Organizational Paradigm Research Articles

Grit through the grind: exploring sport employee work grit

ABSTRACT Research question Sport management scholars have recently taken a greater interest in the psychological processes of sport employees in order to generate well-being among them. One source of well-being for sport employees could be work grit, which is an internal resource that can be utilized by the employee and, by extension, the organization for goal achievement. This study was designed to explore how work grit is experienced by sport employees through the lens of the positive organizational behavior paradigm. Research methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 22 full-time American sport employees to gain insight into strategies for goal attainment as well as their purpose for working in sport. Utilizing both inductive and deductive processes as part of a thematic analysis process, a conceptualization of sport employee grit was developed. Results and findings The analysis of the data helped to develop a model of sport employee work grit. The model contains two integrated elements of sport employee work grit (goal achievement and fulfillment through sport) and proposed outcomes (perseverance, performance, and psychological well-being). Implications This study introduces work grit theory and its application within the sport management discipline. The findings of this study also suggest that work grit has the potential to advance sport employee well-being and positive organizational behavior theory within sport management literature. It is further suggested that grit can assist sport practitioners in designing effective human resource management strategies to simultaneously help sport employees and the sport organizations for which they work.

New Library Services in the Framework of Digital Humanities Projects: Foreign Experience

Integration of information and communication technology platforms is one of the incentives for the development of Digital Humanities (DH) projects abroad in their increasingly close interaction with academic, primarily University libraries. The purpose of the article is to analyze the deepening interaction of libraries with DH projects within the single digital paradigm, as well as to analyze new services for project management, data curation, organization of online publications, preservation and exchange of databases, etc. In the era of digital convergence, large scientific libraries abroad are actively developing new models of cooperation with DH projects, forming special service packages for continuous servicing of scientists on the basis of the integrated approach.The article discusses the new concept of library services for DH projects, draws attention to the problem of classification and ranking of library services in order to streamline the work and improve its efficiency, describes the existing multi-level service models developed in the library systems of the major US Universities. In the context of formation of the new package of library services within the framework of DH projects, the article considers the new practices and operational models on which they are based. The author describes the experience of University libraries in the Netherlands and Canada. Under the innovation pressure in the field of library technologies, the service package offered by scientific libraries in developed countries is constantly expanding and modernizing. It includes not only digitization of printed materials, computer assistance, but also management of databases, preservation and exchange of scientific data, organization of digital publications, consultations in the field of copyright protection, etc. Development of new practices in the field of digital services management changes the organizational paradigm of library work, puts forward new standards of professional activity, which require continuous training to meet, i.e. launches an institutional rebranding of the library.

New Library Services in the Framework of Digital Humanities Projects: Foreign Experience

Integration of information and communication technology platforms is one of the incentives for the development of Digital Humanities (DH) projects abroad in their increasingly close interaction with academic, primarily University libraries. The purpose of the article is to analyze the deepening interaction of libraries with DH projects within the single digital paradigm, as well as to analyze new services for project management, data curation, organization of online publications, preservation and exchange of databases, etc. In the era of digital convergence, large scientific libraries abroad are actively developing new models of cooperation with DH projects, forming special service packages for continuous servicing of scientists on the basis of the integrated approach.The article discusses the new concept of library services for DH projects, draws attention to the problem of classification and ranking of library services in order to streamline the work and improve its efficiency, describes the existing multi-level service models developed in the library systems of the major US Universities. In the context of formation of the new package of library services within the framework of DH projects, the article considers the new practices and operational models on which they are based. The author describes the experience of University libraries in the Netherlands and Canada. Under the innovation pressure in the field of library technologies, the service package offered by scientific libraries in developed countries is constantly expanding and modernizing. It includes not only digitization of printed materials, computer assistance, but also management of databases, preservation and exchange of scientific data, organization of digital publications, consultations in the field of copyright protection, etc. Development of new practices in the field of digital services management changes the organizational paradigm of library work, puts forward new standards of professional activity, which require continuous training to meet, i.e. launches an institutional rebranding of the library.

Mutational oncology of lung cancer: molecular markers, drugs, negotiation conditions and experiences in national reference centers.

