Involvement Of Self Research Articles

CURRENT ASSESSMENT PRACTICES IN UKRAINIAN TRANSLATION CLASSROOM: TEACHERS’ SURVEY RESULTS

Purpose. The article is aimed at the studies of the assessment practices currently applied in translation training at Ukrainian universities in the context of cutting-edge trends and dispositions in translator’s education observed worldwide. They include the synergism of both evaluative and formative assessment, the extensive use of diverse assessment methods and tools, including alternative ones, the rational involvement of self- and peer-assessment procedures. Method. A mixed research method was designed and employed with that end in view. It involved 41 translation teachers from 16 Ukrainian universities, who were asked to answer an online survey of 30 close and open-ended questions regarding their background, attitude to assessment and its different aspects such as functions, procedures and tools used for different types of tests in translation, assessment objects and agents, grading methods and associated problems. The obtained results were processed with the help of statistical methods and contrasted with the data received by relevant studies conducted abroad within the last twenty years. Findings. The findings of this research allowed us to compile the aggregated profile of Ukrainian translation teachers in terms of assessment practice, define the most common ways to conduct monitoring, borderline and summative assessment in teaching translation to undergraduate students in Ukraine, and claim that the teachers’ subjective evaluation of translation assessment efficiency depends on their teaching experience. Implications for research and practice. The obtained results should boost further theoretical and practical development in the field of translation assessment as well as in the area of translation teachers’ training.

The default mode network in self- and other-referential processing: effect of cultural values

Growing evidence shows culture-related differences in brain activity during self- and other-referential tasks. However, the effect of individual endorsement of cultural values on connectivity of the default mode network (DMN), the primary network associated with self-referential processing, during self- and other-referential tasks is virtually unexplored. We used self-report questionnaires to measure independent and interdependent self-construal and investigated the effect of cultural values on DMN functional connectivity during self and other trait adjective judgment task. The observed associations show that the endorsement of individualist values predisposes to a greater DMN involvement during self-processing and to its lesser involvement during close-other-processing, whereas the endorsement of collectivist values predisposes to a less active DMN engagement in self-processing and to its greater engagement in other-processing. This is in line with the notion that DMN is not specialized for self-processing, but rather is involved in more general cognitive processing related to social cognition and the degree of its involvement in self- versus other-processing is moderated by cultural value system.

How Do You Think the Victims of Bullying Feel? A Study of Moral Emotions in Primary School.

The important role of morality in the transgressive behavior which occurs within peer groups, such as bullying, has often been observed. However, little attention has been paid to this kind of violence in the initial stages of primary education. This study aims to analyze the attribution of moral emotions (self and other) to victims in different bullying types (verbal, physical, relational, and exclusion) and roles (aggressor and victim). An ad hoc questionnaire with supporting stick-figure cartoons was used. In total, 1150 schoolchildren between the ages of 6 and 11 years took part in the study (50.3% girls). The results showed that over 80% of schoolchildren had been involved in any type of aggressive behavior, and that there were significant differences by gender, year, and involvement in self- and other-attributed moral emotions. Aggressors showed less shame in general. In self-attribution situations, there was a greater indifference in aggressors. Victims had less shame and greater indifference in self-attributions for verbal and physical aggression. Girls recognized higher percentages of guilt in victims. The main moral emotion in the first stage was shame. This tendency changed to guilt as the children got older in both situations. Results support the need for the study of moral emotions development of victims and aggressors. How the experience of being involved in bullying biases the moral interpretation toward from the feelings of the victim is discussed.

Relating therapeutically in family therapy: pragmatics and intangibles

This paper offers a set of theory reflections on the challenges of relating therapeutically and holding a therapeutic position in family therapy. The context is the relational space of family therapy, which shapes the possibilities and limits of therapeutic relating. Pragmatics unfold in the doing of therapy within this space, and processes of engagement, empathy and the therapist's capacities for resonance and reactivities are all considered as part of the pragmatics of therapeutic relating in family therapy. Yet these processes and the therapist's involvement of self are not simply pragmatic. The exploration turns to ideas that attempt to meet the intangibles of the intersubjective space of therapeutic relationships. Ideas from contemporary family therapy discussions drawing on psychoanalytic ideas are placed side‐by‐side ideas of dialogical therapy as a way of opening out different understandings of the intangibles of the space between in therapeutic relating.Practitioner points The relational space of family therapy shapes the possibilities and limits of therapeutic relating Practices in relation to engagement, empathy and the therapist's involvement of self unfold as part of the pragmatics of therapeutic relating within this relational space Complexities of the therapist's involvement and use of self, and the richness and potentials of the therapeutic relationship, also lie in the intangibles of the space between Ideas from psychoanalytic thinking and dialogical therapy offer understandings of the intangibles of the intersubjective space of therapeutic relating.

