Political Class Research Articles

Research on the Teaching Quality Assessment System of “Great Civics and Politics Class” in Private Colleges and Universities in Jilin Province Based on Data Mining Algorithm

Research on the Teaching Quality Assessment System of “Great Civics and Politics Class” in Private Colleges and Universities in Jilin Province Based on Data Mining Algorithm

STRATEGIC PRINCIPLES OF CULTURAL POLICY OF UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COURSE OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION

The purpose of the research deals with proving the need for the formation of strategic foundations of cultural policy in Ukraine for the conditions of military aggression and the post-war period, taking into account the requirements of the state course of European integration. The current state of the cultural sphere in Ukrainian society is demonstrated to be characterised by at least the following factors: the destruction of a large number of infrastructure facilities of cultural institutions due to military operations, a significant reduction in the financing of culture from state and local budgets and the requirement to learn European practices in the implementation of cultural policy as a result of Ukraine's acquisition of the status of an EU member. Given these circumstances, the political class and the administrative establishment of Ukraine are faced with the task of creating a renewed cultural policy that would be able to overcome the losses and traumas of the war period, ensure cultural development in the post-war period, aimed at forming a stable identity of Ukrainians. Hence, the task arises through the means of culture of forming the European component of Ukrainian identity, since the condition for the success of the course of European integration is the need to master the values on which the European community is built. It is established that an updated strategy plan for cultural development is required to address these issues. The necessity of modernization of the legislative base of cultural policy is shown, in particular, the approval of decentralization of the functioning of government bodies, strengthening support for culture from the state and municipal budgets, creating a legislative base for public-private partnership in the cultural sphere, strengthening the information component of the cultural process.

Poverty in South Africa: Drivers of Perpetuation

Poverty remains a persistent issue within the socio-political landscapes of Africa. This study explores the income, food, and multidimensional nature of poverty in South Africa. The study found that economic, social, and political factors are not only responsible for poverty, but they perpetuate poverty in South Africa. These factors include weak institutions, unemployment, service delivery issues, corruption, security challenges and dysfunctional family settings. The study adopted the state fragility theory to demonstrate how weaknesses in state institutions affect their ability to discharge their functions as expected and how they manage the dynamics associated with these expectations. The study utilised the qualitative research method based on literature search from secondary sources. These included journal articles, books, institutional documents, and newspaper articles. Data were descriptively analysed. The study recommends strong state institutions to coordinate stemming the threat these poverty drivers pose to the well-being of South Africans. It also recommends commitment through good values demonstrated by the political class, bureaucracies, and the citizens.

An investigation on the application of Ridge regression model in the optimization of virtual practice teaching innovation path of Civics and Politics courses in colleges and universities

Abstract Civic and political affairs course is a key course for colleges and universities to implement the fundamental task of cultivating people with moral character, and the rapid development of network technology and the information age has had a direct impact on the Civic and political affairs course in colleges and universities. This paper puts forward the optimization path of virtual practice teaching for Civic and Political Science courses in colleges and universities from three aspects: establishing a virtual simulation practice teaching website for Civic and Political Science courses in colleges and universities, constructing a virtual simulation practice teaching information resource base for Civic and Political Science courses and optimizing the content system of virtual simulation practice teaching for Civic and Political Science courses. In order to verify the effect of virtual practice teaching, this paper proposes a new determination method as well as a Ridge regression model for the selection of Ridge parameter K in the Ridge trace method by analyzing the existence of Ridge parameter K and the excellence of Ridge estimation. The Ridge regression model was used to examine the impact of virtual teaching on college Civics and Politics classes and found that the standardized regression coefficient beta for the virtual teaching environment is 0.113, showing significant performance. For the virtual practice teaching of Civic and Political Science classes in colleges and universities, the better the virtual teaching environment is, the better the classroom learning effect.

