception under Richard Fishacre. Chief among his theological writings is the Quaestiones in libros Sententiarum. Thanks to the sponsorship of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, we now have a critical edition of this impressive work, and according to the most recent editor of the five volumes, Richard Schenk, O.P., we can date the work between 1256 and 1260. Crucial to this dating is the fact that it shows influences from both the Sentences commentary of Bonaventure (ca. 1250-52) and the abbreviatio of Richard Rufus, O.F.M., on the same work. Silva does not weigh in on the issue, but the fact is that Kilwardby's "commentary" has at best a distant relationship to Lombard's work, the latter serving only to call to mind various disputable issues in the original Books of Sentences. In addition, not every distinction in the Lombard text is represented. Lastly, according to Russell Friedman, Kilwardby's "commentary" does not seem to have any particular connection to his attainment of the magisterium in theology, for which such a commentary was a requirement at both Paris and Oxford. From the small number of manuscripts—only two complete copies and two partial—one is led to the conclusion that there was no longer much demand for the work of a Dominican unwilling to follow the via Thomistica. By way of contrast, Fishacre's commentary, composed approximately a decade earlier, boasts sixteen copies, four of them complete. [End Page 508] The chapter that struck this reader as the most lucid and fully developed is entitled "Behaving," and rests in large measure on the scholarship of Anthony Celano, who has devoted most of his career to the editing and study of Kilwardby...

From Flatness Towards the Spiritual Connotation: An Analysis of the Planarity of Painting

Painting art is a combination of space and perception. In the development of modern art, the art of painting moves from three-dimensional to planar. The masters of painting continue to explore the overall sense of painting, highlighting the agility of painting through two-dimensional drawing and three-dimensional drawing. The planarity of the painting gives the painting more spiritual connotation and makes the picture more complete. In this article, with the flatness of painting as the core of the research, the laws and characteristics of the flatness of painting are analyzed, and the essence of the flatness of painting from natural feeling to the development in the spiritual level is explained in depth. By analyzing the works of the artists, the study of space and plane by art masters has been clarified. At the same time, it highlights the epoch-making development significance of the flatness of painting, and highlights the artistic creation and technical development of painting.

Digital competences in the aspect of sociocultural education

The purpose of this paper is to examine different social and academic activities related to the development of a digital culture of bachelors and masters of culture and arts. It analyses the achieved results of the research project aimed at the study of educational and pedagogical opportunities and resources for the more effective development of digital competencies of students and graduates in the life-long system of sociocultural education and realized in the Moscow State University of Culture (Khimki, Moscow region), the Petrozavodsk State University (Petrozavods, Republic of Karelia) and in the Ulyanovsk State Agrarian University named after P.A. Stolypin (Ulyanovsk) in 2010-2019. The authors consider digital competences as a core of a digital culture of graduated in arts and culture is a multi-level, complex, interdisciplinary phenomenon, and therefore it needs a comprehensive analysis from the standpoint of several sciences (philosophy, sociology, psychology and pedagogy, etc.). The results of the implementation of educational technologies orientated to values and competences of a digital culture are discussed. The paper focuses on the importance of the educational process orientated on creation of values of digital culture which are significant for the organization of social and cultural activities in the frame of the state policy on digitalization of education and culture.

Introduction of the course “Performing interpretation” in the process of training future masters of musical art

Introduction of the course “Performing interpretation” in the process of training future masters of musical art

Attribution of Works by Vladimir Grinberg and Alexander Vedernikov: The Problem of the Artist’s Signature

