Didactic Work Research Articles

The analysis of introduction of innovative educational means at vocational training of engineers-designers

New educational means, involved in didactic design work their way up from the universal to narrowly targeted educational means. Multipurpose means that are characterized by mobility, representativeness, adequacy and efficiency occupy a special place. At their use, a trainer should consider the didactic principles, among which a special place is given to the principles of compensation, informatization, integration, visibility, virtuality-visualization, interactivity, instrumentality, and adaptability. Practical research of the features of innovative transformations during the comparative analysis of the two study groups was carried out in the paper. The paper placed the emphasis on the study of the effect of information technologies on training future engineers-designers. During the pedagogical experiment, practical side of using innovative educational means in the study of special subjects was found, assessment of differences between control and experimental groups of students with further statistical analysis was performed. In the statistical analysis of the results of pedagogical research, an increase in the student's activity, interest in performing practical tasks in the course of the modern organization of educational process, especially the development of the creative solution of practical problems, above all, when developing the design product was revealed. Information educational means are characterized by flexibility and focus on the advanced format of the educational process organization, the formation of future specialists with modern information competence. Information concept of educational environment becomes one of the strategic ways of developing a modern social system and ensures efficient achievement of goals.

Quand la persécution fait le linguiste….

The present article, written in the context of a monograph on the theme of Censuras, exclusiones y silencios en la historia de la lingüística hispánica, published by the reviews Estudios de Lingüística del Español, focusses on one of the precursors of Spanish teaching in France at the time when it emerged as a discipline in its own right, namely the beginning of the XVII century. The reference is to Juan de Luna, a Spanish protestant, who had to leave Spain around 1612 to take refuge in France before the political climate became unfavourable on the other side of the Pyrenees, obliging him to flee to England. The subject is approached from a particular standpoint; one which posits that it was precisely because he was persecuted that Juan de Luna discovered his vocation to serve as a Spanish teacher and published several didactic works. First of all, he wrote a Spanish grammar for foreigners in three different versions, all three entitled Arte Breve y Compendiosa […], published in 1616 in Paris for the first two and in 1623 in London for the third. He then authored several didactic dialogues, thirteen in all, and finally an edition of Lazarillo de Tormes (1620), none of which are the direct object of this study. Starting with Juan de Luna's exile and its causes, the study draws on biographical data established from the end of the XIX century and built up throughout the last century. The focus then shifts to the author's bibliography and the publication of didactic and metalinguistic works in the course of his travels. Finally, there is an analysis of those elements which can be considered original and innovative in the linguistic theory of the self-taught grammarian.

Narrative Thickness

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that the experience of a literary narrative qua literary narrative is an experience of narrative thickness, that is, an experience in which narrative form and narrative content are inseparable. I explain my thesis of poetic thickness in § 1, showing why it does not admit of extension from poetry to literary narratives. §§ 2–3 synthesize the work of Derek Attridge and Peter Lamarque, advancing narrative thickness as a necessary condition of literary narratives. I propose a work of didactic literature – J. M. Coetzee’s ‘The Lives of Animals’ – as a paradigmatic counterexample to narrative thickness in § 4. I show, in § 5, that narrative thickness holds for this work in particular and didactic works which are literary in general, concluding that narrative thickness is indeed a necessary condition of literary narratives.

A Night-shift Pharmacy Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experience

Type: Commentary

Holy humour: Vernacular saints’ lives in England, 900 – 1300

A modern audience, seeking literary entertainment in the form of adventure, gruesome violence and humorous word-play, would be unlikely to turn to saints’ lives – particularly those written a thousand years ago. Medieval religious texts, and the people who wrote and copied them, are not usually associated with levity: rather, they are generally perceived as pious, holy, and serious – as are the homiletic and didactic works which they wrote. Is it so improbable, however, that holy texts conveying a serious meaning are entirely different creatures to texts which entertain (such as the Exeter Book Riddles)? The two genres are not necessarily mutually exclusive. While society today may find it strange, or even bizarre, to equate religious texts with humour, this coupling of seemingly incongruous qualities was not unusual for medieval societies, where the line between sacred and profane was often blurred. This can be seen in medieval texts themselves, ...

