Social Sense Research Articles

Social Network, Sense of Responsibility, and Resident Participation in China's Rural Environmental Governance.

Based on a survey of 2343 rural residents in China, this paper adopts a binary logistic regression model as the analytical tool to study the impact of rural residents’ social network and sense of responsibility regarding their participation in environmental governance. The results show that the cost, frequency and scope of social network activities have positive and significant influences on resident participation in rural environmental governance. The cost of a social network is conducive to building a rural social network, enhancing the connection of interests and promoting the formation of a rural community. Extending social network objectives from family members to villagers can improve the cultural identity and emotional identity of rural residents. The increase in the frequency of social network activities can not only enhance trust among residents, but also reduce the cost of environmental governance mobilization. The scope of a social network acts as an inhibitor whereby social interaction beyond the scope of rural areas will reduce identification with rural emotions. The four dimensions, including responsibility cognition, responsibility will, responsibility emotion and responsibility behavior have significant influences on resident participation in rural environmental governance. Residents’ sense of responsibility plays the role of an introverted driving force for them to take part in rural environmental governance, which itself helps to overcome “non-participation” behaviors of “rational smallholders” to a certain extent. Furthermore, it endows rural environmental governance with resilience. So, it is of significance to enhance rural residents’ social networks and to improve rural residents’ cognition of collective responsibility.

Cultural Managers’ Education and Cultural Ecosystems’ Transfigurations : The Case of COSM Modules in Finland

This text deals with the example of cultural managers’ education format that follows the changes in cultural ecosystems that impact cultural professionals’ practice globally. The initiative called COSM (Culture, Organization and Sustainability Management) is tested in Finland and aims to re-define cultural management professionals’ role and competencies from the side of sustainability values. These values are approached in a particular way to adapt and strengthen the role of cultural managers when assisting all types of responsible or ethically balanced activities, in environmental, social, and economic sense. The goal of that format is also to strengthen sustainability values-oriented practices of leaders and employees of creative and cultural organizations or cultural heritage sites inside their ecosystems that include ethical and balanced cultural work environments. Finally, it deals as well with cultural professionals being prepared to respond to the unexpected and crisis circumstances. The sequence of the article content consists of three elements, the first refers to the metaphor of cultural ecosystems and gives the examples based on festivals. The second part of the article is the introduction of the COSM courses as the example case of the educational response to the current needs of the cultural management profession. The discussion on the cultural professionals’ identity is referred to in that fragment of the paper. The third component of the article presents the outcomes of the COSM educational experiment based on the feedback collected from participants. The concluding part is a summary that brings the perspective of cultural organizations' reality and the multiple roles of cultural professionals in the future.

Implementation Of Peer Teaching Learning Methods In Honoring Arabic Speaking Skills In Islamic Education Institutions

The purpose of this study is to describe the implementation of peer teaching learning methods in honing Arabic speaking skills in Islamic educational institutions. The research method in this study uses a qualitative approach and the type of research is library research. The results of the research show that (1) speaking skills are the ability to express articulation sounds or words to express thoughts in the form of ideas, opinions, desires, or feelings to the interlocutor (2) the peer teaching method or what is often called peer tutoring is a method of peer teaching. which focuses on learning activities for students. Students are given the opportunity to share their knowledge and skills with other students. In addition to being smart, tutors must have a high sense of sociality and be accepted by other students. (3) the implementation of peer teaching learning in honing Arabic speaking skills is carried out based on the preparation, implementation and evaluation stages. From this explanation, the peer teaching method that has been offered is expected to be a solution to various problems in learning Arabic speaking skills.

