Interdisciplinary Movement Research Articles

Training of future ship engineers and electricians by means of competence, communicative and interdisciplinary approaches

The article examines the peculiarities of future ship engineers and electricians education by means of competence, communicative and interdisciplinary approaches; emphasis is placed on the interdisciplinary connections of the disciplines of different cycles of training; it is underlined that the process of future seafarers education should be based on a competent, communicative and interdisciplinary approach, which will provide future specialists with efficiency in acquiring knowledge, skills and abilities. The important competencies are defined in research by the educational goals of the competency-based approach that include knowledge and understanding (theoretical knowledge of an academic discipline, the ability to know and understand); knowledge of how to act (practical or operational application of knowledge in certain situations); knowledge of how to live (values as an integral element of perception and coexistence with others in a social context). The interdisciplinary approach is an interdisciplinary movement of knowledge towards integrity, which involves a systematic study of the object and is a logical result of changes in each of the interacting knowledge systems, and is the source of the emergence of new trends towards their integration. The study notes that the use of competency-based and interdisciplinary approaches contributes to the effective planning of professional training of a specialist; the analysis of the situation with the influence of interdisciplinary and competence approaches on the sequence of presentation of educational material when studying the disciplines of different training cycles allows to say that the use of these approaches contributes both to the in-depth assimilation of knowledge and skills by cadets and enriches their horizons allowing to establish relationships and interdependencies in the process of their education. Attention is drawn to the fact that the communicative approach in studying the disciplines of the cycle of humanitarian and socio-economic education will contribute not only to communicative knowledge and skills (frequency, accuracy in formulating statements, the correct use of existing samples and the construction of one's own), but will also produce such universal skills as teamwork, creativity, flexibility, etc. It has been proven that there is a need to apply the principles of interdisciplinary and competency-based approaches in educational and professional programs, training programs, curricula for more effective mastery of the future profession by ship engineers and electricians

Moving Matter: A methodology for material-led collaborations

Interdisciplinary movement artists and educators Rob Kitsos and Meagan Woods share the process behind Moving Matter: material-led collaborative choreographies, a research-creation project that offers a methodology for rethinking the dynamism between raw materials, garments, and the body. Moving Matter steers the locus of choreography and wearable design away from human hierarchy to instead support truer collaboration amongst all moving materials, both human and non-human. In a challenge to normative structures where costumery operates ‘in service’ of dance, the textile designs for Moving Matter do not support the complete autonomy and freedom of moving humans; the wearables have striking characteristics of their own that limit what the human body can do. In establishing parameters, we intend not to reverse the hegemony of human-led design to human-suppressed design, but to re-recognize the agency of all matter through material-led collaborations that support distributed power and collective, innovative approaches to making. This paper details the artists’ studio process and their methodology template for material-led collaborative process that can be adapted for practices within and beyond performance and art disciplines.

What Can a Few Make of Mankind?

Abstract Harlan Grant Cohen and Timothy Meyer present International Law as Behavior as a collection that aspires to exemplify and set an agenda for an interdisciplinary movement of scholars studying the ‘behavioral roots of international law’. This review essay places the book within a larger context of interactions between behavioural psychology and social sciences. Identifying the origins of contemporary behavioural international law scholarship in behavioural economics, and especially the 1970s work of the psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, this essay questions the plausibility of the model of human motivation theorized in International Law as Behavior. Moreover, detailed analysis of the consequences of explaining international law phenomena using behavioural concepts demonstrates that responsibility is systematically under-attributed to the powerful and over-attributed to the vulnerable. Ultimately, this essay contends that viewing legal and social phenomena through behavioural psychology offers little explanatory power, while inuring us to a condition of passivity and control, seeking to replace politics with technique.

