Personal Worldview Research Articles

Beyond the Split between Formal School Identity and Teachers’ Personal Worldviews: Towards an Inclusive (Christian) School Identity

Religious diversity within Dutch schools has greatly increased. We carried out an empirical study to offer insights into how secondary school teachers (try to) relate to the formal Protestant Christian identity of their school, the challenges they experience in relation to their own personal worldview, and the recommendations they have to overcome these challenges. In our qualitative study, we interviewed thirty-two teachers from eight different schools. In selecting the schools, we took into account the diversity of Protestant Christian secondary education in the Netherlands. The teachers teach different subjects in a variety of disciplines (languages, creative arts, sciences, et cetera). For many teachers, their personal worldview does not align neatly with the formal religious identity of the school. As a result, teachers experience challenges in relation to, for example, the act of daily worship and (Christian) celebrations. Teachers also experience tensions regarding the extent to which schools could or should be open towards (religious) others. Teachers’ advice, among other recommendations, is to create room for an open exchange of views, opinions, and experiences between teachers and principals. Some teachers recommend that their principal reconsider the formal Christian identity of the school and search for another, more inclusive school identity with which everyone involved can better identify.

PHENOMENOLOGY OF INTERDISCIPLINARITY AND ITS APPLICATION CONDITIONS IN TRAINING PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS OF ART AND HUMANITIES

The issue of interdisciplinarity in the modern educational space has been viewed as its organizational principle ensuring that the organization of the educational process complies with the requirements for the development of vision of a holistic picture of the world and personal world view. It has been shown that interdisciplinarity has a wider potential for education and science and can be determined as the methodological basis for research conducted in terms of polyparadigmity. The phenomenology of interdisciplinarity characterizing it through the indications of communicativeness, scientific and semantic role, synergy, personal and world view orientation, and research potential has been revealed. The pedagogical conditions guiding an individual to the independent use of interdisciplinarity in the context of phenomenological features related to the formation of a holistic world view have been presented. It has been shown that pedagogical conditions are introduced on the basis of several interdisciplinary content lines that provide a rhizomatic interdisciplinary model of education: artistic content line uniting integrated programs in art, a professional art form, cultural studies, and folk art; humanitarian content line combining aesthetics, ethics, cultural studies, and even economics with artistic culture and a professional art form, based on multiculturalism as well; professional and pedagogical content line combining psychological, pedagogical, and physiological knowledge of art education and humanities with creativity and pedagogical skills of the teacher; personal and acmeological content line uniting the content concept of creative development and self-realization on the basis of interdisciplinary connections that intensify the way of achieving creative success; experimental and methodological content line combining scientific knowledge and research methodology with the study of art itself and the phenomena of art education. The essence of interdisciplinary thinking as a rhizomatic model for exploring polymodal information sources has been clarified. The phenomenology of interdisciplinarity and the ways of its disclosure, such as the activation of research intentions relating to the content lines of the professional field of knowledge, the development of constructive interdisciplinary content and its introduction into the self-study tasks bank, reliance on the experience of students acquired beyond the learning in an informal way have been explored. The effectiveness of the application of the artistic, humanitarian, professional and pedagogical, personal and acmeological, experimental and methodological lines of interdisciplinary synthesis has been confirmed.

Comparative Constructions in Tatar and Their Translation Methods

This article discussed the specifics of the translation of comparative constructions in literature from Tatar into Russian. It also suggested methods for the full-fledged translation of such constructions according to semantics and functional features of conjunctions. Postpositions were the main method to represent comparative constructions in simple and complex sentences in Tatar. Conjunctions, the instrumental case of the noun and other means, could further express the meanings of such postpositions when translated into Russian. The analysis of translation of comparative constructions helped to identify the integral and the differential in the semantics and functioning of the conjunctions, which not only connected the components of the comparative constructions, but also created imagery. Using comparative constructions, writers and translators could refer both to the general concepts inherent in their native culture, and to their personal worldview. This seemed possible only with a preliminary comparative analysis of the semantics and the structure of lexical units. Analyzing the translations of literary texts, some functional and semantic correspondences were revealed: comparative postpositions such as kebek, syman, kuk, etc. and Russian comparative conjunctions such as As if for sure, etc. (Eng. like, as if, kind of); relative pair words in Tatar and correlative pairs in Russian; affixes of adverbs such as -cha/-che, -day/- dey in Tatar and the instrumental case of the noun in Russian.