Sex and gender reporting in high impact haematology journals

The US National Institutes of Health 1 National Institutes of HealthSex & gender. https://orwh.od.nih.gov/sex-genderDate accessed: March 17, 2022 Google Scholar and American Medical Association 2 American Medical AssociationAssociation of American Medical CollegesAdvancing health equity: a guide to language, narrative and concepts. https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdfDate accessed: March 17, 2022 Google Scholar have emphasised the importance of appropriately reporting sex and gender in medical research, as mounting evidence shows that sex and gender affect health independently. 1 National Institutes of HealthSex & gender. https://orwh.od.nih.gov/sex-genderDate accessed: March 17, 2022 Google Scholar Sex is defined as a label assigned at birth on the basis of biological characteristics (eg, reproductive anatomy and chromosomes), whereas gender encompasses a person's psychological, emotional, social, and overall sense of identity. 1 National Institutes of HealthSex & gender. https://orwh.od.nih.gov/sex-genderDate accessed: March 17, 2022 Google Scholar , 2 American Medical AssociationAssociation of American Medical CollegesAdvancing health equity: a guide to language, narrative and concepts. https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdfDate accessed: March 17, 2022 Google Scholar

Aprendizaje de inglés por competencias, ¿una educación instrumental y acrítica?

Currently, education is focused on productivity,
 and because of this, an instrumentalist and mechanized
 instruction based on the skills to solve certain problems
 has been consolidated. The teaching-learning process
 of a second language does not fall outside this
 structure. For purposes related to the analysis of the
 phenomenon, a methodology consisting of a qualitative
 model along an ethnographic method was used –both
 approaches allowed us to understand the worldview of
 the student body. The first technique was the problem
 case, in which an experience was presented to link the
 participants with a specific contextual situation, as well
 as an interview, which ratified information related to
 personal life, likes, anxieties, fears. The perceptions
 of the student body were thoroughly examined;
 the main problems presented in moments of direct
 communicative interaction were understood, and the
 students answered a flexible form questionnaire with
 both a quantitative and qualitative perspective (Gento
 & Sánchez, 2009). Despite being awarded a B2 level
 by the Common European Framework of Reference
 (CEFR), the students showed limitations in establishing
 effective communicative acts in a second language;
 they did not recognize their learning process with
 a social and dynamic sense, but in an artificial and
 mechanized one.

Visualizing multiracial identity development

Despite astonishing growth in the multiracial population since 2010 and increased empirical scholarship on the experiences of persons from two or more racial groups, little progress has been made to extend multiracial identity development theory. Drawing from constructivist grounded theory and multiple visual grounded theory (VGT) frameworks, our secondary qualitative study analyzed 26 participatory diagrams from two previous qualitative studies examining multiracial identity development. In alignment with our novel VGT analytic approach, we co-constructed a visual theoretical model that more accurately represents the dynamism between complex developmental and ecological processes that interactively influence multiracial identity development over time. Our findings suggest that multiracial identity development is a dynamic process influenced by critical events and experiences, including trauma and abuse, movement of place, and turning points and milestones that mutually shape a multiracial person’s social environments, interpersonal relationships, and sense of self. Reflecting on our innovative study, we advocate for more critical, emancipatory methods like VGT that have the potential to overcome epistemological barriers in research that restrict the more accurate and complete storytelling of the multiracial experience.

Reflecting Culturally Responsive and Communicative Teaching (CRCT) through Partnership Commitment

The strategic approach to enhance cultural skills is aligned with social feeling and sense of belonging as an important element to underlie the interaction pathway with others’ diverse backgrounds. Such an approach of teaching model could be transformed and prepared to encourage ability to communicate and relate to others from diverse backgrounds. The following phase of sufficient integration amongst cognitive, social and emotional substance is reflect in the culturally responsive and communicative teaching (CRCT). This mode is an important element to advance the diverse students amidst an increasingly complex and pluralistic society. This paper is aimed at examining CRCT by having a critical look into the partnership commitment amongst interracial teachers’ daily school interaction. Data collection was conducted with 10 interracial teachers with a focus on the approach of how their partnership commitment is reflected and practiced in their daily school interaction. Thematic analysis was employed to obtain the main points of data to give insight into the multicultural school society. The findings reveal that an understanding of CRCT articulated into partnership engagement commitment has a core of three main points. These are: expanding self-awareness on cultural identity; enhancing culturally mediated emotion of social situations; and developing instructional practice for cultural sensitivity. The implication for students’ experiential learning in the multicultural classroom was also discussed. The contribution of this paper can be exerted among those involved in the education sectors. These include students, educators, principals, learning facilitators, researchers, educational technologist, instructional designers and practitioners. This is also included among the researchers who are interested in exploring, understanding and developing discerning perspectives on diversity and diverse learners in 21st century education. This study is expected to contribute by giving solving skills with the strategic approach articulated into a particular guideline to give a clear understanding in responding the multicultural classroom in the interracial school society context. This study is considered to elaborate the good feedback on the importance of CRCT in responding to emerging trends on the facades of diversity among diverse learners.

