Cultural Historical Processes Research Articles

Culture, Development and Adolescence – towards a Theory and History of Adolescence

The present study identifies specifics of adolescence by reconstructing the cultural-historical process of the emergence of this age, which is essentially connected to modernity, by means of two epochal works of art from the years 1719 (Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe) and 1774 (Johann Wolfgang Goethe’s Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) which are reflected upon using terms derived from development theory. This study bases its conclusions on a summary theoretical model of adolescence as the awakening of subjectivity, with critical consideration given of current tendencies in dealing with and shaping adolescence. The potential associated with this stage of life as represented amid the unleashing of modernity seems to be decreasing again in its neoliberal late phase. It seems instead to be replaced by empty stagings and conjuration of creativity.

The multimodality of Chinese folklore images

This scientific article examines the phenomenon of multimodality based on the material of Chinese folklore images. The object of the research is the images of fictional characters of Chinese folklore works, and the subject is the analysis of images of Chinese folklore works in their multimodal expression in modern adaptations. The purpose of the study is to show how modern discursive practices, characterized by a high degree of multimodality, affect the development of the concept of the image of a folklore work in the recipient's mind. The tasks that were solved within the framework of this study: 1) description of the phenomenon of multimodality in the context of modern multimedia technologies; 2) analysis of image concepts in mobile game, cartoons and TV show; 3) assessment of the influence of multimodality on the peculiarities of the development of image concepts and their perception in the recipient's mind. The methods used are the continuous sampling method for collecting the analyzed material, as well as methods of semantic, contextual and conceptual analysis. The scientific novelty of the work is due to the fact that for the first time are studied the various images of Chinese folklore works in their modern interpretation. As a result of a comprehensive analysis, the following conclusions were drawn: multimodality affects the degree of perception of an image in the recipient's mind in different ways, on the one hand, it leads to a simplification of the understanding of meanings, on the other hand, to a complication of systems for creating these meanings. One of the manifestations of this complication is the existence of a high degree of intertextuality, which can undermine perception of fictional characters, lead to the false assumption of some characters for others. The desire to get closer to the preferences of the modern viewer leads both to a slight difference in the basic features of the concepts, and to their complete opposite, which also affects the process of perception of the image. Nevertheless, despite the significant degree of adaptation of images that cause different user assessments, the social and cultural-historical processes of a dynamically changing world require compliance with the conditions of functioning of modern discursive practices.

Valda Rūmnieka un Andreja Miglas romāni latviešu biogrāfiskās literatūras kontekstā

The article evaluates the biographical novels of the creative tandem of Valdis Rūmnieks (b. 1951) and Andrejs Migla (1940–2021) about the poet Aleksandrs Čaks (“Čaks”, 2010) and the sculptor Kārlis Zāle (“Trīs zvaigznes” ‘Three Stars’, 2013). Both novels are viewed in the context of the history of Latvian biographical novels and contemporary trends in biographical literature. The article aims to reveal the peculiarities of the biographical novels created in cooperation by the two authors and clarify the connections between traditional and new approaches. An attempt was made to classify biographical texts of different natures (documental, scientific and popular scientific biographies, and fictional biographical texts in diverse variations). The biographical novels of Rūmnieks and Migla are evaluated as works based on objective facts, where the creative imagination of authors also plays an important role, and episodes of hypothetical possibilities also have their place. The scenes of private and public life are interwoven in the narrative of both novels, marking the coordinates of the events of various historical periods and broadly expanding the contexts of cultural-historical processes. In the novel “Čaks”, the authors have experimented with the composition of the text, creating a particular form of acrostic novel. In the structure of their narrative, the authors have integrated the characteristic style elements of the poet Čaks, the characteristic texture and the artistic methods of his expression. The novels of Rūmnieks and Migla can be recognised as culturally significant and artistically interesting examples of Latvian biographical novels of the 21st century. The research used a combined methodology, cultural historical and biographical methods, and elements of literary mapping, marking the coordinates of the artistic expanse of the novels’ characters.

