Teleological Aspects Research Articles

A small lens on timescales and multimodality in classroom language learning emotions

AbstractEmpirical work exploring additional language (L+) learning emotions has both proliferated and expanded its focus over the past 15 years. The current article explores one possibility for responding to the challenge of capturing and describing emotions in order to furnish a more contextualized, multidimensional picture of emotions in L+ learning: the small‐lens approach. From the perspective of the author as a practitioner–researcher, this article draws on data from an L+ discussion activity. Via the activity, the practitioner–researcher identified an emotional outcome of interest and examined the historical buildup to this phenomenon. A narrative of the research process applied aims to illustrate the ways in which multimodal analysis and interrogation of psychological timescales might illuminate intersections between the social and individual. Rather than delineating a complete description of the research, the article strives to intimate possibilities and stimulate more nuanced, situated, and dynamic empirical work into the emergence of emotions in instructed L+ learning. While not the primary focus, some of the teleological (functional) aspects of emotions and emotional expression are also unearthed.

Legal analysis of different approaches to understanding the phenomenon of miscarriage of justice in administrative proceedings

The article is devoted to the study of various approaches to understanding the phenomenon of a miscarriage of justice in administrative proceedings. The author establishes that a miscarriage of justice in administrative proceedings can be referred to in several senses. Firstly, a miscarriage of justice in administrative proceedings can be understood in a narrow sense, depending on the aspect specifically chosen (epistemological, praxeological and teleological) or their combination. The epistemological aspect of understanding a miscarriage of justice in administrative proceedings relates to the processes of mental and cognitive activity of a judge. Within this aspect, a miscarriage of justice is considered as a result of a defect in the subject matter of a judge’s cognitive actions, which may be manifested in incorrect processing or interpretation of information. The praxeological aspect of understanding a miscarriage of justice in administrative proceedings focuses on the compliance of the judge’s actions with the requirements and procedural rules set forth in the law. In this context, a miscarriage of justice is manifested as an unlawful act (action or inaction) of a judge, which consists in the judge’s incorrect application of substantive law or violation of procedural law. The teleological aspect of understanding a miscarriage of justice relates to the purposes of administrative proceedings. Under this approach, a miscarriage of justice is defined as a result that does not meet the goals of administrative proceedings. The interconnection and interdependence of the epistemological, praxeological and teleological aspects forms a comprehensive understanding, a holistic perception of this phenomenon in administrative proceedings. This integration of different perspectives makes it possible to characterize a miscarriage of justice by providing a deep and multilevel understanding of its nature. In a broad sense, a miscarriage of justice in administrative proceedings can be understood as a judge’s procedural activity related to the misperception, analysis or reproduction of legal norms, which is reflected in the adoption of a court decision that is unable to achieve the purpose of administrative proceedings.

Subjection of Religious Institutes to the Holy See

The ecclesiastical legislator grants religious institutes just autonomy so that they can carry out their mission, but this autonomy is not unlimited. This article explains the essence of this autonomy of religious institutes – both of pontifical right and diocesan institutes – while indicating and discussing their dependence on the Holy See. This interdependence is realised in such aspects as the approval of religious authorities, changes to constitutions and statutes, issues concerning the management of goods or broadly interpreted formation. An analysis of this research problem must factor in ecclesiological, juridical and teleological aspects of the subjection of religious institutes to the Holy See.

Сравнительный анализ социокультурных истоков рок-музыки в СССР и США

The article is devoted to a comparative analysis of the sociocultural foundations of the emergence of rock music in the USA and the USSR. The aim of the study is to identify the genesis of rock music and to analyze its characteristics in the United States and the Soviet Union. The authors have shown that a significant factor influencing the birth of rock music in the United States was the post-war socio-economic conditions: the absence of destruction in the country's infrastructure, the concentration in the United States of scientists who had fled fascism in Europe, the orientation of the country's budget towards the socio-economic sector, the demographic explosion, the emergence of leisure time. The Soviet Union, which had suffered catastrophic human losses and destruction of industry because of the war, focused the budget on raising the national economy and strengthening the military-industrial complex, so the appearance of rock music in the USSR became possible only after a full economic recovery. Despite the initial copying and imitation of American rock music by Soviet performers, the authors of the article found differences both in the musical material (form - content) and in the ideological (consumerism - sacrifice) and teleological (commodity - mission) aspects of rock music. The results of the study may be useful for philosophers, cultural scientists, as well as teachers of secondary and higher educational institutions to demonstrate the identity of the Russian cultural path using the example of rock music.