Contextualizing Learning: Becoming A Tourism and Hospitality Professional

Over three years, a final semester, undergraduate project-based tourism and hospitality course was successively refined using action research processes. The course required students to integrate and put into practice learnings from all courses. Each offering of the course required students to develop, implement and evaluate a tourism and hospitality project specifically related to their interests. The majority of students developed projects in conjunction with industry partners, a few with hypothetical industry partners, and several with themselves as entrepreneurs. Initially, role-play was variously used to engage students in experiential profession-based learning. By the third year of offering, role-play was replaced by simulation. Students became a community of practice, wherein each week’s face-to-face contact involved a focused round-table departmental meeting. During meetings, there was a strong emphasis on intrapersonal, interpersonal and oral communication skill development. Project assessment involved 5-minute pitches, a written proposal, ethics “test”, an oral presentation and a written report. Students were required to self-evaluate all assessment tasks. In addition, students anonymously voted and provided written feedback on the best project pitch, as well as written feedback on all oral presentations. Student involvement in self and peer assessment aided personal reflection and constructive feedback with respect to professional practice.

Strange loops: Creative practice and philosophies of selfhood

In ‘A Creative Writing Research Methodology: New Directions, Strange Loops and Tornados’ (2009), Nicola Boyd takes the conceptual movement of Douglas Hofstadter’s Strange Loop as a model for creative research, and a plausible creative methodology. She describes the movement of a Strange Loop as a self-repeating spiral and, as a familiar sensation in creative writing, one useful as an effective metaphor for the emergence of focus in the writing process. But Boyd’s model overlooks Hofstadter’s original use of the Strange Loop as a neurological explanation for consciousness that is linked to narrative theories of selfhood. Arguably, taking an interdisciplinary focus in reading creative writing through Hofstadter could potentially serve to augment discussions of selfhood in the Creative Writing discipline. I contend that Boyd has inadvertently opened the way for a potentially rich discourse examining the involvement of self within the creative process. I question the manner in which a Strange Loop constructs self, and just how this might relate to the act of writing.

Gold exploration success

Discovery of a goldfield is a rare and difficult event, which contrasts with the normal outcome of exploration that is non-discovery. As there are many gold provinces globally and numerous discoveries annually, the recent and historical records of success are a great source of ideas to learn from and to enhance the rate of discovery.Over the last two decades, important gold discoveries have been made in well-established gold provinces such as Australia, Canada and USA, regions with a long history of production like Ghana, and some further countries such as China, Mali, Tanzania and Peru that received lesser attention during the twentieth century. In contrast to the dominance of gold-only deposits throughout the last millennium of gold production, a significant proportion of recent discoveries are gold-plus, especially Cu–Au.There have been some golden periods of exploration success in various parts of the world and as well as providing inspiration for exploration, they are sources of learning. Examples include the discoveries in Victoria (1850s), in the Witwatersrand (1886) including Carletonville (1930s) and Welkom (1940s), in the Carlin gold province of Nevada (1961 and 1980s), in the Yilgarn Craton (1980–1990s), and SW Pacific (1980s). Any area that is the focus of one of these golden periods attracts increased exploration activity and funding at the expense of less productive areas.There is additional knowledge to glean from non-success. Despite being the world’s major source of gold for the twentieth century, South Africa stands out for its lack of recent exploration success with no new goldfields discovered since Evander in 1951. This lack of exploration success has led to an 80% fall in gold production since the 1970 peak, and one significant consequence is a major decrease in revenue, and hence employment, in that industry.Important ingredients in exploration success are area selection, appropriate exploration technologies and models, and skilled and motivated people. Some commentators have added luck to this list though this may be mis-guided. Instead, the thesis presented here is that doing exploration is like doing science; mineral discovery – like scientific breakthrough – is a rare event, and the way teams think and interact is a very important determinant of success in both mineral exploration and in science. If this thesis is valid, then teaching explorers to think and creating environments in which they can do so should favour discovery. It cannot be taken for granted that systematic thinking processes will be either taught or learned at all institutions, but rather there are places and people who enhance the development of thinking skills.Exploration teams need to safe-guard against groupthink by the involvement of self- and external critical evaluation. Unorthodoxy will always have an important place in exploration while discovery remains a rare event well-removed from the norm; this is parallel to scientific revolutions which often owe their origin to unorthodox thinking and attention to minor anomalies. Introducing simple practices such as a fostering of a single-minded focus on discovery, maintaining a line-of sight from activities back to one’s aims, encouraging unorthodoxy and avoiding the pernicious mentality of groupthink can be adopted at little cost.