Let’s change tack, not wind direction: a response to Kog and Yaman (2016)

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to field a critical response to Kog and Yaman (2016) specifically; and more widely, to strengthen debate on contractor selection (CS) research.Design/methodology/approachCritical narrative and opinion based on personal worldview, experiential knowledge and future insight/vision.FindingsIt is argued that enduring CS research has become somewhat stagnated. It has over-emphasised selection process models vis-à-vis the reliability and currency of their processing components, and has inadequately focused on achieving real-life impact.Research limitations/implicationsThe principal implication is to engender constructive debate in the field and encourage a change of direction in CS research. The limitation is that this response reflects a personal view and so will be open to “challenge”.Practical implicationsPotential to encourage increased practicability, accessibility and generalisability of CS research products, leading to their increased real-life take-up and improved impact on practice.Social implicationsFor society, the optimal implications would be improved project outcomes; healthier stakeholders’ financial interests; and an enhanced constructed environment.Originality/valueThe content is entirely original insofar as it comprises a personal viewpoint.

Two sides of the same coin: Student justification for or against evolutionary theory

Students accepting evolution are likely to rely on science as cognitive authority (i.e. science textbooks and science teachers). In contrast, those not accepting are likely to rely on religion as cognitive authority (i.e. religious texts and religious leaders). A thematic analysis based on existing quantitative and qualitative studies has been carried out in order to propose a theoretical framework for a range of reasons contributing to students' acceptance and rejection of evolutionary theory. This article urges that instruction of evolution is more than the matter of delivering scientific contents. It also deals with personal worldviews influenced by different forms of cognitive authority. It is therefore important to put more emphasis on developing students’ learning skills to critically evaluate which source of information is scientifically appropriate, with full respect to religious belief of individuals.

The role of music in young adults’ spiritual development

This article focuses on the role of spiritual music in Finnish young adults’ spirituality formation. The research data consist of interviews (2013, N = 10) and questionnaire answers (2011, N = 278). Spiritual music refers to music that the young adults themselves experienced supportive for their spirituality. The article indicates that the spiritual music enhanced young adults’ spirituality formation as the music was well related to the young adults’ current life questions and to experiences of early life span. According to the data, music offered tools for constructing personal world view and was experienced to strengthen confidence on higher power or life itself. As a mental resource, music had an important role in coping with life. As entertainment, spiritual music enhanced experiencing life as satisfying. As a part of public spiritual life, music advanced spiritual connection with other people. The role of spiritual music in spirituality formation was related to questions of spiritual well-being.

El esoterismo en la obra del artista chileno Germán Mourgues B.

The artist Germán Mourgues B., due to the socio-political circumstances that Chile lived from 1973 develops his work to the margin of the official circuits of the art. To create, away from currents, fashions or styles, an interesting work that has not been sufficiently relieved in the country yet. He tried — transversely — the rescue of the vernacular culture, taking legends, myths and local iconographic expressions and investigating what exist of universal in them. These topics cross, in its work, with those of the gnostic, the esoteric and the alchemy. Making use of different ways of expression he creates a work very rich in content and deep originality. In this work is analyzed, from the symbols, his pictorial work created in the last decade of his life (one of his least well-known facets), making possible through it the access to his personal world view.   &nbsp

Building Capacity and Changing Mental Models: The Impact of a Short-Term Overseas Teaching Experience on White Teacher Candidates from a Rural Midwestern College

ABSTRACTThis qualitative case study investigated the changes in mental models of a group of White, rural and suburban, teacher candidates in a rural midwestern college and their increased capacity to understand race and culture after their short-term practicum experience in Guatemala City. The study used individual written reflections, whole-group discussions, and individual interviews to investigate changes in mental models of educational practices by preservice teachers. Teacher candidates expressed (1) changes in their mental models of schools, teaching, and learning; (2) changes in their personal growth that they expressed would affect their future teaching; and (3) an expansion of their personal worldview and a reduction in otherization of non-U.S. and people who would not be considered White in America. This study finds that short-term international teaching experiences can have a profound impact on how the preservice teachers plan to meet the needs of diverse learners.