“Care Must be Taken”

In Nara and Heian-period Japan (710–1185), the aged body was commonly described in ways that suggest it was seen as a source of disgust, or even a potential producer of pollution (kegare 穢), a form of defilement that carried important religious connotations, often requiring the attention of ritual specialists to remedy. Court histories, literary and religious texts—especially Buddhist didactic works—portrayed old age as a type of embodiment characterized by stagnation and decay, which violated Chinese naturalist ideas that equated health with the flow of vital pneumas, or as a liminal state in which death was possible at any moment. These texts also devoted particular attention to the forms of effluvia the aged body was seen to produce, which gave rise to the kinds of “matter out of place” that were sources of deep anxiety in pre-modern Japan. In this paper, I analyze the ways in which concepts of pollution and filth colored representations of the aged body in the eighth through eleventh centuries and show how these three models served to reinforce an image of the aged body as a repellent ‘other.’

Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690–1755 by Anthony Pollock

Reviewed by: Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690–1755 by Anthony Pollock Shawn Lisa Maurer Anthony Pollock. Gender and the Fictions of the Public Sphere, 1690–1755. New York: Routledge, 2009/2012. Pp. 232. $142.50. Recently reissued in paperback, Mr. Pollock’s compelling study has become newly available to readers interested in the conversation about the shaping, dissemination, and continuing influence of the discursive public sphere in eighteenth-century England. Yet rather than address the necessary exclusions and limitations of such a model, Mr. Pollock turns his energies to “de-center[ing] the familiar Whig paradigm” by bringing into the discussion as “influential theorists of public discourse” Astell, Manley, and Haywood—whom he reads alongside Addison and Steele. A synthetic reframing, Mr. Pollock’s close readings bring those occluded texts “from margin to center.” He provides insight into how Addison and Steele’s vision of an ostensibly inclusive and politically neutral publicness dominated eighteenth-century discourse. Although his analysis is well-grounded in public sphere debates, Mr. Pollock’s use of primary sources enables him to “recover a sense of the period’s ideological complexity by attending to perspectives that have often been left out of historical work.” Relegating critical discussion largely to footnotes, his nuanced readings of lesser-known female-authored texts contextualize “materials against which figures like Addison and Richardson constructed their influential essayistic and novelistic paradigms.” Part I on “representations of general readership in post-Restoration print culture” analyzes “Models and Countermodels of English Public Discourse, 1690–1714,” attending to “neglected” texts, such as the Female Tatler, which connect with the dominant “spectatorial” vision of Addison and Steele. The more innovative analyses of the book’s second half consist of two chapters that address “the cultural politics of female engagement in conventional public-sphere activities.” Expanding the argument to both genre and period, Part II addresses the novelistic reworking of spectatorial ideology in Pamela and Haywood’s mid-century periodical publications. Chapter I, looking backward, attends to three lesser-known writers whose “appeal Addison and Steele wanted both to borrow and to redirect”: Dunton, Astell, and “Ned” Ward. If The Athenian Mercury provided Steele with models for readerly engagement and editorial hierarchy, Astell’s essays, with their trenchant critique of patriarchy, represent the threat that must be contained by Addison’s Whig vision: a method for female self- and social reform through public engagement. Yet the bulk of the chapter ingeniously reads Ward’s steamy London Spy to uncover critical links to Addison’s Spectator, which include “Ward’s deployment of the anonymous observer as a new kind of public intellectual, his idea of the essay periodical as a vehicle for wide-ranging cultural critique, [End Page 132] and his association of the critical observer with specific urban spaces and forms of sociability.” The short chapter “Neutering Addison and Steele” comes as an anticlimax. Mr. Pollock claims that “Addison’s and Steele’s efforts to imagine a neutral spectator turn into allegories of neutrality’s impossibility.” In an excellent chapter on the controversial Female Tatler, he restores the gravitas and complexity of an overlooked text; the chapter’s cogent analysis asks us to rethink our understanding of “gender, power, and the public sphere.” Chapter 4 returns to Astell’s essays, arguing for her crucial emphasis on “the need for women to move from a specular to a discursive conception of themselves and their social agency.” Mr. Pollock provocatively connects the largely ignored Pamela Part 2 to early essay periodicals. He persuasively interprets Pamela as a “female working-class version of Addison’s own Mr. Spectator,” and thus a “potentially subversive feminist critic” in the Astellian mode. A strong final chapter analyzes Haywood’s The Female Spectator (1744–1746) and the little-known but fascinating Invisible Spy (1755). Through sustained comparison to the earlier Spectator, the chapter analyzes the complex narrative strategies at play in Haywood’s ostensibly didactic work: “By staging the Female Spectator’s narrative vacillation between Addisonian paternalism and Astellian resistance, Haywood allegorizes the situation of these female readers in early liberal print culture.” The chapter’s final section shows how Haywood works to “subvert the Addisonian spectatorial paradigm...

