Creative Spirit Research Articles

Teachers' Work Motivation and Psychological Well-being on the Existence of ABASTEN Kindergarten Through BERSERI Programme

The development of education’s area is inseparable from efforts to face the challenges that exist. Aisyiyah Bustanul Athfal Kindergarten (TK ABASTEN) 10 Sumberpucung is one of the schools managed by the Aisyiyah association with the vision of providing quality preschool education to prepare children with good personality, noble character, academic foundation, and active and creative spirit. This seems ironic given the fact that ABASTEN Kindergarten is located in a localized area. Another obstacle is the school’s low financial capacity which results in minimal teacher salaries. Despite these limitations, ABASTEN Kindergarten has improved its quality and increased the number of students each year. This is certainly very much related to the work motivation and psychological well-being of the teachers. The purpose of this study is to find out the innovations made by the school so that it can increase the work motivation and psychological well-being of teachers at ABASTEN Kindergarten. The research method used was qualitative using a semi-structured interview model with data analysis using interview results and literature studies. The research subjects were seven teachers with active status at ABASTEN Kindergarten. The result of this study is the promotion of the BERSERI (Sharing Every Day) programme as one of the innovations carried out by the school is to increase work motivation and strengthen the psychological well-being of teachers. Keywords: kindergarten teacher, work motivation, psychological well-being

Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Here’s a re-issue of an improvisation classic, first published in the USA in 1990 and now made available in Europe for the first time. The book features a new foreword by Ruth Ozeki and a brief afterword by the author, but otherwise unchanged. With music as the main reference, it dives into what it’s like to be in the moment, especially as a creative spirit on the violin.

Branding, Artificial Intelligence, dan Tradisi Berdesa dalam Membangun Kinerja Inovasi BUMDesa

The purpose of this PkM is to empower partners in terms of law, management and technology, the focus of community service is to build an innovative spirit to support brand implementation, the community service team created a company profile website as well as e-commerce bumdeskadumaneuh.com, registered a trademark, while Artificial Intelligence is used to build an innovative creative spirit, which supports brand implementation, which ultimately supports measurable innovation performance from the dimensions of managerial innovation, process and product. Strengthening Village Traditions has an impact on the resilience and sustainability of BUMDesa, so innovation based on village inclusivity supported by the application of AI, branding optimization based on trademark ownership, is expected to be able to boost the commercialization of BUMdesa Kadumaneuh products. This PkM activity has been carried out using training and counseling methods as well as assistance in law, IT, and marketing management. Partner knowledge has also increased by an average of above 30%, and legal, management and technology problems have been resolved well. The outputs achieved are the availability of a web company profile along with e-commerce https//bumdeskadumaneuh.com and AI access to support product and service innovation, the registration of the trademarks "Nah&Neh" and "du Maneuh" for pandan mat and Emping Mlinjo producers, improving managerial quality and efficiency, increasing BUMDesa performance, and increasing the empowerment of partner services in the commercialization of micro-business products

The "Cosmic" Task of the Youngest Children

The article derived from Grazia Honegger Fresco’s years in close cooperation with Maria Montessori and Adele Costa Gnocchi. The author illustrates how small children from the moment they start using their hands and are standing unassisted on their own legs must act in their own way. The teacher must observe before acting and intervene as little as possible. Honegger Fresco follows the work of Montessori and Costa Gnocchi and she compares the findings with different fields of science, such as ethnology and neurology. As a result of her observations and experiences she points toward the relationship between a good childhood, and in the long term, human responsibility on Earth, using the concept “the Cosmic Task”. The method in this article is based on autoethnography, as the author shares her personal experience and reflections, both as a teacher and as an educator. The aim is to shed light on aspects regarding the needs of small children and to point at the essential role of adults, educators as well as parents. As Schiedi explains, autoethnography “extends its narrative horizon to a social, professional, organizational dimension of the self ” (2016). During Honegger Fresco’s career, she was primarily inspired by Maria Montessori’s research about child development and children’s needs and rights, and she had continuously deepened her understanding by studying other researchers in this field. Thus, the article will share her conviction that by serving the creative spirit of the youngest children we will build a better future for our planet.