ЗАСТОСУВАННЯ ЗАСАД ПЕДАГОГІЧНОЇ АНТРОПОЛОГІЇ У ВИВЧЕННІ ОБРАЗІВ-ПЕРСОНАЖІВ ХУДОЖНІХ ТВОРІВ ЗАРУБІЖНОЇ ЛІТЕРАТУРИ

This work is dedicated to the application of the foundations of pedagogic anthropology in the study of foreign literary characters. Foreign literature as a subject and the study of literature characters is a natural environment for the application of pedagogic anthropology in the middle school, as for the readers literary heroes become role models in the development of their personality and worldview, they are the prism through which life values are perceived and evaluated and personal worldview is developed. Anthropologic component humanizes the process of learning, ensures anthropologically oriented interpretation of its contents and makes applied methodology more efficient. Here we argue for the necessity of taking into consideration distinctive features of individual pupil’s psyche in the choice of educational methodology in the study of literary characters, in particular its socio-historic nature, goal setting and prediction, abstraction, activity, creative character, self-control, articulation of ideas and results and reflection. Methods and forms of work have to motivate pupils to independently determine their readiness to work, estimate personal development, note changes in personal view and convictions, set desired trajectory for further development. The content of educational material must ensure the formation of basic cultural values in pupils and nurture a person capable of knowingly live a life in harmony of “science, art and morals”. In these conditions literary education becomes an important factor of spiritual development of pupil readers, an important part of their consciousness and activity, facilitate spreading and following of cultural norms, values and knowledge, which are represented in literary works and their characters.

Perspectives of developing the idea of agency of a pupil in the humanitarian educational paradigm

The article analyzes approaches to implementing the agent nature of pupil within the humanitarian educational paradigm. The author points out the relations between humanist and humanitarian education paradigms in views on the agency of the pupil’s personality in the educational process. At the same time it is stated that a humanitarian approach is focused on a new vision of educational activity – a humanitarian way of organizing the process of cognition. The author highlights the need for a new perspective on educational activities based on the principle of humanitarianism which ensures shaping pupils’ personal world view based on a shift in the approach to knowledge acquisition. It is specified that in such conditions agency is manifested in working out one’s own meanings, shaping one’s own world view, motivational and value regulations based on the perception of information that is acquired as personal and meaningful one

Bionic Vision, Social Work, and Community Development: A Research Participant’s Reflections

This article discusses bionic vision through the author's experiences as Australia's first research participant in an early prototype bionic eye trial. During her two-year participation, she drew on various theoretical perspectives, including critical and community development approaches that not only influence her professional social work perspective, but extend to her personal worldview. In a rapidly emerging biotechnological age, this article contributes a holistic perspective, bringing into focus theory and practice; issues of human experience, human rights, and oppressive relationships; tensions between agency and structure (particularly relating to disability from a social model of disability and the medical model); and practical applications of artificial vision. Beyond its practical applications, illuminated is the relevance of community development values and principles such as a sense of connectedness, participation, and empowerment, which are understood in terms of an antioppressive perspective. The article concludes by recognizing the potential benefit of bionic vision for vision-impaired and blind people in their everyday lives.

Exploring the professional ideals of Christian teachers from conservative Protestant schools in the Netherlands

Professional ideals arise from personal worldviews and specify teachers' professional identities. This study aimed to explore how faith is present in the professional ideals of Christian teachers. The professional ideals of 107 Dutch teachers from conservative Protestant primary and secondary schools were explored using an open-ended questionnaire. The ideal educational aims and contents were closely connected: the ultimate essence of teaching was defined as passing on images of the perfect Christian person by modelling. Faith was represented by non-substantial religious ideals that are related to social behavior. Ideals about didactical strategies and teaching materials which demonstrate teachers' Christian worldview were hardly found.