Financial support of development and tools of financial support of social entrepreneurship

The purpose of scientific research is to analyze the process of financial support and to outline the tools of financial support for its development in modern conditions. The article considers the concept of social entrepreneurship as a phenomenon of the modern economic system of Ukraine. The point is that social entrepreneurship aims to ensure social, economic and environmental impact in communities. Social entrepreneurship must also solve social problems through a certain mechanism of economic activity, which is determined by innovation and systematic work. The methodological basis of the study is the theoretical justification of financial support for the development of social entrepreneurship in Ukraine and analysis of the tools of its financial support. The scientific novelty of the obtained results lies in the substantiation of the necessary measures of financial support in the activities and development of social entrepreneurship with outlining the effect of the use of financial resources at the regional level. Conclusions. The study found that in the context of permanent crises that occur in the country, it is necessary to take care of diversification of sources of financial support for the development of activities and the choice of effective tools for raising and regulating funds in social entrepreneurship. Successful financing of social enterprises in the state should result in employment (especially vulnerable categories of citizens) and ensuring quality social benefits in communitiesThe authors point out that the low level of protection of citizens in the social sense and regional unemployment are for the constant search for alternative sources of financing for social enterprises and the search for the latest tools for managing funds. The issue of financing social entrepreneurship by governmental and non-governmental organizations has been studied of Ukraine. The factor of influence of organizational and legal form of conducting economic activity on the process of financing and mechanisms of its realization is analyzed. Problems that slow down the development of social entrepreneurship in the country and prevent the effective use of available funds and alternative search for new ones are presented. Possible ways to finance social entrepreneurship are provided, shown by the example of crowdfunding crowdfunding is a non-refundable investment in the activities of social entrepreneurs. The effect of financing social entrepreneurship on filling the budgets of different levels is outlined. The optimal OPF of management and methods of financial development in the pre-crisis and post-crisis period are offered. Key words: social entrepreneurship, traditional business, financial provision, financial instruments, state support.

Aspect of Identity Crisis Faced by Adolescents: A Comparative Study of Rudrapur and Lucknow

An identity crisis is a personal and psychosocial conflict that occurs during adolescence, though may happen at any time. It involves confusion about one’s social role and sense of self. The present study intends to identify the aspects of identity crisis faced by adolescents. Sample for the study comprised of 160 adolescents (88 boys and 72 girls) between 10 and19 years of age group. Aspects of identity questionnaire by Cheek and Briggs were used to assess the level of identity. The questionnaire measures the identity in terms of who are and what a particular person is and what constitute person’s identity. The scale measures four aspects of identity which include the personal identity, relational identity, social identity, and collective identity. Results reveal that the majority of the adolescents faced personal, relational, and collective identity orientation on an average.

Impact of Bullying Behavior on Mental Health and Quality of Life Among Pre-Adolescents and Adolescents in Sialkot-Pakistan

Bullying in children and adolescents has become a serious social problem and a stern threat to mental health and well-being, leaving a shadow for severe psychopathology. Previous research has highlighted bullying behavior is a leading cause of emotional disturbances in children and adolescents, worsening their physical, psychological, and social sense of well-being. The aim of the present research was to explore the influence of bullying behavior on pre-adolescents, and adolescents’ mental health and quality of life. Further, age group and gender differences were also explored. For this purpose, a random sample of 400 children and adolescents, aged between 8-18 years from different schools and colleges of Sialkot-Pakistan were considered for assessment of bullying behavior. A self-develop demographic sheet along with different scales to assess bullying behavior, mental health and quality of life was administered. The results suggest that bullying behavior was negatively and significantly associated with mental health problems and quality of life in the whole sample. Findings further indicates the significant difference among pre-adolescents and adolescents on the variables of bullying behavior (t=13.34, ***p<0.01), QOL (t=-3.37, ***p<0.01) and mental health problems (t=-3.69, ***p<0.01). Gender differences on the variables of bullying behavior (t=13.34, ***p<0.01), QOL (t=-3.75, ***p<0.01) and mental health problems (t=-3.69, ***p<0.01) were also found significant. Bullying behavior exerts a greater impact on the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents. There is an immense need to devise preventive strategies to enhance the emotional, psychological well-being of this group.

