Natural Talent Research Articles

THE RUSSIAN EXPERIENCE OF INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION WITH THE NORTHERN PEOPLES (THE CASE OF THE EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES OF THE INSTITUTE OF THE PEOPLES OF THE NORTH IN LENINGRAD)

The article examines the Russian experience of intercultural interaction with the peoples of the North based on the analysis of the forms and methods of introducing representatives of the peoples of the northern outskirts to the Russian educational tradition aimed, on the one hand, at adaptation of the small northern peoples to Russian cultural life, on the other hand, at preservation of the ethnic and cultural identity and reproduction of the forms of national culture. The development of the Arctic by the Russian explorers, the economic, political and cultural introduction to the Russian world of the nomadic population, which was mostly at the primitive stage of civilisational development, revealed to the world a unique experience of territory development and harmonious assimilation of the “small peoples” who inhabited these territories. The article pays special attention to the art workshops of the Institute of the Peoples of the North, where northern artists with exceptional natural talent were trained and special approaches to the development of their creative abilities to artistic creativity were developed. The article analyses the formation of a special “northern” art style in the workshops of the Institute in the 1930s as an example of successful cooperation between professional teachers and naive artists of the North, one of their brightest representatives being the original Nenets artist Konstantin Pankov.

Recruitment and retention in the dental workforce: the benefits of a strengths-based approach

The NHS is facing a crisis in recruitment and retention of dental professionals. In order to tackle this problem, we need to explore new avenues. One evidence-based approach is strengths-based recruitment (SBR), in which employees’ natural talents and strengths are matched to particular roles. This has been shown to improve not only employee retention but also engagement, wellbeing and job satisfaction. This paper presents, for the first time, the concepts and benefits of SBR in relation to dentistry.

CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AITYS GENRE AMONG KAZAKH AND TURKISH PEOPLE

Aitys is a special genre that occupies a special place in our national literature. All types of aitys require eloquence, mobility, and ingenuity. In Kazakh and Turkish literature this genre is in accord with social, socio-political issues. Using jokes, humor and satire in their improvised verses two poets compose dialogue on significant changes and various social phenomena within the country. At the same time by giving a clear, rational reply to the opponent, one can be on an advantageous position. Poets also use this aitys genre of verses competition to convey their inner feelings of mood. At all times, aitys genre can be called a mirror of its era. Therefore, the study of such diverse characteristics and specific features of the aitys genre, its generality as a harbinger of social situations is considered one of the main tasks of the science of Kazakh literary studies.
 Improvisational talent is the natural talent of the poet. Aitys genre requires great responsibility and deep knowledge in different spheres. Accepting the advantages of other poets in his/her environment and advancing his/her knowledge should be considered as the stage of the poet's ascension.
 Kazakh aitys genre works have more improvisational feature, have a large and artistic content, descriptive of a long chronicle about the country’s and people’s life, while the assonant rhymes of Turkish atyshma are subject to a special condition and certain rules of artistic schedule. It can be said that the basis of both theatrical and dramatic art is connected here. A characteristic feature of Kazakh and Turkish traditions is their formation in ancient times, when both nations had a common spiritual heritage and even a common stat.
 Aitys is a common heritage of the Turkic people. Aytys genre is a phenomenon of the Turkic-speaking peoples culture that spread orally.
 As the object of the study was selected and considered the artifacts of the ancient Turkic era, the first versions of aitys, as well as the works by folk poets of the XIX-XX centuries and the Kazakh and Turkish aitys types, which are main subjects for the research relevance.
 The article analyzed deeply the division of the aitys genre into subtypes, its methods, features and similarities among the Turkic peoples based on the opinions and conclusions of Kazakh and Turkish scientists.

