Cultural Elements Research Articles

Cultural Literacy : Ondel-Ondel Betawi in Elementary School Textbooks

This study aims to analyze the use of Betawi ondel-ondel in elementary school textbooks as a means of cultural literacy for students. The methodology used is a literature study that includes a review of elementary school textbooks that contain material about Betawi culture and the use of ondel-ondel in an educational context. The results showed that the use of ondel-ondel in elementary school textbooks made a positive contribution to students' understanding and appreciation of Betawi culture. Students not only gained knowledge about ondel-ondel, but also developed important cultural literacy skills. The conclusion of this study is the importance of integrating local cultural elements in the primary education curriculum to enhance students' understanding of their cultural heritage. The last recommendation from this study is the need for more research and development of teaching materials that utilize the potential of local culture as a means of learning in elementary schools

Exploring Challenges Faced ny Students in Translating Four English Text Genres

Translation is not an easy task every translator inevitably faces several difficulties, such as language problems, grammar, and cultural elements in the target language. This study is aimed to investigates the challenges encountered by students in translating English text, focusing on secondary school contexts in Indonesia. This study employed a systematic literature review methodology, the study identifies and analyses difficulties in translation through a five-phased approach. The findings reveal a various obstacle, including linguistic barriers, cultural disparities, and grammatical complexities. The analysis underscores the necessity for targeted interventions to address these challenges and enhance students' translation proficiency. Furthermore, the study emphasizes the importance of linguistic competence, particularly in grammar and vocabulary, in overcoming translation difficulties.

Understanding the Notion of Self-Experience and Its Psychoanalytic and Cultural Implications in Working with Chinese Clients

ABSTRACT “Self-experience” is a popular phrase among Chinese psychotherapist professional circles. This article provides a historical overview of the development of this term and explores the underlying social, cultural, and historical elements of the dynamics of this unique lexical choice. We argue that the preference for using “self-experience” instead of “personal treatment” implies a tendency of the Chinese collective consciousness to depathologize the inner feelings of traumatic experience, reflecting the Chinese philosophy of life, that is, emphasizing the upward potential to grow and learn to change. On the other hand, we need to be careful in assessing whether psychoanalysis is comprehending patients’ cultural and historical contexts so that we are healing the trauma rather than creating new ones.

Homo Deludens: An Attempt to Determine the Ludicrous Elements of Culture

Homo Deludens: An Attempt to Determine the Ludicrous Elements of Culture

Exploration of the Integration of Ethnic Music Elements into Modern Piano Art Creation

Piano originated in Western countries, so a large number of Western cultural elements are used in piano art creation, mainly to present Western humanistic thoughts and spiritual cultural cores to the audience. In recent years, with the modernization of piano art and culture in China, many Chinese listeners have begun to demand more ethnic and folk piano pieces with Chinese characteristics. In order to meet the audience’s pursuit of modern Chinese piano art, more and more creators are integrating ethnic music elements into modern piano art creation. This article explores the integration significance of ethnic music elements in modern piano art creation and the current situation of Chinese modern piano art creation, and finds that ethnic music elements have positive help in enhancing the novelty, ethnic characteristics, and timeliness of piano art creation. Based on this, this article proposes several strategies for integrating traditional ethnic music elements into modern piano art creation, including adapting traditional ethnic music elements, creating pentatonic tunes, and modifying work titles. The aim is to provide references and inspiration for the development of Chinese piano art creation and culture.

Pelatihan Inovasi Pembelajaran Berbasis Permainan Edukatif untuk Meningkatkan Karakter Siswa Sekolah Dasar

This activity explores the development and implementation of “Moral Quests,” an educational game designed to enhance the character development of elementary school students at SD Inpres Sero by adapting Indonesian folklore. The significance of this community engagement project lies in creating an innovative educational tool that instills moral values in young learners—an essential aspect of their holistic development. The topic is highly relevant as it leverages cultural heritage, specifically Indonesian folktales, to make learning engaging and meaningful. The community engagement project employs a participatory approach, involving teachers, students, and community members during the design and implementation phases to ensure cultural relevance and educational effectiveness. The methodology includes storytelling, interactive games, and character-building activities to achieve its objectives. The results demonstrate a significant improvement in students’ understanding and application of core moral values such as honesty, responsibility, and respect. These findings underscore the potential of culturally adapted educational games in nurturing desired character traits among young learners. In conclusion, this project emphasizes the importance of integrating cultural elements into educational tools to enhance their impact and relevance, pointing toward a positive future for character development.