Role of social, cultural and symbolic capital for youth and community wellbeing in a rural Alaska Native community

Health promotion programs by and for Indigenous Peoples increasingly use strength-based Indigenous approaches aimed at reinforcing protective factors rooted in their cultures and traditions. These protective factors can counteract the deleterious effects induced by the rapid social changes related to colonization. Western social scientists defined cultural, social and symbolic capital as assets akin to social strengths that can promote health. It is important to understand Indigenous perspectives on these social and cultural capitals, and the ways their interplay can promote wellness. Using the qualitative methods photovoice and digital storytelling, we elicited the perspectives of Athabascan middle and high school students participating in the Frank Attla Youth and Sled Dog Care-Mushing Program in their home community of Huslia in Interior Alaska. Subsequently, we disseminated the stories and preliminary findings in Huslia, and conducted focus groups with adults to triangulate with the youth perspectives. Deductive and inductive thematic content analysis of youth stories and photos revealed the impacts of the program on them and their community. Youth reported gains in cultural, social and symbolic capital and shared what these forms of capital mean in their cultural context. Cultural capital gains were mostly in its embodied form, e.g. in work ethics, perseverance and the value of cultural traditions; social capital gains revolved around relations with peers, adults and Elders, nature and animals, as well as social cohesion and sense of belonging in Huslia; Symbolic capital was reflected through pride and spirituality. The students’ stories also illustrated their perspectives on how the program affected their wellbeing, through physical activity, healing relations with dogs, increased self-esteem and visions of a bright future. Adults corroborated youth perspectives and shared their observations of program impacts on discipline, academic and life skills and resilience. These findings could be used to guide development and assessment of culturally-based wellbeing promoting interventions.

Promoting a social justice sensibility in qualitative communication research practice

This brief study applies the four tenets of the communication approach to social justice (CSJ) to illustrate how a social justice sensibility can be promoted via communicative micro-practices during a qualitative research study. By analyzing ethically important moments (which revealed both participants’ motivations for research participation and social justice needs) occurring during interviews with 26 women with vulvodynia, the CSJ framework elucidates the relationship between research practices, ethics, and social justice. Findings explore how foregrounding ethical principles, analyzing the structural issues affecting research participation, adopting an activist orientation, and engaging in identification and solidarity uphold a social justice sensibility. Theoretical and practical implications are offered.

Some other ‘primitive forms of classification’. Contribution to the study of children's collective representations

This methods paper addresses a simple, yet curiously understudied question: When do we first acquire the ability to view specific persons, properties and practices as ‘similar’ or ‘different’, ‘equal’ or ‘unequal’ in social status? Despite sociology's theoretical commitment to the importance of ‘primary socialization’, sociological research on the ontogenesis of our ability to situate ourselves and others in social space remains scarce. This paper argues that the reasons for sociology's ‘child neglect’ are not purely conceptual, but also methodological in nature. Conventional sociological methods are in fact not particularly well-geared to dealing with the obstacles that accompany the study of young actors. This paper discusses three of these obstacles – mastery of language, limitations in attention-span and the asymmetry of the researcher/respondent-relationship – and presents a visual method designed to circumvent or minimize their impact. This method centers around a classificatory game that allows children to combine a set of drawings of persons and objects according to different and even opposing principles of classification (i.e. color or social status). Preliminary results produced by this method suggest that an elementary ‘social sense’ already starts to form among preschoolers.

