Educational Propaganda Research Articles

A STUDY ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF ANCIENT CHINESE PHILOSOPHY REGARDING MUSIC EDUCATION

The work reveals the features of ancient Chinese philosophy in the context of music education. The specific characteristics of the corresponding ancient Chinese concepts are considered. The theories of music education in the works of the followers of Confucianism and Taoism are described. The development and evolution of thought regarding teaching the art of music to the younger generation is presented in a historical perspective. The author analyses the educational function of music in Chinese culture, as well as elements of the state official propaganda in music education in Ancient China. The influence of the traditions of Chinese philosophy on modern philosophy of music and music pedagogy in the People's Republic of China is considered. It is concluded that the Chinese philosophy of music education is based on harmony and aesthetic pleasure from performing and listening to a piece of music, as well as on performing various rituals.

The Value Implication, Realistic Dilemma and Optimization Path of College Red Culture Education in the New Era

Under the background of the new era, the spiritual quality contained in red culture is a “fresh textbook” that shapes and cultivates the outstanding quality and tenacious personality of contemporary youth. Colleges and universities should accurately understand and grasp the standards of talent cultivation, and fully implement and promote the red culture education on campus, so as to strengthen the ideals and beliefs of college students, cultivate their inner character, and enhance their cultural self-confidence and national pride. However, in reality, there are still some problems in the red culture education in colleges and universities, such as insufficient case mining, insufficient practice coordination, and insufficient publicity coordination. In this regard, red cultural education in colleges and universities should be multi-dimensional excavation of red cultural education cases; Improve the practice activities of red culture education at multiple levels; Multi-subject expansion of red culture education propaganda positions, and constantly improve the quality of red culture education in colleges and universities.

Analysis of Solid Waste Treatment and Management in Typical Chinese Industrial Parks with the Goal of Sustainable Development and Future Suggestions

Solid waste disposal and management have become a global problem, which is particularly tricky in China with its large population and rapid urbanization. This study focused on the disposal status of multi-source solid waste as well as the park management of some typical cities of China. Firstly, the main technical methods for solid waste disposal were summarized as follows: landfill, incineration, anaerobic digestion and aerobic compost. Secondly, the network analysis method was applied to seek an optimized method for solid waste disposal and management. Thirdly, typical demonstration parks for solid waste disposal and management were analyzed to study their respective operating modes and strategies for synergistic development in terms of resources, environment and economy and to explore the sustainable development potential of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao operating mode. The results showed that the collaborative disposal and recycling of solid waste are important for cities (especially megacities) to achieve resource conservation and environmental protection. The NIMBY effect and environmental pollution risks caused by decentralized construction could be reduced through the construction of circular industrial parks. Advanced technologies and the national policy for solid waste disposal and recycling in industrial parks of small–medium cities, large–medium cities and megacities were systematically analyzed so as to explore a self-operating management mode of industrial parks. Finally, reasonable suggestions, such as sharing, saving and cycling and propaganda education, as well as green and low-carbon solutions were put forward for solid waste disposal and management in typical industrial parks, effectively resolving the contradiction between economic development and environmental protection so as to help urban sustainable development.

Knowledge, attitude and practice on the use of vietnamese medicinal plants for common diseases treatment among people in Phu Vang district, Thua Thien Hue province