Popular Culture and Political Repression: The Rejection of Political Repression through Language

This paper does a Critical Discourse Analysis on popular songs in Kenya to show that the artists are cognizant of the evils committed by the political elite and condemn them. The paper investigates, analyzes and interprets discourse in Kikuyu popular songs to show how language has been used resist oppression by the political class in Kenya. The Kikuyu popular artists use language to represent the political leadership in Kenya, condemning them for misuse of their positions to oppress the citizenry. Popular music can be a site of political discourse, it and a field to challenge the elite’s dominant ideology. People do not consume popular culture mindlessly and passively, instead they use it in their lives in innovative ways. The artists aim at emancipating the masses through their songs. To create a common ground with their listeners, the artists first categorize the leaders as greedy and selfish by highlighting their evils. The artists use language as tool to advance the welfare of the nation by castigating those in leadership. Using the analytical tools of CDA, this paper points out that popular culture is not just for entertainment but a powerful tool for advocating for proper utilization of national resources and condemning the excesses of those in authority

Practical Exploration on the Integration of Labor Education into the Teaching of Civics and Political Science Courses in Colleges and Universities in the Context of the New Era

Abstract Based on the different meanings of labor education in different times, this paper re-examines the characteristics of labor education in the context of the era of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Then, based on the principles of unity of content and form, unity of theory and practice, unity of universality and particularity, and unity of indoctrination and inspiration, labor education is integrated into the teaching of Civics and Political Science courses in colleges and universities. The teaching mode of labor education integrated into the Civics and Politics class is designed from the perspective of students, taking into account the three aspects of the curriculum system, teaching method, and assessment and evaluation mechanism. The research subjects were selected, the initial data of the study were obtained through questionnaires, and the effect of the teaching mode was analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and regression model. The results show that the Sig values of all three are less than 0.05, all three are correlated with the teaching effect of labor education integrated into the Civics class in colleges and universities, and the regression equation of the teaching effect = 1.495 + 0.365*curriculum + 0.354*teaching method + 0.228*evaluation mechanism. This study prompts schools to carry out labor education more reasonably and effectively, which has important educational value for cultivating socialist builders and successors with all-around development of morality, intelligence, physicality, aesthetics labor, and other aspects.

Research on the Reform and Development of Ideological and Political Theory Classes for College Students in the Context of Practical Parenting

Abstract In the context of practical education, deepening the reform of quality education and implementing the fundamental task of cultivating moral integrity have become the guidelines and the basis for the development of curriculum reform in colleges and universities. This study conducts data mining based on the association rule model on the influencing factors of the reform of the Civic and Political Theory Course in colleges and universities to obtain the key influencing factors in the process of the reform of the theory course. Then, under the perspective of deep learning, the idea of practical parenting is integrated, and the structural framework of Civic and Political Theory course reform is designed from four directions: learning theme, learning objectives, learning activities, and evaluation feedback, and finally, the course reform method of this paper is examined through teaching practice. The results show that the influence weights of self-factors, school education factors, family factors, and social factors are 0.3022, 0.3521, 0.1381, and 0.2076, respectively, with self-factors and school education as the key influencing factors. After the teaching practice, the P-value of each dimension of the students under the curriculum reform based on this paper is less than 0.05, and the grade of the Civics and Political Science Theory course is improved from 81.47 to 90.45, which is an increase of 7.49 points compared with the class of the regular course. The reform method based on deep learning in this study can promote students’ development and improve their academic performance, which provides a reference for the research on the reform and development of the Civics and Political Science Theory course.

Study on the Practice of Integrating Red Cultural Resources into Civics Classes in Colleges and Universities in the New Media Era

Abstract This paper employs the technology of comprehensive analysis and processing of information from multiple sources to integrate thematic databases of cultural resources from various collections into multiple sources. We can use virtual reality and network technology to simulate and interact with cultural resources in both red and civics classrooms. The research was conducted at the University of G on the topic of using red cultural resources in the teaching of civic and political science classes, and questionnaires were issued. The results of the survey show that only 13.14% of the students said that they know red culture very well, and the problem of insufficient knowledge of red culture persists in the current traditional civics teaching. 88.3% of the students think that there is a certain potential for using VR technology in the practical teaching of civics courses in colleges and universities about red culture. Furthermore, 65.4% of the students express a strong willingness to continue their education through the use of this innovative VR technology-based teaching method. This paper’s method has the potential to significantly enhance the effectiveness of human education.