The Contact Space: A Novel Framework for Intergroup Contact Research

This article presents a new framework for understanding research on the intersection between language, communication, and intergroup contact. Contact theory has described a variety of ways in which contact between groups can reduce prejudice and improve intergroup relations. However, the field has become fragmented by the study of a variety of forms of contact whose interconnections have not been elucidated, and it has paid insufficient attention to the language and communicative dynamics of the contact event itself. This article accounts for the variation in forms of contact studied by arraying them in two-dimensional space organized by (a) involvement of self in contact and (b) richness of self-outgroup experience. The former pertains to whether an individual is directly involved in interaction with an outgroup member (vs. merely observing such contact); the latter pertains to the multiplicity of channels and senses through which one experiences the outgroup member. These two dimensions are argued to be largely orthogonal. The two-dimensional space is used to organize mediators and moderators in the field, to specify in detail the intersection between contact and issues of language and communication, as well as to outline areas of particular promise for specific contact interventions.

Positive dramas: Enacting self-adventures in organizations

In response to a need for understanding the role of practice and agency in identity production, this paper establishes the concept of positive dramas. Positive dramas are particular fields of meaning and engagement constituted by people to organize experience into lived narratives; enacted self-adventures marked by a sense of something important being at stake, unpredictability, emotional engagement, and involvement of self. Based on research in four organizational settings, five main types of positive dramas are identified (The Battle, The Mission, The Mystery, The Treasure Hunt, and The Other). Their temporal levels range from peak experiences, to time-bound cycles inherent in work, to open-ended quests. These findings are situated within the tradition of positive organizational scholarship. Implications for identity production are more broadly discussed.

Ernest Ranglin, Creative Activist, Initiator, Innovator, Living Legend

I should luce to share with you a personal testament, a personal review of the varied demonstrations of a musical giant, a gentle genius, a great example of what is right about Jamaica. My comments proceed from listening, observation and appreciation, and are personal, and relate to my musical education, my own musical development. In 1972 at a conference at Indiana University on the The Social Role of Jazz,Richard Abrams, a presenter, spoke of a jazz musician describing his playing of Jazz as and soul trying to get together.2 He was just trying. Ernest Ranglin hs brought body and soul together; body expressing the dictates of soul through spontaneous composition - improvisation, to which he adds the colour and tone of spirit, mind and heart. It is this total involvement of Self with a capital S that makes him endure through so many years and continues to make his offerings young and fresh, yet bringing to his performances the advantage of vast experience and exposure. Ranglin is a self-taught musician, who studied, on his own the accepted musical primers, honed and pruned and shaped his style, listened to the accepted masters and outclassed many, and continues to learn, to absorb influences, and transform them, making them uniquely his own. So many of our young musicians today are reluctant to learn the elements of the musics of the region, preferring to play a Berkeley method in an often mediocre. fashion; not recognizing that this is a means to an end, not an end in itself Ernest Ranglin has allowed himself to grow, and in growing has found his own voice. He developed as a musician when the leisure market was expanding, when what we refer to as jazz was popular dance music. In the Caribbean the slow, sensuous sounds of the blues, the inflections of swing were being played often from commercially acquired charts or from careful reproductions of what was heard on record, but very often took on the flavour unconsciously of the pervasive 3.3.2 patterns of early calypso/mento/goombay/merengue/rumba - the characteristic rhythms of the region, and this rhythmic feel contributed to the acceptance, the growth and spread of Jazz. Our bands were facsimiles of fairly large U.S. aggregations, playing ensemble music. These groups were training grounds for the host of horn-players and other instrumentalists who started the trek to add a certain kind of excitement to the European musical scene, making contributions that were well before their time. American musicians had introduced into the mix the concept of the solo, and the soloist and improvisation took on new significance and importance, for Jamaican groups as well. Before this period improvisation had meant colouration, decoration and attention to texture, sticking very close to the original melody. What characterizes improvisation today is - streams of spontaneous melody. It then becomes clear that the beat is being irregularly subdivided and moves across bars with impunity. Thus, lines are created that are unequal in length, with emphases and accents occuring in unexpected and unpredictable spaces. Herein lies the creativity, the excitement It is easy to create phrases that are metrically straight and to continue the compositional process by creating answering phrases of the same length. It is not so easy to create a sound tapestry that depends on variation of (to use cricket terminology) 'length and line', sometimes dropping it in the 'block hole', providing at times something that 'rises sharply', or a deceptive delivery that has you 'clean bowled' and looking behind at your middle stump. Anyone who has listened carefully to a Ranglin recording, or better yet, observed him in full flight will know exactly what I mean. That describes his cascades of notes, judiciously chosen. Yet he sometimes subscribes to the tenet that 'less is more' and we can be treated to a contrasting spare reading of a melodic line, notes even more judiciously chosen. …

