scholarly journals Modern Problems of Children's Play: Cultural-Historical Context

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 60-70
Author(s):  
N.E. Veraksa ◽  
N.N. Veresov ◽  
A.N. Veraksa ◽  
V.L. Sukhikh
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Large Spread ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Classical Game

The purpose of this article is to analyze the state of modern research on children’s play, approaches to its study, as well as existing methods of its evaluation. The relevance of the topic is due to the leading role of the play in preschool childhood and the complexity of this phenomenon. Play is actively studied, and play interventions are often used. However, the analysis of the literature shows confusion and uncertainty of terminology due to a large spread of theoretical positions and methodological approaches to the study of play. This creates great difficulties in planning and conducting research, and affects their results. The article deals with the issues of defining and classifying play, understanding its structure and development. The main trends of modern research and their connection with classical game theories, the role of cultural-historical approach and the contribution of E.O. Smirnova to the study of play are shown.

The Importance of Methodological Approaches when Choosing Optimal Electoral System

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Author(s):  
Виктория Ерыгина ◽  
Viktoriya Erygina
Keyword(s):  
Political Ideology ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
General Scientific ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
The Law

Yet another change of the electoral system at the federal elections in the Russian Federation, the revision of the rules of conducting elections triggers a number of the questions about purposes and criteria of such reforms, doubts their objective nature, and undermines voters’ trust in the elections. The variety of electoral systems and the search for the best one is the topic of fierce scientific debates in various social sciences, including jurisprudence. Since the electoral system is a complex scientific category, there are many different approaches and methods to investigate it. And the author undertakes the search of those to emphasize the importance of taking into account of scientific developments, political will manifestations when the legislator resolves the conceptual task of selecting the electoral system that in suitable for the society and the objective conditions. The author recognizes the leading role of party-political ideology, viability when reforming the electoral legislation. However, in order to strengthen the legal order in the country, scientifically substantiated conclusions, obtained through the combination of general scientific, special (sociological, psychological and historical-cultural), particular methods of legal science, should become the basis for any legislation, including the electoral one. The author reveals such new methodological approaches, as anthropological, culturological, historical, social-psychological and comparative-legal for the conceptual solution of the problem of selection the best electoral system and its further use in the law-making and law-enforcement practice. The author touches upon the issue of searching for a scientific set of instruments, with the aid of which it is possible to apply the science in the political sphere in order to control political processes, including through the law.

The Role of Play in the Life of the Child

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 113-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Cattanach
Keyword(s):  
Real Situation ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Situational Constraints ◽  
The Way

Pellegrini and Smith (1998) have provided a challenging review of the forms and possible functions of play during childhood, and Blatchford's (1998) paper on children's play reports a programme of research about the nature of play at school breaktimes that seems to be the sort of research that Pellegrini and Smith recommend in their conclusion, calling for more descriptive studies of children's play. When considering the nature and possible functioning of play during childhood Pellegrini and Smith explore general definitional issues. They suggest that play theorists such as Piaget and Vygotsky considered that play was the way that children learnt skills necessary for successful functioning in adulthood. Perhaps this is a simple way to express, for example, Vygotsky's (1978) descriptions of play in ‘The Role of Play in Development’ in Mind in society. Vygotsky states that in play a child creates an imaginary situation; that play is the place where a child spontaneously makes use of his ability to separate meaning from an object without knowing he is doing it. The creation of an imaginary situation is the first manifestation of the child's emancipation from situational constraints and the primary paradox of play is that the child operates with an alienated meaning in a real situation. Vygotsky may be describing an important skill for successful functioning in adulthood, but it is also an important function in childhood.

scholarly journals Electoral parties: the ideological positioning of parliamentary parties in Ukraine

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 5-15
Author(s):  
J. M. Slipetska
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
Political Party ◽  
Political Institution ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
The Social ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Personalization Of Politics