Redeeming Poetics

AbstractIn this essay, I argue that ‘poetics’—defined as ‘poet‐criticism’, a practitioner’s firsthand reflection on poetic composition (poiēsis) and verse technique (technē)—makes possible for philosophical theology something that has heretofore been overlooked. I contend that Martin Heidegger’s rendition of the poetic ‘afflatus’, which travesties technē variously as an eidetic, violent, and inauthentic aspect of poiēsis, has exerted an outsized influence on contemporary theology’s engagements with poetry. The upshot is a tendentious dualism between poiēsis and creatio, through which the interdisciplinary movement known as ‘theopoetics’ currently deconstructs the doctrine of creation ex nihilo. I show that the quietism of theopoetics is merely the reverse face of Heidegger’s residual voluntarism. The neglected late essays of the poet‐critic Geoffrey Hill demonstrate that mastery in verse technique, far from conforming to Heidegger’s caricature, entails an erotically motivated co‐operation between the poet and their medium. Hill’s poetics is shown to be consonant with the metaphysics of creation and theological anthropology expressed in the writings of Nicholas of Cusa. I ultimately defend the continued relevance of the analogy between human poiēsis and creatio ex nihilo by appealing to Cusanus’s exposition of technē as partaking in the triune co‐inherence of God.

The future of pluralistic institutional theory

The article criticizes the stereotypes about the current state of institutional economics and the logic of its development. These stereotypes are based on underestimating the growth of its internal diversity, blurring the methodological boundaries of new and original institutional economics (NIE and OIE), the emergence of numerous alternative institutionalisms. The history of OIE and NIE shows that their competition has been replaced by methodological exchange, and research programs are becoming more heterogeneous and eclectic. Alternative institutionalisms — interdisciplinary movements focused on new trends in the analysis of institutions — are of growing importance. The paper proposes to move from the narrative about the struggle between NIE and OIE to rethinking institutional economics as a continuum of co-evolving and complementary schools and approaches. The article makes the case for creating an institutional theory based on epistemological pluralism, a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, and the transition to postdisciplinarity. A pluralistic paradigm can be an adequate response to the challenge of increasing institutional complexity in modern economies.

The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide

The sociology of white America: A teaching and learning guide

What the Rise of AI Means for Narrative Studies: A Response to “Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature” by Angus Fletcher

The role of AI in narrative studies is not a question of if but of when and of how we humans prepare for such a future. The if claim is addressed with a detailed rebuttal to Angus Fletcher’s ‘Why Computers Will Never Read (or Write) Literature.” A counter-argument based upon key AI concepts, the historical progress of AI, and landmark failures and breakthroughs brings readers up to date on the current state of AI as it relates to narrative studies. Numerous examples explain why the cycle of AI winters and springs is now broken, and there is a new global AI arms race. Scholars now have a windfall of increasingly sophisticated, multi-million dollar models that can analyze and generate narrative. Still, in light of the inherent complexity of natural language and the current limitations of even these state-of-the-art AI models, a human-in-the-loop is essential for the foreseeable future. We attempt to allay common yet misplaced concerns by reasserting the centrality of the human scholar to guide and interpret while using these tools. Leveraging these new AI models will yield new insights for narrative studies, and this important work will include shaping the language of fairness, equality, and ethics of models that increasingly impact the lives of billions. We invite narrative scholars to participate in this growing interdisciplinary movement that chooses active engagement over passive critique.

The Emergence of Phenomenological Psychology in the United States

Abstract This essay strives to bring together the institutional history of phenomenological psychology within the American academy from the middle of the 20th century to the current moment. Although phenomenological psychology has always been a dynamically international and interdisciplinary movement, the scope of this essay is limited to the different ways in which this new field expressed itself in certain psychology departments and educational institutions across the United States. After presenting this institutional history, and some (but certainly not all) individual contributors, a brief commentary is offered.

Socio-Economic Sciences: Beyond Quantum Math-like Formalisms

Since the beginning of the 21st century, a new interdisciplinary research movement has started, which aims at developing quantum math-like (or simply quantum-like) models to provide an explanation for a variety of socio-economic processes and human behaviour. By making use of mainly the probabilistic aspects of quantum theory, this research movement has led to many important results in the areas of decision-making and finance. In this article, we introduce a novel and more exhaustive approach, to analyze the socio-economic processes and activities, than the pure quantum math-like modelling approach, by taking into account the physical foundations of quantum theory. We also provide a plausibility argument for its exhaustiveness in terms of what we can expect from such an approach, when it is applied to, for example, a generic socio-economic decision process.