Edukacja filozoficzna w szkołach – elementy inspiracji do twórczej pracy dydaktycznej

In the article there were presented inspirations for didactic work related to the philosophical education at school. In order to show the issue of philosophical education, there was presented short description of philosophy didactics as a science and its basic functions. Then there were considerated main components of philosophical education out of the core curriculum analysis. Next the author alnalyses education goals and curriculum content which we can find in ministry documents. There were also decipted the main teaching principles, which play fundamental part in education. This principles are also pointers for teachers, who schould remember them when teaching a class. Skilfull class organisation is a key to effective pupil development and due to that the atricle raises issues related to teaching methods.

Research Game: an innovative educational tool for teachers and students

This contribution describes ‘Research Game’, a game produced in a Lifelong Learning Programme-Comenius Project ( The European Scientific Research Game ) which aims at motivating secondary school students through the experience of the excitement of scientific research. The project proposes practical and didactic works which combine theoretical activities with ICT in order to introduce students to the scientific research. Students collaborated internationally across Europe, to build hypotheses, carry out research, test the validity of their hypothesis and finalize a theory based on their findings. On the project platform ( www.researchgame.eu/platform ) teachers and students registered, created a team, interacted on a forum space, played and learned science in a new innovative way. Here, the students shared their research findings with other groups of all Europe; finally competed online playing a serious game and showing to be able to apply the scientific method.

In Search of Machaut’s Poietics

Guillaume de Machaut’s Le Remede de Fortune has often been described as a didactic work addressed to would-be poets. This essay argues that the Remede also should be read as an implicit work of rhetorical and musical instruction. To this end, the Remede is placed in dialogue with Machaut’s more explicit account of the creative process in the Prologue, with other romans à chansons, such as Nicole de Margival’s Dit de la panthère d'amours, and with medieval theories of rhetoric and music, eventually arriving at a rhetorical reading of the Remede's large-scale structure, a didactic reading of the work's musical interpolations, and a fresh insight into Machaut's understanding of his own creative process.

About the Copies of Mahmud Zamakhshary’s Book “Atwaqu-Z-Zahab Fi-L-Mavoiz Va-L-Khutab”

The period of East Renaissance is important with the popular scientists. One of the scientists, who lived and created in that period, is Mahmud Zamakhshari. His valuable works served to the development of several sciences and nowadays they serve yet. Particularly, Mahmud Zamakhshari's important didactic works are valuable. One of the works of him is Atwaqu%z% zahab fi%l%mavoiz va%l%khutab (Golden sheaves in preaching and prayers). This work was created in Mecca and it consists of hundred articles. There are valuable opinions and thoughts about the meaning of intelligent person and education of generation in every article of the work. By following article the author wrote about the bibliographic analyses of four copies of the lithography, which are kept in the Manuscript found of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Uzbekistan

Violinism in the Territory of Present-Day Slovenia in Tartini's Time

In view of the fact that Giuseppe Tartini was born on the territory of present-day Slovenia, the article focuses on violinistic activity in the context of the secular and sacred circles existing in Tartini’s time in the Slovenian Lands. The violin compositions and didactic works that can be linked with the Slovenian ethnic territory are discussed as well.