Adlerian Therapy With Recently Romantically Separated College‐Age Women

Most female students in college will experience the breakup of a romantic relationship. Romantic separation can negatively affect their emotional state, social relationships, and understanding of personal identity. Adler's theory of individual psychology (IP), with its focus on social interest and personal worldview, is a useful theoretical framework for assisting this population. In this article, the authors offer a case study to illustrate how college counselors can use an IP approach to meet the unique needs of recently romantically separated college women.

Education and Upbringing Problem of the Ukrainian Regions at Pages of the Protestant Press (End of XIX-th – Ist part of XX-th Cent.)

This article represents the nature and tendency of periodicals of the protestant confession which deals with the additional popularization of the general knowledge within the frame of national educational and cultural movement. The implementation by intellectuals, scientific and pedagogic community of the ideas to serve the common people concerning educational activity was carried out among the Protestants, in particular, through the spiritual and moral influence on children, youth and adults. The means of implementation of the educational tasks by the Protestants were Sunday schools, initiative classes and study groups for young people, family meetings. The importance of education and upbringing problems is indicated in the topics which were covered at pages of the protestant press of the Ukrainian regions. The protestant press headings illustrated information of different fields of knowledge – medical, economic, artistic. Articles and even discussions about the free will, consciousness, free choice, personality value, in particular, of the child favored the widening of personal worldview of the reader. Hence, the press contributed to intellectual, moral and worldview improvement both of the communities of believers and those who were interested in various knowledge and wide informational subject area. The usage of periodicals favored the exchange of ideas, raised the readers′ interest to environment, formed and stimulated everybody the ability to seek the truth, to give proof of personal position and convictions.
 Not the least of the factors for the popularization of the protestant periodicals was the usage of public, live and comprehensive language; publication of the articles concerning the woman role in social process, her active participation in the civil life, which gave proof of the progressive opinions of the authors and the proximity of their thoughts to the European ones.

Unfolding Meaning From Memories: An Integrative Meaning Reconstruction Method for Counseling the Bereaved

This conceptual article describes a specific bereavement counseling intervention method for elaborating relational memories. Based in an integrative meaning reconstruction process of change, we show in a practical way how by promoting the display of the continuing bonds with the deceased and favoring the activation of memories about the lost relationship, the bereaved is able to engage in a process of attributing meaning, from which a new personal worldview emerges as a therapeutic outcome of personal posttraumatic growth. Using a case example to explain how the specific set of procedures of the method are implemented in clinical practice, the article focuses on the description of the client’s process of change, and how its components reflect the complementarity and interrelation of these theoretical constructs.

ЛЕКСИКО-СЕМАНТИЧЕСКАЯ РЕПРЕЗЕНТАЦИЯ ФИЛОСОФСКОЙ КАТЕГОРИИ «ЛЮБОВЬ» В РАМКАХ ПРОСТРАНСТВЕННО-ВРЕМЕННОГО КОНТИНУУМА В ПОЭТИЧЕСКОМ И ЭПИСТОЛЯРНОМ НАСЛЕДИИ А.К. ТОЛСТОГО

The article is devoted to the study of the definition of “Love” based on the lexico-semantic aspect presented in the lyrics and letters of A.K. Tolstoy. The author investigates the lexemes included in the lexical semantic fields “Love”, “Time”, “Space”, revealing the semantic changes in their semantic structure which occur under the influence of the contextual environment. The lexico-semantic expression of the “chronotope of love” in the analyzed texts of the letters actualizes the local-temporal seme in the structure of lexemes that are not related to the semantics of space and time, which leads to the semantic variety of the A.K. Tolstoy’s epistolary. The representation of the philosophical category “Love” in the poet’s letters is compared with the lexical-semantic expression of this concept in the author’s poetry. The com-parison is made with the help of the dictionary article “Love” from the poetic vocabulary of A.K. Tolstoy’s language, which is currently under development, is used. The comparative analysis allows us to determine the relation of the main philosophical constants “time”, “space”, “movement” to the concepts of “love” and “God”, which are the semantic basis of texts of the letters and poetic works of A.K. Tolstoy. Such a study allows us to determine the range of the main lexical representatives of the “love chronotope” in the consid-ered fragment of the writer’s work, which details the linguistic picture of the author’s world and reveals the worldview of the elite language personality.