TOTEs and trauma: a cybernetic, extended recursion schematic for hyper vigilance

PurposeThis conceptual article presents a schematic for use with extended cybernetic recursion in living systems and applies it to the issue of hyper vigilance as a demonstration of its utility.Design/methodology/approachThe test-operate-test-exit (TOTE) schematic of Miller et al. (1960) is critically evaluated along with other schematics, including those of ordered cybernetics, and a new schematic is proposed, a recursive test-operate-test (rTOT), which emphasizes teleological purpose and hierarchical structure. The background psychophysiology of trauma is reviewed and then rTOT is applied to hyper vigilance, a cardinal component of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).FindingsOnce the schematic was developed, it was applied to the behavior of hyper vigilance. Other applications are suggested.Research limitations/implicationsAs demonstrated, the rTOT schematic has potentially wide application because of its pragmatic and detailed structure.Practical implicationsThe rTOT requires careful consideration of teleological purposes for its application and is simple enough, but also complex enough, for relevant utilization. Its compact nature and adjustable hierarchy scope are good mini-max complexity solutions for cybernetic, information modeling schematics.Social implicationsThe revealed teleological purpose of the trauma adaptation of hyper vigilance presents significant alternative formulation options for prevention and intervention.Originality/valueWhile the rTOT schematic is derived from previous schematics, it is original in its emphasis on information processing, the teleological aspects of extended recursion and on the provision of a hierarchical structure for those recursions. It is considerably more compact than other schematics associated with the ordered cybernetics literature. The explication of the adaptation model for post-trauma consequences is significantly enhanced by the rTOT application.

A New Concept of Reason?

In One-Dimensional Man, Herbert Marcuse followed Husserl in arguing that modern natural science translates concepts and practices from the Lebenswelt, the everyday lifeworld. Marcuse claimed that a socialist revolution would change that life-world and transform natural science. He anticipated a new concept of reason that would incorporate potentialities experienced in the lifeworld. Teleological aspects of everyday experience would be “materialized” by science. Marcuse’s critique of social science employs a similar concept of translation. The notion that changes in the lifeworld would enable the social sciences to incorporate potentialities is more plausible than these speculations about a successor natural science. But Marcuse’s assumption that such changes would occur after a socialist revolution has been overtaken by the actual development of social movements challenging the socially embedded technosciences. The reciprocal interaction between science and society in the struggle for a liveable world is now a present phenomenon, no longer a distant revolutionary prospect.

Social Evolution, Progress and Teleology in Spencer's Synthetic Philosophy and Freudian Psychoanalysis

This article compares notions of progress and evolution in the social theories of Freud and Herbert Spencer, thus revising Freudian social theory and relocating it within a social-evolutionist tradition. It first argues that the two authors held similarly complex theories that contained mixed elements of positivism and teleology –in its positivist aspects, both authors made use of unified natural laws and, in its teleological aspects, they understood progress and the evolution of civilization along a linear path of progressive development. It is further examined how both authors made use of analogies between organisms and social aggregates–in Freud's case, he formulated a libidinal analogy between the stages of psychosexual development and the civilizatory stages. Finally, it is examined the ethical commitments to the individual that are consequences of such an understanding of the natural law.

System Capability Estimation for Various Information Operations Used

The article considers system capability (or – system potential) estimation regarding different kinds of information operations use. Information operations classification suggested. System capability is introduced in the article as property to research teleological (goal- and effects-related) aspects of information technology. Such aspects are studied analytically, with predictive and prescriptive mathematical models and methods. Researchers can apply system capability to dynamic capability, organizational capability investigation regarding information technology, learning technology, and innovation technologies use. Example of system capability estimation considered.