The dialectic between knowledge, knowing, and concept in the theory of objectification

The theory of objectification (TO) is a theory of learning that seeks to foster conceptually rich, and critical, inclusive, and democratic pedagogical practices. The conception of these practices is based on a new understanding of learning as a cultural-historical process. In turn, the theoretical formulation of learning is anchored in a conception of knowledge that departs from the accounts of rationalists and (new and old) empiricists. The purpose of this article is to offer an overview of knowledge and learning as conceived in the TO. This overview is, of necessity, philosophical, as it addresses a problem that has often been overlooked in educational research: the ontological problem of the nature of knowledge – such as mathematical and scientific knowledge. The philosophical overview presented here is based on a specific philosophy that inspires the theory of objectification: dialectical materialism. Drawing on this philosophy, I theorize learning as a social, embodied, affective, semiotic, and material process where individuals encounter knowledge. In this encounter knowledge manifests itself in sensible practical and material activity through what it is called here knowing and concept. As argued in this article, knowledge, knowing, and concept are three modes of existence of a same entity that is invoked in the movement of learning.

Comment on “Aesthetic and philosophical searches of Stanislav Shumytskyi’s work in the cultural-historical process of the 60s of the 20th century”

Comment on “Aesthetic and philosophical searches of Stanislav Shumytskyi’s work in the cultural-historical process of the 60s of the 20th century”

Space-consciousness layered model as a regeneration approach for rural industrial heritage integrating local planning: a case study on Shecun village in Nanjing, china

ABSTRACT Rural industrial heritage reflects the ongoing changes in natural environmental, socio-economic, and cultural historical processes in the countryside. In the context of urbanization, the study, conservation, and reuse of rural industrial heritage have become necessary to consolidate the local community identity and promote rural development. This study aims at establishing an intervention tool with general applicability to regenerate rural industrial heritage while integrating local sustainable development. Through a diagrammatic analysis of the natural and artificial environment, this paper combines three aspects via a layered approach: landscape analysis, urban morphology, and spatial cognition. A layered model of rural industrial heritage regeneration is established, with space and consciousness as its core. The empirical study, using the example of the Shecun lime kiln, demonstrates that the spatial-consciousness layered model (SCLM) clearly explains the core roles of transforming material elements as spatial power and the evolution of cognitive elements as consciousness power in the regeneration of rural industrial heritage. It is a systemic model with adaptable and sustainable analysis. SCLM not only provides indicative strategies but serves as a management tool for the regeneration practices of rural industrial heritage.

Орудия изучения поведения и деятельности: изобретения психологов как составляющая культурно-исторического процесса

<p>Specially designed cultural tools of psychologists’ and ethologists’ research activity are considered. The tools are objects stimulating a living being (an animal or a human) to unfold its behavior (activity) and, due to it, providing opportunity to study the behavior (activity). They serve as a base for psychological science and are included in systems of relationships between many people. A history of inventions of these objects (from behaviorists’ puzzle boxes, gestalt psychologists’ instruments and experimental objects designed in A.N. Leontiev’s activity approach to the newest objects) is a part of intellectual history of humankind and unfolding of its creative potential towards self-development and self-cognition. Some part of the objects become, in a transformed form, objects of mass culture (e.g. toys). These inventions by psychologists and ethologists are a component of cultural-historical process and modern humankind’s activity structures.</p>

Post-Soviet Eurasia in Global Geoeconomic Regionalization: First Outlines

The article examines the impact of identity factors on poli-tical, socio-economic, and cultural-historical processes in the Eurasian space. The author provides a classification and evaluation of the largest transforming geopolitical nodes of the Eurasian subsystem. The conclusion is drawn about the inevitability of forming a new economic geography of Eurasia, for which three alternative models of reconfiguration are proposed. The author’s vision of Russia’s role, place, and key tasks in the Eurasian geo-economic model is presented. The main factors for preserving Eurasia as a potential geo-economic macro-region are identified.

Социально-эпистемологический горизонт развития понятия цивилизации

The article is subjected to social-epistemological research of the concept “civilization”. We try to reconstruct logic of its development taking in mind an ambivalent relation between growth of a methodological mind of science and change of a culturalhistorical context into which appropriate social ideas and cultural universals lives as an essential part of culture. The research shows that genesis of the concept “civilization” follows evolution of ideas which not simply reflect some theoretical-methodological and social-cultural conversion but also generate new forms and directions of social life. The study allows combining epistemological and sociological arguments while answering the question, why civilizational analysis is important for search of adequate interpretation of cultural-historical process. In addition, it lets to discuss possibilities and limits ofdifferent methodological ways of civilizational analysis in view of logic of this concept development. The last gives a good chance to succeed in finding a theoreticalmethodological strategy of civilizational analysis appropriate, firstly, to the mainstream of methodological culture of thinking and, secondly, to those realities which are conceptualized by means of this concept.

