Humanistic Concern Research Articles

The Study of Ecological Consciousness in the Folk Songs of the Chahar Mongols

The folk songs of the Chahar Mongols not only embody a rich historical heritage and ethnic characteristics but also reflect the close interaction between humans and the natural environment. The lyrics of Chahar folk songs are meticulously structured and vividly expressive, often employing metaphor and allegory with a strong lyrical quality. They frequently use imagery of the sun and moon, wind and rain, clouds and mountains, flowers and plants, domestic animals, and wild animals, demonstrating profound ecological awareness and humanistic concern. This paper studies representative works of Chahar Mongolian folk songs such as "Cool Hangai Mountain," "Little Yellow Horse," and "Four Seasons" from an ecological consciousness perspective. It delves into their diverse ecological discourse construction and their significant role in the cultural construction of northern China.

Fragmented Life: "Death of the Subject" in Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five is a quintessential American postmodernist novel. Based on Fredric Jamesons postmodern cultural theories, the text will analyze the characteristic of death of the subject. With the development of capitalism, the religion gradually lost its absolute voice in society and was replaced by extreme individualism. However, after the devastation of the two world wars, people finally realized the dangers of individualism, and the status of the subject went into extinction. In the late capitalist society, Billy Pilgrim, the main character, was hard to gain a sense of belonging from the heroism and wealth, and gradually lost the subjectivity captured from the religion. Facing the crisis of death of the subject, Billy had tried to save himself by pastiche, but he failed in the end. By telling Billys personal experience, the novel not only amply demonstrates the spiritual dilemmas prevalent in post-war society but also expresses profound humanistic concern.

现代人的生存困境——弗洛姆异化理论下《疯癫亚当三部曲》中的异化主题探究

Margaret Atwood is one of the most influential and prolific female writers in contemporary Canada and she is also known as the “Queen of Canadian Literature”. Her works involve gender, ethnicity, ecology, politics and other fields, and constantly reflect on human survival through revealing the nature of society. In The MaddAddam Trilogy, Atwood explores the plight faced by modern people by analyzing the alienated relations between the protagonists and themselves, others and society, and embodies Atwood’s humanistic concern. Therefore, based on Fromm’s theory of alienation, this paper interprets the theme of alienation in the trilogy, discusses its causes and solutions, in order to solve the dilemma of modern people’s existence and promote the healthy development of their personality.

Construction of a nursing assessment framework for patients in anaesthesia recovery period: A modified Delphi study.

To construct a nursing assessment framework for patients in anaesthesia recovery period. A three-round modified Delphi method was employed to capture the consensus of 22 panellists. The initial items in the nursing assessment framework for patients in anaesthesia recovery period were developed based on the mini-clinical evaluation exercise (mini-CEX). A panel of 22 experts participated in this study. The panellists have more than 10 years of experience in either clinical anaesthesia, or post-anesthesia nursing, or operating room nursing, or surgical intensive nursing. Between March and April 2023, the panellists evaluated and recommended revisions to the initial framework. This study resulted in the development of a nursing assessment framework for patients in anaesthesia recovery period. The initial version of the framework consisted of six dimensions with 27 items. Six items were modified after the first round of consultation. After the second round, five modifications and four deletions were made based on expert opinion. The third round resulted in a convergence of expert opinion. The framework, which consists of 24 items across five dimensions, was refined. The five dimensions are as follows: History-taking, Physical assessment, Clinical judgement, Organizational efficiency and Humanistic concern. The nursing assessment framework for patients in anaesthesia recovery period was reached consensus between the 22 experts' opinions. The assessment framework constructed in this study could be used for the process evaluation of post-anesthesia nursing. The framework may guide perianesthesia nurses in the timely and effective assessment of patients during this critical phase of care. It may be used for perianesthesia nursing education or to evaluate nurses' assessment skills. The study is reported in accordance with the Guidance on Conducting and Reporting DElphi Studies (CREDES) recommendations. No patient or public contribution.

Ecohumanism, democratic culture and activist pedagogy: Attending to what the known demands of us

In two different occasions in the twentieth century John Dewey and Maxine Greene stressed the point that educators should attend to ‘what the known demands of us’. Following this dictum, from a critical perspective and with a constructive pedagogical spirit, in this paper we portray a new paradigm for values education that addresses the major challenges to the sustainable futures of young people in the third decade of the twenty first century as well as proposing transformative and empowering educational strategies. Employing the terminology of sustainability in its wider sense, we begin with a widely acknowledged diagnosis of the five major global risks – interconnected and interdependent – that endanger the sustainable future of humanity and nature: environmental, political, social, health, and cultural. We then move to suggest a constructive solution, proposing three conceptual pillars for repairing the world and laying foundation for a thriving sustainable future: (a) Ecohumanism as the paradigm for values education – merging the humanist concern for human dignity, social justice and democracy with the ecological concern for climate stability, biodiversity and environmental sustainability; (b) education of democratic personality and for democratic culture that is holistic and transformative; and (c) a threefold notion of activist pedagogy that addresses the element of cultivating personal agency, empowering political literacy and agency, and engaging students in experiential, holistic, and active teaching-learning experiences.

