Historical Elements Research Articles

Some specific historical elements on the evolution of “Mathematics Education” as a research discipline

Some specific historical elements on the evolution of “Mathematics Education” as a research discipline

Value Co-Creation Process in Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships: The Case of Hakka Heritage Tourism in Taiwan

The purpose of this study is to explore how multi-stakeholder co-create collective value in a local context. Moreover, we aim to examine what barriers between the participators and what mechanisms could reduce these barriers, and then induce the local value. This paper presents a collaborative project that the university implemented in Jia-dong, a township of Pingtung county in Taiwan. Jia-dong is a traditional Hakka cluster with rich and historical elements. The purpose of collaborative project is to integrate Jia-dong’s developmental factors and help to create local value. This case study demonstrates that different stake-holder motivations and their ability to provide resources, differences are observed in the value creation activities and mechanisms at three stages: mobilization, expansion, and stabilization. This paper contrib-utes in two aspects: first, it highlights the evolution of collaborative rela-tionships among stakeholders during the process of value co-creation, and second, it provides a deep understanding of the role of value co-creation mechanisms is deeply understood while collaborative barriers derive from developing the local tourism.

Editorial Presentation - Perspectives on innovation governance: challenges and dilemmas

Editorial Presentation - Perspectives on innovation governance: challenges and dilemmas

Spaces for Work

The horse-human pairing is thousands of years old and the choice of this animal as a companion for work and life is no coincidence. This animal stands out for its intelligence and sensitivity as well as its strength and agility, despite its large size. This research takes this binomial as the protagonist and proposes the creation of an equestrian centre in which both riding and the way of life with horses would be taught. The San Isidro sugar factory, located on the border between the Vega and the city of Granada, was chosen as the site. An architectural complex, an Asset of Cultural Interest, with an interior surface area of more than 4,000 m2 distributed in different sets of warehouses. The strategy of action and rehabilitation consists of introducing light elements that house the necessary uses and that are not in contact with the existing architecture. In addition, on an aesthetic level, a range of shapes and colours are sought that are differentiated from the original construction and, therefore, there is no room for false historical elements. The concept behind the work is the dynamics of the horse’s movement. The animal’s body geometry is characterised by curves. In addition, its movements, the way it moves its ears, turns, jumps or the layout of a jumping route all have curves as a common element. This is used to design five curved structures, from which all the necessary spaces are generated for the development of the activity. This results in improved animal welfare and cleanliness. In short, Dinámico focuses on animal welfare and creates safe spaces that go beyond what is currently conceived for an equestrian centre.

Research on the Development Strategy of Ethnic Traditional Sports Based on Optimization Theory

Abstract This paper analyzes the ethnic traditional sports culture regarding three characteristics: sport, ethnicity, and tradition. Secondly, it examines the state of development of ethnic traditional sports and provides a direction for their development. Then, it is to select the variables, set them, and construct the optimization model for developing ethnic traditional sports based on optimization theory. Finally, the factors that influence the development of ethnic traditional sports are analyzed through empirical evidence. The results show that 75.8% of the residents in T city area think that the three dimensions of historical elements, cultural elements and communication methods have the most influence on the development of traditional ethnic sports, and 145 residents think that social factors have the least influence on the development of ethnic traditional sports.

A text criticism of Hikayat Si Miskin: A textological study of writing and use of letters

This research aim to describe a textological study of the issue of how the Hikayat Si Miskin manuscript text from the Harvad University - Houghton Library/ ms_Indo_18-METS collection was translated into handwritten Arabic-Malay script, the appearance of which is much different from the standard form of the letters of this script. This is the most important part in the textological study of the subfield of philology before the editing of texts from the old Malay Arabic-Malay script into Latin script is presented. His identity as the author is not included at the front of his work, but at the end of the manuscript called the colophon. The presentation of a text that has been cleaned of all writing errors paves the way for further study of the content of the text from various aspects related to the existence of the form and content of the text being studied, such as a study of the structural content of the text, a study of linguistic aspects, a study of social values. and culture, it is even possible to examine historical elements, because manuscripts are historical documents that describe the life systems and patterns of old society. The method used to discuss text issues and content that can be studied in various related scientific disciplines is the standard text criticism method, namely a philological method that attempts to re-present classical texts by criticizing and correcting corrupt texts. In accordance with the focus of the discussion which focuses on writing and visual text writing, the research results found writing irregularities and errors in writing lacunae, substitutions, additions, transpositions, dittography, and haplography. The most common writing errors are substitution errors.