Research on the Aesthetic Education in the Age of Social Media

In the generation of social media, the rapid development of technology has inevitably transformed art, and the way it is consumed, shared, and created. Art has developed a greater focus on aesthetics and beauty, along with the desires of the viewer instead of the artists. The rise of different trends and styles may pressure artists to change their art to conform to these trends, and individuality will have to be sacrificed for the sake of views, likes, and validation from the users. Nonetheless, these platforms have proved to be a great tool for artists, allowing a direct reach to global audiences and engagement in interactive experiences. Communities created online may encourage growth, providing information and opportunities that may have been inaccessible to them previously, lowering the threshold of artistic creation and increasing accessibility. This may allow emerging or discriminated artists to present their work without any traditional barriers. Additionally, social media may stimulate the creative spirit of artists, allowing a variety of sources to draw inspiration from, and creating an environment that fosters experimentation and innovation. Unfortunately, social media is not without its drawbacks on its impact on art. A focus on popularity with likes, follows, and shares may cause a superficial exchange of art. Platforms may usually promote artworks that are easily consumable and visually appealing, disregarding any genuine artworks that may require a deeper reflection. This may additionally exacerbate the commercialization tendency in art, leading to a lack of originality in artworks.

“A dim recognition.” Religion as a font of psychological innovation

While religion constituted one of the main topics of interest for early social scientists, faith traditions have silently slipped from this central role. When religion now appears in psychological research, it is usually relegated to the position of either the object of psychological investigation (which psychology purports to “explain”) or a static piece in the empirical puzzle (as one variable among many when explaining clinical or social outcomes). In either case, religion is generally no longer seen as an equal partner to the social sciences in our attempts to better understand of the human condition. However, there are and have been voices within psychology that see this as unnecessarily myopic. James Jackson Putnam (1846–1918), an early supporter of the emerging field of psychoanalysis, advocated that psychology take seriously philosophy, metaphysics, and religion. Putnam’s objections to the narrowing of our view of human life in the spirit of scientism fell largely on deaf ears, and his call for psychology to include that which lies beyond the walls of empirical naturalism and reductionism remains relevant today. In as far as theoretical innovation in psychology is more of a creative recognition than true scientific discovery, philosophy and religion constitute tremendously rich, and unfortunately underappreciated, fonts of inspiration. Putnam saw in religion the “dim recognition” of “the creative spirit of the universe.” We briefly reflect on the example of obsessive–compulsive disorder and the much older religious concept of scruples, including approaches to mindfulness. This example is suggestive of the richness of psychological insights to be found in religion.

Pemanfaatan Aplikasi CorelDRAW Sebagai Media Pembelajaran Pada Siswa Jurusan Manajemen Mengenai Advertising Desain

The Corel Draw application as a learning medium aims to support students' creative spirit. The use of CorelDRAW is able to support student creativity by acting as a means for expressing creative ideas, as well as arousing curiosity so that students' creativity continues to develop while carrying out independent learning activities. Good for management students who use the CorelDRAW application as advertising design media (advertising promotion design). The Corel Draw application can be used as an indispensable medium for every student, both independently and for college assignments. The method used is a literature study by reviewing 11 journals and 2 theses that are most relevant to the research topic. CorelDRAW was chosen because it has tools for creating vector objects, drawing illustrations, manipulating bitmap images, giving effects, and creating and creating text. With these capabilities, CorelDRAW is considered a suitable medium for students to use to support creativity in their independent learning activities. The research results show that the use of CorelDRAW can increase student creativity. This is proven by the benefits students get after mastering the CorelDRAW application

Творческие задачи человечества в аспекте эсхатологических представлений Н. А. Бердяева и В. В. Зеньковского

The article analyzes the views of Nikolai A. Berdyaev and Vasily V. Zenkovsky on the meaning of creativity and the significance of human activity in the eschatological perspective. The comparison of the thinkers’ views on the “end of history” and the creative tasks of mankind leads the authors to the following conclusion. The philosophers alike argued for the need for a dynamic understanding of the “eschaton”. At the same time, they were supporters of two different “projects” of the future that had long been characteristic of religious consciousness: the Gnostic-Manichean one, which implies the “dematerialization” of the world, and the Christian one, based on ideas of the “rematerialization” of the world. It is claimed that both philosophical positions, despite significant differences between them, converge in the assertion of the crisis of modern culture. However, while Berdyaev sees the cause of this crisis in the subordination of a person’s spiritual creativity to the products of the cultural activity, which is objectified, Zenkovsky sees it in the separation of a secularizing culture from its Christian foundation.

Research on the Strategy of Applying Mixed Teaching Mode to Primary School Mathematics Teaching

With the rapid development of science and technology in today's society, great changes have taken place in all aspects of human life. The education industry has also been continuously innovated under the impetus of information technology. The rise of network information technology has significantly improved the transmission amount and efficiency of knowledge, breaking the time-space boundary of education and teaching. It provides abundant educational resources and more convenient educational methods for education and teaching, which has a certain impact on the traditional educational methods. Driven by science and technology, the application of blended teaching mode is born, which is a new teaching method produced with the development of network information technology. The combination of online teaching and offline teaching is a revolution to the traditional teaching method. Under this background, primary school mathematics teaching must change the traditional teaching methods, take moral education as the fundamental task, and give full play to the important role of primary school mathematics curriculum in cultivating students' innovative ability and creative spirit. Combined with the attributes of mathematics subject and the practice of primary school mathematics teaching, the mixed teaching mode provides a new idea for primary school mathematics teaching, which is of great significance to the implementation and development of primary school mathematics teaching.