The gradual availability of genomic profiling tests and the "agnostic approvals" from FDA and EMA have opened the oncology mutational model phase, which complements and integrates the traditional hystological approach. The non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is characterized by many molecular alterations and represents the need of a change from the traditional diagnostic, therapeutic and organisational paradigms to the "mutational" ones. From the Italian National Healthcare System point of view, access and reimbursement of drugs based on the hystological model were managed thorugh the Italian Medicines Agency's (AIFA) monitoring registries and the managed entry agreements: risk-sharing, cost-sharing and payment by results. The Italian reference oncological centres, which contributed to this report with their experiences, have shown the heterogenous approach to the molecular diagnostics (included next generation system tests). Facing the high complexity of the mutational model, outcomes handling and genomic profiling tests access inevitably result different among centres. The activation of multidisciplinary groups for the government of clinical processes, appropriateness and economic sustainability are essential. The Molecular Tumor Board (MTB) allows the management of such complexity, the interpretation of genomic profiling outcomes and the choice of drugs that are alrealdy authorized by AIFA, off-label or still under investigation. Moreover, in order to guarantee the uniformity, the data traceability and the transparency of assessment reports, a network of MTB must be validated by AIFA through specific criteria. To date, the oncological centres presented by this report are undergoing the experimental phase of the national genomic operating system implementation and represent the starting point of the deep organisational changement to the mutational approach and of its real and appropriate integration into the daily clinical practice.

Education as a destructor of social order

Introduction. The article examines the problem of the interdependence of the state and processes of changing the social order from the state and processes of changing social institutions designed to guarantee its stability. As one of such institutions, the educational system is considered, which in its traditional state actively performed a protective function, acting as a guarantor of the stability of the social order. In the context of the fourth industrial Revolution, the content and form of educational practices and the entire educational space have changed so much that education as a social institution loses the prerogative of protecting and guaranteeing the stability of the social order. The purpose of the article is to determine the main substrates underlying the social order on the basis of the historical and philosophical classification of the social order concepts, to show which turbulent phenomena in education most deform these substrates and thereby disqualify education in its function as a guarantor of the stability of both the social order and society as a whole. Materials and Methods. The historical and philosophical approach made it possible to form and classify the main concepts in the understanding of the social order and to differentiate its substrate bases using the tabular method. The activity-based and structural-functional approaches allowed us to identify the deforming phenomena that occur today in Russian education and have the greatest impact on the destabilization of the social order. To substantiate the conceptual and methodological basis of the study, the method of critical analysis of current research literature and the interpretation of the results obtained in it is used. Results. Historical and philosophical analysis has shown that the underlying foundations of the stability of the social order are (both in historical and modern explication) coercion, interests, values and norms, as well as cultural inertia. Social institutions (education, science, religion, law, etc.) ensure the functioning of the substrate bases, their correction in the direction of compliance with state needs, and thereby stabilize the existing social order as a system of governance and power mechanisms. However, the fourth technological revolution, which began in the second half of the XX – beginning of the XXI century, radically changed the functionality of social institutions. This historical period, due to the significance of the changes, was called the “era of turbulence” (A. Greenspan's term). This could not but affect the stability and foundations of the social order. The most pronounced deformations in the era of turbulence are those of education and science, that is, precisely those social institutions that, along with law and culture, in traditional societies served as a guarantor of the stability of the state. The greatest destabilizing effect of education on the social order is: the ongoing change in organizational paradigms of interaction between education and other spheres of public life (from “education-science-production” to “university – government – business”); the change in the status of subjects of educational interactions: the main object of educational interactions is the individual, business systems and the family, and not the state; fictivization of education (especially higher education) in its classical form, which manifests itself in the growing importance of virtual learning, narrow specialization and massization; the growth of educational inequality with its development into a social one. These phenomena really destabilize the social order both as values/norms, as cultural traditions, and as dialectically combined interests of the authorities and individuals. Conclusions. The study of the interactions of the social order has shown that the turbulent phenomena occurring in the social institutions of society can radically affect the stability of the social order. This, in turn, increases the turbulence in society as a whole.

Malaria Rapid Diagnostic Tests: Literary Review and Recommendation for a Quality Assurance, Quality Control Algorithm.

Malaria rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) have had an enormous global impact which contributed to the World Health Organization paradigm shift from empiric treatment to obtaining a parasitological diagnosis prior to treatment. Microscopy, the classic standard, requires significant expertise, equipment, electricity, and reagents. Alternatively, RDT’s lower complexity allows utilization in austere environments while achieving similar sensitivities and specificities. Worldwide, there are over 200 different RDT brands that utilize three antigens: Plasmodium histidine-rich protein 2 (PfHRP-2), Plasmodium lactate dehydrogenase (pLDH), and Plasmodium aldolase (pALDO). pfHRP-2 is produced exclusively by Plasmodium falciparum and is very Pf sensitive, but an alternative antigen or antigen combination is required for regions like Asia with significant Plasmodium vivax prevalence. RDT sensitivity also decreases with low parasitemia (<100 parasites/uL), genetic variability, and prozone effect. Thus, proper RDT selection and understanding of test limitations are essential. The Center for Disease Control recommends confirming RDT results by microscopy, but this is challenging, due to the utilization of clinical laboratory standards, like the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the Clinical Lab Improvement Act (CLIA), and limited recourses. Our focus is to provide quality assurance and quality control strategies for resource-constrained environments and provide education on RDT limitations.