The Implementation of Merdeka Curriculum in English Subject

Merdeka Curriculum is a brand-new curriculum that was designed to give the students a fun learning experience, without any stress and pressure to reveal their natural talent in learning. The purpose of Merdeka Curriculum is to create a learning environment without any stress and pressure that the students experience in the learning process. This study will analyze the implementation of Merdeka Curriculum of grade X English subject in SMA Negeri 85 Jakarta Barat. The study method that was used in this study is Qualitative approach by collecting information in the observation process in grade X class while conducting English subject, and interview with the grade X English teacher with the data collection type of “what” and “why” subjectively. The results of data analysis shows that there are challenges in implementing the Merdeka Curriculum in grade X English subject in balancing the differentiation competency levels of students that were too far. The findings imply that teachers need special training in implementing the Merdeka Curriculum to solve the problem that was mentioned

The Implementation of Merdeka Curriculum in English Subject

Merdeka Curriculum is a brand-new curriculum that was designed to give the students a fun learning experience, without any stress and pressure to reveal their natural talent in learning. The purpose of Merdeka Curriculum is to create a learning environment without any stress and pressure that the students experience in the learning process. This study will analyze the implementation of Merdeka Curriculum of grade X English subject in SMA Negeri 85 Jakarta Barat. The study method that was used in this study is Qualitative approach by collecting information in the observation process in grade X class while conducting English subject, and interview with the grade X English teacher with the data collection type of “what” and “why” subjectively. The results of data analysis shows that there are challenges in implementing the Merdeka Curriculum in grade X English subject in balancing the differentiation competency levels of students that were too far. The findings imply that teachers need special training in implementing the Merdeka Curriculum to solve the problem that was mentioned

Mohammad Sjafe'i Educational Thought: It's Relation to the Independent Study Curriculum

This study examines the relationship between Mohammad Sjafe'i educational ideas and the self-learning curriculum in schools. Education is an effort to help students develop normatively better in the intellectual, moral, and psychological dimensions. Mohammad Sjafe'i's educational thinking contains character values with the active-creative method he has developed, which can encourage students to learn actively and independently. This research is using qualitative descriptive methods. The data were obtained through interviews, observations, and document studies. The results of this study prove that Sjafe'i's thinking is in line with the current education curriculum in Indonesia, which implements an independent learning curriculum. An independent learning curriculum is a lesson plan that provides opportunities for students to study in a calm, comfortable, relaxed, enjoyable, and pressure-free manner to show their natural talents. This self-study curriculum focuses on student freedom and creative thinking.

Ilya Mechnikov's theory of orthobiosis: the potential of European integration of national education

The article presents the result of a retrospective analysis of the theory of orthobiosis. This topic is valuable for the development of programs for expanding connections with the world in the process of communication and other ways of communication in specific historical realities, social falsification of participants in the educational process.
 The research was conducted according to an individual approach. The authors focused attention on the processes of interaction, when the scientist's scientific conclusions were formed as a result of deep spiritual connections with others, an active attitude to the world. The article states that the author's personal hobbies are organically interpreted in the theory of orthobiosis developed by the scientist. In the theory of orthobiosis, the change of nodal positions of the scientist is systematically followed depending on the conditions of human formation in different age periods, taking into account the peculiarities of the components of the psyche, psychophysiological development in a certain age period.
 The authors emphasized that Ilya Mechnikov understood orthobiosis as follows: the order and order of life, which is based on the science of hygiene. This order provides a person with a long, active, pain-free life. In this way, a person can not only establish the rules of social and psychological existence, but also systematically develop and manifest his natural strengths, abilities, and talents. Such a life gives a feeling of saturation, ends with a natural death that does not cause fear. A component of orthobiosis is a reasonable, prudent attitude of the individual to the issue of procreation, conscious parenthood. In this, the authors see the relevance of studying the field of conscious social in the individual through the analysis of personal structures, the ability to be active in the spiritual sphere.
 The article states that I. Mechnikov considered in detail the problem of forming the moral behavior of an individual. In the context of orthobiosis, morality should be reinforced through mastery of encyclopedic knowledge, deep education, conscious activity of social life, critical thinking in the perception of scientific truths.