GAN and art: Facilitation of artistic production and expression based on artificial intelligence

The advancement of Artificial Intelligence has resulted in the investigation of its applications in a variety of sectors. The creation and depiction of artistic images as a tool for demonstrating human creativity and intellect has been a significant focus of Artificial Intelligence (AI) content generation. This study discusses picture generation approaches and highlights image creation principles as well as numerous varieties of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). GAN models for image creation can inspire designers and artists, generate images that assist people grasp historical elements by imitating old artistic styles and cultural forms, and generate images of humans. GAN models for image generation can help designers and artists inspire their creativity, produce images that help people understand historical features by mimicking classic artistic styles and cultural forms, and produce images of people that provide intuitive access to information for communication and learning purposes. The application of GAN models in the field of art production is becoming increasingly sophisticated, and many novel applications are yet to be described and popularised. The article summarises the applications of artworks generated by GAN models, for one it can be applied as a thinking aid in art design and the creation of stylised artworks, while GAN-generated images can also help people GAN-generated images can also help people understand history, culture and other related knowledge, making profound art forms more common and popular. The article also analyses the potential hazards of GAN model-generated art images that are related to the passion and creative rights of the creators.

Sustainable Energy Transition in Russia and Ghana Within a Multi-Level Perspective

This paper is a case study based on a critical review of existing literature and primary data through interviews to investigate energy transition framing and manifestation in the Global South. It provides critical insights into sustainable energy transition in Ghana and Russia within a multi-level perspective (MLP). We argue that whereas Ghana’s energy transition concepts and policies are mirrored by landscape, regime, and niche, practical transitioning has been slow due to inadequate resources and incentives, limited historical culpability in global greenhouse gas, and the country being locked-in to existing hydrocarbon socio-technical systems. The MLP approach is useful in describing energy technologies, markets, and consumption practices. But in Russia, social policy at distinct levels is united by centralised energy law and technical systems, as well as institutional rules and differences based on costs in economic regions. This paper contributes to the energy transitioning discourse within the Global South using Russia and Ghana as cases to highlight how transition policies and practices differ from country to country, driven by economic, political, social, cultural, and historical elements with global frameworks serving as guides. Rigid application of landscape, regime, and niche concepts is challenged in describing and analysing the context-specific nuances in sustainable energy transition policy across spaces. There is a fundamental challenge of mechanically fusing a one-fits-all approach to sustainable energy transitioning in developing countries and societies due to differences in historical contributions to climatic issues and inequality of access to resources and technologies. Energy transition processes and practices should be compatible with social justice.

Dimming the radiance to mingle with dust: Ximing temple as a confluence of historical elements

ABSTRACT As a major temple associated with the imperial regime, Ximing Temple played multiple roles that ordinary Buddhist temples did not, but, at the same time, it resembled other temples in being an important node of the Buddhist movement to convert laypeople. Ximing Temple turned out to be more than a place of religious practice; it is a great open platform, an enormous platform on which the scholarly and the monastic, the Buddhist and the non-Buddhist, the bureaucrats and commoners, the sacred and the secular could all take what they wanted. Ximing Temple is the epitome of the once broad-minded and cosmopolitan Tang Empire, and the last vestige of a once cosmopolitan religious tradition. Since the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, the An Lushan Rebellion 安史之亂 (755-763) initially shattered the adolescent dream of Buddhism with its infinite possibilities, and the Huichang Suppression of Buddhism 會昌法難 (841-845) was the inevitable result of the abandonment of cosmopolitanism in the Tang Dynasty, which was slowly moving towards self-enclosure. After that, the commercial characteristics of a world religion slowly faded from Chinese Buddhism.