Cooking Pilaf with Words: Intersubjectivity and Feminism in the Armenian Transnation

ABSTRACT Using original oral history research conducted in 2019, this study documents the voices, values, and priorities of feminists in the contemporary Republic of Armenia, revealing how interviewees came to feminist consciousness and how they conceptualized feminism. Interviewees articulated which feminist issues they believed to be most pressing in Armenia, including domestic violence, LGBTQIA rights, sexual education, militarism, and misogyny and homophobia in the society and the church. They expressed hopes and concerns regarding the sequelae of the “Velvet Revolution” of 2018. Interviews were conducted with twenty Armenian women diverse in age and occupation, all of whom self-identified as feminists or were deeply involved in feminist activism. These interviews subvert nationalist claims that feminism is intrinsically Western and antithetical to Armenian tradition, providing instead an alternative narrative of Armenian feminism as emerging syncretically from indigenous cultural elements and Western feminism. I theorize intersubjectivity between researcher and interviewee when both are members of a transnation—a nation consisting of those living in the nation-state and those living in permanent diaspora—arguing that there is a web of interconnectedness between researcher and interviewees that complicates the usual insider/outsider oral history relationship. The interview encounter shapes the feminism of both researcher and interviewee.

Transculturación digital: reflexión de un cambio permanente en la educación superior

As part of a series of reflections from a postdoctoral project, this essay presents the notion of digital transculturation among educators in higher education, addressing the evolution from computational and informational culture towards a digital culture. It starts from the emergence of personal computers with graphical user interfaces to the explosion of software packages, a condition that transformed computer usage and its integration into higher education institutions, leading to the production and consumption of digital content, thereby giving rise to a permanent acculturation in the use of ICT. From this backdrop, a reflection is made on the transformation of digital culture in higher education, considering technological evolution, the appropriation of computational knowledge, and digital skills as cultural elements from a digital dimension. The concept of digital transculturation is used as a theoretical framework to comprehend this constantly evolving process. Approaching digital transculturation as a continuous process of change, influenced by the adoption of new technologies and the digitization of culture, the essay analyzes the adaptation of teachers to this transition, highlighting stages of resistance, adaptation, and appropriation of digital culture in educational practice.

El paisaje histórico entre Portugal y Castilla a finales de la Edad Media en las orillas del Duero: SIG aplicado a las demarcações de fronteira

This study focuses on the historical landscape of the Douro River. The regional and local values of medieval cultural heritage elements were explored from “Demarcações de Fronteira” - a demarcation book dated from 1537-1538 - to understand the places and medieval testimonies of political, social, and economic relations between the two medieval kingdoms of Portugal and Castile. A document analysis is intended to identify and describe the cultural elements of a specific place and a particular time and discern resilient cultural features in the landscape. In parallel, a cartographic analysis could help to identify, characterize, and localize the late medieval landscape (beginning of the 16th century). This analysis is fundamental for comparing other periods and studying the landscape resilience.

Old Shrines, New Worshipers: Cultural Practices for Connection with Nature

There are many ancient cultural sites in Bulgaria that not only attract tourists but are also believed to facilitate a person’s connection with deities and natural forces. Today, cultural practices performed at these sacred places from the period of antiquity and the early Middle Ages are often associated with neopaganism and the New Age movement, while also incorporating elements of Bulgarian traditional culture. Through ‘mysterious’ rituals, the participants seek to connect with a higher spirituality, which they feel is missing in their everyday lives. Interest in ancient paganism is also one of the manifestations of contemporary nationalism. The feasts, reenactments and rituals presented serve to ‘re-establish’ man’s relationship with nature, with the aim of achieving health, well-being, and spiritual growth in an uncertain world. These practices often interweave esoteric and environmentalist ideas with strategies for the development of cultural tourism.

Современная цивилизация китайской нации в творческой трансформации традиционной культуры

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, General Secretary Xi Jinping has insisted on combining the basic tenets of Marxism and Chinese outstanding traditional culture, promoted the creative transformation and innovative development of outstanding Chinese traditional culture, and determined the direction of building the modern civilization of the Chinese nation. General Secretary Xi Jinping deeply understands the outstanding continuity of Chinese civilization, and uses elements of traditional culture to develop the core values of socialism. It promotes the humanistic spirit embodied in traditional culture, forming the spiritual family tree of Chinese communists, realizes the unity of Chinese civilization, constantly improves the socialist state system with Chinese characteristics, develops the potential of party workers, promotes the peaceful and inclusive character of Chinese civilization, and pursues the policy of building a Community of Shared Destiny humanity, proposes a Chinese global governance program.