This article considers the phenomenon of the authors’ signatures of Vladimir Grinberg (1896—1942) and Alexander Vedernikov (1898—1975), two representatives of the Leningrad Landscape School community in the 1930s—1940s. During this period, they entered a single circle of friendly and professional communication and experienced mutual influences. The artists’ work is considered more broadly and goes beyond their participation in the community. The goal of the article is to single out the most significant periods of their activity, trace changes in the authors’ handwriting from decade to decade, pay attention to the period of apprenticeship and formation of the artists, and focus on controversial issues in the attribution of their paintings and drawings. A study of all the works by Grinberg and Vedernikov currently identified in museum and private collections, makes it possible to trace the changes in the authors’ styles and discover the artistic landmarks of the masters. Grinberg’s manner repeatedly transformed. The neoclassical stylistics of his works of the late 1910s and citation of paintings by the old masters gave way to modest still lifes in the 1920s. After landscapes and scenes of everyday life on a black background in the early 1930s, there was a lightening of the colour scheme during his work on the New Leningrad series in the middle of the decade. In the early 1940s, Grinberg began to paint very broadly, generalising and simplifying the images. This scandalising manner has parallels with the style of the 1960s. Vedernikov was influenced by the art of French post-impressionists. Also, he took interest in the art of Russian folk crafts in the post-war period, more particularly, in Gorodets painting. The article pays much attention to Grinberg’s and Vedernikov’s lithographs. A significant part of their works has been catalogued and published, which facilitates dating and attribution, but much remains unknown (for example, an episode in Vedernikov’s work associated with the unification of the Masters of Analytical Art). In the article, the author describes the marking of works in detail, the placement and outline of the signatures, and traces the changes in them, which will help determine the range of works and authorship more accurately.

Committal

Committal Michelle Lesifko-Bremer (bio) COMMITTAL For Steve Dixon Sweaty, rushing from my fourth-floorbattle with the albatross copier, I spillcoffee down my skirt taking the stairs and remember you, rushing into our basementworkshop, tea sloshing and having sloshed,all right, we're all here, might as well start— I use dashes to punctuate dialogue often nowand to stretch the limits of a conventionalsentence, you'd be glad to know, or probably indifferent, given that you approached teachingwith the same weary resignation as a waiteror cab driver or beat reporter, probably because you'd gotten used to those kinds of jobsbefore you told me, bluntly, that my love storywasn't believable and no one serious writes the phrase like diamonds in the rain,not even a poet, and probably I shouldn't writeabout marriage until I'd been in one— and wonder if my disheveled teaching personacan possibly be as charming as yours, decidingno, probably not, since ours is a dry campus, no magnums of Yellow Tail to end the semester,no pound cake, no typewritten comments on the backsof old drafts—and even though you were dying [End Page 555] of Parkinson's, I imagine you writing every day,stories interrupted by phone calls, still typingin the rundown house with the scrappy black cat who seemed as exhausted to be alive as you were—just sentimental nonsense, like the fiction I wrotewhen I was eighteen, a girl's dream of a man they call a writer's writer, but who seemed to metoo sad to be anything more than honest,shaking his head saying just write the damn thing. [End Page 556] Michelle Lesifko-Bremer MICHELLE LESIFKO-BREMER completed a Bachelor of Arts in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University before completing her Master of Fine Arts at the University of Florida. She is originally from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she completed post-baccalaureate writing courses at the University of Pittsburgh, and currently lives in New York City. Copyright © 2021 Michelle Lesifko-Bremer

Naive Way-Thoughts on Portrait Creation

As a master in fine art in twentieth century, Matisse gave up the completed painting system and techniques during the Renaissance. He drew nourishment from primitive art and Eastern painting, and began to paint in a more direct, naive and simple way. I also try to follow this approach during my painting creation. This article is divided into three parts to explain the naivety in portrait creation. The first part is the original intention of my topic selection and the significance of the research topic; the second part introduces in detail the characteristics and reasons of Matisse's portrait painting; the third part is my creative practice and my thinking in the process.

Catholic Classroom Communities During Remote Teaching

In this COVID-era study, Catholic school teachers report the challenges that they experienced in supporting classroom communities during remote instruction, as well as the strategies that they enacted to address such challenges and make robust relationships with and among remote students. While teachers engaged in remote teaching, they were also studying in a Catholic Master of Arts in Teaching program, where they participated in weekly Freirian culture circles — structured dialogues designed to help teachers identify problems of equity and collectively devise appropriate responses. The teachers found that classroom community was hindered by a lack of in-person affordances, socioemotional stressors related to the pandemic, struggles to engage students, and structures of hybrid teaching. In response, teachers used the culture circles to create and/or share strategies for supporting remote classroom communities, such as classroom meetings and smallgroup collaboration. Teachers recognized that efforts to develop classroom communities were intimately connected to commitments to equity.