FORMING FUTURE SPEECH THERAPISTS MOTIVATIONAL ORIENTATION IN PROFESSIONAL TRAINING PROCESS

The article focuses on the modification of organizational paradigms for the educational process and finding out the ways to improve the content of future speech therapists training.The author points out that the current format of distance learning requires a concentration of efforts aimed at motivating each student, improving an interaction processes between teacher and student. The formation of motivational and personal criterion for the readiness of future speech therapists for professional activities involves increasing the importance of professional motives, increasing interest in speech therapy as a science, willingness to work with children with speech disorders.The importance of including future speech therapists in the professional environment for the purpose of successful formation of motivational orientation is substantiated: making practical lessons with speech therapists-practitioners, problem solving in the professional situations during practical lessons. Modernization of the content of practical lessons for students and use of practice-oriented and research approaches allowed to form a system of positive motivation: understanding the important role of speech therapist, forming the personality traits needed in correctional work, organizing successful cooperation with children with speech disorders and their parents, creating a barrier-free information and educational environment.The results of the study of readiness for professional activity by the motivational and personal criterion show that students highly value the presence of professionally important traits of a speech therapist (an optimistic prognosis, barrier-free communication, psychological readiness to work with a child with speech disorders and provide counselling and social psychological support for family in which this child is brought up).It is pointed out that the use of training techniques can increase the level of professional motivation necessary for successful mastering of the speech therapist profession.&#x0D; Keywords: professional training, speech therapist, motivational and personal criterion, motivation, professional traits, professional environment, educational process, personal traits.

КОНЦЕПТУАЛЬНІ ПРИНЦИПИ УПРАВЛІННЯ РОЗВИТКОМ ІННОВАЦІЙНО АКТИВНИХ ПІДПРИЄМСТВ АГРАРНОЇ СФЕРИ

The article presents the research findings on managing the development of innovation active agribusiness enterprises along with providing a well-reasoned approach to managing agricultural innovations. An in-depth analysis of fundamental conceptual premises revealed the presence of a strong correlation between scientific and technological progress and economic innovation process putting special emphasis on the dominant role of science and technology advances, the core of which is innovation. Innovations being a separate segment of the investment market and its object, both at a time, are closely intertwined with investment since investment beyond innovation often does not make sense, as far as it is hardly possible to keep effectively reproducing the same capital equipment, technology or organizational structure. Moreover, innovations are doomed to fail without attracting investment. Given the crucial significance of innovations for the agribusiness development, the need to build an innovation strategy that ensures the overall alignment of business innovation goals and investment objectives is considered paramount. Apart from the above, the study also offers a detailed overview on the best practices of implementing effective incentive mechanisms to encourage new forms of interaction and cooperation in science and technology between research institutions and industry which operate as integrated structures of different types. Such organizational paradigm of agribusiness innovative activities contributes to tackle the issues of fundamentally new innovative development associated with building new technological modes that spur the emergence of new management patterns for the “science – technology – industry” cycle. It is argued that the ultimate assessment of management effectiveness of innovative agribusiness development could be performed only after the completion of the final phase of innovation implementation since only after bringing a novelty to market one can evaluate the market demand satisfaction rate.

Access to health care among racialised immigrants to Canada in later life: a theoretical and empirical synthesis

AbstractEvidence that immigrants tend to be underserved by the health-care system in the hosting country is well documented. While the impacts of im/migration on health-care utilisation patterns have been addressed to some extent in the existing literature, the conventional approach tends to homogenise the experience of racialised and White immigrants, and the intersecting power axes of racialisation, immigration and old age have been largely overlooked. This paper aims to consolidate three macro theories of health/behaviours, including Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory, the World Health Organization's paradigm of social determinants of health and Andersen's Behavioral Model of Health Service Use, to develop and validate an integrated multilevel framework of health-care access tailored for racialised older immigrants. Guided by this framework, a narrative review of 35 Canadian studies was conducted. Findings reveal that racial minority immigrants’ vulnerability in accessing health services are intrinsically linked to a complex interplay between racial-nativity status with numerous markers of power differences. These multilevel parameters range from socio-economic challenges, cross-cultural differences, labour and capital adequacy in the health sector, organisational accessibility and sensitivity, inter-sectoral policies, to societal values and ideology as forms of oppression. This review suggests that, counteracting a prevailing discourse of personal and cultural barriers to care, the multilevel framework is useful to inform upstream structural solutions to address power imbalances and to empower racialised immigrants in later life.

