Human Beingness Research Articles

ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF NATURAL MATERIALS IN CONTEMPORARY ART

The use of natural materials has been the subject matter researched on for contemporary art, looking into a new trend of artists using organic elements in independent pieces. As well as a wider set of insights into the drivers behind this shift, how artists go about it and its broader society-wide implications. Based on a qualitative methodology —combining content analysis of works, interviews with the artists and art curators; literature study—the research examines how natural materials are moving beyond ornamentation to become inseparable from artworks—frequently pointing out environmental issues.The results imply that ephemerality is a concept of relevance to many modern artists, using ephemeral natural resources and creating works which change, rot or disappear. This shift represents a larger cultural pressure to acknowledge the temporary, precarious qualities of human beingness that threaten resistant notions of high/low art or "the true and enduring." The research also explores how such work frequently relates to issues of time, environmental sustainability and human-nature relations that tend to constitute a form of ecocentric praxis.This conversation moves between the pragmatic and ethical dilemmas concerning natural materials, from attempting to make eco-friendly art and balancing that tension with practice-based logistics. The study finds that using natural materials has become a major theme in contemporary art, giving new grounds for the re-interpretation of arts and environmental cultural studies. The research also calls for investigation of the potential use of natural substrates in other cultural contexts and ethical approaches.

The concept of «self care» in the aspect of pedagogical activity 23

The article presents the views of philosophers, psychologists, teachers on the nature of self-care. The philosophy of antiquity considers self-care as a rule of a wise life, linking all human beingness with caring for the soul. Modern philosophers describe the practice of oneself and self-care with the existence of an individual in the world, pay attention to the care of the soul and body. The implementation of an individual life scenario does not imply a break with society, ignoring others, but relies on reflection, comprehension and self-determination. The purpose of the article is to consider the phenomenon of self-care through the prism of pedagogical activity. The methodological basis is formed by ontogenetic and epistemological approaches that explain the human phenomenon. In pedagogical activity, the concept of self-care acquires special significance in the process of preventing and overcoming professional burnout. It is very important for a teacher to be able to determine his emotional and psychophysical state: whether he is in harmony with himself or shows internal disunity. At the same time, the teacher needs knowledge that would allow him to comprehend his own state and return the lost harmony. Such knowledge can be various trainings, in which “techniques of the self” are widely used: work with thought, work with words, work with the body.

Dialogue in the Philosophical and Educational Postmodern View

The article analyses the modern assimilations of the definition ‘dialog’ and its rendering by the world academic community. Attention is drawn to the exceptional empirical significance of dialogics as a general scientific universal. The etymology of dialogue as a key category of philosophical, educational and pedagogical knowledge is identified. The evolution of the lead notionalists` ideas about the kernel and nature of dialogue that are relevant of the humanity itself, human mind and constant search of true knowledge is studied. A parallel is drawn between Socratic dialogue and dialogue in the postmodern educational and philosophic discourse. The problem of the antique thinkers` understanding of dialogue is studied discretely. The contemporary approaches to the fundamentals of dialogism, as outlined in the works of the lead theorists, are studied from the antiqueness to these days. It is highlighted how relevant and applicable for educational philosophy of the XXI century ‘G. Skovoroda`s dialogues’ are. It is ascertained that setting dialogue as autonomous subject of research of a particular school of thought reaches the works of L. Feuerbach with its thesis origins, but gets its final formulization in the works of M. Buber. The author dwells on the main theses of the approach of M. Bakhtin about the dialogic sources of the human beingness. The content and scope of the concepts ‘dialogical pedagogics’, ‘interactive dialogue’, ‘egalitarian dialogue’ are analysed. The advantages and disadvantages of the idea ‘knowledge building’ are studied. It is accentuated that the origins of many contemporary dialogue theories and methodologies date back to the ancient times and represent the attempts to integrate the ‘Socratic dialogue’ into the postmodern discourse. The state of adaptedness and conformance of the contemporary theories of dialogue to challenges of digitalisation and globalisation of the postmodern educational-philosophical space is studied.

