Reflections on the bilingual and the bicultural person

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
François Grosjean
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Complementarity Principle ◽  
First Time

The author used part of his sabbatical to write a much cited paper on bilingualism. In it he presented his “the bilingual is not two monolinguals in one person” view. He first argued how a monolingual view of bilingualism had impacted every aspect of bilingualism research up until then. He then described his holistic view and presented a number of concepts that accompany it such as language mode, the Complementarity Principle, language restructuring in bilinguals, etc. Another paper he worked on was on the bicultural person whom he depicted for the first time. He presented how behavior changes in a monocultural and a bicultural mode, and how biculturals come to grips with their identity.

The Socio-Cultural Aspect of the Siberian Railway Committee's Activities

2021 ◽  
pp. 139-145
Author(s):  
Inna N. Mamkina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Social Aspect ◽  
Social Programs ◽  
Important Place ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
Scholarly Discourse ◽  
First Time

The article draws attention to the sociocultural aspect of the Siberian Railway Committee's activities in the early twentieth century. Historiographic analysis showed a research interest in the status of the Committee in the context of the organization of management of the Russian Empire's Eastern outskirts. Taking into account the broad powers of the Siberian Railway Committee, the author notes isolated studies of the social aspect in its activities. The aim of this publication is an attempt to create a holistic view of the activities of the Committee for the implementation of social tasks aimed at improving the life of railway employees at the TransBaikal section of the railway in the early twentieth century. The study was conducted on the basis of the documentation of the Siberian Railway Committee. A number of documents are introduced into scholarly discourse for the first time. Based on the structural and functional approach, using a set of historical research methods, it has been revealed that, after the commissioning of the Trans-Baikal section of the Siberian Railway, considerable attention was paid to solve sociocultural problems aimed at improving the life of railway employees. The preparatory commission chaired by A.N. Kulomzina and the Main School Committee implemented social programs. The author has defined the procedure for the formation of the committee, its structure, and principles of its activity. For the first time, personal data of the school committee's members elected on the Trans-Baikal Railway are introduced into scholarly discourse. The information of the committee's activities of the opening and maintenance of primary schools at railway stations has been summarized. The obtained statistics convincingly prove the effectiveness of the committee in the field of school education. The author notes that the Siberian Railway Committee achieved a very successful development of the school network by applying administrative and financial efforts. The author, for the first time, provides data on the organization of libraries and public convocations for the employees on the Trans-Baikal Railway. She draws attention to the organization of medical care for the employees; establishes the organization order and types of medical institutions; generalizes information about the staff of hospitals and obstetric centers, and the number of patients. The author concludes that the Siberian Railway Committee had an organized and balanced approach to solving sociocultural problems that occupied an important place in its activities. The Siberian Railway Committee's social programs in a number of areas were ahead of those of other government departments.

scholarly journals The uniqueness of collisions in a typical scenario: the language policy of the Republic of Moldova

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (8) ◽  
pp. 5-27
Author(s):  
Tatiana P. Mlechko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Language Policy ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Republic Of Moldova ◽  
Territorial Unit ◽  
Formation And Evolution ◽  
Policy Promotion ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
First Time

The article is devoted to the formation and evolution of an independent language policy in the new post-Soviet sovereign states, each of which, despite similar processes, has its own specifics, due to both internal and external factors. The author focuses on the language policy in the Republic of Moldova, as stated in the language legislation, as well as on the extraordinary collisions that have arisen and are arising in dealing with language issues in this multi-ethnic republic during the 30 years of its independence. Since there are no special comprehensive studies on this topic at present, the article is an important attempt to give an analytical overview of language policy in the Republic of Moldova with relevant sociolinguistic comments on the documents forming its legal sphere, as well as taking into account the specifics of such regions as the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldovan Republic and the Autonomous Territorial Unit of Gagauz-Yeri. The article introduces the latest documents and materials on language policy of Moldova for the first time. The logic of the article structure enables to present the three key directions of language policy in the republic in a consistent and sufficiently detailed manner: language policy regarding the state language, with regard to the Romanian influence on it; policy regarding the Russian language as a popular means of inter- ethnic communication with a sufficient index of sustainability and its status; and policy regarding the languages of ethnic minorities that have long lived in the Moldovan region. The article gives a holistic view not only of the documents, but also of the motives, circumstances and processes of their adoption, as well as the consequences of each new step in the language policy promotion in the Republic of Moldova.