Minneskulturell avmytisering och remytisering i Snoilskys Svenska bilder

Demythicisation and Remythicisation of the Cultural Memory in Snoilsky’s Svenska bilder: The article analyses the relationship between cultural memory and myth in Carl Snoilsky’s poetic cycle Svenska bilder (Swedish Pictures). According to theoreticians, one of the primary goals of the 19th-century cultural memory is to consolidate the nation-state. Politically conservative Swedish Romanticism achieves this goal by turning Swedish cultural memory into a kind of national mythology, combining mythical and historical elements. In his cycle, Snoilsky, a democrat and a liberal, revises the Romantic construction of Swedish national memory by demythicising it. However, the author’s patriotic intentions often lead to the remythicisation of the democratically calibrated events and figures featuring in the cycle. The article analyses this dialectic, drawing on the theories of myth by Roland Barthes, Northrop Frye, Carl Gustav Jung, Ernst Casssirer, Mircea Eliade, Max Weber, et al., and supporting them with the intertextual apparatus of Gérard Genette. Among the most important demythicising strategies in Svenska bilder are mimetic devaluation, archetypal deheroisation, semiotic denaturalisation, and secularisation. Remythicisation in Snoilsky’s cycle is realised either by taking over selected elements of Romantic cultural memory, or by subjecting liberal cultural memory to mythicising strategies. The most important of these include mimetic valuation, archetypal heroisation, semiotic naturalisation, and sacralisation, i.e. strategies that are in dialectical opposition to the distinguished strategies of demythicisation.

Mind the Doxastic Space: Examining the Social Epistemology of the Ethiopian Wax and Gold Tradition

The wax and gold tradition is mainly known as an Ethiopian literary system that plays with layers of meanings. It has also established itself as a system of knowledge and/or belief production and validation. However, its social ramifications have presented scholars with conundrums that divide their views. For some, it is an Ethiopian traditional society’s crowning achievement of erudition—a poetic form that infiltrated communication, psychology, and social interaction. For others, it is a breeding ground for social vices, i.e., mutual suspicion, deception, duplicity, etc., because its autochthonous nature means it is inept in terms of modernizing and unifying the society. In this essay, I aim to argue that there is one critical historical element that holds the key to the conflicting social ramifications of the wax and gold system and, yet, is neglected by both sides of the debate: the original doxastic space of qine (poetry) and sem ena werq (wax and gold system)—a hermeneutic tool that deciphers the meaning of poems. This literary system was born in the space of worship and liturgy. I will contend, therefore, that a shift of doxastic space from sacred to saeculum (the world) is the reason not only for the behavior of doxastic agents but also for the social outcome of the knowledge they create.

The Use of Medieval History in Constructing National Identities in 19th-Century Portugal

Looking back at the development of Portugal today, the 19th century was undoubtedly an important turning point, with the emergence of professional historical writing in the country, the reconstruction of national identity, and the topic of intellectual commitment of the time. The main point of this study is to analyze the writing of European history in the early 19th century. Antony Smith considers the 19th century the beginning of professional historical writing under the framework of a national character. By the theory of Stephen Berger, the scientificity of history is seen as a key point. Combined with the actual situation of Portugal at that time, this paper seeks to emphasize that Portugal in the European environment was influenced by the general European view of history. Portuguese historians carried out scientific historical writing, choosing a romantic and liberal view of history. The paper focuses on Portuguese historians, represented by Alexandre Heeculano. In his view, the Middle Ages were a time of glory. Furthermore, the paper analyzes his professional historical writing and the literary creation of historical elements. Alexandre Heeculano used the well-ordered and vibrant Middle Ages to resist the depressed social situation in Portugal at that time. He called for the establishment of the Middle Ages as the origin of the nation, and the importance of the national imagination to restore national confidence and rebuild national identity. The paper follows this vein and explores how medieval history was used to construct Portuguese identity.