Constitutionalism: national and supranational dimensions. All-Russian Scientific Conference with international participation devoted to the 95th anniversary of V.A. Tumanov

All-Russian Scientific Conference with international participation “Constitutionalism: national and supranational dimensions” devoted to the 95th anniversary of V.A. Tumanov was held on the 20 of October 2021 in the Institute of State and Law of the RAS. It was attended by 52 doctors and 32 candidates of science who represented four foreign countries, 14 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, 31 research institutes and universities. During the memorial part of the conference his friends and colleagues, who worked with him in different years, shared their memories about V.A. Tumanov. The participants of the conference also discussed a wide range of problems, to this or that degree connected with the scientific interests of V.A. Tumanov: teleological aspects of constitutionalism, universalization of constitutional principles and preservation of the national constitutional identity, evolution of the federalism and local self-government, development of the constitutional review and ensuring of human rights and freedoms

Design Space Exploration of a Jet Engine Component Using a Combined Object Model for Function and Geometry

The design of aircraft and engine components hinges on the use of computer aided design (CAD) models and the subsequent geometry-based analyses for evaluation of the quality of a concept. However, the generation (and variation) of CAD models to include radical or novel design solutions is a resource intense modelling effort. While approaches to automate the generation and variation of CAD models exist, they neglect the capture and representation of the product’s design rationale—what the product is supposed to do. The design space exploration approach Function and Geometry Exploration (FGE) aims to support the exploration of more functionally and geometrically different product concepts under consideration of not only geometrical, but also teleological aspects. The FGE approach has been presented and verified in a previous presentation. However, in order to contribute to engineering design practice, a design method needs to be validated through application in industrial practice. Hence, this publication reports from a study where the FGE approach has been applied by a design team of a Swedish aerospace manufacturers in a conceptual product development project. Conceptually different alternatives were identified in order to meet the expected functionality of a guide vane (GV). The FGE was introduced and applied in a series of workshops. Data was collected through participatory observation in the design teams by the researchers, as well as interviews and questionnaires. The results reveal the potential of the FGE approach as a design support to: (1) Represent and capture the design rationale and the design space; (2) capture, integrate and model novel solutions; and (3) provide support for the embodiment of novel concepts that would otherwise remain unexplored. In conclusion, the FGE method supports designers to articulate and link the design rationale, including functional requirements and alternative solutions, to geometrical features of the product concepts. The method supports the exploration of alternative solutions as well as functions. However, scalability and robustness of the generated CAD models remain subject to further research.

Constitutional and legal foundations of the control activities of the Ombudsman in the modern world: axiological, ontological and teleological aspects.

The article examines the current constitutional and legal problems of the formation and implementation of the control activities of ombudsman in the modern world. It is proved that the history of development, the causes, the processes of institutionalization and constitution of Ombudsman services in the modern world, the permanent transformation of their functions and the differentiation of their specialization are evidence of the improvement of the classical system of separation of powers. Following the legal traditions of democratic countries, the Institute of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights was introduced in Ukraine. Today, it has become an important way of ensuring human rights. The introduction of the Institute of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights fully meets the current trends in the modern democratic world and is a reflection on those systemic challenges and complex problems that exist in the field of human rights protection. The article argues that the social tension and insecurity of certain segments of the population, in particular children, pensioners, persons with disabilities, servicemen, migrants, internally displaced persons, ethnic minorities, persons belonging to the LGBTI community, entrepreneurs, patients and other categories of the community , demonstrates the need to improve national mechanisms and forms of human rights protection, including strengthening the oversight functions of the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights. It is argued that the functional isolation, independence and organizational diversity of control bodies, primarily ombudsman, is evidence of the formation of control power, the conceptual idea of which is the existence of a system of organizational, regulatory, institutional measures to ensure control over public authority. It is concluded that fundamental constitutional values, among which, first of all, human rights and the authority responsible to him are the functional and teleological dominant activity of the Ombudsman, the feasibility of creating and the practice of functioning of which, in fact, is due to the solution of these interrelated tasks. According to the author, in order to improve the Ombudsman Institute in Ukraine, it is advisable to continue the constitutional and project work on amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine, which provide for the possibility of introducing specialized parliamentary ombudsmen (on issues of the child, servicemen, equal opportunities, national minorities, etc.) the scope of their control activities.