Scrutinizing Integrative Learning in Arabic Instruction

This research aims to find new ideas in integrative Arabic learning. The research conducted in this article is qualitative. Extracting research sources takes one form, sources of bibliographical data in the form of authoritative books and journal articles related to integrative Arabic learning. In terms of approach, this study uses a qualitative approach and a philosophical approach. The qualitative approach is related to the quality, value, or meaning that is explained through language or words. While the philosophical approach to explaining the scientific basis and nature or wisdom of a formal object. This study confirms that integrative Arabic learning is learning Arabic that combines the four language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), elements of Arabic, language competence (competence linguistics, communicative competence, and cultural competence) and integrates all aspects of learning both academic and non-academic so that all Arabic learning programs are designed and implemented in an integrated and programmed manner in every student's daily life. Integrative Arabic learning is precisely in accordance with the character of the language itself which is an inseparable unit where the breadth of language must be treated as a whole and not narrowly. Several scholars who support the above opinion include Ibn Khaldun, Tamam Hassan, Ahmad Abduh Iwadh, Muhbib Abdul Wahab, Munther Younes, Farid Khalfawi, and Balqasim Malikiyah. The conclusion of this study is different from Noam Chomsky's opinion who concluded that language ability is a natural talent, not determined by the natural environment because language is not a habit.

Mindset as a potential link between family background and high-school achievement

The link between students’ family background and their school achievement is well documented. The recent literature has also investigated how social and emotional skills and mindsets relate to educational outcomes. Here I examine how mindset—that is, whether students believe more in that intellectual abilities are fixed or capable of growth—is related to family background and school achievement in Norway. I find that students with higher-educated parents have lower levels of a fixed mindset on entering high school. I also estimate heterogeneity in this association using multilevel modeling. The predicted level of students’ fixed mindset is low for higher-performing middle-school students, irrespective of parents’ education. Furthermore, low middle-school performance predicts higher levels of a fixed mindset, particularly for students with lower-educated parents. A higher level of fixed mindset on entering high school is related to lower achievement after the first year. The results suggest that students’ belief in “natural talent” is a mechanism worthy of further investigation as it is more malleable than the mechanisms traditionally used to explain differences in academic performance according to family background.

Ella von Schultz-Adajewski (1846–1926): The Creative Fate of a Musician and Studies of the Musical Folklore of European Peoples

The article is devoted to Ella von Schultz-Adajewski, who left a convincing mark in the Russian and European musical culture of the second half of the 19th — early 21st centuries. The talented musician, born in Russia, continued her creative life in Italy and Germany. Her natural talents and brilliant education (she studied with leading professors of the St Petersburg Conservatory: A.Dreyshok, N.I.Zaremba, A. S.Famintsyn, I.K.Voyachek) allowed her to maximize her professional potential as a pianist, composer, and music researcher. The author of original works in various genres that are attractive to modern performers, Ella von Schultz-Adajewski combined the role of a practicing musician with deep, original theoretical works in the field of comparative musicology. Actually, she became one of the discoverers of this method, which formed the basis of the science of ethnomusicology. The bright artistic and scientific heritage has not yet received a decent assessment in Russian musicology. Meanwhile, in the history of world culture, Ella von Schultz was destined to become the discoverer of the musical folklore of the Friulian Christians, whose folk culture was also the subject of serious scientific interests of outstanding philologists, linguists of St. Petersburg University: I.I. Sreznevsky, I.Baudouin de Courtenay. The works of the musician and wordsmiths laid the foundation of knowledge about the culture of the Slavs, who have been living in Northern Italy for centuries. In the articles devoted to the folklore of various European peoples, the author seeks to find a deep “matrix” reflecting the genetic features of the culture of a particular ethnic group. Innovative for its time are the idea of Ella von Schultz about the inseparable connection of musical folklore and the context of its existence, methods of musical analysis using synoptic tables. The article publishes archival materials for the first time, provides information reflecting the period of Ella von Schultz’s studies at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, her contacts with Russian musicians after her departure abroad. For the first time, unknown scientific articles are also characterized, in which folklore samples are considered from the standpoint of “ethnological documents”.