Scientific and pedagogical knowledge as an ontological phenomenon

The article observes the forms and the essence of scientific and pedagogical knowledge as a gnoseological category. The terms «scientific knowledge»,«scientific and pedagogical knowledge», «historical and pedagogical knowledge» are differentiated. The key factors which cause reinterpretation of the contemporary education phenomenon in respect of the fundamental aspects of human beingness are described. Specific features of the research on pedagogical reality have been compared by means of epistemological, logical-gnoseological, anthropological and ontological approaches. Scientific and pedagogical knowledge is considered as a component of more general scientific and humanitarian knowledge. The article also notes the role of pedagogical tradition which seals pedagogical knowledge into a hermeneutic circle. Moreover, a wide range of definitions of the concept «scientific and pedagogical knowledge» have been compared. Key problems affecting the process of scientific and pedagogical cognition in the context of postmodern have been highlighted. Namely, the question of the authenticity of scientific and pedagogical knowledge, its incompleteness, ambiguity, its dependence on the result of the modern reality transformation and also its close connection with the process of historical development of society. The text emphasizes the importance of individual's existential experience in the context of social cultivationof a person. The article states that pedagogical knowledge has been influenced by such processes as total informatization, digitalization and technologization of pedagogical process both negatively and positively. The acceleration is identified as a tendency in all spheres of life and it leads to the education refocus - a refusal from long-term forecasts in favor to implementation of short-term practice-oriented educational projects. The dichotomy between pedagogical theory and everyday pedagogical practice is considered as one of the main ontological problems of scientific and pedagogical knowledge. The most common properties of scientific and pedagogical knowledge are formed according to the standpoint of modern methodology of education. The article emphasizes the importance of scientific and pedagogical knowledge popularization as the way of implementation of educational function of pedagogics and promotion of pedagogical culture in society.

СИМВОЛІКА ОРНАМЕНТУ НАРОДНОЇ ВИШИВКИ У ГРАФІЧНОМУ ДИЗАЙНІ

To analyze the role of the symbol-amulet as a means of designating the cultural value space and also to consider the specifics of ancient symbols-ornaments of Ukrainian folk embroidery in graphic design. A combination of complex and comparative methods that allow to identify the peculiarity of the problems of visual persuasive design in the modern society, as well as the principles of objectivity and impartiality of analysis, the principle of critical reflection of the investigated material. The symbolic design of the folk embroidery ornament is analyzed in the practice of graphic design, was carried out its characteristic features, such as expressiveness, persuasiveness, informative character, emotional influence on the person's subconscious reactions and, as a result, the possibility to transform the orientations of the target auditor through the sense of belonging to the common space of cultural values are established. The semantic resource of using national ornament in graphic design products was investigated. We found that it is a powerful factor in forming a sense of belonging to the value space of the native culture, which is important for the progressive development of Ukrainian society to use the national symbols as a factor for formation the positive and constructive intentions and behavioral reactions of its representatives. The obtained results of the research should help to better understand the specifics and role the application of etnosimvolika, ancient symbol-amulets in graphic design, its interconnectedness with various aspects of human beingness.

The conception of human beingness at different times, in different cultures, up to the present

An overview of the changing aspects of human beingness at different times in different cultures is given in this article. The interesting aspect in this case is the difference between Eastern and Western views, as the former are much more idealistic than those in the West. The article highlights the confrontation between different aspects of beingness within different paradigms at present, in which we experience materialism and capitalism dominating the thinking and behaviour of Western cultures. At the same time, a new idealistic paradigm that includes quantum physics and A Course in Miracles, a book containing spiritual wisdom knowledge, is emerging. This new paradigm is hardly noticeable in society at present, but will certainly dominate the evolution of human consciousness for the next few hundred years.