Research on Intelligent Teaching Methods of Chinese Culture for Emotional Identity Enhancement in Civic and Political Education in Colleges and Universities

Abstract Civic and political education plays an important role in implementing the fundamental task of establishing morality, giving full play to the function of educating people, constructing an all-embracing, all-encompassing and all-encompassing pattern of educating people, and cultivating socialist builders and successors who are all-rounded in morality, intelligence, physicality, aesthetics, and labor. By combining the theory of multiple intelligences, this paper constructs a framework for Civic and Political Education that incorporates emotional identity into the teaching stage of each level. In this context, Chinese cultural and emotional identity is taken as the main point of Civics learning knowledge, and an improved multi-interaction Bayesian model is designed to track the state of students’ Chinese cultural and emotional identity in Civics education and a personalized teaching system is constructed with a recommendation algorithm to realize intelligent teaching of Civics. The Civics teaching class based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligence has an average mastery level of above 80% for each Chinese cultural and emotional identity knowledge point in terms of teaching effectiveness. While the average mastery level of the traditional teaching class for each knowledge point is no more than 68%, the personalized teaching of Civics based on multiple intelligence theory can significantly enhance the emotional identity of Chinese culture in Civics education. The purpose of this study is to provide a reference for improving the teaching effectiveness of ideological and political theory classes in colleges and universities.

Belief Mining in Persian Texts Based on Deep Learning and Users' Opinions (revised December 2022)

Belief mining and the study of public opinion provide valuable information. Analyzing the feelings and belief mining of social media data leads to understanding users' opinions and has wide applications in decision making and policymaking. This article applies a new method based on deep learning to solve the problems of belief mining for Persian comments on the Twitter. In this method, first, the data is preprocessed with a deep neural network and then classified into political, cultural, economic, and sports classes, and the sentimental polarity is obtained. SentiPers is applied on four different datasets from Persian Twitter, Digikala store, Google translator, and synonym for evaluation. Then the results are compared with other machine learning and deep learning methods such as neural network, support vector machine, DNN, CNN, and LSTM. Python software has been used to implement this method. The accuracy of the proposed word embedding method for LSTM, CNN, DNN on the SentiPres dataset is 0.931, 0.923, 0.916 respectively. For the TF-IDF method, it is 0.837, 0.863, 0.883 respectively. that the accuracy of LSTM-WSD, CNN-WSD model has increased by 8% and 6% compared to TF-IDF. The results show that the LSTM and Word embedding methods work best.

THE UNDERTONE OF SOCIO-POLITICAL TUSSLE IN NIGER DELTA REGION OF NIGERIA

This research examined the undertone of socio-political tussle in Niger delta region of Nigeria. Data was collected through interviews given to the political class, civil servants, business owners and commoners. A random sampling technique was used to obtain a sample of 250 people from the target population and all respondents were interviewed. Data were analyzed using simple frequency and percentage (50%) as mean criteria. Examining the undertone of socio-political tussle in Niger Delta region of Nigeria include among others: the struggle for political dominance to control the state's oil wealth, the selfish interest in the personal use of the state funds at the expense of the interest of the region, the clash of the agreement where a party refused to honor the selfish agreement reached before between the current governor and his predecessor, believing that the oil wealth of the state should be used for the human and capital development of the region and not for the personnel consumption to the detriment of the first. The results of the study show that oil is the cause of ongoing socio-political conflicts in the Niger Delta region, which have catastrophic consequences and are already an obstacle to the development of the region.

Current requirements and priorities in the administration of dental medical assistance provided to the population during the COVID-19 pandemic

The training of medical staff at different stages is a key element for the health system. It is important to strengthen the capabilities of the medical staff, including dentists, during the pandemic crisis. In this context, it is necessary to mention that dental care in the 21st century is subject to significant changes related to the health status of the population, to the increasing right of being informed about available medical services (including emergency) and one’s own health, the right to confidentiality of information and the patient’s privacy. Regarding research as a priority issue in medicine, the Minister of Health, Labor and Social Welfare Viorica Dumbrăveanu declared the following: “The reform in the field of science has failed”. We must all take on this responsibility and come up with a substantial motivation for those who, in addition to medicine, are doing science in the field of health. The composition of health research is incomparable with other fields. All are important, but we have seen, in the crisis situation, that health is a priority. Greek-American physician John Ioannidis, a professor of medicine at Stanford University, outlined that science was in crisis. This phenomenon can have dramatic consequences in areas such as medicine, where new studies affect the diagnosis and treatment of sick people, as pressure is applied to publish much to the detriment of quality and as a result most academic papers published in recent years are exaggerated or false. The coronavirus pandemic is more than coronavia health crisis, with unprecedented socio-economic implications and the power to generate devastating social, economic and political effects. The United Nations (UN) and other partners are already working on three medical priorities: supporting science, guided by the World Health Organization (WHO), strengthening crisis management and response, and addressing critical social and economic impacts. The COVID-19 pandemic is a challenge that offered a hard lesson to the Republic of Moldova, meant to turn the political class towards the health system, primarily its staff, concluded at a meeting with the leadership of SUMPh “Nicolae Testemitanu” with the Minister of Health and Social Protection, Veronica Dumbrăveanu. Thus, the coronavirus pandemic has a major impact on health and represents a significant influence on the socio-economic situation in most countries and in the Republic of Moldova.