Out of one’s mind: A study of involuntary semantic memories

The study of memories that pop into one’s mind without any conscious attempt to retrieve them began only recently. While there are some studies on involuntary autobiographical memories (e.g., Berntsen, 1996, 1998) research on involuntary semantic memories or mind-popping is virtually non-existent. The latter is defined as an involuntary conscious occurrence of brief items of one’s network of semantic knowledge. The recall of these items (e.g., a word, a name, a tune) is not accompanied by additional contextual information and/or involvement of self—a standard feature of involuntary autobiographical memories. The paper reports several diary and questionnaire studies which looked into the nature and frequency of occurrence of these memories. The data show that people do experience involuntary semantic memories which tend to occur without any apparent cues while being engaged in relatively automatic activities. Possible mechanisms of involuntary semantic memories are discussed (e.g., very long-term priming), and the results of the study provide information on the possible duration of the priming effects in everyday life. Related theoretical and methodological issues and future avenues of research in this neglected area are outlined.

Personality Characteristics and Salespeople's Choice of Coping Strategies

The issue of whether salespeople cope with sales stressors in ways consistent with their personality characteristics remains largely unaddressed in the empirical literature. Should certain personality characteristics make salespeople more stress resistant, implications for the selection of sales candidates already possessing such characteristics or for the cultivation of such characteristics within existing salespeople could be developed. A framework is developed suggesting why salespeople with certain personality characteristics—those high on challenge, self-determination, and involvement in self and surroundings—may employ different coping strategies. Support for hypotheses was developed in a study that used a stratified random sample of 322 sales organizations. Salespeople high on challenge, self-determination, and involvement were found to use more problem-focused coping strategies.

Sport Identity and Motivation for Sport Participation: A Comparison between American College Athletes and Austrian Student Sport Club Members

The aim of this study is to compare competition, fitness, and social motivation for sport participation between American college athletes and Austrian student sport club members. Our hypotheses are drawn from symbolic interactionist theory, and we define sport motivation as the reasons that people give for participating in sport. The respondents are 301 University of Vienna student members of Austrian sport clubs and 397 college athletes drawn from three schools in Ohio. The results indicate (a) statistically significant main effects for ANOVA comparisons between competition and fitness motivation and the factors of gender and country, (b) a statistically significant two-way interaction between social motivation and gender and country, and (c) statistically significant Pearson product moment correlations between competition and fitness motives and the involvement of self in the sport role. Thus, we conclude that motivation for sport participation is likely to be influenced by the values of the sport organization as well as the sport and gender identities of the participant.

Sport Identity Salience, Commitment, and the Involvement of Self in Role: Measurement Issues

The social psychological concept of identity has been recognized as an important approach to the study of role-related behavior, including sports behavior. Identity has been linked theoretically to the self-concept via the notion of a salience hierarchy, and the salience of an identity in turn has been shown to be associated with time spent in role and other measures of role performance. In this article we present some measurement procedures for the study of the sport identity, and we demonstrate the utility of these procedures by testing hypotheses derived from Stryker and Serpe’s (1982) research on religious role behavior. The sample used to test these hypotheses is a purposive sample of 220 male college students and athletes.

OBJECT‐MOTION DETECTION AFFECTED BY CONCURRENT SELF‐MOTION PERCEPTION: APPLIED ASPECTS FOR VEHICLE GUIDANCE

Thresholds and response times for object-motion detection are significantly raised during concurrent real or visually induced self-motion perception. This was demonstrated by standardized laboratory experiments in which subjects had to react to a suprathreshold visual stimulus (1 degree-light spot moving with 5 degrees/s speed) under different stimulus conditions of simultaneously perceived self-motion. Elevated response times (mean elevation factor: 3.27) were also obtained for the detection of changes in inter-vehicle distance (headway) under real road conditions with the simultaneous involvement of self- and object-motion perception compared to a corresponding (object-motion perception) simulation in the laboratory without any self-motion. With regard to vehicle guidance, existing concepts of safe stopping distances, which depend upon adequate detection of a collision course and the corresponding reaction times, have to be recalculated.