A Discussion on the “Charging Model” of the Collaborative Mechanism Between Teachers and Artificial Intelligence Based on Satir's Iceberg Theory

In recent years, artificial intelligence has become a new direction of scientific and technological development. Machine learning, as the most core and hot technology in the field of artificial intelligence, provides the possibility to meet the needs of intelligent education and personalized learning. Through the desktop research method and literature research method, this paper sorts out and analyzes the EAI and Satir's iceberg theory and finds a new educational model that can be integrated with each other -- the “charging model”. On the basis of EAI's ability to improve classroom efficiency, this paper proposes a “charging model” to explain and analyze its feasibility. It also uses Satir's iceberg theory to deepen humanistic concern and pay attention to classroom humanistic management to help students realize the third birth and fulfill the historical burden of teachers' “teaching and educating”. Meanwhile, it promotes deep learning of artificial intelligence and improves affective computing.

Place, Class, and the Destruction of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby From the Perspective of Space

This study is a spatial analysis of The Great Gatsby (1925). This novel presents the power game among various white classes in American society in the context of the Roaring Twenties, with obvious spatial characteristics. The geographical distribution between East Egg, West Egg, and the Valley of Ashes presents the high-and-low-class distinction of different classes in social space. The upper classes practice class oppression and exploitation through space, while the lower classes also use space to resist oppression and climb the class ladder. This paper draws on French philosopher Henri Lefebvre’s spatial ideas, especially the spatial triad, to explore the close connection between space and class in the novel. The Great Gatsby encompasses various class groups in white society, including the hereditary aristocracy like the Buchanans, the new money represented by Gatsby, and the lower class represented by the Wilsons. To modify the spatial order, different classes use space as a medium to preserve their class identity and seek their social presence, which reproduces the illusion of the American Dream of the Jazz Age and reveals Fitzgerald’s humanistic concern for people in spatial relations.

Witnessing, Trans-“Species” Trauma Testimony, and Sticky Wounds in Contemporary Australian Poetry

Literary trauma theory has traditionally been a humanist concern, and the concept of witnessing, so central to the theorization of trauma, has focused on human experience and relationships. This article stages an interdisciplinary intervention by conceptualizing trans-“species” trauma testimony as a literary encounter involving a double-layered witnessing; the human artist witnessing nonhuman animals’ witnessing to the failings and crises brought about by human society. Focusing on a selection of contemporary Australian poems, a view emerges of poetic witnessing and testimony that exceeds and complicates the sub-genre lenses of old such as “nature poetry,” “ecopoetry,” and “protest poetry.” I propose a new conceptual category that testifies to traumatic structures and consequences of human practices. I explore how this testimony proceeds through a two-way channel of witnessing in which nonhuman animals are active witnessing agents and not merely witnessed by humans. I concentrate on witnessing as primarily experiential, as a corporal, affective operation in which the senses figure centrally. I argue that when poets witness nonhuman animal experience in poetry, testimony advances as an ethical engagement in an act of solidarity and advocacy. Poetry offers productive potential in this respect due to its affinity for engagement with the senses, its capacity to communicate heightened affect, and its scope for expression, articulation, and evocations of meaning outside of conventional sense-making and the limits of rational understanding.

Analysis of Characterization and Humanistic Care in Underclass Literature in Urban Literature

Jia Pingwa is a writer who cares deeply about the underclass, and his novel Gao Xing is another of his creative heights, following Ruined City and The Qin Cavern. Jia Pingwa tells the story of peasant workers’ journey to the city in this novel. This paper discusses Jia Pingwa's literary portrayal of the character of the underclass scavenger, his ingenious use of narrative perspective in creating the underclass story, and the social criticism and humanistic concern shown in his work through analysis of the text of Gao Xing and a review of relevant literature. Jia Pingwa uses an optimistic and humorous human attitude and comedic language and plot to present the tragedy of underclass life, reflecting the plight of the underclass people and their spiritual pursuit under urbanisation. The novel deeply reflects his close concern for the social problems that still exist in the prosperous city and his deep concern for the underclass people.