scholarly journals Panoptic vDISCO imaging reveals neuronal connectivity, remote trauma effects and meningeal vessels in intact transparent mice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruiyao Cai ◽  
Chenchen Pan ◽  
Alireza Ghasemigharagoz ◽  
Mihail I. Todorov ◽  
Benjamin Foerstera ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fluorescent Proteins ◽  
Lymphatic Vessels ◽  
The Body ◽  
Whole Body ◽  
Neuronal Connectivity ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Signal Contrast ◽  
Health And Disease ◽  
First Time

Analysis of entire transparent rodent bodies could provide holistic information on biological systems in health and disease. However, it has been challenging to reliably image and quantify signal from endogenously expressed fluorescent proteins in large cleared mouse bodies due to the low signal contrast. Here, we devised a pressure driven, nanobody based whole-body immunolabeling technology to enhance the signal of fluorescent proteins by up to two orders of magnitude. This allowed us to image subcellular details in transparent mouse bodies through bones and highly autofluorescent tissues, and perform quantifications. We visualized for the first-time whole-body neuronal connectivity of an entire adult mouse and discovered that brain trauma induces degeneration of peripheral axons. We also imaged meningeal lymphatic vessels and immune cells through the intact skull and vertebra in naive animals and trauma models. Thus, our new approach can provide an unbiased holistic view of biological events affecting the nervous system and the rest of the body.

At arbejde med at begribe det fornemmede - en fortælling om et danseprojekt på et børnehjem i Rusland

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-19
Author(s):  
Anamet Magven
Keyword(s):  
Development Project ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Creative Dance ◽  
National School ◽  
The World ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
Performance Project ◽  
First Time

Abstract Working with understanding the sensed: a narrative about a dance project at an orphanage in Russia is a paper based on a thesis for the postgraduate program Dance Partnership and Pedagogy at the National School of Contemporary Dance in Denmark (2008–10). The project was initiated by the partnership between the School of Contemporary Dance and the Greenhouse Project (Zelyonyi Dom) at the Orphanage # 9 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Zelyonyi Dom is a dance development project including 20 children from 8 to 12 years of age. A group of 9 children participated in the educational-dance-performance project discussed in this paper. The ten-day project was carried out in March 2010. The performance Petrushka premiered at the Fairytale Theatre in St. Petersburg. It was the first time the participating children performed on a real stage and they did so for a sold out 400 seat theatre. The project works with creative dance that approaches dancing, teaching and researching from a phenomenological perspective. It adopts a holistic view on the body, the psyche and the world and attempts to encounter the phenomena openly by suspending pre-made assumptions. The research explores moments of learning using the concept of attunement (“stemthed”) as it has been developed by Kirsten Fink-Jensen (1998). What is sensed in the dance space with the children, and how can one describe the sensed and nonverbal in words?

scholarly journals Dementia in old age: from diagnosis to fatal outcome

2020 ◽  
pp. 64-72
Author(s):  
N. M. Mikhaylova ◽  
O. N. Sokolova
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Cause Of Death ◽  
Fatal Outcome ◽  
Mental Health Research ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Severe Stage ◽  
First Time ◽  
Outcome Mortality