‘The Road Never Ends’: Ecofeminism and Magical Realism in Rachel Zadok’s <i>Sister-Sister</i>

Ecofeminism is an interdisciplinary movement that analyses power imbalances and examines the intersectional impacts neoliberalism has on humanity and the planet. Cultural artefacts (literature, films, artworks, etcetera) play an important role in raising awareness of ecofeminist concerns. Evaluating Rachel Zadok’s magical realist novel Sister-Sister (2013) through an ecofeminist lens exposes how the social and ecological ills of the Anthropocene are a result of a systemic neoliberal marginalisation of the planet and the poor. The novel depicts the trauma inflicted on those living in poverty, revealing how poverty spreads its tentacles through the lives of those it affects. Set in an alternative South Africa where drought has blighted rural villages, Sister-Sister demonstrates how environmental degradation has a disproportionately negative impact on the poorest in society. The novel addresses sexual violence and rape, raising the urgent matter of how society fails girls; girls growing up in economically deprived environments tend to be especially vulnerable to sexual predation. The paper finds resonances between magical realism and ecofeminism. As both are processes of resistance – ecofeminism resists oppressive toxic power and magical realism contests reality – the analysis highlights how magical realist devices are an effective means of communicating crucial ecofeminist concerns.

A proposta pedagógica de Educação do Campo no estado de Pernambuco: diálogos entre Educação do Campo, currículo integrado e interdisciplinaridade

A educação no campo, enquanto teoria e prática educativa tem uma história marcada por políticas compensatórias, descontínuas e com o viés desenvolvimentista sem compromisso com a oferta de uma educação de qualidade social. As reflexões aqui apresentadas são frutos de uma pesquisa de Mestrado e refletem acerca da práxis pedagógica dos/as educadores/as de uma escola do campo, a partir dos conceitos de currículo integrado e interdisciplinaridade em uma unidade escolar da rede pública estadual, da cidade de Petrolina-PE. A pesquisa se ancorou na abordagem qualitativa, através de pesquisa descritiva e exploratória, com realização de revisão bibliográfica, análise documental, seguida de observação, aplicação de questionários e realização de entrevistas. A análise de dados teve como base a compreensão da Análise de Conteúdos, segundo Bardin (2009). Concluímos que a práxis investigada está fundamentada na proposta pedagógica de Educação do Campo do Estado de Pernambuco, cujos princípios encontram-se alicerçados na concepção de currículo integrado e interdisciplinaridade, na vivência do planejamento coletivo e reconhecimento do contexto escolar, enquanto elementos articuladores da relação teoria, prática de ensino e comunidade. Todavia, apresenta uma compreensão superficial quanto ao entendimento do movimento interdisciplinar na prática, além do necessário investimento no fortalecimento do processo formativo individual e coletivo.
 Palavras-chave: educação do campo, currículo integrado, interdisciplinaridade.
 
 The pedagogical proposal for Rural Education in the state of Pernambuco: dialogues between Rural Education, integrated curriculum and interdisciplinarity 
 ABSTRACT. Rural education, as an educational theory and practice, has a history marked by compensatory, discontinuous policies and with a developmentalist bias without commitment to the provision of social quality education. The reflections presented here are the result of a Master's research and reflect on the pedagogical praxis of educators from a rural school, based on the concepts of integrated curriculum and interdisciplinarity in a school unit of the state public system, in the city of Petrolina-PE. The research was anchored in the qualitative approach, through descriptive and exploratory research, with bibliographic review, document analysis, followed by observation, questionnaires and interviews. Data analysis was based on the understanding of Content Analysis, according to Bardin (2009). We conclude that the investigated praxis is based on the pedagogical proposal of Education of the Countryside of the State of Pernambuco, whose principles are based on the concept of integrated curriculum and interdisciplinarity, in the experience of collective planning and recognition of the school context, as articulating elements of the theory relationship, teaching and community practice. However, it presents a superficial understanding as to the understanding of the interdisciplinary movement in practice, in addition to the necessary investment in strengthening the individual and collective training process.
 Keywords: rural education, integrated curriculum, interdisciplinarity.
 