The Horror Writing of Strange Tales from Liaozhai

Strange Tales from Liaozhai is a representative work of the Zhiguai Chuanqi of Chinese classical literature, and the writing of horror stories is one of its most essential parts, which contains adequate meaning, showing its rich details and vivid writing characteristics, which also reflects a certain extent of the author, Pu Songling's unique aesthetic and value orientation. This paper analyzes the setting of the time and space environment of the original text, the use of the third-person limited angle of view in the narrative, and the selection of horror images, respectively, from the scene of the incident, the subject of experience and the object of experience in the horror story. This paper analyzes the original texts of Strange Tales from Liaozhai by summarizing writing techniques of horror stories in work to explore the process of creating the sense of horror in Strange Tales from Liaozhai and how the author uses the original source of human fear to create a horror story. It reveals the alienation and abnormality of time and space, the immersive sense of subjective, limited perspective, and the deadly threat behind horrific imagery. While appreciating the artistic beauty and realizing the diversity of stories types of this work, its implicit humanistic concern is not ignored.

From STEM Education to STEAM Education-the New Role of Art Education

STEAM is developed from STEM by adding an "A" (Arts) to STEM, which has a richer educational connotation; it is no longer just a cross-integration of science and technology but also a humanistic concern. Moreover, in practice, it not only trains the knowledge of judging, identifying and appreciating beauty from the technical level but also cultivates imagination and creativity from the artistic level and cultivates aesthetic sentiment from the cultural and spiritual levels. As a result, interdisciplinary integration has become more advanced. In the transformation from STEM to STEAM, the addition of arts education (Arts) allows STEM to change the mechanistic view of education and establish an organic view of education, so that the educational concept of STEAM is elevated from "knowledge" to "educating people". This paper introduces the relationship between STEM education and STEAM education, analyzes the significance of STEAM education integration, and proposes strategies for integrating arts education into STEM education for reference.

Evaluation of Cultural Ecosystem Service Functions in National Parks from the Perspective of Benefits of Community Residents

The ecosystem of national parks bears some cultural features. How the cultural ecosystem service functions are perceived by the public and how the cultural ecosystem service functions shape the public’s cognition have become urgent scientific questions. This paper performs a case analysis on the Qianjiangyuan National Park System Pilot Area, a representative national park in China, which clarifies the main types of cultural ecosystem service functions from the perspective of the landscape aesthetics benefits of community residents, and analyze the varied impacts of demographics on functional cognition. On this basis, the entropy weight method was adopted to evaluate the importance of each function. Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation was employed to assess the composite level of the cultural service functions. The results show that: (1) the community residents value the benefits brought by the national park the most in terms of the ecological improvement function, and the situation is consistent across the four towns/townships; by contrast, the community residents attach the least importance to the benefits in terms of system governance function. (2) Except for the years of local residence, the community residents’ cognition of different cultural ecosystem service functions may vary significantly, owing to factors like gender, age, education level, occupation, and annual mean income. (3) Concerning the importance of functional indices, the importance scores of the natural experience functions, humanistic concern functions, and social service functions are 0.3286, 0.3503, and 0.3211, respectively. The community residents had a moderate to high level of cognition for the cultural ecosystem service functions (3.99). The different types of functions can be sorted by effectiveness as: the social service functions (4.11) > natural experience functions (4.03) > humanistic concern functions (3.86). The research results provide a reference for improving the management level of national parks, and ease the increasingly prominent contradiction between people and land.

Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology

Is It Too Late? A Theology of Ecology

Humanistic Solicitude in Robert Frost’s Out，Out

Robert Frost tries to save the era occupied by industrial civilization with his poetry. His poems with primitive style 
 are simple and easy to understand, but they contain rich humanistic spirit. Out, Out, for example, is a concern for the survival of 
 people living on the land. The author satirizes the materialized and spiritualized times through the way of poetry, which reflects the 
 humanistic concern conveyed by him.

Critical Cognitive Interpretation of The Time Machine from the Perspective of Proximization Theory