Background: It is well known, that old age dementias steadily grow progressively worse and inevitably lead to fatal outcome. Mortality indices in foreign research largely vary, they are practically absent in domestic scientific studies, and official statistical data on the prevalence of dementia and the cause of death do not reflect the real situation. The Objective of the study was to perform the analysis of completed cases of late age dementias from the materials of observations in Alzheimer’s disease center of the Mental Health Research Center.Patients and Methods: Observational study, using prospective method of out-patient observation of subjects with dementias, who consulted Alzheimer’s disease center in 2007-2016 for the first time, made it possible to obtain reliable data on 217 patients, who died during this period.Results: More than one third of such cases (39%) referred to nosologically various dementias with an early onset of the disease. In more than half of the cases (58%) the cause of death was medical pathology. In the rest of the patients severe or terminal stage of the basic disease was noticed toward the end of life under conditions of home care.Conclusions: Holistic view of the clinical picture of old age dementias (from the onset of the disease till the fatal outcome) is necessary for creation of incidence registers and obtaining of science-based statistical indices of survival, mortality and causes of death. It is necessary to develop measures of assistance to families of patients with the most severe stage of dementias, creation of out-patient and in-patient network of hospices for this contingent of patients.

scholarly journals Education in the Volga Federal District in the second half of the 19th-20th centuries

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Marina Alekseevna Zakharischeva ◽  
Daria Yuryevna Scriabina ◽  
Nadezhda Mikhailovna Ichetovkina ◽  
Aleksey Alekseyevich Romanov ◽  
Irina Aleksandrovna Golubeva
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
History Of ◽  
Pedagogical Research ◽  
First Time ◽  
Theoretical Results

The article attempts to present a holistic view of the theory, practice and history of the development of public education in the modern Volga Federal District in the chronological framework of the second half of 19-20th centuries. In order to achieve the presented goal of the research, we used theoretical methods (analysis, synthesis, generalization, modeling, abstraction, classification, systematization, periodization) and historical and pedagogical methods of research, namely, comparison and contrast (comparativist), historical and structural and historical and typological. Within the geographical framework of the Volga Federal District as a complex sociocultural region with the cohabitation and interaction of different nationalities and confessions, the history of education in a holistic form has not been considered before. The authors proposed modern scientific and pedagogical methodological approaches to the analysis of the history of education of the region represented: pedagogical axiology, pedagogical regionalism, pedagogical comparativism, pedagogical synergetic, systemic-activity approaches. For the first time, the theory and practice of public education in the modern Volga Federal District are considered in the context of a unified historical and pedagogical process (without the traditional division into pre-revolutionary and Soviet stages). In addition to theoretical results of the historical and pedagogical research and practical: the formation of a bank of archival materials on the history of education in the republics and regions of the Volga Federal District; publication of the textbook “History of Public Education in the Volga Federal District”; publications in peer-reviewed journals devoted to the study of educational development in the Volga Federal District; organization and conduct of the Pedagogical Festival of Student Science of the Volga Federal District republics; as well as the preparation and production of a series of television programs about the history of the development of public education in the republics and regions of the Volga Federal District.

scholarly journals The promise of tailoring incentives for healthy behaviors

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey T. Kullgren ◽  
Geoffrey C Williams ◽  
Kenneth Resnicow ◽  
Lawrence C An ◽  
Amy Rothberg ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Economics ◽  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Autonomous Motivation ◽  
Life Goals ◽  
Behavior Changes ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Healthy Behaviors ◽  
First Time ◽  
Risk Reducing