A Comparative Analysis of E-commerce Consumer Purchasing Decisions: Taobao in Shanghai and Daraz in Dhaka

There is a lot of potential for expansion for the e-commerce business, but only if we can figure out what makes people buy online. Findings from this study shed light on the e-commerce decision-making process and the ways in which cultural, social, individual, and environmental elements influence it, with a focus on the Chinese market. We surveyed a total of 150 people in Shanghai and 100 people in Dhaka, Bangladesh, using questionnaires. The findings highlight two obstacles that have a negative effect on the online retail industry and customer choice when purchasing goods online. The study compares Taobao and Daraz, focusing on their respective operational systems, market positioning, and distinctions. The study also looks ahead to potential trends and suggests ways businesses might change their business models and create consumer and retailer regulations. Businesses that are just starting out in the e-commerce space can greatly benefit from these insights. The results demonstrate the importance of understanding the elements that influence customer choices and online purchasing behavior.

The identification of cultural genes in historic districts and their influences on cultural perception—case study in Central Street in Harbin, China

ABSTRACT Cultural genes in historic districts are an important carrier of, and the main way in which people perceive, urban cultural heritage. In this study, the relationship between cultural perception and cultural genes is first established. Taking Central Street in Harbin, China, as an example, a cultural gene identification system was established to quantitatively identify the cultural genes in the space, and the cultural perception of each street was evaluated via a questionnaire survey. The correlations between cultural genes and cultural perception were obtained via correlation analysis, and the cultural gene elements that have significant impacts on cultural perception were screened based on the fitting degree of the model. Moreover, the differences in the influence intensities were compared according to the standardization coefficient. The statistical results show that cultural locational genes, street form genes, street traffic genes, street architecture genes, featured activity genes, street landscape genes, and street node genes are significantly correlated with cultural perception. Among them, seven indicators are positively correlated with cultural perception, and one indicator is negatively correlated with cultural perception. The impact of historical building interface ratio, Sense of historical architectural sequence, and hard landscape richness on cultural perception is relatively strong. The research in this paper provides a new perspective on the study of historic districts from the perspective of cultural perception, and the results of the research can provide a basis for designers and decision makers in the regeneration of historic districts.

An innovative application of diagonal ridge elements of classical Suzhou-style buildings to furniture design based on Kansei engineering and shape grammar

This paper proposes a furniture design method combining Kansei engineering (KE) and shape grammar (SG), to explore how the diagonal ridge elements of classical Suzhou-style buildings can be applied to furniture design and to explain how the styling elements match the cultural imagery in furniture products. Suzhou-style armchairs and cultural elements of diagonal ridges were collected, the most suitable armchairs were selected for incorporating such elements, and their shapes were deconstructed along with characteristic interpretations. A factor bank of diagonal ridge elements was constructed, first through Kansei word selection and evaluation experiments, and then through factor analysis which determined the main cultural elements of the design. The shape grammar theory was applied to design and innovate the selected armchair samples, achieving three design solutions. The solutions were then comprehensively evaluated, and the optimal one was used for the final physical product. The results of the study showed that users had clear subjective feelings about the design incorporating diagonal ridge elements, with their Kansei on three aspects: aesthetic style, decorative complexity, and structural balance. The approach used in this work blends furniture products with cultural imagery on diagonal ridges, providing a feasible methodological reference and an empirical case for cultural sustainability through furniture design.

What factors will influence foreign residents’ staying in commercial spaces in front of stations? A case study on Chinese residents in Japan

ABSTRACT In the context of transit-oriented development (TOD), an essential objective in international city development is the creation of commercial spaces in front of stations that attract people from diverse backgrounds and of various nationalities. There remains a notable gap in research focusing on people’s staying in commercial spaces in front of stations from the perspective of foreign residents. This study aims to identify the key factors influencing the staying of Chinese residents in Japan regarding to commercial spaces in front of stations via questionnaire. Among them, the popularity of commercial spaces in front of stations and the diversity of business types were the most influential. Critical factors also included the area of station, the greenery, the distance from the station to stores, the ethnic cultural element, the percentage of foreign residents in station human traffic, and the area of commercial spaces in front of stations. This research also showed significant differences in the perceived importance of critical factors exhibited by population attributes across occupation, monthly income, and length of residence in Japan.