The article defines the main theoretical and methodological approaches to the analysis of the concept of «electoral party», investigates how this political institution evolved and which subspecies can be distinguished. Revealed that the electoral political party is a modern type of political party, characterized by erosion of the boundaries of the social base, professionalization and personalization of politics, de-ideologization of the party program, and recognition of the leading role of the electoral function. The main sub-types of electoral parties include: electoral-professional parties, cartel parties, strataghia, modern personnel parties, program parties, business-party parties, and «big tents».The ideological component of parliamentary parties in Ukraine according to the results of the last elections in 2014 has been analyzed. The methodology of content analysis of party programs by the Bloc of Petro Poroshenko, the Narodnyj Front, Samopomisch, the Bloc of Yulia Tymoshenko, the Radical Party and the Opposition Bloc, using the formula of Chi Min Kim and Richard Fording, determined the ideological positioning each of them. Revealed that parliamentary parties in Ukraine have weak ideological articulation, the vast majority of parliamentary parties tend to centralism.According to a number of formal signs, determined that modern parliamentary parties in Ukraine are electoral in their essence - with blurred ideological positions, the main purpose of which is to reach the widest possible electorate and gain maximum representation in parliament. Determined that Ukrainian political parties are «parties for all» with a blurred social base and de-ideologization. Analyzing the programs of Ukrainian parliamentary parties, was found common to all parties, namely, the abuse of populism and attempts to take a centrist stand.

scholarly journals The Importance of Taking Risks: A Report on the Conference

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-105
Author(s):  
I.A. Kotliar ◽  
M.V. Sokolova ◽  
E.G. Sheina
Keyword(s):  
Risk Assessment ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Prevention Programmes ◽  
Western Theory ◽  
Pedagogical Analysis

The paper gives an overview of the 14th interdisciplinary conference The Importance of Taking Risks held by the Welsh branch of the International Play Association. The meeting focused on various aspects of supporting children’s play and on the role of risk in child development. The conference had a clear multidis- ciplinary character and brought together specialists from a variety of fields: psychologists, teachers, social workers, experts in risk assessment, and health care professionals. The paper outlines how risk is understood in modern western theory and practice and distinguishes between risk and danger. A child must be taught to assess situations as safe or dangerous. However, modern developmental environment tends to reduce the possibility of risks for the child, which deprives him/her of the natural means of learning about the world and reduces creativity and independence and holds back the child’s self-regulation, prolonging compelled dependence and making children more infantile. The conference also involved discussions concerning tech- niques for risk assessment and a number of prevention programmes and practices. This work was supported by the Russian Foundation for Humanities (project No 15-06-10627 “Psychological and pedagogical analysis of children’s play environment of the modern city”).

scholarly journals CONNECTION BETWEEN ECONOMICS, CULTURE AND CULTURAL DIPLOMACY

10.26458/1735 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Agil Valiyev
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Main Part ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Economic Development Model ◽  
Main Factor

Today, culture is one of the main feeble factors of economic development.  The leading role of culture in economic development should be argued as multiplied: so, on firstly, as domestic value, on secondly, as a main factor of regional economic development advanced to raised gravity of different regions for residents, tourists and investors, on thirdly, as major parameters of social development based on tolerance, creativity and knowledge. To the different international experiences, culture is main part of economic development in our life. Cultural diversities are combined into a main reason economic development model. The article consist of explainations about the understanding of culture, cultural diplomacy and economics, approach on conflicts between culture and economics, to find how affecting of culture to economic development, the role of culture in economic development of Azerbaijan. The article can be considered as a useful resource  for experts and researchers conducting research in this field.

Parents’ and children’s violent gameplay: role of co-playing

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 623-632
Author(s):  
Doug Walker ◽  
E. Deanne Brocato ◽  
Les Carlson ◽  
Russell N. Laczniak
Keyword(s):  
Video Game ◽  
Game Play ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Children's Play ◽  
Video Game Play ◽  
Violent Video Game ◽  
Children’S Play ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Parent Child

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the role of co-playing as a moderator of the relation between parents’ and children’s play of violent video games. Design/methodology/approach The study uses dyadic parent/child survey data to estimate the conditional effects in the model, both direct and indirect. Findings The positive effect of parents’ violent video game play of children’s playing behaviors is attenuated by parent/child co-playing. Parents’ knowledge of the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) ratings leads to higher levels of co-playing, thereby indirectly attenuating violent video game play in children as driven by parents’ play. Research limitations/implications The paper extends the literature on consumer socialization and the impact of co-playing and identifies an antecedent for co-playing in this context. Practical implications The paper reveals that knowledge of the self-regulatory ESRB rules plays a valuable (indirect) role in mitigating violent video game play by children through an increase in co-playing, which attenuates the positive effect of parents’ play on children’s play. Originality/value The study incorporates data from both parents and children to investigate the relationship between parents and children’s violent video game play while empirically investigating the uncertainty in the literature concerning the moderating impact of co-playing.

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