Maria Borowiecka – niedokończony biogram

The paper presents a brief biography of Maria Borowiecka (born in 1875), the social and educational activist of the inter-war period, particularly devoted to the education of adults. It refers to her social origins; mentions her academic titles in Mathematics, Physics and Educational Sciences; includes the names of her eminent teachers. Maria Borowiecka is depicted as a long-term teacher, who was engaged also in courses and schools for adults; an author of textbooks and other didactic materials; a coordinator of didactic work of teachers in adult education, who enjoyed a lot of successes in constructing theories in that field. A substantial part of the study is devoted to her most influential work under the following title: Kształcenie dorosłych. Próba dydaktyki. At the end there is an appeal for the completion of Borowiecka’s biography, still full of many gaps, which unequivocally proves that despite the industrious search by the author of this paper for facts relating to the last years of Borowiecka’s life and the date of her death, the endeavours to fill these gaps have been ineffective so far.

Allina Ndebele's The Tree of Life: Tapestry, text andlessons from the loom

By reconstructing the context and symbolic language of artist-weaver Allina Ndebele's little-known allegorical tapestry, The Tree of Life (1986–87), this article investigates the didactic strategies in her tapestries and the texts she writes to accompany them. Based largely on a series of recent interviews with Ndebele about this work, the essay considers the roles that animals, humans and spiritual forces play in an invented tapestry story that is a departure from her narratives based on prototypes inherited through storytelling. The Tree of Life reveals Ndebele's innovation and mastery of weaving, also articulating attitudes to local customs and beliefs at Ekuhlengeni Mission in the Zulu heartland in the early 1980s. Transgressing the strictures of religious authority, this large work and the text she coupled to it challenge the limited possibilities once available to female predecessors who were the custodians of stories dense with codes of behaviour, but who exerted little social control outside ‘fireside’ teachings. Ndebele's descriptive texts and suggestive woven imagery co-exist in a complex relationship, creating tension and meaning that have implications for her didactic work and its audiences.

Deli Birâder Gazâlî ve Miftâhu'l-Hidâye İsimli Eseri

Klasik Turk Edebiyati‟nda onemli bir yekun tutan ogretici eserler, cogunlukla manzum olarak kaleme alinmistir. Bunda en buyuk etken, nazmin nesre gore daha kolay ezberlenebilmesi, daha akilda kalici olmasi ve boylece bilginin cok daha genis kitlelere ulasabilmesidir. Bu yuzden toplum icin onemli olan -sozlukten, fikha kadar- pek cok eser, manzum olarak telif edilmis veyahut daha sonra manzum hale getirilmistir. Bu makalemizle 16. yuzyilda yasamis, edebiyatimizda hayat hikâyesi ve eserleri ile ilginc bir une sahip olan Deli Birâder Gazâli‟nin hayatina dair bilgiler verdikten sonra, buyuk Hanefi fakihlerinden Merginâni‟nin Hidâye Serhu Bidâyetu’l-Mubtedi isimli eserinden bazi bolumleri nazmen tercume ettigi Miftâhu’l-Hidâye isimli eserini tanitacagiz. Metnin gunumuz alfabesine aktarimini da bu calismamizda sunacagiz.