Human nucleoli comprise multiple constrained territories, tethered to individual chromosomes.

It is unknown how ribosomal gene (rDNA) arrays from multiple chromosomal nucleolar organizers (NORs) partition within human nucleoli. Exploration of this paradigm for chromosomal organization is complicated by the shared DNA sequence composition of five NOR-bearing acrocentric chromosome p-arms. Here, we devise a methodology for genetic manipulation of individual NORs. Efficient "scarless" genome editing of rDNA repeats is achieved on "poised" human NORs held within monochromosomal cell hybrids. Subsequent transfer to human cells introduces "active" NORs yielding readily discernible functional customized ribosomes. We reveal that ribosome biogenesis occurs entirely within constrained territories, tethered to individual NORs inside a larger nucleolus.

Crossing Academic Boundaries for Diagnostic Safety: 10 Complex Challenges and Potential Solutions From Clinical Perspectives and High-Reliability Organizing Principles.

We apply the high-reliability organization (HRO) paradigm to the diagnostic process, outlining challenges to enacting HRO principles in diagnosis and offering solutions for how diagnostic process stakeholders can overcome these barriers. Evidence shows that healthcare is starting to organize for higher reliability by employing various principles and practices of HRO. These hold promise for enhancing safer care, but there has been little consideration of the challenges that clinicians and healthcare systems face while enacting HRO principles in the diagnostic process. To effectively deploy the HRO perspective, these barriers must be seriously considered. We review key principles of the HRO paradigm, the diagnostic errors and harms that potentially can be prevented by its enactment, the challenges that clinicians and healthcare systems face in executing various principles and practices, and possible solutions that clinicians and organizational leaders can take to overcome these challenges and barriers. Our analyses reveal multiple challenges including the inherent diagnostic uncertainty; the lack of diagnosis-focused performance feedback; the fact that diagnosis is often a solo, rather than team, activity; the tendency to simplify the diagnostic process; and professional and institutional status hierarchies. But these challenges are not insurmountable-there are strategies and solutions available to overcome them. The HRO lens offers some important ideas for how the safety of the diagnostic process can be improved. The ideas proposed here can be enacted by both individual clinicians and healthcare leaders; both are necessary for making systematic progress in enhancing diagnostic performance.

 A Multi-paradigmatic Interdisciplinary Framework for Human Service Systems

Increasingly, human service systems are complicated by interprofessional spaces, quickening technological change, and social uncertainty. New guides built on existing research, practice, and interdisciplinary knowledge can lead practitioners through these complexities. Targeted toward an interdisciplinary audience, this article introduces four mechanisms to navigate the practical realities of human services organizations. The first, paradigms of organizational analysis, centers on embedded assumptions within human services organizations and their implications. The second, an organizational health paradigm, focuses on organizational health and functioning. The third, an ethical paradigm, incorporates interdisciplinary ethics across various disciplines. The final integrates these mechanisms along four practical pillars of human services systems: policy, organizations, community, and planning/evaluation that incorporate context, focus, and application of organizational practice activities. This framework aims to reduce analytical complexity, comprehensively guide practitioners in understanding contemporary human services systems, and apply these integrated dimensions across policy, organization, community, and planning/evaluation in human services settings.

Reflection of Challenges and Opportunities within the COVID-19 Pandemic to Include Biological Hazards into DRR Planning.