Integration of Red Cultural Resources into the Teaching of Civics in College Curriculum Based on VR Modeling

Abstract The broadening of the teaching field and the innovation of the teaching form of the Civics course in colleges and universities are important links in the teaching reform of the Civics course. This paper relies on the reality support of red cultural resources integrated into the teaching of civic politics class of VR technology, selects the influencing factors to build a structural equation model, carries out correlation analysis and the measurement of model path coefficients, and mines the factors affecting the integration of red cultural resources into the teaching, of course, civic politics. On this basis, we explore the practical path of integrating red resources into the teaching of Civics courses in colleges and universities based on the VR model and combine the descriptive statistical analysis and multiple regression analysis to explore the effectiveness of integrating red cultural resources into the teaching of Civics based on the VR model in four dimensions. Learning motivation, self-efficacy, difficulty expectation, classroom environment, group influence, curriculum design, facilitation, and teaching ability all significantly affected the integration of red resources into Civics and Political Science teaching (P < 0.05). Based on the VR model, the red cultural resources have a better effect of integrating into the teaching of ideology and politics, and the scores of all dimensions are more than 4, among which the score of emotional identity is the highest, 4.566. The use of VR technology is an inevitable trend of education modernization, and colleges and universities should apply it to enrich and expand the content of “curriculum ideology and politics” and to promote the construction of information technology and teaching reform of the ideology and politics in colleges and universities. The modernization of education is inevitable due to the use of VR technology.

Jacques Rancière’s Left-wing Literary Theory and Mao Zedong’s Thought on Literature and Art

The publication of French translations of Mao’s canonical works in the 1950s and 1960s sparked interest among French-left intellectuals. This paper investigates Rancière’s appropriation and reinvention of Mao’s thinking as an illustration of the exchange between Maoism and contemporary French left-wing theories on literature and art. First, drawing on Mao’s “mass line,” Rancière values the autonomy of the people rather than the leadership of the Althusserian intellectual elites. Second, Rancière’s “part of those that have no part” differs from Mao’s “the people” in the concept’s scope and in how they are transformed into political subjects. Third, deeply indebted to Mao’s “the people’s literature and art” that underscores the centrality of ordinary people and their lives, Rancière’s theory of politics of literature unleashes the liberating force of art and literature for the sensible of ordinary people, and calls for overthrowing the hierarchy of class politics.

Feeling Moved: Upward Mobility Stories in Socialism

Abstract: This article offers a theorization of socialist upward mobility stories, a heterogenous genre that aimed to capture the experience of class advancement in state socialism, on the example of the Polish People's Republic. Socialist upward mobility stories developed over time in response to the evolving class politics of the state and transforming class relations, and influenced the ways in which class was thought and lived. The genre was characterized by four recurring motifs: the collective character of socialist upward mobility, the state's role as benefactor, the diffusion of upward mobility, and a heightened emotionality.

Политическая экономия как научная платформа изучения тенденций развития: взгляд через призму теории ноономики

Humankind is currently facing many issues that need to be dealt with. Therefore, the necessity for their theoretical reasoning arises. The modern paradigm of economic knowledge based on the liberal concept does not provide suitable answers to existing challenges. In this regard, the appeal to the methodology of political economy becomes relevant, using which adequate results were obtained. It is not so much about classical political economic tools, but the application of new theories developed using this methodology, in particular, the theory of noonomy. The paper reveals the prospects of its application to explain the changes that are currently taking place and, apparently, still will be taking place in the socioeconomic system.