RELAÇÃO ENTRE CAPACIDADES ESPORTIVAS E POTENCIAL ATLÉTICO NO INDIVÍDUO PORTADOR DE DOENÇAS CRÔNICAS

ABSTRACT Introduction Success in sports depends on the athlete’s potential, including the presence of chronic diseases that can negatively affect a sports career. The issue studied is complex, and its solution depends on a combination of factors that act as basal components. The relevance of the research topic mentioned here is determined by the need to study the relationship between these two factors in the context of their mutual influence on an individual’s sports career development prospects. Objective This scientific study aims to establish a relationship between sports skills and athletic potential in an individual with chronic diseases. Methods The main approach of this study was a combination of systemic analysis of the relationship between various aspects of an individual’s talent with the development of his sports career, a theoretical understanding of the relationship of this factor, and the influence of chronic diseases on sport activity. Results The main results obtained in this scientific study should be considered the determination of the quality of an athlete’s achievements on his natural talent and the influence of chronic diseases. Conclusion The prospects for future scientific research in this direction are determined by a real need for the search for and practical application of methods to determine the dependence of sporting achievements on factors included in the theme of this scientific work. The applied value of this scientific study lies in the possibility of the practical application of its results to form such methods for future approaches. Evidence level II; Therapeutic studies - outcomes research.

Create in Me a Pure Heart, O God, And Renew a Steadfast Spirit within Me: On Some New Details of Creative Biographies of Sisters Olena and Olha Kulchytska (From Archival Materials)

The article’s purpose is to publish interesting and significant archival materials, introduced into scientific circulation for the first time, namely: Biographical Data, Recorded from O. L. Kulchytska in September 1–3 1947 in the Sanatorium “Syniak” in Transcarpathia; Olena Kulchytska’s Autobiography of the 1940s old and an excerpt from a S. Butnyk-Siverskyi’s archival encyclopedic entry about his participation in Olena Kulchytska’s exhibitions up to and including 1947, accompanied by an introductory article and commentary. These archival documents will be interesting and useful in further research of creative biographies of the mistresses. The materials are stored at the Department of Visual and Applied Arts of the M. Rylskyi Institute of Art Studies, Folkloristics and Ethnology (National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) and are published with keeping to authorial style, spelling, and punctuation with minor correcting. The creation of the sisters Olena Lvivna Kulchytska (1877–1967) and Olha-Melaniia Lvivna (1873–1940) Kulchytska occupies a prominent, significant place in the history of domestic art and organically fits into the context of European art. Natural talent, intelligence, brilliant knowledge of their craft, artistic taste, ability to emanate their own refined and unique world, their attitudes to art, dignity of soul and intentions – these are the features that were inherent in both sisters. The range of Olena Kulchytska’s creative heritage is wide and well-known among specialists, educated public, and admirers of fine arts. The artist successfully worked in various kinds of art: graphic art, painting, and applied arts. A gifted draftsman, watercolourist, aquafortist, and illustrator, in particular of children’s books, it is she who is associated with the revival of woodcutting and linocutting techniques in domestic art. Olena Kulchytska worked in the portraiture, genre painting, landscape painting, as well as in the genre of religious painting (she created a unique iconostasis); she was engaged in art weaving, modelling and designing of clothes, furniture, and architectural décor. In addition, she made sketches for ceramics and carpets. Known for her wonderful enamels, the mistress also worked in the fields of metal, small-scale sculpture, and jewellery. Olena Kulchytska devoted a lot of time to teaching and ethnography. Her intense exhibition activity is also impressive. Olha Kulchytska is a renowned mistress of decorative and applied arts, a carpet weaver; she was also engaged in pedagogical practice. Together with her sister, she created distinguished works of carpet art. Certainly, the archival materials now published should greatly complement creative biographies of the mistresses, mostly Olena Kulchytska, with new details.