COVID-19 has reinforced the need to revisit the integration of health within disaster risk reduction (DRR) strategies for biological hazards in a system-wide approach. In November 2020, DRR experts attended the Asia-Pacific Partnership for Disaster Risk Reduction (APP-DRR) Forum to share progress and learnings in the areas of health system resilience, data management, residual risk management, risk communication, digital literacy, and knowledge product marketing. Advancements for health in DRR included the importance of multi-sectoral, multi-hazard action plans; adaptation to technological advancements in data collection, dissemination and protection; promoting the health and wellbeing of essential and nonprofessional workers; and improving inclusivity in digital literacy. COVID-19 has affected progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and created a unique opportunity within DRR to re-evaluate the adequacy of response mechanisms against concurrent, cascading or interacting risks of future biological hazards. Health emergency disaster risk management (Health-EDRM) is a new World Health Organization paradigm that includes DRR at intra-, inter- and multidisciplinary levels. Scientific advancement under Health-EDRM is necessary for health and non-health actors in DRR education and research. Continuous education on the multifaceted risk governance is a key to building awareness, capacity and accelerating towards achieving the international DRR and the SDG targets.

Эффективная организация труда «удаленных» сотрудников: от функциональных задач к программному обеспечению

In the new realities of the world, including the COVID-19 pandemic, the paradigm of management and work organization in companies is changing. The industrial revolution and digitalization are “threatening” to replace human labor with automation, robotics and artificial intelligence. The cluster of IT companies is actively developing. The management of the companies accepted the challenge of lightning fast transfer of office employees to the remote mode. The study provides recommendations on the use of software to solve functional tasks for managing employees and remote teams. Based on a detailed analysis of the characteristics, practices of companies and price guidelines, a list of software for managing employees on remote employment is formed. The software is presented for functional tasks: discussion of operational tasks using video communications, setting and monitoring long-term tasks, document management and online accounting, quick access to services and data storage. Maintaining a healthy and developing digital corporate culture is key to the success of remote work.

Modern Trends and Prospects for the Development of Russian Healthcare: The Role of Digital Technologies

Health care as an open system is affected by external fluctuations: the processes of globalization, digitalization and informatization; modernization and virtualization; increasing complexity of problems and volumes of information; increasing share of qualified, creative work; challenges and threats of the future, increasing social tension and devaluation of values. All this leads to a change in the management paradigm, which is based on future management, advanced development, self-education and self-development. Data analysis of VTSIOM secondary sociological studies and author’s analysis of the content of discussions from August 2018- to February 2019 of medical professionals ’online communities were conducted. The study has identified the following current trends: the growth of informatization, virtualization, the emergence of new medical technologies, the formation of the global medical market, the change in the management paradigm of public and non-profit health organizations, the formation of new requirements for managers and staff of medical organizations. Global trends are linked to the growing popularity of digital healthcare. Medical institutions, diagnostic laboratories and insurance companies are gradually getting involved in the digitalization process and creating a single electronic system. This task is included in the National strategy for the development of artificial intelligence in Russia. The study has fixed that the problem of accessibility and quality of medical care in the country remains relevant, which is confirmed by the data of independent sociological studies. The main risks of digital medicine development are data security and insufficient professional competence of medical personnel in the field of information technology. It is important to support the processes the of users number of medical relevant social networks: iVrach.com, imedicina.ru, vrachirf.ru, doctocnarabote.ru, novmed.net, medtusovka.ru, doctornet.ru as well as consolidation of Russian technology companies in developing their own up-to-date software products for digital medicine.&#x0D; Keywords: Digital Healthcare; digital technologies; quality of medical services, telemedicine, Russian healthcare, risks of digitalization Introduction

Spatial grasp model for dynamic distributed systems

More complex distributed and intelligent systems which relate to economy, ecology, communi-cations, security and defense, and cover both terrestrial and celestial environments are being developed. Their efficient management, especially in dynamic and unpredictable situations, needs serious investigations and development in scientific and technological areas. Their tradi-tional representations as parts operating by certain algorithms and exchanging messages are be-coming inadequate as such systems need much stronger integration to operate as holistic organ-isms pursuing global and often varying goals. This paper is focused on a completely different paradigm for organization and management of large dynamic and distributed systems. This par-adigm extends and transforms the notion of an algorithm for the description of knowledge pro-cessing logic. Moreover, it allows it to exist, propagate and operate as an integral whole in any distributed spaces which may constantly change their volumes and structures. Taking into con-sideration some organizational features related to dangerous viruses, as well as recent pandem-ics, this ubiquitous Spatial Grasp (SG) model is presented in the paper at philosophical and im-plementation levels, together with the introduction of special spatial charts for its exhibition and studies, which extend traditional algorithmic flowcharts towards working directly in dis-tributed spaces. Utilization of this model for the creation of resultant Spatial Grasp Technology and its basic Spatial Grasp Language, already described in details in numerous publications, is briefed as well. Elementary examples of dealing with distributed networks, collective human-robotic behavior, removal of space debris by a constellation of cleaning satellites and simulat-ing the spread of virus and vaccination against it explain SG advantages over traditional system organizations.