 La propuesta pedagógica para la Educación de Campo en el estado de Pernambuco: diálogos entre Educación de Campo, currículo integrado y interdisciplinaridad
 RESUMEN. La educación en el campo, como teoría y práctica educativa, tiene una historia marcada por políticas compensatorias, discontinuas y con un sesgo desarrollista sin compromiso con la provisión de una educación social de calidad. Las reflexiones aquí presentadas son el resultado de una investigación de Maestría y reflexionan sobre la praxis pedagógica de los educadores de una escuela rural, basada en los conceptos de currículo integrado e interdisciplinariedad en una escuela pública en la red pública estatal de la ciudad de Petrolina - PE. La investigación se ancló en el enfoque cualitativo, a través de la investigación descriptiva y exploratoria, con revisión bibliográfica, análisis de documentos, seguida de observación, cuestionarios y entrevistas. El análisis de los datos se basó en la comprensión del Análisis de Contenido, según Bardin (2009). Concluimos que la praxis investigada se fundamenta en la propuesta pedagógica de Educación del Campo del Estado de Pernambuco, cuyos principios se fundamentan en el concepto de currículo integrado e interdisciplinariedad, en la experiencia de planificación colectiva y reconocimiento del contexto escolar, como elementos que articulan la teoría, la docencia y la práctica comunitaria. Sin embargo, presenta una comprensión superficial en cuanto a la comprensión del movimiento interdisciplinario en la práctica, además de la necesaria inversión en el fortalecimiento del proceso de formación individual y colectiva.
 Palabras clave: educación rural, currículo integrado, interdisciplinariedad.

Combined Space–Time Analysis of Geodetic and Geological Surveys for Evaluation of the Reliability of the Position of Points in the Geodynamic Network of the City of Zagreb

This paper describes the long-standing interdisciplinary geodynamic research for the wider Zagreb area, the most seismically active area of the continental part of the Republic of Croatia, extending over an area of around 800 km2. As a result of the research, which is based on geodetic and geological field measurements, a unique interdisciplinary movement model of the surface layers of the Earth’s crust for the project area is created. The analysis of survey data has determined the continuous tectonic activity of the wider Zagreb area. In the past 18 years, a total of 10 GPS measurement campaigns have been conducted. For each campaign, the velocities of geodynamic network points were calculated, and the cumulative velocity rate was determined from all measurement campaigns for the entire period of observations using GAMIT/GLOBK software. Displacements at individual measuring points of the network, throughout research, vary widely and depend on its location within the local geologic structural framework and regional tectonic movements. These displacements in detail represent a measurable insight into the tectonic activity of the area of research. Therefore, in this paper, special attention is given to the analysis and explanation of these variations in the displacements of the individual geodynamic points, even indicating the questionable quality of location selection for some points. In this way, we seek to explain the causes and mechanisms of such displacements. The results presented in this paper represent the preseismic area condition and further can be used in coseismic 2020 earthquake displacement analysis.