Technology singularity culture: In the Urgency of the problem in the COVID-19 pandemic

In response to the global pandemic COVID-19, the possibility of organizing the artistic process without presence of a human being at the moment of the artifact's manufacture is now being updated. This article discusses AI possibilities and prospects for the further development of technological art. The author explores the specifics and uniqueness of works created using AI technology. By the example of the paintings “Next Rembrandt” and “Kandinsky” it is evident that the images reproduce the creative styles of artists with exceptional accuracy, but are not a copy of famous works of art masters. The author finds out the possibilities of algorithmic analysis to identify a certain ratio of iconic systems of musical and pictorial works. The revealed unpredictability for the result of the art work creation process gives rise to a theory of technological singularity in culture. Thus, the author insists on the AI's unique ability to create cultural artifacts in a global pandemic. © 2021 Chulalongkorn University, Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts. All rights reserved.

Research methodology practices among postgraduate Information Studies students in Tanzania

This bibliometric study investigates the research methodology practices of Master of Arts in Information Studies (MAIS) students at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The study established students’ insufficient understanding and application of research methodology concepts. Survey research was predominant, with purposive and convenience non-probability sampling methods being extensively used. Simple random sampling and stratified sampling were the probability sampling methods highly used. Findings further show advanced qualitative and quantitative data analyses were inadequately applied. In practice, the study findings can help Library and Information Science institutions around the globe improve teaching research methodology to produce quality theses with logical conclusions which can develop new theories. Quality theses can translate into increased quantity and quality of journal articles and growth of the Library and Information Science discipline. Thus, there is a need to strengthen research methodology training for students and lecturers to generate generalizable findings that meet diverse needs.

OUTSTANDING MASTERS OF UKRAINIAN FOLK ART: BIOGRAPHICAL NARRATIVES

The article considers the problems of creating a semantic component of the pedagogical narrative (based on biographical studies of prominent personalities of Ukrainian national art) as an effective method of professional-pedagogical education of teachers of fine arts. Among the most representative phenomena of Ukrainian culture are the works by Hanna Sobachko-Shostak, Kateryna Bilokur, Oleksandr and Nadiia Babenko, the Piliuhin family. As a result of the research, the individual features of our selected outstanding masters of Ukrainian folk art were clarified, the influence of the social environment and the family on the formation and creative development of outstanding Ukrainian folk artists was determined.The Department of Fine Arts of Poltava V. G. Korolenko National Pedagogical University has developed biographical narratives about outstanding masters of Ukrainian traditional folk art, which are used in teaching the following subjects: "History of Ukrainian Fine Arts", "History of Decorative and Applied Arts", "Basics of Decorative Composition". The study proved the effectiveness and feasibility of introducing biographical narratives in the training of future teachers of fine arts.

Автопортрет и Будда Ваджрасаттва у Дзанабазара

Introduction. Jebtsundamba Khutuktu Öndör Gegeen Zanabazar was Mongolia’s first ruler to hold both secular and spiritual power. In the late 17th century, the country witnessed dramatic internecine wars, and his overriding goal was to unify the nation and increase the educational level. Virtually all his self-portraits discovered depict Zanabazar as a real priest with iconographic markers of Buddha Vajrasattva. The selected Buddhist symbol is supposed to deliver a deepest nonverbal sermon and mysterious testament of the prominent Buddhist master. Goals. The paper seeks to further reveal, examine, and describe objects of artistic heritage authored by Öndör Gegeen Zanabazar and currently stored in state, public, administrative, and private collections of Mongolia and Russia. Results. The work is a first attempt to examine Zanabazar’s self-portraits — both sculptural and graphic ones (including tiny elements of different thangkas) — in their structural unity in the context of his meditative practices. The descriptions of the pictures compiled with due regard of Buddha Vajrasattva-related tantric texts and facts of Öndör Gegeen’s biography may be viewed as sources for historical and art studies in Vajrayana Buddhism. The analysis of textual and graphic materials attempts to interpret Zanabazar’s unique position as both a spiritual and Buddhist arts master.