À propos de l’ouvrage récent de F. Stanley Jones, Pseudoclementina Elchasaiticaque. Recherches complémentaires sur la genèse du Roman pseudo-clémentin

This contribution comes in the wake of the author’s critical commentary of F. Stanley Jones’s excellent work, Pseudoclementia. It completes the latter study by proposing the author’s own view concerning the genesis of the Pseudoclementines as presented in the book Etudes sur la genese du Roman pseudoclementin. The Romance consists of a combination of three sources: a narrative tradition based on the confrontation between Peter and Simon the Magician, a second narrative source probably based on a Judeo-Hellenistic conversion tale featuring the young Clement, a character directly inspired by Flavius Clemens, executed in the reign of Domitian for having “Jewish ways”; and a didactic work influenced by the Ebionites, which one can safely entitle the Kerygma of Peter as indicated by the Clementine editor himself.

„Desine gentilibus iam inservire poetis…” (versus XI 9). Chrześcijańscy epicy w bibliotece Izydora z Sewilli

Isidore of Seville (560-636) is rightly considered to be one of the most im­portant teachers of the medieval Europe. He wrote numerous didactic works on catholic doctrine, biblical exegesis, history, grammar, natural sciences etc. Isidore was neither a scientist nor an independent thinker, but indeed he was a genius of compilation. He spent his youth in the famous library of the bishops of Seville, where he stored knowledge by studying Holy Scriptures and works of classic and Christian authors. This library was destroyed, but we could strive to recreate its catalogue reading the books written by Isidore. In his Versus in bibliotheca Isidore tells us about authors he knew. We find among them Christian poets – Prudentius, Iuvencus, Sedulius, Avitus Viennensis. In Etymologiae Isidore presents to the reader Dracontius, and in De viris illustribus he admires talents of the centonist Proba. Isidore’s knowledge of Christian epics and the high regard he had for them tell us a lot not only about literary tastes of the well-educated bishop, but about the culture of reading of inhabitants of Visigothic Spain in the seventh century as well.

In Memoriam: Professor Marian URBAŃCZYK

Abstract Research in termoacoustics began with the observation of the heat transfer between gas and solids. Using this interaction the intense sound wave could be applied to create engines and heat pumps. The most important part of thermoacoustic devices is a regenerator, where press of conversion of sound energy into thermal or vice versa takes place. In a heat pump the acoustic wave produces the temperature difference at the two ends of the regenerator. The aim of the paper is to find the influence of the material used for the construction of a regenerator on the properties of a thermoacoustic heat pump. Modern technologies allow us to create new materials with physical properties necessary to increase the temperature gradient on the heat exchangers. The aim of this paper is to create a regenerator which strongly improves the efficiency of the heat pump.Polish acoustical community mourns the loss of Professor Marian Urbańczyk who passed away on July 10, 2013. Professor Marian Urbańczyk was born on February 2nd, 1948, in Katowice (Poland). There he attended the Silesian Technical College (Śląskie Techniczne Zakłady Naukowe), where he was a student of the electrical engineering and electronics class and in 1967 completed his secondary education with school-leaving examination and a honorary mention. In 1973, he graduated successfully (again with distinction) from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the Silesian University of Technology (Politechnika Śląska) in Gliwice. The same year he has joined the SUT’s Institute of Physics as a university teacher at the newly created Faculty of Mathematics and Physics. The late Professor Urbańczyk remained connected with the Institute until 2009, from 2007 to 2009 performing the function of its Deputy Director for Students’ Affairs. The scope of the Professor’s scientific interest comprised electronics of solid state, metrology, and technical physics, with special attention paid by him to acoustics, including acoustoelectronic systems and their applications in technology and metrology. In 1981, Marian Urbańczyk delivered his doctor’s dissertation concerning technical acoustics at the Institute of Fundamental Problems of Technology Polish Academy of Sciences (IPPT PAN) in Warsaw. In the year 1999, he was granted the post-doctoral degree (habilitation) by the Council of the Faculty of Electronics at the Wrocław University of Technology. In 2012, Marian Urbańczyk was made full professor by the President of Poland. The Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice remained the scene of Professor Urbańczyk’s scientific activity to the very end of his life. Since September 1, 2009, Professor had been working at the Department of Optoelectronics at the SUT’s Faculty of Electrical Engineering, acting as its Deputy Director. Professor Marian Urbańczyk was a promoter of several doctor’s dissertations and numerous master theses. In the framework of his didactic work, he has organized many students’ laboratories and workshops. He was also the author of a wide variety of teaching curriculums (syllabuses). The late Professor Urbańczyk was highly valued both by his students and coworkers. Professor Marian Urbańczyk was an unquestionable authority in the field of technical acoustics, metrology, and electronics, and an internationally acknowledged author (and co-author) of more than 200 scientific publications, nearly 50 of them having been included in the ISI list. His papers were published in highly-ranked journals and frequently cited by other authors. He was also the co-author of numerous patents and patent applications. The Professor was a member of Scientific Committees of many conferences, both domestic and international. Professor Marian Urbańczyk was a member of many international and Polish scientific societies, including the European Acoustical Association (EAA), the International Optical Engineering Society (SPIE), the Polish Acoustical Society (PTA), the Photonic Society of Poland, the Polish Physical Association (PTF), and the Polish Association of Sensor Technology (PTTS). Since 1975, Professor Urbańczyk was a member of the Polish Acoustical Society (PTA), elected later the Member of the Main Board of this organization and the Chairman (Local President) of the Board of Upper Silesia Branch of the PTA. The Professor acted also as a co-organizer of annual international conferences, including the Winter School on Wave and Quantum Acoustics and the Workshop on Acoustoelectronics. For his scientific achievements, Professor Urbańczyk has been awarded state orders, medals, and scientific rewards. Professor Urbańczyk’s death is an irreparable loss to the Silesian University of Technology, the Polish Acoustical Society, and the whole Polish scientific community. Professor Marian Urbańczyk was an extraordinary person, always very kind-hearted and understanding for others. For those who knew him personally, he was a Friend and a Master. And as the Friend and the Master we will retain him in our fond memory.