Knowledge, beliefs and pedagogy: how the nature of science should inform the aims of science education (and not just when teaching evolution)

Lisa Borgerding’s work highlights how students can understand evolution without necessarily committing to it, and how learners may come to see it as one available way of thinking amongst others. This is presented as something that should be considered a successful outcome when teaching about material that many students may find incompatible with their personal worldviews. These findings derive from work exploring a cause célèbre of the science education community—the teaching of natural selection in cultural contexts where learners feel they have strong reasons for rejecting evolutionary ideas. Accepting that students may understand but not commit to scientific ideas that are (from some cultural perspectives) controversial may easily be considered as a form of compromise position when teaching canonical science prescribed in curriculum but resisted by learners. Yet if we take scholarship on the nature of science seriously, and wish to reflect the nature of scientific knowledge in science teaching, then the aim of science education should always be to facilitate understanding of, yet to avoid belief in, the ideas taught in science lessons. The philosophy of science suggests that scientific knowledge needs to be understood as theoretical in nature, as conjectural and provisional; and the history of science warns of the risks of strongly committing to any particular conceptualisation as a final account of some feature of nature. Research into student thinking and learning in science suggests that learning science is often a matter of coming to understand a new viable way of thinking about a topic to complement established ways of thinking. Science teaching should then seek to have students appreciate scientific ideas as viable ways of making sense of the currently available empirical evidence, but should not be about persuading students of the truth of any particular scientific account.

Methodology of research information and communicative capacity of humanitarian ideology in the context of globalization

Analyzes research methodology of information-communicative potential humanitarian worldview of personality under the conditions of globalization and investigated the structure of the search of the methodological research methods. It is the place and role of the elements of the methodology of cognition of information-communicative potential humanitarian worldview personality in conditions of globalization as a complex social phenomenon and civilization or cultural approach to the analysis of the research topics. Solved ponâttêvo-category vehicle research information and communicative potential humanitarian worldview of personality under the conditions of globalization and presented an explanation of the modern term "communicative džojnerova samoreferentna network for adequate knowledge of information-communicative potential humanitarian worldview of personality under the conditions of globalization

The Merits of Using “Worldview” in Religious Education

This article aims to argue that worldview is a useful concept in religious education because of its encompassing character. In the first part of the article three essential characteristics of “worldview” are distinguished: “worldview” includes religious and secular views; a distinction between organized and personal worldviews should be made; and existential questions are a necessary part of “worldview.” The second part of the article demonstrates how two articles about Grimmitt's distinction between learning about and from religion benefit from using “worldview” and how the authors can address their points more clearly by using the concept and its three essential characteristics.

Thirty-five years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel.

Israel is known as a pronatalist country. Whether due to the Biblical commandment to ‘be fruitful and multiply’ or the traumas of the Holocaust and perennial wars, reproduction is a central life goal for most Israelis. Israeli women bear substantially more children than their counterparts in industrialized countries and view child-rearing as a key life accomplishment. These personal world-view and real-life individual quests take place in a context of equally pronatalist state policies and religious openness to assisted reproductive technologies. In this paper, I outline 35 years of assisted reproductive technologies in Israel by tracing a principal axis in the development of three major technologies of assisted reproduction: the proliferation of IVF-ICSI; the globalization of gamete donation; and the privatization of surrogacy. The paper is based on a policy analysis as well as various studies of assisted reproductive technologies, conducted in Israel over this period.