Background: Vietnamese herbs are considered as a botanical resource, a precious medicinal source of our country, and are widely used in the residential community in general. Phu Vang district is a coastal plain and lagoon in Thua Thien Hue province, where people’s living standards are not high, health facilities lack equipment. Therefore, the needs for primary health care are necessary to be strengthened, especially in the treatment of common diseases using Vietnamese herbs to reduce costs and improve health for the people. However, the knowledge of the local residents about Vietnamese herbs preventing and treating common diseases at home has not been surveyed. Objectives: (1) To describe the knowledge, attitude and practice on the use of Vietnamese herbs used in the treatment of common diseases of residents in some communes of Phu Vang district. (2) To determine some factors related to the use of Vietnamese herbs in the treatment of common diseases among the residents. Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted on 400 residents representing the heads of households in three communes of Phu Vang district, Thua Thien Hue province, Thua Thien Hue province. Descriptive statistical analysis and multivariable logistic regression were performed with SPSS software. Results: Knowledge: Good: 45.2%; Fair: 30.8%; Average: 9.0%; Poor: 2.0%. Attitude: 97.0% of residents preferred using Vietnamese herbs in the treatment of common diseases, and 96.6% of residents agreed to continue using Vietnamese herbs to treat similar diseases later. Practice: Good: 7.8%; Fair: 16.7%; Average: 25.3%; Poor: 50.2%. Receiving information about Vietnamese herbs and growing them at home gardens were two factors related to the use of Vietnamese herbs to treat common diseases (p < 0.05). Conclusion: The practice of using Vietnamese herbs to treat common diseases of the residents in Phu Vang district is still low, it is necessary to strengthen educational propaganda to raise the awareness and practice among residents on the prevention and treatment of diseases with Vietnamese herbs at home. Key words: knowledge, attitude, practice, Vietnamese herbs, common diseases, Phu Vang district.

Backward bifurcation and optimal control problem for a tuberculosis model incorporating LTBI detectivity and exogenous reinfection

The detection of latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) is one of the vital means in controlling the spread of TB. The dynamical properties of a mathematical model with LTBI detectivity and exogenous reinfection are analyzed and their impacts on TB control are explored. By applying the center manifold theory, it is revealed that the model may exhibit the phenomenon of backward bifurcation caused by exogenous reinfection. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis for the basic reproduction number R0 is performed and an optimal control problem is further formulated by incorporating TB prevention and education propaganda, timely treatment and enhancing therapy efficacy. Finally, our analysis and numerical results show that an increase in detection rate of LTBI cases reduces the value of R0 as well as the possibility that backward bifurcation occurs and the joint implementation of all three strategies effectively contains TB transmission.

The positive effect of the propaganda of family ethics and family education based on big data technology on the ideological work of youth

Abstract Big data technology is gaining a lot of attention and research in the present day. In this article, based on big data technology, we use Spark’s big data hybrid computing model to promote family style and family education under the premise of large-scale information processing. The minimum average distance of all clusters is calculated by computing the mean and eigenvectors of the Hopkins statistic. The cohesiveness and separation of the contour coefficients on the clusters were evaluated based on the mean values. We also examine the error-squared and criterion functions and use this method to verify the positive effect of promoting family traditions and education on the minds of young people. In this paper, we get from the comparison experiment of mining algorithms: Spark algorithm mining efficiency is 200-300 higher than MR algorithm mining efficiency, and the mining efficiency is superior. Especially when the log volume is large, the efficiency enhancement effect is as high as 96.88%, which is conducive to creating a good ideological and political education environment for young people by further improving the positive role of propagating family style and family education in the ideological and political education of young people.

Religious Necropolitical Propaganda in Educational Materials for Children

Even though Turkey’s ruling party’s (Justice and Development Party, the AKP) nation-building and desired citizen creation policies have been studied, its use of necropolitical narratives and propaganda in education has not been investigated. This paper addresses this gap by examining how the Turkish state ruled by the AKP has propagated its religious necropolitical narrative through the national curriculum and Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) in school textbooks, and magazines and comic books for children. The paper shows that these texts and comics try to indoctrinate children into a religious cult of martyrdom in different ways by encouraging them to view tragic death and getting killed for the nation as a positive event. This paper argues that these propaganda efforts are part of a religious necropolitical indoctrination campaign that seeks to create a new Islamist and jihadist generation of lifelong supporters of the AKP, which portrays itself in the educational texts as the embodiment of Islam, the Muslim Turkish nation and even the global Muslim community (ummah). This new religious generation is expected to believe that dying for the Islamist populist authoritarian regime is the greatest honour a person can bring upon themselves. This paper contributes to the necropolitics literature by showing that not only adults but also children have been targeted by authoritarian rulers’ necropolitical propaganda attempts to create desired citizens who are ready to die for the regime, believing this is a religious obligation. Further research is needed to assess if and to what extent this propaganda has an impact on children.