Environmental, Eco - Criticism and Eco - Feminist Perspectives in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance & Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills

This paper attempts a reading of Rohinton Mistry’s novel A Fine Balance (1997) and Gloria Naylor’s Linden Hills (1985) envision insights from recent developments in eco-criticism and eco-feminism. Through Gender theory eco-feminism substantiates the silence of women in Linden Hills.
 Eco-criticism is a form of literary criticism based on ecological perspectives. It investigates the relation between human and the natural world in literature, such as the way in which environmental issues, cultural issues concerning the environment and attitudes towards nature are presented and analyzed. One of the main goals of eco-criticism concerns the environment and attitudes towards nature and ecological aspects. This form of criticism has gained a lot of attention during recent years (approximately since 2000) due to greater social emphasis on environmental destruction as a result of increased technology. It is hence a way of analyzing and interpreting literary texts. Eco critics investigate such things as the underlying ecological values, what, precisely, is meant by the word nature, and whether the examination of “Place” should be a distinctive category, gender or race. By examining the eco critical discourse in A Fine Balance, the paper posits that Mistry’s vision of development in India is predicated on the conditions of sustainability.
 The Ecological Feminism is an interdisciplinary movement which interrogates the new ways of thought process concerning natural world, diplomacy, and mysticism. Eco-feminist speculation has exacting and important association between females and natural world. Eco-feminism understands the suppression of women and their mistreatment in phrases of the subjugation and operation of the environment. Naylor discusses gender conditioned with eco-feminism perspectives. She scrutinizes United States as a “Place”, in relation to race of Linden Hills.
 The postcolonial feminist theory contends that through novel, A Fine Balance comparing with Linden Hills, Mistry interrogate the difficulties of maintaining natural and human diversity in the contemporary economic and social development in the Indian subcontinent. The aspects of paper are tailoring sustainability, ecology, eco - feminism and environment, urbanization and modernization, creation of ecological imbalance and the use of nature ‘as an end to all means’.

Impressions on the Evolution of Naturalism: Interiority, Exteriority, and the International/Interdisciplinary Nature of Naturalism

Naturalism, as a movement and genre, was heavily influenced by the work of Émile Zola, particularly by his essay, Le roman expérimental (1880). However, despite Zola’s strong influence, Naturalism was also significantly influenced by the ideas of others that go beyond and even predate those of Zola. As a result, Naturalism is generally accepted as having originated in France in the late 19th century, and having extended into the early 20th century, however it soon became an international as well as an interdisciplinary movement and genre. More specific examples of this international and interdisciplinary network of Naturalism can be seen in the writing of Zola, Joris-Karl Husymans, and Oscar Wilde, as well as the painting of Cécile Douard, Vincent van Gogh, Gustave Caillebotte, and Claude Monet. Furthermore, these examples reveal that Naturalism evolved into a more interior branch, as well as a more exterior branch, and they also reveal some strong evolutionary links between not only Naturalism and Impressionism, but also between Naturalism and Decadence/Aestheticism. These latter links have seen little discussion in relation to Naturalism, particularly on the basis of the roles that interiority and exteriority play in the international and interdisciplinary expressions of Naturalism.

Practicing listening places: dialogues between psychology and the concept of place of talks

In order to respond ethically to the emergency demand of the places of speech, we pro-pose the discussion of a "locus of listening" of the subjects of privileges. We play a game with the word "listening" of psychology, "therapeutic / psychological listening", to go be-yond the term restricted to the instrument of psychologists and bring the urgency of lis-tening as an exercise of "otherness." We make an interdisciplinary movement by aligning a concept that comes from feminism with another from psychology, because we believe that such a dialogue is extremely important for a contemporary psychology that positions itself politically and ethically in the face of the oppressions of gender, race, class and culture. At the same time this discussion may contribute to a better comprehension to the ques-tion about “locus of enunciation” (place of speech), so currently debated.

Bringing What State Back In? Neo-Marxism and the Origin of the Committee on States and Social Structures

This article examines the interdisciplinary movement to “bring the state back in,” advanced during the 1980s by the Committee on States and Social Structures. Drawing on the Committee’s archives at the Social Science Research Council, I show that its influential neo-Weberian conception of the state was developed in dialogue with earlier neo-Marxist debates about the capitalist state. However, its interpretation of neo-Marxism as a class reductive and functionalist variant of “grand theory” also created a narrative that marginalized the latter’s contributions to the literature on the state. This displacement had lasting consequences, for while neo-Marxist approaches had provided a critical perspective on the relationship between the social sciences and the state, the Committee’s narrative had a depoliticizing effect on this subject matter. Reconstructing this moment both recovers the forgotten influence of the New Left and neo-Marxist scholarship on postwar political science and sociology, and elaborates on the contested history of the state as a political concept.