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe how tailoring financial incentives for healthy behaviors to employees’ goals, values, and aspirations might improve the efficacy of incentives. Design/methodology/approach – The authors integrate insights from self-determination theory (SDT) with principles from behavioral economics in the design of financial incentives by linking how incentives could help meet an employee’s life goals, values, or aspirations. Findings – Tailored financial incentives could be more effective than standard incentives in promoting autonomous motivation necessary to initiate healthy behaviors and sustain them after incentives are removed. Research limitations/implications – Previous efforts to improve the design of financial incentives have tested different incentive designs that vary the size, schedule, timing, and target of incentives. The strategy for tailoring incentives builds on strong evidence that difficult behavior changes are more successful when integrated with important life goals and values. The authors outline necessary research to examine the effectiveness of this approach among at-risk employees. Practical implications – Instead of offering simple financial rewards for engaging in healthy behaviors, existing programs could leverage incentives to promote employees’ autonomous motivation for sustained health improvements. Social implications – Effective application of these concepts could lead to programs more effective at improving health, potentially at lower cost. Originality/value – The approach for the first time integrates key insights from SDT, behavioral economics, and tailoring to turn an extrinsic reward for behavior change into an internalized, self-sustaining motivator for long-term engagement in risk-reducing behaviors.

scholarly journals A MULTI CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS APPROACH TOWARDS CREATING A INCLUSIVE CURRICULUM FOR GENDER RESPONSIVE HIGHER EDUCATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Mayur Wadhwaniya
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Analysis ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Education Curriculum ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Higher Education Curriculum ◽  
Multi Criteria Decision Analysis ◽  
Inclusive Curriculum ◽  
Entry Qualifications ◽  
First Time

In the era when globalisation have challenged the ways we traditionally conceptualise higher education curriculum and its implications, the academic debates with respective to importance of gender inclusive higher education has brought to the surface the necessity of discussion about the factors/components which contributes in making higher education curriculum inclusive. Although there are multitude of publication which exists on gender inclusivity and higher education, very less work has been done on designing an inclusive curriculum for gender responsive higher education. This paper is an attempt to fill this gap by taking wider and a more holistic view that is based on a Multi Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) framework. A comprehensive list of factors/components essential for designing higher education curriculum was extracted from extant literature and expert opinion was developed. Further, Analytical Hierarchy Process was adopted as a MCDA method and established priorities using pair wise comparisons and judgements to identify the relative importance of these factors/components. Our findings show that among all the factors/components identified (Educational, Dispositional, Conditional and Cultural), Educational component which consists of attributes like entry qualifications, educational experiences, experiences of work and life, learning approaches contributes maximum in designing an inclusive curriculum for gender responsive higher education. Moreover, the paper contributes methodologically by proposing first time development of Multi Criteria Decision Analysis Framework in precise and a unique way. Through this study, we also highlight the need for adapting a pro active anticipatory approach in teaching pedagogy by higher education instructions.

Methodological “Mid-for” from the Perspective of V. Lektorsky’s Non-classics, A. Akhiezer’s Mediation and R. Greenberg’s / A. Rubinstein’s Complementarity Principle

2021 ◽  
pp. 191-202
Author(s):  
Alexey P. Davydov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Social Mechanism ◽  
Russian Culture ◽  
Complementarity Principle ◽  
Scientific Discussion ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Time

This article is devoted to the analysis of the methodological “middle” from the perspective of research by V.A. Lektorsky, M.M. Bakhtin, A.S. Akhiezer and R.S. Grinberg / A.J. Rubinstein. Why they? Because in their complementarity, they significantly approached the answer to the main question of the researchers of the “middle”: how is possible a social mechanism in Russian culture, which contains the potential to overcome the split between the historically formed Rus­sian culture (veche, authoritarian sobornost, rejecting personality, through itself forming a type of Russian power) and society (ideally civil, personal, through it­self shaping social needs)? A scientific discussion on this topic today is possible through the Lectorsky’s theory of non-classical epistemology and its social spec­ification – the M.M. Bakhtin’s principle “I am for the other from the point of view of the other”, “the other for me from my point of view”, the search for the third meaning (mediation) by Akhiezer as an alternative to Manichaean thinking and the Greenberg’s / Rubinstein’s concept of economic sociodynamics (CES). The concept of “mid-for” is used for the first time – the idea of the subjectivity of the “sphere between” culture and society, aimed at developing both poles through developing oneself as the basis for this development.

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