Picturing Midlife: Aging and the Limits of Narrative in Carol Shields’s Larry’s Party


 
 
 This paper approaches Larry’s Party (1997) by Carol Shields as a detailed investigation into the political and representational issues at stake in writing about midlife by focusing on moments when the middle-aged Larry is describedas attempting to “visualize” his life (169). Highlighting Larry’s conviction that “his life is not ... a story” (267), his engagement with visual images raises questions about the centrality of narrative to how midlife is explained and imagined in contemporary literature and culture. Margaret Morganroth Gullette’s influential theorization of midlife and midlife fiction celebrates the sequential and teleological aspects of narrative as enabling a kind of life storytelling that characterizes the entry into middle age as progress toward an improved self. Questioning this conceptualization of a life as a linear, upward trajectory, Shields’s text foregrounds the assumptions about class implicit in the “progress novel” as Larry resists the devaluation of his working-class origins that would seem to accompany the imperative that he esteem his midlife self as better than his previous selves. Associating the fixity of the visual image with other non- narrative qualities such as touch, taste, and affective states characterized by stasis rather than momentum, Larry’s Party invites readers to question the cultural valorization of progress that continues to shape our assumptions about what it means to grow older.
 
 

Images of the desired teacher in practicum observation protocols

ABSTRACT ‘Good teaching’ remains disputed, but few studies have empirically studied variations in views of good teaching as reflected in teacher education. This study performed a content analysis of criteria for student teacher lesson observations stated in protocols from universities in six countries. Similarities across the protocols were the absence of images of the charismatic and the technical-professional teacher, and the dearth of teleological aspects. The degree to which protocols reflected a knowledge base, had clear implementation requirements, valued reasoned judgement, and valued transformation of content varied. On the basis of this range of images of the desired teacher, we suggest four categories of teacher images: the knowledgeable teacher, the knowledge-transforming teacher, the efficient teacher, and the constantly improving teacher, and further discuss the possibility of an inspired teacher.

Image of human being refl ected in the education objectives preferred by parents

Taking as a starting point for analysis the personalistic defi nition of education as a process aimed at helping the child to realize his/her humanity, the article focuses on the senses and meanings associated with the postulated vision of human being, which are refl ected in the teleological aspects of family education. The presented considerations are based on the results of a survey conducted at the beginning of 2019, in which 212 parents residing in the Łódź and Mazowieckie provinces took part. The presented refl ections show that aiming to realize humanity is an important area of family education. Image of human being refl ected in the preferred education objectives is characterized by partial heterogeneity and fragmentation. The specifi city of the characteristics of the analysed issue constructed in the article justifi es the importance of the school undertaking pedagogizing activities towards the family as an educational environment and compensatory towards the child.

Doctrinal problems of the municipal statute norm-setting (axiological, ontological and teleological aspects)

The article is devoted to the conceptual problems of statutory rulemaking in local self-government. Conceptual analysis of axiological aspects of municipal statute norm-making is carried out. There is a connection with the axiology of the municipal statute law of the problem of its ontological significance. It is substantiated that the disclosure of ontological aspects of municipal statutory rulemaking will show the role of territorial communities as a special form of law in terms of the embodiment of the ideals of municipal democracy as a person, a member of a territorial community. The essential features and substantiated structural, informative and functional characteristics of the institute of statutory law in the local self-government are revealed. Attention is drawn to the coordination-integration and orientation-coordination value of the municipal statutory norm-setting. Established sources and forms of statutory law in local self-government and substantiated the basic organizational and legal patterns of its development. The system of functions of the statutory right, to which the authors include such as: legitimate, managerial, regulatory, innovative, reformatory, right of establishment, human rights, ethics are given.
 It is concluded that an important criterion for determining the effectiveness of the statutes of territorial communities and the system of their functions, their social value is the effectiveness of the implementation of these functions in order to fulfill the tasks and objectives laid down in the municipal statutory regulation. Municipal statutory law - nothing if its provisions are not implemented in the activities of territorial communities and their members – the inhabitants of villages, settlements and cities, in municipal-legal relations. It is impossible to understand the value, essence, content, functional and teleological purpose of municipal law, if we deviate from the mechanism of its realization in the life of a society of specific territorial communities. This statement, first of all, should be attributed to the assessment of the statutes of territorial communities, their norms and functions. In other words, the statutes of territorial communities remain completely ineffective documents, and their prescriptions – abstraction, devoid of real meaning and practical significance, in the case where, firstly, the adoption of the statutes of territorial communities did not have objective preconditions; and secondly, the statutes of territorial communities do not have a real impact on social relations in the field of local self-government. Therefore, the effectiveness of the existence and functioning of the statutes of territorial communities and their normative requirements is determined by the degree of their implementation.