Actor’s technique as a fundamental guideline for cognition and improving the nature of the professional activity

Purpose of Article. Identify the main components of the actor’s technique, its role in the process of improving the professional activity of the performer, create a classification benchmark for professional competencies masters of stage art, and to characterize the features of acting equipment in work on multi-genre stage works. Methodology. The research methodology consists in the usage of art a method for the general simplification of an artist as a cultural phenomenon; a systemic method for interpreting acting techniques as the holistic design of the functioning of the acting craft; the analytical method for explaining the role and importance of acting technique as the fundamental landmark of cognition and improvement of the nature of acting professionalism; the axiomatic method for constructing logical provisions on the application of acting training as a postulate of mastery performance, as a basic professional method for, an appropriate understanding of the meaning and pragmatic characteristics, the usage of training exercises and tasks in stage technique of an actor. Scientific novelty. The scientific novelty of the study is to analyze the main components of the actor’s technique through the prism of sequential classification of professional competencies and differentiation actor’s internal and external technology in working on multi-genre dramatic creations. Conclusions. As a result of the study, we can conclude that the improvement of the acting professionalism and successful mastery is possible only with the dialectical interaction and interpenetration of three main factors: constant appeal to creative achievements and acquisitions of outstanding scenes of the past; practical knowledge of the latest acting techniques; effective and productive implementation of the performance of the role that foresees the creation of an appropriate image, its character, and nature of scenic existence.

Components of the stage speech system as a basis of artistic creative activity of the master of theatrical art

The purpose of the article is to discover the key components of the system, its laws and rules of mastering and leading the basics of stage speech, its technical and artistic techniques for skilled creative activity artists over creating an image of the role. The methodology is grounded on the application of the axiomatic method of investigation of the main components stage speech; a systematic method for considering leading laws, rules of verbal action; the functional method for learning pragmatic characteristics of the whole complex of the stage language system; analytical method of studying the laws of logic in linguistic action, rules of use punctuation, logical and psychological pauses; art method to determine the creative nature of living verbal action, its artistic and semantic image in the process of creating the character of the role image. The scientific novelty of the study is on the working concept of the analysis of laws, rules, ways, and techniques of stage speech, in a systematic approach to the importance of the logical observance of all components of a verbal action that ensure the perfection of its functioning in the creation process of organic image's role. Conclusions. Therefore, we can conclude that the art of stage speech develops in accordance with the laws of organic nature acting and leading it as it could be achieved by a master through the perfection of true thinking and the subordinate verbal actions, the inseparable link between the internal and external speeches techniques. The key skill of performing arts is correctness usage of a language apparatus; the respiratory system; good diction; the timbre of the linguistic voice, as well as the observance of the laws of logic in linguistic action, rules for understanding punctuation in scenic language, intonation laws, logical and psychological pauses, the study of features works with literary material of different kinds, styles, and genres.

Master students' voices about post-method pedagogy

Post method pedagogy can be regarded as a good way to deal with the lacks experienced by the usage of traditional methods. It compels us to restructure our view of language teaching both in pedagogical and ideological aspects. It requires that teachers should consider the essential components of post method pedagogy. As Kumaravadivelu (2006) forwarded, post-method pedagogy can be visualized as three-dimensional system consisting of three pedagogic parameters: particularity, practicality and possibility. This study aims to explore if English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers, who are also Master of Arts (MA) students, have knowledge on Post-Method Pedagogy; to learn about their attitudes, beliefs and preferences towards it and to examine whether there was a probable relationship between these practising teachers’ attitudes and reflections on their classroom applications or not. To do this, 9 active EFL teachers pursuing their MA degrees at a Turkish state university, Institute of Educational Sciences, in English Language Education Master’s Programme were administered a survey. Findings indicate that the participants have knowledge of the post-method pedagogy and most of them have positive attitudes about the classroom practices regarding implementation of strategies and parameters. Participants’ responses indicated “particularity” as the most important parameter. In terms of the 10 macro-strategies, the participants gave the highest importance to the strategy of “raise cultural awareness”, while they reported to employ “activate intuitive heuristics” as the least.

Edmond Halley's Contributions to Hydrogeology.

Edmond Halley's Contributions to Hydrogeology.