Impact of language, culture and heritage on the way we learn and communicate Astronomy

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (S367) ◽  
pp. 190-193
Author(s):  
Basilio Solís-Castillo

AbstractThe language we speak, the culture in which we grew up and where we come from have a tremendous impact on the way we learn astronomy. Additionally, the historical predominance of Western culture has influenced the way our modern society sees the world, and of course, the sky. In this work, we will share author’s experience working as science advisor in an outreach institution, where he explored different strategies to reach diverse communities and bring astronomy closer to broader audiences.Even though the construction of world-renowned astronomical observatories in Chile has boosted the interest in astronomy on the community, many challenges have not yet been addressed. One of them is to raise awareness about the ancestral heritage of Chilean’s first nations. Finally, we would like to highlight the importance of learning astronomy in our own language and therefore assure inclusion, diversity, and equity in our countries.

1985 ◽  

The World Tourism Conference, held in Manila from 27 September to 10 October 1980, proved that the human community is still able to think generously and clearly, and to hold a courageous vision of the future. The Conference was convened to examine a subject which would lead to modification of outmoded concepts and practices, and would induce governments as well as the travel industry to reconsider all of their activities in the tourism sector. The Manila conference was able to show the way to build for the future in a field – that of free time and leisure – which is becoming one of the important responsibilities of governments, as non-working time increases in relation to working time because of the transformations that modern society is undergoing.


2021 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Peter Bridgewater

The 65-million-year journey from the demise of the dinosaurs to the present day is characterised by changing climes, periods of species extinctions and, finally, the appearance of Homo sapiens. As an island from the start of this period, Australia’s landscapes were isolated from the rest of the world and to this day are characterised by a unique biodiversity. Since their arrival, First Nations peoples have somehow understood this special landscape, living in conformity with it, changing along the way as the climate and landscape changed. That all changed with the arrival of people from Europe, who were more familiar with a weedy landscape recovering from deep glaciation. Over the last 250 years, a lack of understanding of the uniqueness of the Australian landscape, and of First Nations connections with that landscape, has wrought both biological and cultural disruptions. Looking ahead, more conversations between all Australians on how to manage this country into an uncertain future, respecting the range of world views that exist, and rebuilding a viable biocultural diversity, remains a significant but achievable challenge.


Author(s):  
Vladimir A. Kolotaev ◽  

The relevance of the research is determined by the high social significance of the problems of identity formation in modern society, reflected in cinema, and the insufficient knowledge of the processes of constructing various identity models in the art space of cinema and the connection of the psychological stages of development of this identity with elements of the structure of film narration. A comparison of the structural elements of the hero’s travel map (compositional nodes of the script) with the epigenetic diagram of the stages of identity formation and a description of the formal-substantive unity of the elements of dramaturgy and Erickson’s staged model constitute the scientific novelty of the study. The purpose of the study is to show that the drama of the film, the structural elements of the compositional set of stages of the hero’s way, the transition to new states through passing tests and gaining knowledge correspond to the stages of ego-identity formation, reflecting the person’s ability to overcome problems by transforming himself in the process of interaction with social categories. To achieve this goal, a comparative-typological method is used to solve the following problems: highlight the general structural and substantial characteristics of the initiation rite as a process of formation and development of the hero’s identity and way, built on the basis of the monomith structure; describe the possibilities of reflecting the psychological processes of the formation of ego identity at each stage of the structure of the hero’s path; based on the analysis of individual films show ways to reflect the stages of building the ego-identity of the hero in the meaningful characteristics of the stages of his path as elements of film dramaturgy. The subject of analysis in this article is the relationship of the stages of the way of the hero and level them solve psychological problems with the content of normative crises build ego-identity. The structure of the cinematic in the work relate to the sequences and stages of identity formation. The hero, moving from a state of "ordinary world" to the main test encounters problems, the relevant stages of identity formation. The hero of the film stay in the everyday world at the initial stage of the journey to the main test involves going beyond the existing knowledge about yourself and meet new requirements to change yourself, which can be done with varying degrees of success. If the hero has successfully passed the first stage of identity development, at this stage it has no problems and when confronted with the limits of private autonomy, he can hear "the call to pilgrimage", and the transition to the next stage of the journey will include a manifestation of the activity of changing yourself in gaining this autonomy. But if the confidence in the world the character was not formed, the call to travel in the form in which it is presented in the film, is seen as a confirmation of the fragility of the world and causes no movement in the direction of learning and change itself, and the movement in the direction of test the strength of the environment. In this case, the stages of the traversed path will not lead the protagonist to a complete solution of the problem of ego-identity, and throughout all the stages of the way the hero will solve these specific problems, moving consistently towards a successful or not successful gaining of trust to the world or the formation of learning ability. The research is based on the material of Russian and foreign cinema 20th-21st centuries.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deri Sis Nanda ◽  
Susanto Susanto

In a digital era, people live in a cyberspace that they become part of modern society. The information that they have acquired is from the World Wide Web (WWW). This WWW has become an important medium for people in the world to disseminate information. Because of the technology of Web, cyber literature emerges. This study talks about the emergence of cyber literature which changes the way of reading and teaching in variousinstitutions. It becomes a challenge for people who teach literature because they should leave the printed text and move to the digital text as called hypertext. The existence of cyber literature also drives them change their style to analyze and criticize the work of literature. So, it becomes a challenge for them to teach literature from text to hypertext.