Aspectos teleológicos del hecho educativo: Una aproximación ontoepistemológica

La investigación tiene por finalidad generar una reflexión sobre los Aspectos teleológicos del hecho educativo desde una aproximación onto epistemológica, manejada desde la praxis docente del investigador, es así que mediante el método filosófico de investigación, se ha generado una revisión de documentos que acercan la proposición teórica con la realidad social educativa, por consiguiente no se da por concluido el trabajo investigativo, sino que se generó el inició un análisis profundo sobre la tarea educativa. Educar no es de ninguna manera una función, es ante todo una vocación, una búsqueda profunda de lo humano, una transmisión de vida en sentido estricto y no metafórico. Verificar esta profundidad nos permite pararnos frente al étos educativo con nuevos aires, a tal punto que podemos considerar la educación como parte “esencial”, no “accidental” del hombre; es decir, como somos animales racionales, biológicos, sociales, históricos, morales, trascendentes, somos también animales.

Teleological Aspects of Contractual Legal Regulation

A comprehensive study of teleological aspects of legal regulation presupposes cognition and better understanding of the goal-setting carried out by various subjects of law at different levels of contractual regulation of public relations. Teleological aspects of contractual-regulatory activity are manifested in determining the ultimate and intermediate goals of legal regulation, goal-setting and harmonizing of the will of the subjects of contractual regulation as well as in the teleological interpretation of contractual norms. The basis for the establishment of the goal of legal regulation is formed by social prerequisites for the emergence of law as a regulator of social relations designed to weaken (resolve) conflict tension between the participants of social interactions intending to gain limited benefits. Consequently, legal regulation is aimed at preventing or resolving social conflicts, and streamlining public relations, which becomes an intermediate goal of legal regulation. It is reasonable that the existence of two alternative strategies of social behavior (rivalry and cooperation) requires the application of various principles, methods and means of legal regulation. To this end, the existence of contractual regulation is preconditioned by the existence of specific social relations in social practice, the regulation of which presupposes a coordinated, joint will of the participants. It is concluded that the study of teleological aspects of contractual legal regulation facilitates determination of systemic characteristics of legal regulation, its "mechanical" side and the effectiveness of legal regulation. As far as the methodology is concerned, the study results in the understanding of the integrity of the object of the state-legal reality.

Государство и нация: телеологические аспекты политического курса Шотландии

Государство и нация: телеологические аспекты политического курса Шотландии

Evaluation and human rights educational policies: contradictions between regulation and emancipation in basic education in Brazil

Abstract This study aims to analyze the contradictions between anthropological and teleological aspects of evaluation and human rights in educational policies for basic education in Brazil. The study focuses on the contradictions by analyzing policy documents related to the two themes. The results suggest the ways that contradictions in the anthropological and teleological perspectives assumed by these policies obstruct provision of basic education that includes social quality. Basic educational evaluation policies are aimed at regulation, seeking to produce indices that normalize and homogenize the subjects of education, legitimizing identities. On the other hand, human rights educational policies aim to emancipate subjects by considering the diversity that characterizes and organizes them, enabling the creation of resistance and project identities that can operate from a counter-hegemonic perspective.

Educar en filosofía para saber estar en la realidad jurídica.

Una pedagogía que no se fundamente sobre la reflexión rigurosa de lo que es la educación en su relación con la persona humana y del saber corre el riesgo de dejar por fuera aspectos importantes de orden metodológico y teleológico que falsean la ordenación de la conducta de la persona humana que el educador, el educando y la sociedad deben hacer mediante actos de razón. Por lo anterior, se emprende la presente reflexión en tres secciones: la primera recoge el estudio del primer eje de formación para el abogado que se propone como fundamento del proyecto educativo del Programa de Derecho (PEP) de la Universidad Católica de Colombia, denominada eje de formación filosófica; en la segunda parte, en línea con el pensamiento de Aristóteles, se muestra una reflexión sobre la Filosofía como un saber fundado en causas últimas mediante un método específico lógico-racional; en la tercera sección, se propone un método pedagógico para el proceso de formación del estudiante de la ciencia del Derecho.