Marginality in inquiry-based science learning contexts: the role of exclusion cascades

ABSTRACT Vygotskyan-inspired theories of learning have been applied in science education research, yet to more explicit attention to links between local social interactions and cultural-historical processes is needed advance critical theories of science learning. This microgenetic case study examined identity and motivation processes in a 7th grade inquiry science context with the goal of better historicizing these processes by describing the phenomenon of exclusion cascades in relation to two backgrounded cultural-historical processes, alienation and the social division of labor. Exclusion cascades highlighted the mutual constitution of competence and belonging. Implications are discussed with respect to challenging adaptationist ethos in science education.

Impact of Paleoclimatic Changes on the Cultural and Historical Processes at the Turn of the Late Bronze—Early Iron Ages in the Northern Black Sea Region

The Late Bronze Age crisis is one of the most significant events in human history an had occurred in about 1200 BCE. The aridization was one the reasons of a decline of agriculture, migrant expansion and the transition to nomadic style of life. In Eastern Mediterranean the collapse of the advanced civilizations such as the Mycenaean, Hittite, Canaanite, Akkadian occurred in this time. The reconstruction of cultural-historical processes at the turn of the Bronze-Early Iron Ages and environment during this “critical” period of 13th–9th centuries BCE in the Northern Black Sea region is important for understanding this event. Interdisciplinary investigations of the paleoclimatic reconstructions and the cultural traditions have been carried out at the key archaeological sites located in the North-Western Pontic region (Saharna Mică, Saharna Mare, Glinjeni II-La Șanț, Dikiy Sad sites and Cazaclia necropolis). For reconstruction of paleoclimatic conditions and anthropogenic activity, the methods of geochemical indication of paleoclimatic conditions and radiocarbon dating were applied. The climatic changes in the Dniester basin towards aridization around 11th–9th century’s calBC were a crisis of the Belozerkа culture in the Pontic steppe and the trigger for the spreading of the Cozia-Saharna cultural communities into the forest-steppe zone and the formation of fortified settlements the Saharna Miča, the Saharna Mare and the Glinjeni II-La Șanț.

“French element” in the Russian art culture of the mid XVIII century

The subject of this research is the reflection of Russian realities of the mid XVIII century in cultural sphere. The article touches upon the problem of cross-cultural communication between Russia and France in the XVIII century: the theme of “French presence” in the Russian art and theater culture of the first half and the middle of the XVIII century. The acquired results elucidate the characteristic features of the relations between French and Russian people during this period. The research was conducted with consideration of the unity of internal and external, subjective and objective factors within the framework of the cultural-historical process. The conclusions were made leaning on the analysis of the entire range of sources use and existing research traditions. The article reveals the contribution of the French representatives of art and culture while their stay in Russia, as well as describes the forms and manifestations of their activity that in prospect affected the image of Russia. The author believes that working at the Russian Court, the French representatives imposed the vision of their country on Russia, transforming the Russian images in the French spirit. The presented materials are valuable for the study of cross-cultural communication between Russia and France in the XVIII century. This article is important and relevant in the conditions of constantly developing cultural dialogue and determination of the new vectors of cooperation between the countries.

Від історії моральнісної культури до прикладної етики: етичні дослідження Т. Г. Аболіної в Київському університеті