AgroTech investment and AgroSmart economy in Russia

Abstract. The scientific article is devoted to the study of the formation of smart agriculture in Russia, taking into account the main trends in the development of the digital economy, as well as the characterization of the most important points of development of the national AgroSmart economy. Given the escalating problem of sanctions and the chronic nature of Russia’s food wars with both near and far abroad countries, the issue of forming a new organizational and technological paradigm in the agro-industrial complex is a vital step to ensure the well-being of the whole society. Currently, in the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation there is a significant technological gap in terms of ensuring the smart growth of agribusinesses based on digital technologies and solutions, which negatively affects its production, export potential and financial condition. The validity and reliability of the results of scientific research was achieved through the correct construction of the logic and research scheme. Scientific and practical studies of Russian and foreign scientists in the field of agricultural business development, digital economy, public administration in the field of agriculture were used as the methodological and fundamental basis of the study.

ЦИФРОВА ГЛОБАЛІЗАЦІЯ В ЕПОХУ ЧЕТВЕРТОЇ ПРОМИСЛОВОЇ РЕВОЛЮЦІЇ: ПОТЕНЦІАЛ ТРАНСФОРМАЦІЇ

The article considers the potential for transformation of the world economy under the influence of digital globalization in the era of the fourth industrial revolution. It is substantiated that within the framework of digital globalization the paradigm of organization of production, configuration and content of international trade are changing. At the same time, the process of digitalization leads to qualitative changes in all spheres of production, economic and trade activities around the world. Formation of production technological processes using the Internet of Things, modules of artificial intelligence and 3D-printing allows to reduce production costs and increase the competitiveness of products. Attention is focused on the essence of the changes taking place, the directions of the vectors of economic development in the context of the changing digital space. Particular attention is paid to the functioning of new business models (in particular, digital platforms), the transformation of the structure, configuration, forms and methods of international trade, as well as the impact of ongoing processes on international competitiveness. An important place is given to the problems of e-commerce, the content of the processes taking place in this segment of international economic relations. Some approaches to solving the problems of digitalization at the international and national levels are proposed. In the global dimension, it is important to ensure, through the adoption of binding legal documents for WTO member states on the freedom of information exchange, aimed at stimulating innovative development, promoting the removal of barriers in the e-commerce segment, encouraging investment in digital infrastructure and human capital. . The development of the country's digital potential and digital infrastructure involves the implementation of localization measures, ie requires the creation of national platforms for the accumulation and storage of information. It is concluded that the global process of digitalization creates the potential for dynamic development of new business models, stimulates productivity and increases competitiveness.

Why Security Science?

In this paper, the authors are discussing the need to introduce security sciences as a new scientific field within the existing organization of social sciences. The development of quality, usable, and functional human knowledge and skills have been guaranteed safe and undisturbed development of individuals and communities since the beginning of their existence. The development of society has led to a change of paradigms on which reflections and analyses about security, conflict and war rested. This, in turn, brings us to the situation of the need to change those paradigms of organization, principles, concepts, and theories of security as a new scientific discipline that should enable the continuation of safe and unhindered development of human society.

Distance education as an answer to today’s challenges: cultural and artistic aspect

The purpose of the article lies in the comprehension of theoretical aspects of distance learning as the most efficient cultural and organizational paradigm of educational field development, specific nature of its realization, and prospects for cultural and artistic education development. The methodology of the research is based on the application of methods of hermeneutic interpretation (to determine specific features of distance education in foreign and national higher education establishments), comparative analysis (with the purpose to discover reasons for active development and peculiarities of realization of distance education technologies in European and US higher education establishments), structural and functional method (to discover the role of distance education in a time of civilizational globalization and social isolation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic). The scientific novelty lies in carrying out a theoretical analysis of distance education development in European countries, the USA and Ukraine, determination of advantages and disadvantages of implementation of distance education in the educational environment, the discovery of priority ways of distance education development for cultural and artistic disciplines. Conclusions. The COVID-19 pandemic provided conditions due to which adoption of distance education technologies to the traditional education system – internal and external – became the only possible form of implementation of the education activity. The new conditions caused the creation of a brand new educational environment that determined potential ways of higher education development in the future. The conceptual framework of search and realization of a new educational strategy needs to take into account a paradigm basis for cultural and artistic education and science development that is possible on the condition of adoptive integration of information and communication technologies into the cultural and artistic field.