2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-213
Author(s):  
Laura Bilic

Abstract The beginning of the 21st century is characterized in Romania by the emerging of a new generation of playwrights. Numerous actors or people coming “off the stage” begin to write drama, so that the playwrights become authors of the texts played on the stage. Thus, the playwrights join a trend that is common in Europe, being part of a category named by Bruno Tackels “les écrivains de plateau” - the writers of the stage. Nowadays, we witness a change in the way the young artists view drama - they do not only want to change the way of writing and performing drama, but they also want to change the world they live in. The contemporary performance has gradually lost its specificity by blending itself with visual arts, dance, music, technology, becoming a project. In our modern society the artists do not look for something meant to last forever, so the work of art becomes a continuous work in progress. Therefore, a bridge is being shattered - the bridge between nowadays and posterity.


Author(s):  
Esther Mani

Modern society built on the foundation of humanism improvised by thinkers, philosophers, and revolutionaries lacks the punch of a gender-sensitized community. The aggrandizement of knowledge and power led to fissures in the global context, paving the way to post-colonization and post-modernity that embraced plurality displacing totalitarianism in all aspects of human endeavors. Human centrality to cosmos has long been abandoned, but where do we stand in relational terms in gender sensitivity? Has technology shrunk our personal space and humanism to a palm length, despite making the world accessible at our fingertips? Are gender fixating roles of the society/community sustained vigorously and endorsed with subtlety? This chapter intends to reassess and reevaluate the relevance of exclusive women education portals of Kerala. A survey in a few well-established women-exclusive arts and science colleges shows some new perspectives on the relevance of their existence in the changing environment of human development indices.


2020 ◽  
pp. 124-136
Author(s):  
Jason Blakely

Social science should be read not only as an empirical description of the world but as a way of creating the cultures that we inhabit. This is difficult for modern people to comprehend because of the spread of scientism in modern society. This defective way of relating to the world was powerfully diagnosed by Martin Heidegger and his critique of technology. However, the tendency of modern social scientific theory to turn into its opposite (superstition and scientism) was earlier anticipated by Mary Shelley in her brilliant story about Victor Frankenstein. Shelley’s short novel is an essential allegory for understanding our own predicament. Hermeneutics points the way to a more humanistic and interpretively sensitive way of relating to the world.


2017 ◽  
Vol 225 (4) ◽  
pp. 324-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimitrios Barkas ◽  
Xenia Chryssochoou

Abstract. This research took place just after the end of the protests following the killing of a 16-year-old boy by a policeman in Greece in December 2008. Participants (N = 224) were 16-year-olds in different schools in Attiki. Informed by the Politicized Collective Identity Model ( Simon & Klandermans, 2001 ), a questionnaire measuring grievances, adversarial attributions, emotions, vulnerability, identifications with students and activists, and questions about justice and Greek society in the future, as well as about youngsters’ participation in different actions, was completed. Four profiles of the participants emerged from a cluster analysis using representations of the conflict, emotions, and identifications with activists and students. These profiles differed on beliefs about the future of Greece, participants’ economic vulnerability, and forms of participation. Importantly, the clusters corresponded to students from schools of different socioeconomic areas. The results indicate that the way young people interpret the events and the context, their levels of identification, and the way they represent society are important factors of their political socialization that impacts on their forms of participation. Political socialization seems to be related to youngsters’ position in society which probably constitutes an important anchoring point of their interpretation of the world.


2017 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 117-129
Author(s):  
Natali Cavanagh

While infection has always haunted civilizations around the world, there are very few diseases that have had as much of an impact on Western culture as cancer has. The abundance of bereavement literature about characters with cancer begs the question; why cancer? This paper discusses ways in which cancer narratives reinforce Western obsession with control, through the lens of rhetoric and narrative structure. The author will specifically discuss how Patrick Ness’ 2011 novel, A Monster Calls, combats modern illness and cancer narratives and challenges themes of control threaded into Western culture


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 429-443
Author(s):  
Paul Mazey

This article considers how pre-existing music has been employed in British cinema, paying particular attention to the diegetic/nondiegetic boundary and notions of restraint. It explores the significance of the distinction between diegetic music, which exists in the world of the narrative, and nondiegetic music, which does not. It analyses the use of pre-existing operatic music in two British films of the same era and genre: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1952), and demonstrates how seemingly subtle variations in the way music is used in these films produce markedly different effects. Specifically, it investigates the meaning of the music in its original context and finds that only when this bears a narrative relevance to the film does it cross from the diegetic to the nondiegetic plane. This reveals that whereas music restricted to the diegetic plane may express the outward projection of the characters' emotions, music also heard on the nondiegetic track may reveal a deeper truth about their feelings. In this way, the meaning of the music varies depending upon how it is used. While these two films may differ in whether or not their pre-existing music occupies a nondiegetic or diegetic position in relation to the narrative, both are characteristic of this era of British film-making in using music in an understated manner which expresses a sense of emotional restraint and which marks the films with a particularly British inflection.


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