As a product of cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis, proximization theory is one of the emerging research directions in the field of linguistics. Most of the current research using this theory focuses on political conflict topics, and there are fewer studies using it for analysis of literary works. The present study examines The Time Machine from the perspective of proximization theory (PT) to unveil the legitimation strategies of science fiction qualitatively and quantitatively. The objectives are to enrich the explanation power of this theory and analyze how it can avail the expression and description of the implicit theme of science fiction. We apply CLAWS to annotate the whole novel, search and calculate the frequency of each lexico-grammatical item through AntConc 3.5.9, and then analyze the novella through proximization theory in spatial, temporal, and axiological dimensions. Findings show that: spatially, the author subsumes the most salient Time Traveler to the camp of IDC, and with the first-person narrator and sense verbs, the whole picture of decay can make the readers horribly feel on the spot in person toward a dim human destiny; temporally, Wells prefers the past-present concept shift than the future-present. The former is to legitimize his critique of over-reliance on science and severe class exploitation, and the latter is to make predictions of a future society that may face decay. The use of contrasting construal makes the novel's plot more mysterious, stimulates the reader's interest, and paves the way for the revelation of the theme; axiologically, considering that England put science and industrial development on the pedestal at that time and that prevailing evolution theory puts people in a period of blind optimism, Wells cautions against the trap of utopia and the swamp of materialism with emphasis on negative ideologies and values of ODC. The analysis of literary works from the perspective of PT is conducive to the visualization of the implicit themes expressed in the novel, full of absurdity and exaggeration with data support, highlighting the author's humanistic concern and broadening the research object of proximization theory.

Critical Cognitive Interpretation of The Time Machine from the Perspective of Proximization Theory

As a product of cognitive linguistics and critical discourse analysis, proximization theory is one of the emerging research directions in the field of linguistics. Most of the current research using this theory focuses on political conflict topics, and there are fewer studies using it for analysis of literary works. The present study examines The Time Machine from the perspective of proximization theory (PT) to unveil the legitimation strategies of science fiction qualitatively and quantitatively. The objectives are to enrich the explanation power of this theory and analyze how can it avail the expression and description of the implicit theme of science fisction. We apply CLAWS to annotate the whole novel, search and calculate the frequency of each lexico-grammatical item through AntConc 3.5.9, and then analyze the novella through proximization theory in spatial, temporal and axiological dimensions. Findings show that: spatially, the author subsumes the most salient Time Traveler to the camp of IDC, and with the first-person narrator and sense verbs, the whole picture of decay can make the readers horribly feel on the spot in person toward a dim human destiny; temporally, Wells prefers the past-present concept shift than the future-present. The former is to legitimize his critique of over-reliance on science and severe class exploitation, and the latter is to make predictions of a future society that may face decay. The use of contrasting construal makes the novel’s plot more mysterious, stimulates the reader’s interest, and paves the way for the revelation of the theme; axiologically, considering that England put science and industrial development on the pedestal at that time and that prevailing evolution theory puts people in a period of blind optimism, Wells cautions against the trap of utopia and the swamp of materialism with emphasis on negative ideologies and values of ODC. The analysis of literary works from the perspective of PT is conducive to the visualization of the implicit themes expressed in the novel, full of absurdity and exaggeration with data support, highlighting the author’s humanistic concern and broadening the research object of proximization theory.

Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era

Utopian Ruins: A Memorial Museum of the Mao Era

The Embodiment of Science and Technology and Humanistic Concern of Competitive Sports——From the Perspective of Doping and Anti-doping

The rapid development of sports science and technology in the new era brings rare opportunities to sports undertakings, and then it will face new challenges. This article mainly uses the literature material law, sociology, economics related knowledge of doping and anti-doping development of the analysis of existing problems, the concrete, from the perspective of the pedagogy, psychology, law and medicine, analyzes the development of sports science and technology to impact the pros and cons of doping, from the deep analysis of the reason, put forward to develop humanistic care, take its advantages, its disadvantages, We will guide the development of sports in a healthy direction. This paper discusses the embodiment of science and technology and humanistic concern in competitive sports, and provides a new perspective and method for sports training research.

On the Cosmopolitan Ideals in Let the Great World Spin

In his novel Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann sets the main story in the New York City during the 1970s, using the image of a tightrope walker treading between the World Trade Center towers as the primary thread to relate the interconnected stories of people with different identities and intertwining experiences. This paper holds that McCann seeks to connect different groups to emphasize the importance of communication with the “other”, write about moral justice to convey his humanistic concern, and outline a blueprint of the cosmopolitan community in the context of global crises. In the end, McCann tries to break out of the constraints of the historical context and conveys positive emotions of universal significance with his cosmopolitan ideals embedded in literary imagination.

Robotics, Affective Displacement, and the Automation of Care

Recent accounts of labor displacement highlight the automation of tasks in care work, long thought to require uniquely human skills. These developments call for a retheorization of displacement that addresses the shifting sites and relations of human labor, while also questioning the humanness of care. This intervention supplements a humanist concern for the displacement of discrete human bodies with a posthuman concern for the displacement of specific affective relations. The emerging robotic care industry illustrates how displacement involves complex reconfigurations of more-than-human intimacy. Developing a micropolitical understanding of technological displacement, we argue that caring as a sensory set of affective relations is being transformed by new regimes of robotic care, and this has crucial implications for theorizations of care, automation, and displacement in geography.