Design of Boosted Cascade and RTLBP Features based Face Recognition Module Using ML in OpenCV

Over the past ten years, face recognition in images has become more and more important. Since facial recognition is a natural talent for humans, it could be challenging to train a computer to recognize faces. The detecting difficulty comprises three stages. Without the requirement for picture difference or skin color identification, the detector operates in real-time at fifteen frames per second. Proposed and developed is a face recognition system based on Real Time Local Binary Pattern (RTLBP) and Boosted Cascade of Simple Features (BCSF). Preprocessing, face identification and recognition, and annotation are the three stages of the system. Segmentation, filtering, thresholding, and improving image quality are all part of preprocessing. The face, which is crucial for identification, is identified using the BCSF approach. Every face in the database has a correlation and RTLBP calculation. Correlation and RTLBP analysis between the captured face and the database face is then used to conduct recognition. One statistical technique that falls within the large category of factor analysis is the Boosted Cascade of Simple Features. By reducing the massive quantity of data stored to the extent of the feature space needed to represent the data efficiently, the BCSF seeks to achieve this goal. The RTLBP is designed to recognize faces by using a wide 1-D pixel vector consisting of a 2-D face picture in compact main parts of the space function. This is referred to as self-space projection. The identity of the vectors in the covariance matrix, which is centred on a set of fingerprint images, helps determine the proper space. Using OpenCV, Open Computer Vision (OpenCV), Python, Eigen-face, Fisher Face, LBPH, and Haar Cascade programming, an algorithm for a camera-based, real-time face recognition system is developed in this project. The name of the detected individual appears in the top left corner of a highlighted rectangle that annotates the face. The process of recognition takes 10.18 seconds, with a 99.93% success rate.

The Universal Character of Crime: The Mother of All Wounds That Never Healed

This article aims to contribute thoughts in response to a series of questions around general issues related to (1) crimes that involve individual humans as perpetrators, and (2) traits inherent in the structure of every crime. The method that guides this work in formulating a comprehensive vision of truth is “conceptual analysis”. The author, therefore, will strip and decipher the standard concepts of crime down to their most elementary units. All data that is qualified to be processed analytically-conceptually is bibliographical (electronic and manual) data. The data collection stage is guided by keywords. Results: (1) Crime is an intersubjective activity. Every behavior can be qualified as evil/criminal as long as the element of dolus malus has been fulfilled, or at least, it expresses a shape of indifference from the perpetrator that can harm the soul, body, and property of others (culpa). There is no other definition beyond this which will be more significant in showing its normative-juridical and socio-juridical character. (2) everyone can become evil as long as there are: (a) potential victims; (b) mens rea, and (c) opportunity. The reason: we are creatures endowed by God with the skills to (a) defend ourselves and (b) project a better life in the future. Whoever the person is, one day may become an easy target in the act of violence because basically, people outside of us are selfish beings who carry natural talent as criminal beings wherever they go, homo homini lupus; (3) every crime has three general characteristics: (a) destructive; (b) antisocial; and (c) producing wounds that are often incurable.

Eric Nelson’s Theology of Liberalism: A Comment from the Periphery

We liberals, Eric Nelson tells us, live in a political world that has two possible theological or philosophical foundations. One holds that our fellow humans are moral agents (and social, economic, and intellectual agents); they are the owners of their works, responsible for the good and bad consequences of their works, and so meriting praise and blame, reward and punishment. According to the other, our fellow humans are vessels merely, through which external forces work: God, history, economic conditions, nature/nurture—so that they are not responsible agents. Their natural endowments, their capacities and talents, even their strength (or weakness) of character are “arbitrary from a moral point of view” and cannot give us any reason for praise or blame—certainly not for reward (an exception is sometimes made for punishment). The first view, which Nelson describes as Pelagian, underlies what we might call classical liberalism, the second, Calvinist or anti-Pelagian, underlies Rawlsian and post-Rawlsian liberalism. Both these versions of liberalism have theological roots, which Nelson urges us not to forget. But he is most engaged with the second version and with its anti-Pelagian sources. Its contemporary protagonists, he thinks, have not been well served by secularization. His argument is dense, and I am not sure that I fully understand every part of it. But I am also not sure about its necessity, since there seem to me good reasons to worry not only about post-Rawlsian liberalism but also about the theology that preceded it. (I like to think, but won't argue here, that my own liberal social-democratic commitments work well in both their Pelagian-religious and secular forms.)