Interfacial bond strength and failure modes of traditional and modern repair materials for historic fibrous plaster

Many culturally important historic buildings contain fibrous plaster ceilings. The collapse at London’s Apollo Theatre in 2013, which injured 88 people, highlighted the importance of inspecting and restoring ceilings effectively. This study focuses on traditional and modern materials which are applied to the topsides of existing historic fibrous plaster ceiling elements during repair and maintenance. Fibrous plaster ceilings are commonly suspended from primary or secondary structural roof members using fibrous plaster wadding ties or ‘wads’. The application of additional repair material requires the formation of an interface, defining the strength of the repair. Properties of this interface were evaluated through a novel methodology employing pull-off tests’ of approximately 200 specimens consisting of Alpha plaster, Beta plaster, Jesmonite and Aramid gel. Notably, the effect of fibrous reinforcement, and compatibility with historic and degraded material was also investigated. This study has enabled quantification of interfacial properties and evaluated cohesive and adhesive failure modes. Importantly, the extent of redundancy within historic plaster ceiling practice has been demonstrated, with pull-off occurring from 0.5 kN to 2 kN loading, and the ductile behaviour of repair materials evaluated. Results highlight the importance of surface condition, with clean surfaces exhibiting double the tensile loading capacity compared to soiled (dirty) surfaces representative of those encountered on-site. The significance of this study lies in the quantification of repair material performances and consideration of variations in performance, methodology and in-situ environmental factors. Impact stems from the ability of practitioners to make informed decisions relating to adhesion performance when carrying out repairs. A key outcome is more effective preservation of historic elements in heritage buildings, higher levels of safety and serviceability.

음식과 문화적 기억

Taiwan's dietary literature has continued to develop qualitatively and quantitatively in the late 1990s and now has a solid status in Taiwanese literature. Dietary prose, which accounts for a large proportion of dietary literature, began to form its writer base in the 1970s. Representative writers include the first generation Liang Shiqiu(梁實秋, 1903-1987) and Tang Lusun(唐魯孫, 1907-1985), the second generation Lu Yaodong(逯耀東, 1933-2006), and the third generation Jiao Tong(焦桐, 1956-). While the first generation artists expressed their longing for their hometown through food, the second generation artists added historical elements to add social and cultural contexts. And the third generation writers is characterized by using various materials and styles. This paper examined the dietary prose of the second generation, Lu Yaodong, and analyzed the cultural identity of the 1.5th generation of mainlanders(外省人) and his writing as historians in his work. Lu Yaodong witnessed the rapidly changing values and ways of life of the ethnic community in modern society and projected his desire to preserve tradition in his dietary prose. He used historical knowledge and literary sensibility to capture the history and personal memories of dietary culture in his works. Through this, Lu Yaodong tried to strengthen the cultural identity of the Chinese people by recording cultural memories of dietary culture and passing them down to posterity.

Perang Rakyat Palembang: Analisis Sejarah dalam Komik 5 Hari 5 Malam

This study seeks to analyze historical elements in the 5 days and 5 nights war that occurred in Palembang in 1947 which was published in a comic and written by H. Asnawi Mangku Alam and explain how the use of comics as historiography using external and internal criticism theory from Leopold von Rangke According to him, in order to achieve the writing of history as it actually happened, it is necessary to record the truth, in order to see the writing of history objectively and to be able to explain the actual events. This research is focused on answering problems, among others, how historical events are conveyed in the comic 5 Days 5 Nights of the 1947 Palembang People's War, how does this comic present historical elements through writers, characters, setting of place and time, and plot, how to use comic media as historiography. This type of research is qualitative research and uses a descriptive method with a literature study approach. This research technique is heuristic, verification, interpretation, historiography.The results of this study indicate that in the comic 5 Days 5 Nights of the Palembang People's War there is a historical element in every day of the war. This comic was also written by H. Asnawi Mangku Alam who is an actor and witness to the history of war. The development of historical writing in Indonesia cannot be separated from western influences, as well as the media which can make historical writing more interesting. History is written as a unit consisting of various facts that are scattered and put together to become cohesive and coherent

The role of surrounding factors in positioning identities: liminality of Dorian Gray in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray

Masculinity theory, which has been executing its studies as a distinct branch of interest since 1980s, primarily aims to draw attention to the multiplicity of masculinities to undermine the misconception that there is a single, universal, and everlasting concept of masculinity (Sancar, 2009, p. 26), and it also tries to exhibit the fact that masculine identities are always subject to change in relation to surrounding factors such as ideology and historical elements. Similarly, literary masculinity studies aim to foreground the presence of this multiplicity and variety in literary texts, as well as depicting and pointing out the portrayal of non-hegemonic masculine identities who have the potential of constituting alternatives to the hegemonic ones. In accordance with this target, this study aims to investigate Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, by concentrating on the fluid identity of its male protagonist with the purpose of exhibiting the fact that even the hegemonic masculinities are subject to change in different contexts. Embodying an alternative masculine identity which is in great contrast with the expectations of hegemonic gender ideology concerning masculinity ideals on one hand, Dorian becomes a hegemonic masculinity model in his own context on the other, which demonstrates the fact that there is not a single and universal type of masculinity, but rather “masculinities” even in the same time interval, culture, and society, and that identities are context-bounded, continuously taking new shapes in relation to surrounding factors.

QUESTIONING IF THE LITERARY NARRATIVE AND REAL-LIFE STORIES OVERLAP WITH TODAY'S REALITIES: THE EXAMPLE OF "ANNE WITH AN E" TV SERIAL

In this study, there are three key topics are explored and discussed. It is first and foremost vital to examine whether the series in question is appropriate for viewers who are older than eight years old. In the second evaluation, it is examined whether contemporary realities and literary narratives have any overlap. This implies that issues related to history, society, psychology, and modernity are approached from a fresh angle. Last but not least, it has to do with the potential social effects of adjusting historical tales to the present. This entails reassessing the past or historical narratives from the viewpoint of the present. However, the key inquiry is: How closely does a film's core meaning align with the meaning that is revealed after seeing it? What about a movie's relevance alters when it's watched again after some time? This study addresses the film-audience connection in two separate ways under the category of "meaning." The relationship between the meaning that viewers derive from the movie's content while watching it is the main topic of discussion. The second is the text's complementary meaning as revealed by its social, psychological, or historical elements.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/soc/0059/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>

ELEMENTOS SOCIAIS DE PARQUES INFANTIS DO INTERIOR DE SÃO PAULO (1937-1978)

This article presents the results of a research conducted within the scope of a Doctorate in Education with the overall objective of reconstructing historical elements of seven Children's Parks that operated in the municipality of Marília/SP, in the period from 1937 to 1978. These years correspond to the installation of the first Children's Park in the city and the year of changing the denomination from Children's Parks to Municipal Schools of Early Childhood Education, respectively. The specific aim was to comprehend the social elements of the Children's Parks that operated in Marília/SP. The research was conducted through a historical approach, centered on bibliographic and documentary research, involving procedures for locating, identifying, recovering, gathering, systematizing, selecting, analyzing, and interpreting sources on the subject. To achieve this, sources from the permanent archives of the Municipal Schools of Early Childhood Education where the Children's Parks operated were consulted. Additionally, legislations, Marília newspapers, manuscripts, photographs related to the Children's Parks, and texts about Early Childhood Education from that period, published in the Brazilian Journal of Pedagogical Studies, were also used. Among the results, it was possible to understand that in the Children's Parks that operated in Marília/SP, there was a Comprehensive Education approach, where social elements were valued, including the participation of families and other members of the external community. Various celebrations were organized and were predominantly related to institutional anniversaries, Easter, June Festivals, Brazilian Independence Day, Tree Week, Children's Day, and Christmas. During these celebrations, social elements were developed in connection with artistic elements.