The conception of human beingness at different times, in different cultures, up to the present

The conception of human beingness at different times, in different cultures, up to the present

Listening and Hearing: A Voice Hearer's Invitation into Relationship.

Although historically overlooked, empirical links between trauma and psychosis have received growing attention over the past decade. Increasingly, clinical researchers have also zeroed in on the role that distressing or traumatic life events play in the psychosocial formation and maintenance of psychosis. This paper re-locates anomalous experiences in their human contexts, and asks that clinicians and researchers engage with these contexts. The author shares a first person account of her experience changing her relationships with dominance in order to reclaim and accept her human being-ness, a reorientation supported by her involvement in the world hearing voices network movement and community. She calls for mental health systems, providers, and researchers to collaborate with the persons at the center of their work—to dare to listen, hear, and connect for mutual learning, healing, and wholeness. The article concludes with recommendations and a rallying call for services to be made more inclusive and to re-center in meaningful collaboration with people with lived experience. More comprehensive, meaningful, and accountable practices can be co-created when people are met equally as human subjects, both responsible and accountable for change.

Consciousness and Society: Societal Aspects and Implications of Transpersonal Psychology

Although transpersonal psychologies of self realization emphasize individual development, earlier shamanic traditions also showed a central societal aspect and group based consciousness. Indeed, many have understood the transpersonal movement as developing towards an abstract globalized neo-shamanism. That altered states of consciousness, whether as integrative realizations of the numinous or as dissociative “hypnoid” states, could be felt and shared collectively was a familiar concept to the first generation of sociologists, who saw all consciousness as social and dialogic in form. Durkheim, in particular, foresaw a globalized spirituality of the future, his “cult of man,” in which modern individuation would progress to the point where all we would have in common for the collective representations of spiritual awareness would be our shared sense of human beingness. This view foreshadowed De Chardin, and is presented explicitly or implicitly in Jung, Gurdjieff, Heidegger, Maslow, and Almaas. The implications of a societal, collective face of transpersonalism for a future planetary spirituality are pursued in terms of both a global ecological consciousness and the potential transpersonal significance of SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence).

Refusing Able(ness): A Preliminary Conversation about Ableism

Feminist Rosemary Tong long ago alluded to the profound possibilities of using critical disability studies theory to recomprehend and respatialize the landscape of thinking about race and gender as sites of signification. This piece presents a preliminary conversation in the emergent field of studies in ableism and desires to not only problematize but refuse the notion of able(ness). Our attention is on Ableism's production and performance. Such an exploratory work is indebted to conversations already commenced by Campbell, Hughes and Overboe. My approach is three pronged. Firstly I explore the problem of speaking/thinking/feeling - about the Other (in this case persons referred to as 'disabled people') and the 'extraordinary' Other, the 'Abled'. This conversation is captured under the banner of "The Ableist Project". Here I argue it is necessary to shift the gaze of contemporary scholarship away from the spotlight on disability to a more nuanced exploration of epistemologies and ontologies of ableism. As part of this project of exposure my second task then will be to tease out the strands of what can be called "Ableist Relations", including the effects of the compulsion to emulate ableist regulatory norms. Finally, as part of a commitment to make the necessary connections between theory and practice, I look at the tasks ahead in the refusal of Ability and the commitment to a disability/not-abled imaginary.

The field of subliminal mind and the nature of being

The spiritual tradition of Buddhism differs from the prevalent tendency in the West to separate mind and body, self and other. Consciousness is viewed as a vast interconnected field of which all of us are a part. There are subliminal aspects of this consciousness that contain our deepest health and wellbeing. These become obscured by the conditions of our existence, especially the personality processes and self-constellations that develop in defence of basic wounding at the level of our being. Psychotherapy and Buddhism meet in an understanding of human suffering that can be described in terms of a self, being and source axis along which we all exist. In this model, self is like the tip of the iceberg. If we are recognised and received at a being level early in our lives, there will be an open and fluid alignment between the self through which we mediate with the world, our being-nature and the deepest ground of inter-connection. Most of us are not fully met at a being level when we first need to be and we come to identify as a separate and fixed self which has cut loose from its deeper moorings in being and source. In this embodied life, however, we have access to subliminal depths through an ever-present faculty of awareness, which can be cultivated through mindfulness practices. Psychotherapists and counsellors can learn these inner practices and facilitate a being-to-being meeting in which their clients can have an experience of their human beingness that is beyond words.