Propaganda Education through Exposure to Authentic Content

Propaganda Education through Exposure to Authentic Content

The Islamic State’s Media Content: Nature, Types, Formats

Recent theoretical developments have revealed that IS’ social media strate-gies and practices of filling the social network content rise deep awareness of social media to become a push-pull factor of the certain groups’ mindset radicalization and the terrorist discourse legitimation. Furthermore, the authors’ focus revolves around the problem that articulates the fact that social media fast spread and its accessibility facilitated IS and other terrorist, extre-mist and radical movements expand their reach to a wide range of audiences around the world. Together, the present findings confirm that the Islamic State militant group’s widespread activity on social media is being powerfully weaponized and, consequently, the IS’ impact throughout the world and its successful self-marketing as a global brand is being witnessed. A further novel finding is that the Islamic State militant group’s use of social media, while presenting radical Muslim voices and exposing the atrocities of the Islamic State, targets the spread of terrorist propaganda, self-promoting, financial funding, recruiting and training TO advocates from around the world. The body of the article goes on to discuss the problem of social media use in cutting-edge technologies and novel ways to advance its full-spectrum propaganda. It is worth emphasizing that tech-savvy IS media content covers a wide range of tools with a predominance of visual forms of communication: making live broadcasts, audio and video recordings of leaders’ speeches, running educational propaganda campaigns and various instructing films, designing virtual games, etc. Noteworthy, the Islamic State group has been using social media to promote their terrorist agenda and attract a wide audience, mainly young ardent followers. The research results cast a new light on the embracement of the IS skyrocketing technological advancement in both online and social media to develop their sophisticated media strategy has led to informational and technological outreach and evolution of IS itself. In short with concluding remarks, it has been reported that the unprecedented use of social media (innovative use of advanced and easily accessed technologies, their own production quality media content, wide use of online platforms, a number of social networks and messengers, etc.), until its recent demise (in 2015 and 2017), has made Islamic State militant group at the forefront of technological advancement among contemporary terrorist groups. The crux of the problem is its media content, its nature, types and formats remain one of the most effective and efficient weapons for IS. The Terrorist Organization has developed an innovative digital communication strategy (with its hierarchy elements), which enhanced its goals-achieving in terms of radicalization, violence and the Caliphate establishment.

Book review: Mind over media: Propaganda education for a digital age

Book review: Mind over media: Propaganda education for a digital age

Evolution of e-waste resources disposal with propaganda education and monetary incentives: the influence mechanism of consumer knowledge level

Evolution of e-waste resources disposal with propaganda education and monetary incentives: the influence mechanism of consumer knowledge level

The Ideological Indoctrination through ISIS Textbooks

This paper depicts how ideological indoctrination is constructed within the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) textbooks as a framing process of religious concepts and values. By adopting a frame analysis perspective, we try to understand how ISIS textbooks assign meaning to traditional concepts in Islam – belief in the oneness of God, obedience to God, rejection of polytheism, allegiance, and disavowal, among others. Even though existing research has led to significant insights into ISIS propaganda, media, and strategic communication, it still falls short of addressing its ideological indoctrination process in a detailed manner. This article fills a gap in the literature on ISIS educational propaganda and ideology. For our empirical case study, we analyzed a selection of ISIS primary-level textbooks produced in Iraq and Syria and published in Arabic. Ultimately, this paper demonstrates that ISIS has been attempting to redefine education by framing the textbooks’ content through the lens of its own ideology. Our study contributes to the growing number of studies that draw attention to the instrumentalization of educational material as a tool of ideological indoctrination targeting youth in conflict areas.

Research on the Design of the Red Culture Digital Exhibition Hall Based on Metaverse

Today, Metaverse as the latest digital technology and digital media, have not possessed by existing digital technology technical advantages, at the same time, the red culture as the unique national culture spirit in China, is a blend of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, is deeply rooted in the blood of the Chinese people, the red culture exhibition hall is also the red culture main propaganda education position. At the same time the technical features of Metaverse can be better and the integration of red culture digital pavilions, bring the audience a better experience and experience, this paper aims to analysis the technical features of Metaverse and its combined with red culture exhibition hall the path of the research, summed up Metaverse in the red culture digital Exhibition design application and advantages.

From Dresden to the world: images of the German Hygiene Museum's relations with Latin America, 1911-1933.