Kano 모델을 기반으로 한 커피 브랜드 패키지 디자인 고객 만족도 연구

The research focuses on the customer satisfaction for the packaging design of Luckin Coffee, a leading coffee brand in China. By employing the Kano Model and sensitivity analysis, the study conducts both quantitative and qualitative analysis on 407 valid responses collected from a questionnaire survey, categorizing and sorting the data. The results indicate that the seven attributes—economy, aesthetic shape, pattern and color, portability, cultural elements, customer service phone number, and production date—have sensitivities greater than 70%, classifying them as high-expectation or essential needs that should be prioritized. This study supplies scientific data support for enterprises to implement brand strategies and marketing models, helping brands maintain sustainable development in a competitive business environment.

교방문화의 형성과 문화적 의미

In Korea’s traditional culture, art culture related to Gyobang remains rich and diverse and has been handed down. Jeongjae (呈才), a comprehensive art that combines music and dance, was performed by Gisaengs belonging to Jangakwon or Gyobang, and many traditional songs, including Gagokchang (Sijo) in classical 典 poetry 歌, were also performed mainly by Gisaeng’s singing (歌唱). We have the results of the creation of female Gisaengs and musicians, who were in charge of art from the Gyobang of the Goryeo Dynasty to the modern Kwonbeon. In this way, it is ‘Gyobang culture’ that preserves its value and historicity by accumulating such knowledge and information through Gyobang. Until now, the sijo and lyrics in the Gyobang space have been approached by dividing them into Korean literature, dance and Jeongjae (呈才) into dance studies, vulgar music into music studies, and other folklore. Therefore, a more comprehensive and three-dimensional approach to Gyobang culture is now needed. In this respect, it is necessary to avoid the simple interpretation of the past and think about the Gyobang culture from a more three-dimensional and comprehensive aspect. The strong vitality and continuity of Gyobang culture is difficult to explain simply by the succession discourse of the conscious and intentional cultural delivery system. The possibility that certain cultural elements are inherent in it cannot be excluded. The reason Gyobang culture can maintain its name for a long time is that it has its own unique discriminatory specificity. Gyobang culture has the basis and convergence aspects of realization and modernity of aesthetic consciousness, self-realization and modernity through artistic achievement, discovery of original stories. In addition, cultures tend to be enjoyed differently depending on the subject in charge of culture. The core cultural codes of the time were hidden in Gyobang culture, and by flexibly reading the trends of the times, they transformed, imitated, changed, and developed within them. This provides a clue to further materialize the diversity of Gyobang culture. Gyobang culture must now be reborn as familiar content that the times can sympathize with and communicate with.

Role of Culture in Architecture Style: Efficiency of Courtyard as a Cultural Element in Yoruba Architecture

Role of Culture in Architecture Style: Efficiency of Courtyard as a Cultural Element in Yoruba Architecture

Enhancing Arabic Language Learning in Class VIII MTsN 5 Jombang: An Evaluation Using the CIPP Model

This qualitative study used CIPP model to assess Arabic language learning for Class VIII at MTsN 5 Jombang. Data collection was carried out by interviews, observation and documentation. The research respondents consisted of 3 Arabic teachers and 29 students of Class VIII-F, including 15 boys and 14 girls. Analysis of the findings including contextual, input, process and product dimensions. The results show that Arabic learning is enhanced by a supportive environment, good infrastructure, and cultural elements with rich Islamic cultural heritage. The program is supported by a balanced curriculum and well-equipped facilities. However, the curriculum must be updated following the latest national curriculum, Emancipated Curriculum, and teachers must be trained to remain relevant. Constant supervision is required to improve the quality of teaching and student engagement. The results of the evaluation showed that 80% of students met the minimum competency standards. However, more interactive teaching for speaking skills need improvement.

Cross-Cultural Analysis of Local Wisdom in Primary School Social Science Latest Curricula: Taiwan vs. Indonesia

This cross-cultural analysis addresses a growing need to understand the integration of local wisdom in primary school social science curricula, particularly in the contexts of Taiwan and Indonesia. The research problem centers on the examination of curricular content, pedagogical strategies, and the depth of local wisdom integration within these nations' educational frameworks. Employing a content analysis approach, the study categorizes and compares themes, values, and cultural elements in the curricula, shedding light on similarities and disparities. The research methodology involves extensive document analysis and a comprehensive review of existing studies, covering empirical, qualitative, and quantitative research. The results aim to offer a nuanced comparative synthesis of local wisdom integration in Taiwan and Indonesia, highlighting common trends and differences. The study concludes by emphasizing the implications for education, showcasing how a culturally informed curriculum can positively influence students' attitudes toward diversity. This research underscores the importance of fostering cultural understanding within educational systems, providing valuable insights for educators, policymakers, and curriculum developers striving to create inclusive and culturally rich learning environments.