Personal factors as predictors of academic resilience among public secondary school students in Turkana county, Kenya

Introduction: Students from Turkana County compete for the same education benefits as those in the least marginalized counties with some succeeding and thriving. It is necessary to establish the factors that promote academic resilience hence the investigation of personal factors that promote academic resilience. Purpose: This study was an investigation of the relationship between personal factors and academic resilience among public secondary school students in Turkana County. Methodology: This study’s philosophical underpinning was pragmatism. It employed a mixed methods approach using the concurrent triangulation design analysis. The instruments of data collection tools were questionnaires and interview schedules. The sample size consisted of 382 students who responded to questionnaires, and 10 teachers and 10 students for the interview schedules. For the questionnaires, the Cronbach Alpha Coefficient overall output was .845. The content, construct and criterion-related validity were also established. Similarly, the trustworthiness and authenticity of the qualitative data was established. Results: The study found out that that there was a statistically significant strong positive correlation (r= .712, n=378, P> .05) between personal factors and academic resilience. Sense of meaning and purpose had the strongest associations with academic resilience, followed by autonomy and sense of self (r=0.599, P<0.05), and then social competence (r=0.544, P<0.05). Further, indicators of personal factors explain 51.0% of the variation in academic resilience Recommendations: The study recommended that both parents and teachers should play an active role to support students to develop and increase social competence, autonomy, and sense of self, meaning, and purpose in their lives, and nurture positive relationships to enhance academic resilience.

«КУЛЬТУРА МОВЧАННЯ» ЯК ІНСТРУМЕНТ «ПОЛІТИКИ ГОЛОСУ»

The «culture of silence», as well as the «politics of the voice», are interpreted differently in the Eastern and Western traditions. For example, in Japanese culture, silence acts as a spiritual practice and is evidence of a person's level of education. In archaic cultures, silence was also part of a person's spiritual path, his formation, and his search for himself. It is characteristic of a Western person to consider silence in a slightly different way. For her, silence, first of all, is a sign of inability to express oneself, one's position, etc. That is why in Western culture preference is given to the voice as a confirmation of one's will. The key opposition underlying European culture is the binary of sound and its absence. European culture attached great importance to the word. Speaking for a European means, first of all, self-defense and self-affirmation, defending oneself and one's place in the social structure, and accordingly silence is perceived, as a rule, in three modes: or as something abnormal; or as a sign of surrender; or as an attack on another person expressed in a certain way. For Europeans, a person who does not give voice, a will that is not expressed by voice, in the social sense is equal to zero. Precisely because of this, power structures that operate only by voice, on the one hand, do not perceive gestures of silence, or if they do, it is only as a sign of consent, and on the other hand, they are the voice they fear, bow to and which admit. That is precisely why, based on the analyzed material, we come to the conclusion that silence is not always golden. For a government that only pursues the «politics of the voice» a person's silence indicates nothing but consent and submission. Silent resistance means absolutely nothing to the power structures. And in a person who gradually gets used to only perceiving the voice of the conditionally stronger, the experience of resistance, the experience of expressing personal will gradually atrophies, he is drawn into a paranoid tendency and fear of being revealed or visible.

Синхронизация технологических, социальных и экономических преобразований в условиях «островной» трансформации

The development of human civilization has been and is going through a series of continuous transformations in various spheres. Today, the world is going through another series of intensive technological, social and economic transformations. These transformations are connected with the evolutionary development according to the scheme: “modernity – a new industrial society of the 2nd generation (NIS.2) – noonomy”. An important role in this development is given to information (digital) technologies. They serve as a link between socio-economic transformation and are also an important element of modern technological transition. The integrating properties of digital technologies are because they form and maintain a single information, knowledge field. But in the modern historical period, there has been a tendency to break this single information field. Moreover, this happens synchronously with the formation of a multipolar world in the socio-political plane and glocalization in the economic plane. According to the author, these changes are natural and interrelated. Based on the analysis, the transition to a new stage of social evolution is postulated, which is characterized by “island” development, the essence of which is the formation of relatively autonomous “islands” in the global civilizational space in the technological, social, and economic sense. The idea of the need to study this new phenomenon based on a new scientific concept of “island development” is being formed.

Populism in a society with an excess of challenges: the threat to democracy or the possibility of its correction?