Surprise, Hope and Gift: A Pneumatological Account of the Unexpected Nature of Vocation

AbstractGod's call can be surprising and unexpected. This article evaluates theologies of vocation in light of this potential for surprise. Contemporary Protestant theological interpretations of vocation are critiqued as incomplete due to their tendency to present vocation as the expression and utilisation of innate abilities without giving sufficient account of how an individual might be called to something totally new and surprising. It will be suggested that this arises from a focus on creation as the dominant theological lens for interpreting vocation. An alternative focused on eschatology and pneumatology will be proposed in which both natural talents and new abilities are recognised as gifts of the Spirit given for the purpose of anticipatory proleptic participation in the coming Kingdom of God.

Pedagogical system and moral and ethical teachings of Hryhoriy Skovoroda through the prism of three centuries

The article is devoted to the study of the unique pedagogical and moral and ethical views of the Ukrainian philosopher and teacher Hryhoriy Skovoroda. The source of these views was the traditions of folk pedagogy, folk wisdom, folk views on education and upbringing. His pedagogical views are based on ethical problems relevant to Europe in the 18th century and on Socratic dialogues. They reflected the main features of progressive pedagogy: humanism, patriotism, high morality, nationalism, "conformity with nature". Skovoroda developed one of the leading problems of philosophical and anthropological discourse – the problem of self-actualization and self-realization of the individual, based on the concepts of Socrates, Plato, Democritus, Aristotle, Cicero, and Augustine Aurelius. He reflected his pedagogical views in parables, poems, fables and the epistolary genre. Skovoroda believed that the teacher should develop children's natural talents, be able to feel their desire for "related" work, ridiculed the blind copying of Western traditions and manners, distant and alien to the nature of Ukrainian children. These principles of humanism and "kinship" were aimed at achieving a noble goal – the upbringing and education of students, taking into account their capabilities and inclinations. Education and upbringing of a person who has work in accordance with natural gifts, inclinations and abilities permeates the pedagogical system of Hryhoriy Skovoroda.
 Skovoroda's poetry and prose, philosophical works have a highly ethical and moral direction and are based on the worldview of the Ukrainian people. The thinker considered the doctrine of man and his happiness to be the most important, it became the content of H. Skovoroda's philosophical and life searches. He considers happiness as a state of independence and peace of mind, which is achieved by freeing oneself from the pressure of the surrounding world and overcoming boundless passions, evil will within a person. Skovoroda emphasized the importance for a teacher to have a high moral and spiritual culture. Only a teacher with a high moral and spiritual qualities is able to ensure the correct upbringing of the young generation.

John Arthur "Jaki" Byard

2022 marks the centennial of the birth of pianist/composer John Arthur “Jaki” Byard. Byard is highly regarded among his many musician students and serious students of jazz history, but his place in the historical narrative of twentieth century jazz, and the nature of his music, have challenged conventional approaches to assessing them. Attributes are assigned to his playing and methodology that convey a simplistic interpretation of a complex man who expressed a profound and individual notion of the cultural, social, and political nature of his music and jazz. Well known for a comprehensive grasp of jazz history and a virtuosic ability to articulate it musically, his intentions are diluted and obfuscated by misinterpretation of the way he applies humor, eclecticism, and historical reference. This paper will examine Byard’s background as the source of his expansive view, his natural talents as humorist and educator, and how these elements led him to adopt the classical definition of eclecticism to craft a unique voice that was both inclusive and specific.

Hannah Claire Haines, 1891–1974: Not the Average “Militant Female”

Hannah Claire Haines, 1891–1974: Not the Average “Militant Female”

Поэтика Лу Цзи

The aim of the study is to determine the main principles and categories of Lu Ji’s poetics in the “Ode on Literature”, its internal unity and the criteria of literary character. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the complex and historical-typological consideration of various aspects of the writer’s poetological concept. The obtained results showed that the poetics of Lu Ji as an integral aesthetic system is determined by the principles of correspondence and imitation, is based on the categories of work, creative work and author, provides for the unity of natural talent and skill, forms the notions of conception, idea, inspiration, imagination, beauty, proceeds from the understanding of the literature specifics as an art form.