The article is focused on the academic legacy of Tetyana G. Abolina (1950–2015), doctor of philosophical sciences, professor of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Ethics as the science paved the way with difficulties at domestic academic environment in the mid of the previous century. It has been transforming from the marxist-leninist propaganda toward moral theory. The ability of a professional ethicist to find one's own path in the field and create personal intellectual niche for academic activity testified the uprise of the worthy of attention theorist. Thus, the 'star' of T. G. Abolina had flared. For 37 years at the University Department of Ethics, Aesthetics and Culture Studies she had come the path from marxist-leninist ethics primarily toward research of history of moral culture in the context of socio-cultural dynamics. Moral culture was comprehended by prof. T. G. Abolina as the system of person's self-affirmation which possessed internal structure and was changing at every level of cultural-historical process in its main and specific characteristics and definite historical forms. Moral culture was understood in integrity of all aspects of practical reason, exposed specifics of historical forms, their internal structure and natural integrity. Last fifteen years of her life, prof. T. G. Abolina came to the theory of applied ethics and ethical expertise in definite fields of social life. She considered applied ethics as the procedure of morally-ethical thinking that is the natural synthesis of theory and practice, immediate usage of theory in practice. The article pays attention to Abolina's understanding of ethical expertise of social projects and practical potentiality of ethical projects in the field of public philosophy as well as ethics application to social practice and her personal 'applied turn' and activities she initiated at that way. The paper deals with the analysis of her personal monograph "Historical Destiny of Morality. Philosophical Analysis of Moral Culture" (1992), her PhD (1982) and doctoral (1999) dissertations. Prof. T. G. Abolina delivered special courses at the faculty of philosophy, which reflected her academic search at each period of time. Main ideas of her courses "Ideas of the New Ethics in the Spiritual Culture of the 20th Century" and "Evil and Fiction" are analyzed in the article.

THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC ASPECTS ON EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT IN UKRAINE

The statement of the problem and its relationship to important scientific and practical tasks.
 The article considers the peculiarities of the process of reforming the Ukrainian economy, the use of organizational and economic management methods and the study of theoretical principles of functioning and development of the education system. Also, it provides the definition of organizational-economic mechanisms, contributing to the stabilization of the economic situation in education and its innovative development in the market environment of the state.
 According to the author, education is a major factor in the development of society and building an economically developed and stable economy. Education of highly educated and qualified people is the main priority of state educational policy based on socio-political, socio-economic and cultural-historical processes. The educational process is continuous throughout a person's life, which is a guarantee of his competitiveness in the labor market. Positive results in the education system directly affect the economic condition of the state. The high level of education allows to develop and implement the latest technologies in all sectors of the state, which ensures the socio-economic development of society.

Law and its interpretation in the context of cultural and historical process

The article attempts to substantiate the approach to law as a socio-cultural phenomenon as decisive for its interpretationтin the historical process. P. Bourdieu’s formula «law is cultural capital» is offered as a starting point. Attention is drawn to law as a socio-cultural phenomenon, legal values as cultural and spiritual values, legal tradition, etc. Attention is drawn to some provisions of Dvorkin’s interpretive theory regarding the conditionality of the content of legal norms by political (strategies pursued by legislators through norms) or moral (principles implemented by judges in resolving conflicts in society) factors. It is concluded that to interpret the law in historical retrospect, when it comes to mastering the legal experience of a society accumulated over the centuries, the most productive, considering and researching law as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Culture, the core of which is values, as a collective programming of consciousness, which distinguishes members of one group or type of people from another (according to G. Hofstede), which includes law, determines the level of implementation and collective life of people in society / state, their social integration and social reproduction in general during a certain historical period. Keywords: law, socio-cultural phenomenon, cultural-historical process, interpretation.

ПРОЦЕС ФОРМУВАННЯ ЦІННІСНИХ ОРІЄНТАЦІЙ ОСОБИСТОСТІ У ПРАКТИЧНІЙ ПІДГОТОВЦІ

The article considers the process of formation of personality value orientations in practical activities during higher education, identifies the stages of this process, analyzes each stage, offers a theoretical analysis of practical activities for the formation of personality value orientations in the educational process. The phenomenon of culture as a second nature, which is created by man and in turn is its product, constantly brings to life many theories that try to understand the diversity of cultures, to determine the patterns of its development. They explain the features of the cultural-historical process, the role played by art and its integrative part – music, which is a necessary component of knowledge and value understanding of the world around us. The mechanisms of value orientation formed in pedagogy contradict the regulatory activity of teachers, who continue to offer means of mastering the world «in the finished form», which hinders the development of the process of ascent of the individual to the values ​​of life and culture. Practical activity on the formation of personality value orientations in music pedagogy can be defined as the formation of a creative personality, which strives for a holistic understanding of the musical space, occurs in several stages, each of which corresponds to the periodization of the process of personality value orientations. The formation of value orientations of the individual in practice is based on the concept of dialogic communication and is based on the formation of value orientations of the individual in the development of modern music, is built through the use of associative, genre-style and intonation-style approaches. The set of these approaches forms an evolutionary-synergetic method, which treats the object of study music culture – as a self-developing system, and the subject– the emerging personality – as a self-developing and self-tuning system. The formation of the mechanism of orientations is at the same time the formation of the mechanism of self-adjustment, which allows empathy, and this opens the way to co-creation.