The phenomenon of growing support for populist parties and relevant orientations among the world's population is usually defined as a threat to democracy, social unity, and civic activism. The psychological appeal of populist ideas is based on the human need for collective identity, social cohesion, categorization of social life, predictability and sense of security as well as moral absolutism and support for conspiracy theories. This leads to the spread of confrontational discourse in the public sphere, support for authoritarianism and deepening social cleavages. However, empirical researches show the ambiguous focus of populist orientations in support of anti-democratic ideas. In fact, citizens with populist orientations should not be unambiguously identified with voters of populist parties. Because of its mobilizing potential, populism can make the democratic process more inclusive, as people with populist orientations support deliberative forms of democracy. In some cases, populist mobilization become useful in emergencies, such as the overthrow of an authoritarian regime or resistance to the enemy during war. However, populism can be an obstacle in trying to reform state institutions, as the absolutization of simplistic forms of government and the propensity for authoritarianism common among populists block civic initiative.

THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SOVIET SYSTEM IN THE TERRITORY OF TRANSCARPATHIA (1944–1946)

As noted, Transcarpathia is an administrative-territorial unit created in historical Hungary in 1919, consisting of Uzhan, Berez, Ugochan, and Maramoros counties. In the first half of the 20th century, it was part of several states: in 1919, it became part of Czechoslovakia; in 1938–1939, it returned to Hungary, and in the fall of 1944, after the Soviet occupation, it was incorporated by the Soviet Union. The authors investigated that frequent changes of power due to the peripherality of the region took place without considering the local population's opinion – as a result of the political decisions of the great states, so Transcarpathians always had to adapt to new political systems. Among the historical twists of fate for the residents, joining the Soviet Union had the most tragic consequences: until 1944, the region was a part of Central Europe, in particular the Carpathian Basin, in the social, economic, and cultural sense, but after, it became part of a dictatorial empire based on a class approach and social injustice. It was analyzed and concluded that the incorporation of Transcarpathia, with a total area of 20,000 km2, was of geostrategic importance for the Soviet authorities since, due to its geographical location, it bordered several states that were part of the Soviet bloc, and railway routes ran through it, which simplified the logistics of the USSR with them. The incorporation of the region by the Soviet Union was not legitimate at all, but the almighty Soviet leader Stalin, who influenced the politics of states in this part of Europe, made sure to maintain the appearance of legitimacy during the occupation and subsequent annexation. As a result of the political regime change, a new administrative system was implemented, the names of settlements were revised, and the ethnic composition of the region also changed. As an undoubted fact stated that for various ethnic groups living in Transcarpathia, the Soviet annexation brought a series of individual and mass tragedies, as the change of power meant not only the onset of lawlessness but also ethnic cleansing and physical destruction for tens of thousands of people.

The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales by Hermynia Zur Mühlen