Encounters with Nature; Essays by Paul Shepard

Review: Encounters with Nature; Essays by Paul Shepard by Paul Shepard Reviewed by Cate Gable Berkeley, California, USA and Paris, France Shepard, Paul. Encounters with Nature, Essays by Paul Shepard. Florence R. Shepard (Ed.). Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999. 223 pp. ISBN 1-55963- 529-0 (cloth). US$24.95 Paul Shepard (1925-1996) is one of the pioneers of modern ecology. Avery Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology and Natural Philosophy at Pitzer College, he brought diverse disciplines to bear on how humans interact with and perceive the natural world. This book, edited by his wife Florence, compiles published and unpublished essays written during the course of Shepard’s life. As David Petersen says in the Introduction, Shepard's ‘subversive science’ of human ecology … [brings together] the revolutionary study of the overarching significance of humanity’s coevolution with wild animals in shared wild environs. The themes present here are the legacy of our hunter-gatherer forebears; animals and their pervasive influence on our human being-ness, cognition, and imagination; ontogeny and the shift from bonding-to-mother to bonding-to-Mother-Nature as critical in the maturation of an individual; and place as a grounding of our being. The lead essay, The Origin of Metaphor: The Animal Connection, outlines one of Shepard’s central themes. In this treatise on the stirrings of consciousness inside the human animal, Shepard proposes that the bear became an archetype for our developing sense of self’ and other. He posits that our observing and testing wits with this magnificent creature sparked the beginnings of our first and greatest technology— language, and, specifically, our ability to use metaphor and symbology. The female bear, after disappearing mysteriously with the sun all during the dark winter months, reappears with cubs in the spring. To early humans, the she-bear may have represented the mysteries of life and renewal. Shepard notes that we named the most prominent constellations in the sky Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, Big Bear and Little Bear. Our language captures bear in many forms: to bear fruit, to bear a child, to bear witness to, etc. Much of the imagery in Native arts and culture—mask making, dance and song—features the bear.

The centrality of “ningensei” to Japanese negotiating and interpersonal relationships: Implications for U.S.-Japanese communication

In response to the “increasing dissatisfaction with the use of North American modes of communication to explain communication processes in Asia” this paper examines the indigenous concept of ningensei or “human beingness” as central to Japanese negotiating. Positioning ningensei within a philosophic context of Confucianism, clusters and axes of Japanese behavioral tendencies are cited, juxtaposed to U.S. negotiating style. Ningensei is developed as a matrix for systemically investigating relationships between a deeply rooted Japanese national cultural system, with symbols, premises, rules, forms, and restricted codes pivotal to the negotiating process. The argument is advanced that an insider's knowledge of Japanese-Japanese (intracultural) negotiating is a prerequisite for developing Western intercultural theory, predeparture training, and facing Japanese in interpersonal contact situations.

Human Being-ness and AIDS

Human Being-ness and AIDS

Grammar, Usage, Teachers of English, and Paul Roberts

apologize for this; I merely acknowledge it. For some readers the eulogistic content will be passed off as but a respectful digression; others will see in it the infusing spirit of my own try. Teachers the world over who aspire not to pedantry or arid pedagogy but to human beingness have in the author of Chapters One and Two of English Sentences (Harcourt, 1962) a model for emulation. And herein lies my new intent: let's keep the direction and spirit of Paul Roberts alive in the high school English classroom. I want (hopefully) to define this direction and spirit and to explain why I think they ought to be hammered out all over the land.