ДЕФІНІТИВНИЙ АНАЛІЗ ПОНЯТЬ КУЛЬТУРОТВОРЧІСТЬ, КУЛЬТУРОТВОРЧЕ СЕРЕДОВИЩЕ, КУЛЬТУРОТВОРЧА КОМПЕТЕНТНІСТЬ

Human beings, cultivating a culture, creating moral and material values, improve and perfect themselves. Culture itself for human purpose is the most appropriate form of resolving contradictions between spirituality and affability, between spirituality and sociality. Personality cannot exist only in the dimension of one essence – social, vital or spiritual, because only in their combination there is the uniqueness of human existence. The high level of the common culture of society, nation is provided by the proper education and culture level of its members. Any expression of culture is a manifestation of qualitative properties and characteristics, of the degree of human development. The real, living culture is inseparable from a person as a subject of culture, the process of human formation proceeds as a cultural-historical process. Its result is manifested in the form of communication, involvement in present society values, traditions, and the acquisition of the methods and skills that are inherent in this culture. One can say that culture is the world of man, the way of its existence, the process of development of human forces abilities, the measure of the degree of human in man, characteristic of the development of human being.The development of education as a social institution is influenced by many factors and conditions of the functioning of society, among which one of the most important is the relationship with culture. It is culture that focuses on the system of value representations, which form the basis of the person’s landmarks of the subject, regulate its activity, translate the person into a qualitatively different way of being – more meaningful and orderly.At the present stage of the development of pedagogical science, issues of harmonization and clarification of national and international terminology are becoming of exceptional value. Pedagogy has its conceptual apparatus – a system of pedagogical concepts expressing scientific generalizations, reflecting pedagogical experience and knowledge. Taking into account the development of the most widespread pedagogical categories, we will consider in detail only a few, the most important in the field of improving the training of future teachers of professional and artistic disciplines, namely: cultural creativity, culture-making environment, culture-making competence.

On essence of association between physical culture and physical education

Interaction between such concepts as «physical culture» and «physical education» and their role in human social life are considered. Objective – to reveal the relationships between physical culture and physical education. Methods: analysis of special literature. Conclusions. It has been established that the term “physical education” in scientific and social practice is interpreted as a social phenomenon and as a process that reflects the dual nature of human social activity, which simultaneously acts as the subject and object of the culturalhistorical process. It has been shown that physical education represents one of the forms of social manifestation of physical culture.

A PROBLEMÁTICA DO ENSINO DA CULTURA AFRICANA: PRINCIPAIS DEBATES E REFLEXÕES ACERCA DAS RELIGIÕES AFRO-BRASILEIRAS

This study is a reflection on Law 10.639 / 2003, with a brief history of said legislation, through bibliographical references, from a critical-theoretical approach. We also reflect on the role of professionals involved in the teaching-learning process, and on candomble as an element of struggle and resistance in the Afro-Brazilian cultural historical process. In a social context in which one can perceive the re-updating of the colonial structure, we seek theoretical bases that allow us to affirm that racism is the main element that contributes to the exclusion of religions from African matrices and the discrimination of its adherents.

Культурные формы мышления как трансляционно-коммуникативная основа личности

social psychology approach to cultural dynamics used by the authors formed within the framework of the cultural and historical concept is a comparative analysis of cultural-historical process that helps to identify its main characteristic features of a particular cultural community, which are the most sustainable socio-cultural entities (cultural forms) and perform translation-communication function of the culture impact on personality development and social relations. The authors concluded that cultural forms were the main determinants of socio-cultural identification with internal mechanism – cultural forms of thinking