Co-producing composite storytelling comics: (counter) narratives by academics of working-class heritage

Composite storytelling as a social qualitative research method represents a growing spirit of creativity to explore themes of social injustice. This article discusses the potential methodological affordances and challenges of such approaches when used to collectively unsettle, interrogate and (re)imagine what it means to become an academic of working-class heritage. The participatory project discussed in this paper involved eight social science and humanities academics in UK-based elite higher education institutions. In a series of storytelling sessions, the participants created narrative encounters to foster moments of critique and analysis to explore the complex social realities of their routes into and through academia as people of working-class origins. Working alongside an illustrator, the participants used empirical insights to create composite stories in multimodal comic formats. Through this work, we seek to prompt further discussions about the generative possibilities of pursuing similar methods in the social sciences and beyond to challenge forms of social injustice.

The Influence of Leadership Spirit and Creativity on Technopreneur-Based Entrepreneurial Interest in Vocational Education

The lack of interest in technopreneur-based entrepreneurship raises concerns about stu-dents' readiness to face the demands of an ever-changing and dynamic job market. There-fore, this research aims to understand the factors that influence interest in technopreneur-based entrepreneurship, especially students in Vocational Education related to leadership and creativity. The research method used was a survey followed by data collection through questionnaires distributed to Vocational Education students, followed by multiple regression analysis using the T test and F test to test the three proposed hypotheses. The research results show that the spirit of leadership and creativity significantly influences the entrepreneurial interest of technopreneur-based Vocational Education students. These two variables together explain most of the variation in entrepreneurial interest, with 91.4% of the variation explained by the combination of the two factors. These findings highlight the importance of developing leadership qualities and stimulating student creativity to foster interest and success in technopreneur-based entrepreneurship.

The Application of Ancient Chinese Creation Wisdom in Contemporary Product Design

The creation activity is the product of culture. Human beings started the creation activity from the manufacture of tools and daily necessities. With the help of dexterous hands, the creator uses the surrounding materials to create exquisite daily necessities on the basis of personal life and cultural cultivation, and realizes the interaction between craft creation and real life. Chinese traditional craft and culture are inseparable, and the spirit of traditional creation has become an indispensable part of Chinese culture. These core features of traditional creative spirit are not only reflected in the technical level, but also contain rich cultural connotation and philosophical concepts. By studying and summarizing the characteristics of traditional Chinese creative wisdom, this paper understands the deep thinking of craftsmen in functional design in ancient creative culture, as well as the exquisite skills in material selection and form shaping period, and probes into the important significance and application value of traditional creative wisdom in contemporary product design, hoping to provide some reference and inspiration for today's contemporary design.

Gheorghe Grigurcu’s autobiography: the self-discovery and the negotiation of identity

This paper sets forth to investigate biographical data in the Gheorghe Grigurcu written confessions. Considering elements of his most revealing interviews conducted by the writers such as Flori Balanescu and Dora Pavel, the profile of a contemporary writer engaged in the negotiation of his own identity is outlined. The autobiographical references drawn from the writer’s confessions will help us understand his individuality and creative spirit. Gheorghe Grigurcu’s hypersensitive personality projects empathy towards the oppressed and the helpless. He feels an acute but repressed nostalgia for his homeland. The “Bessarabianness” was also revealed in his attitude towards the work of B.P. Hasdeu and Paul Goma. Disappointments resulting from friendship and love relationships amplify the feeling of inadaptability. The feeling of marginalisation is balanced by agape love, which creates the compensatory universe indispensable to the writer. Trained in the process of negotiating his own identity, Gheorghe Grigurcu finds that human harmony can all be easily disturbed by the temptation to compare himself with those around him, by the obsessive Other.