Development of science-environmental movement relationships: The case of Russia

There is a paradoxical situation in the world: after the end of the WWII the science took leading position in all spheres of human activity but there was no any fundamental research on science-environmental movement relationships. Recently, Russian science in public life exists in two major forms. First in the form of manifestos like the Pugwash Manifesto in the year of 1955 (Butcher, 2005) which resulted in long-term numerous gatherings, discussions and appeals to world community and the second in the form of scientists-turned-civil activists who consciously left their positions in research institutes and entered an environmental and other social movements. The following text is based on the empirical study of the above relationships from the early 1900s till now in its widest sense (i.e. including charity, justice, peaceful and other forms of civil activism). The major forms of this activism were as follows: the writing the programs of alterative development of science, industry and agriculture; a work as the tutors of the students’ nature protection movement; the participation in the work of the committees on civil rights and freedoms; the establishment of alternative units of experts and advisers for public hearings, etc. In the run of this long-term period the situation is turned upside down: those who were students have become the scientifically-sound leaders of complex interdisciplinary movements without boundaries who actively participate in global transnational projects with global stakeholders on equal ground. It gives me the grounds to speak on the emergence of a new format of science-social movement relationships. The author suggests a hypothesis that the researchers of current environmental movements are needed in an integrated socio-bio-technical paradigm of actor-subject matter development.

Folklore and Sociolinguistics

Folklore and sociolinguistics exist in a symbiotic relationship; more than that, at points—in the ethnography of communication and in ethnopoetics, for example—they overlap and become indistinguishable. As part of a reaction to the formal rigor and social detachment of Chomsky’s theoretical linguistics, sociolinguistics emerges in the mid-twentieth century to assess the role of language in social life. Folklorists join the cause and bring to it a commitment to in-depth ethnography and a longstanding engagement with artistic communication. In this essay, I trace key phases in the development of this interdisciplinary movement, revolutionary in its reorientation of language study to the messy but fascinating realm of speech usage. I offer the concept of performative efficacy, the notion that expressive culture performances have the capacity to shape attitude and action and thereby transform perceived realities, as a means of capturing the continuing promise of a sociolinguistically informed folkloristics.

Distribution features and intellectual structures of digital humanities

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to conduct a retrospective bibliometric analysis of documents about digital humanities, an emerging but interdisciplinary movement. It examines the distribution of research outputs and languages, identifies the active journals and institutions, dissects the network of categories and cited references, and interprets the hot research topics.Design/methodology/approachThe source data are derived from the Web of Science (WoS) core collection. To reveal the holistic landscape of this field, VOSviewer and CiteSpace as popular visualization tools are employed to process the bibliographic data including author, category, reference, and keyword. Furthermore, the parameter design of the visualization tools follows the general procedures and methods for bibliometric analysis.FindingsThere is an obviously rapid growth in digital humanities research. English is still the leading academic language in this field. The most influential authors all come from or have scientific relationships with Europe and North America, and two leading countries of which are the UK and USA. Digital humanities is the result of a dynamic dialogue between humanistic exploration and digital means. This research field is closely associated with history, literary and cultural heritage, and information and library science.Research limitations/implicationsThis analysis relies on the metadata information extracted from the WoS database; however, some valuable literatures in the field of digital humanities may not be retrieved from the database owing to the inherent challenge of topic search. This study is also restricted by the scope of publications, the limitation regarding the source of data is that WoS database may have underrepresented publications in this domain.Originality/valueThe output of this paper could be a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners interesting in the knowledge domain of digital humanities. Moreover, the conclusions of this retrospective analysis can be deemed as the comparable foundation for future study.

Biosemiotics: The Origins of an Interdisciplinary Movement

Biosemiotics: The Origins of an Interdisciplinary Movement