As of the nineteenth century, the number of world fairs and hygiene exhibitions grew significantly. This phenomenon was linked to the experience of modernity and the emergence of bacteriology, when different cities were sanitized with the aim of combating urban diseases and epidemics. For the purpose of sanitary education and hygiene propaganda, many objects and pictures were displayed in hygiene exhibitions and museums, such as the International Hygiene Exhibition of 1911 and the German Hygiene Museum, both in Dresden. The goal of this article is to analyze a chapter of the international history of health through images that portray the connections between the German Hygiene Museum and Latin American countries between 1911 and 1933.

The Infusion of Propaganda in the Music Education in China

<p>Under the administration of the Communist China, the distinction between education and propaganda cannot be made. Various research and literatures reveal that many resources used by Chinese educational institutions, such as books and songs, are modified in order to inject views that favor People’s Republic of China and ideologies from the Communist Party. This perspective paper explores the infusion of propaganda undertaken in the education in the Communist China. It also provides a discussion on both the advantages and disadvantages of such conduct. Particularly, it elaborates on the concepts of self-preserving maneuver for social stability and country’s survival; emphasis on the welfare of the state; the domino effect in altering musical pieces; corrupted education and altered truth; manifestation of the superiority and authoritarianism of the ruling party; and the ideological remolding to establish loyalty and nationalism. It is recommended that in order for China to be faithful to its slogan, <em>diversity in unity, </em>respecting differences on musical works of ethnicities and not intervening on them would be a decent starting point.</p>

Research on the Strategy of Cultural Education Propaganda in Museums—Taking Hubei Provincial Museum as an Example

Research on the Strategy of Cultural Education Propaganda in Museums—Taking Hubei Provincial Museum as an Example

Visualising Order: Photography and the Production of the Colonial Police in India

Stationed in cities, towns and villages across the Indian subcontinent, the colonial police were a ubiquitous presence under the British Raj. Visuality was central to the policing project; the police’s effectiveness was predicated on colonial subjects’ recognition of police authority. Photographs of policepersons and police buildings, appearing in manuals, histories and memoirs, private albums, imperial educational propaganda and on postcards, testify to the pervasiveness of the policing institution within the colonial landscape and the institution’s commitment to visuality. The sheer volume of these photographs invites consideration. While existing scholarship on the colonial police and photography has largely focused on how the police harnessed the medium in their efforts to visualise colonial criminals, this article considers photography as a means of producing the police to make legible the imperial social order. Various photographs of policepersons and police buildings – mundane and propagandistic images when considered within the broader history of colonial Indian photography – index imperial interactions, revealing the visual language the police relied on to assert their authority.

Review of Mind over media: Propaganda education for a digital age

Review of Mind over media: Propaganda education for a digital age

Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age by Renee Hobbs

<i>Mind Over Media: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age by Renee Hobbs</i>

The ways of the realization of gender-based education in the learning process in higher educational establishments

The article reveals the problem of gender-oriented education in higher education. The author notes that it is important not only to change the forms, methods and means of learning in modern conditions but also the concept of forming a modern specialist who has to train, in addition to professional knowledge, skills and abilities - interpersonal and soft skills because society is gradually moving away from the individualistic type and focuses on teamwork and cooperation at all levels. Among the gender problems in Ukraine such as gender inequality at different levels of education, the presence of elements of gender discrimination in the content of academic disciplines and its reflection in the educational and methodological literature; gender relations in the teaching staff, teaching style and pedagogical communication; speech/language sexism, etc. are identified. The survey proved the need to use a gender-sensitive approach in the educational process, showed some differences in learning between boys and girls and confirmed the importance of taking into account the psychological and physiological differences between girls and boys in the educational process. The author presents ways to implement this approach in higher education, which will contribute to the comprehensive coverage of all areas of work - teaching, methodological and educational - which will contribute to the creation of a gender-sensitive educational environment. Various directions of the introduction of gender education as a component of national, moral, family, legal, mental, labour are offered; emphasis is placed on the necessity to include gender topics in lectures, practical classes, term papers and master's theses; cooperation of educators and public organizations; formation of gender culture of the teacher, propaganda of gender education. The results of an experimental study are presented, the statistical data of which indicate the need to implement this type of education for more effective organization of the educational process in higher education, humanization and democratization of education.