Use of Meet Apps to Improve Student Achievement during the Pandemic

The use of meet applications is one way that is easily used by educators and students in carrying out the teaching and learning process during a pandemic. The pandemic that haunts the world of education does not demand the possibility to stop studying. Meet which strongly supports students to stay in education. The meet application is a technology system in the form of videos used in a forum, especially in the field of education, which can be used as a substitute for direct teaching and learning due to serious problems. The objectives of this study include 1) making it easier for educators and students to teach 2) reaching long distances 3) knowing the development of students who are indirectly using meet 4) making meet as one of the right solutions during a pandemic. The method used in this case is a quantitative method which does it by directly surveying the destination. The result of this study is how the use of the google meet application for the world of education which can foster high enthusiasm in achieving student achievement during a pandemic. The limitation of this study is that it is difficult for researchers to know the state of students in the online teaching and learning process in using the meet application to support student learning. Researchers hope that the use of meet in the world of education can help students to foster a spirit of creativity during the pandemic.

Pilot development and initial validation of the Black spiritual creativity scale

ABSTRACT There is a lack of research dedicated to understanding and evaluating how African Americans engage in spiritual creativity as a form of cultural empowerment in order to thrive in the face of systemic oppression. The Black Spiritual Creativity Scale (BSCS) is a new measure that was designed to address this gap in the literature. The BSCS measures the experience of creativity, rhythm, and soul as spiritual forces that contribute to a sense of personal transformation as well as resistance and liberation among African Americans. The present pilot exploratory factor analysis study was conducted with a pilot sample of 126 participants and produced a 15-item, two-factor model. Reliability and validity analyses supported the initial promise of this new scale. Future research implications are discussed.

명창 안숙선의 판소리 예술세계

The purpose of this paper is to shed light on the world of pansori art through an interview with master singer Ahn Sook-sun. The method of this research is by summarizing Ahn Sooksun's musical achievements through her life and by exploring her independent creative spirit to communicate with the public according to the times and situations in the process of creating her works. We explore the artistic world of her pansori through her thoughts on how she came to sing the full version oh pansori. As a result, Ahn Sook-sun made many attempts, such as Crossover and Fusion, to fuse various Western music with Korean music, including Classical music, Jazz, and K-Pop. Her artistic world was based on Korean classical music and added new creative works, making constant efforts to reach 'Deuk-eum', the highest level of pansori. Her objective for music was to be able communicate with the public. she contributed greatly in promoting our Korean sound to the world and expanded Korea's pansori culture.

El desarrollo de la connotación del espíritu estético del arte moderno chino

Abstract: This study analyzed the historical background of Chinese art thought in the early 20th century, the idea of “integration of China and the West”, and the painters and their works that have had a significant impact on it. By studying the trend of Chinese art popularization and its impact on student education in art schools, it revealed the impact of the changes in Chinese art thought in the early 20th century on modern art thought. At the beginning of the 20th century, the evolution of Chinese art thought underwent a reform of art thought. It has influenced many painters’ creative spirit and techniques , and has influenced the development of modern Chinese art thought. The research into the early 20th-century evolution of Chinese art thought reveals a pivotal era of diversification in aesthetic values and ideas among various artists, propelling Chinese art into a vibrant period of flourishing styles and philosophies.

Solidarity and University – an Introduction to the Special Issue

There are many ways in which university is conceived of today. One of the most common discourses revolve around performativity, measurable accountability, excellence, learning outcomes and commodification of knowledge. The other path refers to a narrative of innovations, the story in which research can bring about a real change in the world, that the creative spirit that comes with inquiring uncharted territories leads to civilisational progress and prepares students to an ever-changing reality. Yet, another perspective relates to the critique of the traditional, semi-feudal and anti-egalitarian institutional culture of university. All these paths, and others alike, pertain to a monochromatic and exhaustive imaginary of the university. As if all students and academics were the same and united in pursuing one common goal.

Remembering Bruno

The author recounts their first encounter with Bruno Latour in 1980, marking the beginning of a profound intellectual and personal relationship. Latour's generosity and innovative thinking deeply influenced the author's academic journey, despite their ambivalence toward actor-network theory. Latour’s work, characterized by its generative and inclusive approach, contrasted with the more defensive academic norms. While the author critiqued Latour's incomplete exploration of ontology, they admired his creative spirit and his ability to connect people and ideas, leaving a lasting legacy of joy and inspiration.

РАЗВИТИЕ ИННОВАЦИОННЫХ СПОСОБНОСТЕЙ СТУДЕНТОВ ВЫСШИХ УЧЕБНЫХ ЗАВЕДЕНИЙ

At present, education reform is constantly deepening, and quality education has taken root in people’s hearts. Creative spirit and the ability to innovate are the basis of the quality of talent. Therefore, innovation must be the focus of quality education. The development of creative abilities, cultivating in people a sense of innovation, innovative spirit and innovative abilities is an important aspect of the implementation of quality education, and this is an urgent task for teachers at the present time. Based on this, this article examines the development of students’ innovative awareness and their innovative abilities in the practice of education and teaching.