El trabajo de campo como estrategia pedagógica integradora

El presente estudio tuvo como finalidad analizar la experiencia del trabajo de campo como estrategia pedagógica integradora desarrollada con los estudiantes de los cursos Metodología de la Educación Integral I y II de la especialidad de Educación Integral en el Instituto Pedagógico de Miranda José Manuel Siso Martínez. La metodología utilizada se corresponde con el paradigma interpretativo con un enfoque cualitativo de carácter descriptivo, bajo la modalidad de campo. Las conclusiones más resaltantes fueron: (a) El trabajo de campo constituye una estrategia pedagógica para la Educación Primaria que permite integrar los contenidos disciplinares y científicos, los ejes transversales y los contenidos sociales – contextuales. (b) El uso de los enfoques geohistórico y globalizador permitió trabajar didácticamente desde lo contextual y local para el entendimiento del fenómeno o problema con una visión social, global y compleja. (c) Se identificaron algunas dimensiones caracterizadoras del trabajo de campo, a saber: social - comunitaria; didáctico – pedagógica; cognitiva - constructiva; ecológica – ambiental; científico – académica; exploratoria – investigativa, recreativa y valorativa.

Introduction

In the Western literary tradition the concept of the Golden Age and its identification with a special location is as old as the earliest poetic compositions, for it features prominently in the 8th c. BCE didactic epic Works and Days by the Greek poet Hesiod. Filtered through the sophisticated and poetically-determined poetry of the Alexandrians (Theocritus, Aratus), the Golden Age, now linked to an idyllic pastoral landscape, becomes the centerpiece, the common point of reference of all ten poems that comprise Vergil’s earliest work, the Eclogues. In Vergil’s pastoral art the Golden Age is identified with Arcadia, a location allegedly evoking the Greek area at the center of the Peloponnese, proverbial for its rusticity and shunning of civilization, and as a result, free of all pretention. The fashioning, significance and transformation of the Arcadia theme in literature, both ancient and later, and the evolution of the Augustan model, is the topic of the present volume, the structure and objectives of which are detailed in this introductory chapter.