Fantasy interpretation model for historiography Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre

Taking into account the different goals of the AH and Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre writing, we can try and develop one definition of both. AH writing reconstructs the national or world history and the changed facts, conclusions draw our attention to specific facts, key moments of well-known stories that are invisible for us, since of everyday life’s obvious reality prevents us from analyzing processes, we turn on the automatic mode instead. While Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre writing is rather monumental work, because it turns to the world history or historiography model making. Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre works use the historyographical method, but they exist in unreal time dealing with well-known constructions of the action world history of civilization. For example, one of the first uchronic stories by George Richard Raymond Martin “The Hedge Knight” (Martin) uses the space of Middle Ages in Europe for fiction story modeling. Also, it is an abstract of the world of the latest “Game of Thrones” – the greatest fiction saga of the new age literature in the 2000s. There is no doubt that “A Song of Ice and Fire” is constructed based on the matrix of such myth as “The Elder Edda” and “The Lord of the Rings” by John R. R. Tolkien. Legendary fantasy writer J. R. R. Tolkien spent much of his life studying, translating, and teaching ancient tales of northern Europe at Oxford and drew on them for his own writing. These epic stories, with their wizards and knights, dragons and trolls, cursed rings and magic swords, are as fascinating today as they were thousands of years ago. Reading them brings us as close as we will ever get to the magical worlds of the Vikings and the origins of their twentieth-century counterpart: Tolkien’s Middle Earth gave G. R. R. Martin, according to his own confession, the idea of the fantasy world of Westeros. The article deals with the specifics of the Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre in comparison to the Alternate history itself. The aim of the study is to emphasize the main features of the Fantasy novel plus AH subgenre and its common and different characteristics. The study uses such a method as comparative, descriptive, analysis and statistics counting. The novelty of the current research is realized by the essence of the first-time study of the AH subgenres on the world literature sources. The sources of the study are novels written by G. R. R. Martin “A Song of Ice and Flame”, “Kaiser and the War” by Simon J. Ortiz and V. Neff “Queens Don’t Have Legs”. Conclusions. As well as “A Song of Ice and Flame” by G. R. R. Martin, V. Neff’s trilogy exhibits a gallery of kings, queens, dukes, wizards, captains, people. Some of them are real, some are prototypes of actual statesmen; some characters come from Greek myths, while some – from the author’s fantasy. Although the objective of the alternative history method in the both works is quite different, it plays a similar role in the plot construction. Alternative history builds the walls of fantasy world from the bricks of actual historical elements, making the novel interesting for readers and involving them as betrayers.

Nature-Based Solutions to Regenerate Mediterranean Cities: A Case Study in Catania, Sicily

This work is part of research conducted within the Di3A Landscape Design and Redevelopment Laboratory at the University of Catania. Its objective is to improve the enjoyment of public spaces through the study of landscape design in highly urbanised and historical areas. The case study used was the historical centre of the city of Catania in Sicily. This study focused on the green aspects of the redevelopment of some open spaces of the Antico Corso district using international and national thematic studies on public spaces as a reference. In particular, the research concentrated on the design of the Garden of Via Biblioteca inside the former Benedictine Monastery of San Nicolò La Rena, a UNESCO world heritage site redeveloped by the famous architect Giancarlo De Carlo. After a careful analysis of the area, we decided to use contemporary project themes with the aim of enhancing the present historical elements and nature-based solutions, which, through the introduction of carefully selected plant species, favour biodiversity in the urban environment. The method adopted was divided into three main phases: (1) spatial analysis; (2) a SWOT analysis method; and (3) the planning and design of the green redevelopment of places to be reconverted into public spaces. This methodology has already been tested on the open spaces of the former Vittorio Emanuele Hospital inside the Antico Corso District, showing how the multidisciplinary approach applied can be replicated in other urban contexts in historical centres. The results of these studies may be useful in the context of urban planning reforms envisaged by Regional Law No. 19/2020 and Regional Law 13/2015 in Sicily and to help the Superintendencies of Landscape and Cultural Heritage to preserve and to enhance historical greenery. The adopted strategies may also be useful in the application of the PUI (Integrated Urban Plan) of the Province of Catania that follows the PNRR (National Plan of Reconstruction and Resilience) parameters to provide local services to the municipalities involved. These pilot projects should be extended to bigger areas. The applicability of the methodology could be tested in other parts of the Municipality of Catania with a particular focus on run-down areas, followed by further testing on territorial sections of the province.