Encountering Innovation, Countering Innovation

What could be gained by putting science and technology studies (STS) in conversation with innovation studies (IS)? These distinct fields have shared people over decades, as they build concepts, careers, institutions, and even nations. I review how this collection offers accounts of how STS and IS have been practiced in different times and locations: resisting underdevelopment, Western and middle-class assumptions about progress, or technology-centric policy. I argue, however, that it is critical to clarify the difference between innovation as an analytic and as an emic and ideological category. Neither STS nor IS should take for granted the ways political economy, class relations, racialization and gendering, and even national(ist) ideologies shape what counts as desirable forms of newness, what newness ought to be contained or criminalized, and the hierarchies of socio-technical transformation that emerge out of that. I offer three examples: San Diego’s “smart streetlights” program where “innovation” as an ideology devalues or erases the creativity and knowledge already manifest among residents; Amazon® Mechanical Turk worker advocacy and the limits of doing scholarship with policy relevance when workers do not have organized power; and mid-twentieth-century Iran, where I show what IBM® throwing computers into the ocean can tell us about innovation as a form of enclosure, repression, empire, and waste of collective resources and knowledge.

THE ORIGIN AND MEANING OF OLD TURKIC WORDS

Language has been the primary means of communication since the creation of mankind. Gesture communication of the first people and then language evolved along with civilization, forming languages through divisions such as geographical environment and political class. Language is a living organism being born anew, developing, and then dying, disappearing from the surface of the earth. As an argument, the Latin language can be mentioned, which plays a key historical role. Although it is a dead language, the languages separated from the Latin branch are a reflection of European languages today. The article examines the specific lexical meaning and etymology of some incorrectly translated words or words with different meaning used in Old Turkic runic written monuments. In addition, when considering the research material of the Old Turkic language, they were compared based on the materials of the Middle Turkic and modern Turkic languages. It is mainly compared with the lexical fund and grammar of the Kazakh language and is considered as the main connecting language. Key words: Orkhon-Yenisei, Turkic, runes, etymology, Kazakh language, translation, written monuments.

The Split in the Political Elite of the Empire as an Obstacle to the Activities of Mikhail Muravyov: Lessons for Nowadays

In 1863, the Russian Empire faced a formidable challenge – an armed rebellion of the Polish nobility, supported by Western Europe aspiring to divide Russia into regions dependent on it. The Tsar persuaded the brilliant oppositional politician and 1812 Patriotic War hero M.N. Muravyov, possessing experience in fi ghting the Poles during their last rebellion in 1831, to lead the suppression of the new riot as Governor-General of the Western Region. However, our conservative hero, relying on the Russian spirit and the collectivism of the Russian people, was opposed not only by obvious enemies – rebel Polish gentry, but also by ministers who were adherents of Westernized cosmopolitanism and became the main force restraining the conservative reformer. On the contrary, the spiritual and cultural Russian elite, led by the Metropolitan of Moscow Filaret and poet and thinker F.I. Tyutchev warmly supported Muravyov’s patriotic course. However due to the tsar’s mental dependence on the high-ranking “Рarty of cosmopolitans” and the lesser infl uence on him of the “Russian party”, Muravyov was not allowed to complete the reform program. The author comes to the conclusion that in our time of growing threats to Russia’s security due to the new onslaught of the West on Russia, our political elite should take into account the experience of Muravyov’s struggle “on two fronts” with the inadmissibility, in fact, of internal betrayal. In other words, our political class must avoid splitting while striving for unity on a nationally oriented basis with appropriate personnel recruitment.

Challenges of Administering COVID-19 Vaccine in Some Selected States of Northeast Nigeria

The COVID-19 pandemic has successfully registered itself among the league of global epidemics that the world is currently battling. The virus, which emerged in December 2019 in China, quickly spread worldwide, paralysing socioeconomic, political, and cultural activities around the globe. Nigeria is one of the African countries that is most affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially socioeconomically and politically. Although the pattern of spread in the country indicates a higher incidence in the South than in Northern Nigeria, some factors made the case in Northern Nigeria an interesting study. The study is an examination of the challenges that influenced the process of administering the COVID-19 vaccine in Northeast Nigeria. The study used a quantitative phenomenological study as a methodology. Data were collected from selected informants with relevant and valuable information on the subject matter in the area of study. The data obtained were analysed and interpreted using content analysis. Culture, religion, and perception, in addition to the attitude of the political class, all contributed to the negative perception of COVID-19 as a pandemic and its vaccine as a preventive measure. Most of the inhabitants of Northeast Nigeria are found to have harboured negative thoughts against the Virus and its vaccination because of some reported cases of side effects and the way the politicians turned the pandemic into a racket of money-making. The study recommends, among others, that royal fathers, religious clerics, and opinion moulders should be rigorously engaged in a massive campaign to disabuse all negative perceptions and to convince the populace on safety and prevention.