Reviewed by: The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales by Hermynia Zur Mühlen Anna Kérchy (bio) The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales. By Hermynia Zur Mühlen, edited and translated by Jack Zipes, Princeton University Press, 2020, 187 pp. The Castle of Truth and Other Revolutionary Tales was published in Princeton University Press's Oddly Modern Fairy Tales series dedicated to exploring unusual, uncanny, unjustly forgotten early twentieth-century literary fairy tales. These stories are historically significant as genuine innovators of the genre and still strike a chord with contemporary readers a century later as vanguardist practitioners of postmodern narratological strategies well ahead of their time. After intriguing collections of tales by an impressive range of international artists, including Kurt Schwitters, Béla Balázs, Édouard Labouyale, and Naomi Mitchison among others, editor-translator Jack Zipes introduces readers in the tenth volume of the series to a curious corpus of radical political fairy tales—some available in English for the first time—authored by an extraordinary woman writer, a free spirit and a socialist, and a humanitarian activist rescued from obscurity via this important gesture of canon revision. Zipes's informative introduction traces Hermynia Zur Mühlen's unconventional artistic career. Born in Vienna in 1883 to an aristocratic Catholic family, she rebels from her early childhood against the arbitrary social codes of her elitist upbringing. At age eleven, she founds with her friends a political group called the Anchor Society that sets the ambitious goal "to improve the world" by fighting hegemonic oppression and speaking the truth in the face of hypocrisy. After her despotic father prevents her from becoming a schoolteacher, she marries an Estonian baron from Germany against her parents' will, but the relationship is embittered by ideological differences and her worsening tuberculosis. Eventually, at a Swiss health clinic, she meets the politically likeminded Austrian translator Stefan Klein who becomes her lifelong partner and collaborator in changing the world through writing literary texts (excelling in many genres from political fairy tales to mystery novels and social problem novels), nonfiction pieces, and translating political works to propagate the cause of the German Communist Party. It is by Klein's side that Zur Mühlen [End Page 319] matures—amid poor living conditions, rejected by her family, often persecuted by the police, and against all odds—into the artist-activist who boldly abandons her class to become an outspoken, prolific left-wing author driven by the agenda to share revolutionary ideas with both adult and child readers of her provocative fairy tales. In her analytical essays, Zur Mühlen criticized the trivial and demeaning literature for girls and emphasized the role of children's literature in socializing youngsters, in educating social sensibility, and in functioning as an instrument for the intergenerational discussion of significant social problems. Her first major pioneering efforts in the realm of fairy tales were governed by the pedagogical intent to renew the genre of children's literature, yet the discussion of serious themes—like social injustice, discrimination, tyranny, class struggle, or solidarity—implies that she strategically addressed a dual readership. She assumed that fairy tales were meant for the collective education of parents and children, for the building of empathetic bonds between different generations and different social classes. The volume contains a selection of Zur Mühlen's seventeen fairy tales. The first three from her What Little Peter's Friends Told Him (1930) belong to the genre of the "it narrative"—popularized by Hans Christian Andersen and E. T. A. Hoffmann—in which different household objects—the coal, the matchbox, and the water bottle—tell stories to poor little Peter, whose leg is broken and is left at home alone while his mother is busy working in the factory. Through their tales, which shed light on the difficult lives of working-class people, the talking, anthropomorphized objects act as witnesses and critics of the objectification of the exploited people, and the dehumanizing strategies of the oppressors. Contrary to the conclusions of today's postmillennial, posthumanist or object-oriented ontological theories, the blurring of the distinction between subject and object, human and thing is more tragic than liberating in Zur...

Актуальні питання нейрореабілітації в бійців ООС та в потерпілих мирної території після черепно-мозкової травми

Traumatic brain injury remains one of the most urgent problems of modern medicine, and its consequences are not only a medical, but also a socio-economic problem. Despite the study of clinical, structural-morphological, biochemical, neurophysiological, hemodynamic changes in patients who have suffered traumatic brain injury, it does not give up its leading position among the causes of disability in young and middleaged people, the most active in the labor and social sense of the population. An in-depth study of the distant period of traumatic brain injury is necessary, due to the high percentage of its consequences, and the lack of a correlation between the clinical symptoms of acute and distant periods of brain injury. Purpose of study. The purpose of the stydy is to learn about the effects of entrop and piracetam on structural and morthological, biochemical, neurophysiological, hemodynamical processes in brain to improve the results of an integrated treatment of a mild Traumatic Brain Injury (concussion) when ensuring rehabilitative measures in the remote period of time. Content. Inspected 82 civilians and 82 JFO combatants with mild TBI in the remote period of time. All patients were males. The dynamic of functioning brain state has been studied using the electroencephalography data. Cerebral blood flow has been studied using the ultrasonic dopplerography method and characteristic of the cognitive disorders by MMSE. Results. In the remote period of time the use of piracetam and entrop in the integrated treatment of patients with mild TMI has positively affected the EEG and cognitive functions trends. The study results have shown that the cerebral hemodynamic didn`t change sighnificantly after adding piracetam and entrop to the standart treatment protocol. These researches on patientsd by MMSE scale confirmed anti-amnestic focus of pharmacotherapeutic effect in both nootropic drugs (piracetam and enthrop) in aspect of impact on cognitive dissfunction. To summarize. Treatment of patients with mild TBI in remote period with usage of piracetam and entrop demonstrates the multimodal effect of these drugs on CNS, their great pharmaceutical potential and contributes to the effectiveness of neurorehabilitation measures, which improve quality of life of patients, who had brain injuries.