scholarly journals Cinema for children in Poland – a bastard child of popular culture, an element of cultural education

2020 ◽  
pp. 77-88
Author(s):  
Izabela Franckiewicz-Olczak
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
Cultural Education ◽  
Children And Young People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Mass Entertainment ◽  
Cultural Choices ◽  
The Voice ◽  
School Curricula

In the mid-1950s, film sealed its place in the world of art with the voice of essentialist theories. At the same time, it did not give up its status as mass entertainment, which it had acquired at the beginning of cinematography’s development. Over the years, it has also developed its position as an educational medium, and its importance and impact on culture created the need for film studies. And although knowledge of film and cinematography is being introduced to school curricula, not only in Poland, the negative view that film is purely for entertainment purposes still prevails. Focusing on the subject outlined, the article refers to the results of research on film knowledge among children and young people, and on the cultural choices (using data on film choices) of parents and caregivers, to analyze the place and role of film in children’s and young people’s development.

scholarly journals The Relationship Between Age and Happiness Varies by Income

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimiter Toshkov
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Old Age ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe link between age and happiness has been the subject of numerous studies. It is still a matter of controversy whether the relationship is U-shaped, with happiness declining after youth before bouncing back in old age, or not. While the effect of age has been examined conditional on income and other socio-demographic variables, so far, the interactions between age and income have remained insufficiently explored. Using data from the European Social Survey, this article shows that the nature of the relationship between age and happiness varies strongly with different levels of relative income. People in the lowest decile of the income distribution experience a ‘hockey stick’: a deep decline in self-reported happiness until around age 50–55 and a small bounce back in old age. The classic U-curve is found mostly in the middle-income ranks. For people at the top of the income distribution, average happiness does not vary much with age. These results demonstrate the important role of income in moderating the relationship between age and happiness.

‘Steely Velvet’: The Voice of James Mason

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-100
Author(s):  
Adrian Garvey
Keyword(s):  
Film Studies ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Critical Responses ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Film Sound

This article argues that, although the subject of film sound is a developing field of interest in film studies, the voice, despite its centrality to issues of performance and stardom, remains an under-examined subject within the discipline. It considers some existing work on the topic and proposed methodologies for the analysis of voice and performance. The work of James Mason is used as a case study, offering an overview of his career and a discussion of the changes in his star persona and performance style as he moved from star to character actor. Consideration is given to the ways in which Mason's distinctive voice became the defining aspect of his star persona and a subject for impersonation. Critical responses to his vocal style throughout his career are examined and sequences from three Mason films, The Pumpkin Eater (1964), Fanny by Gaslight (1944) and The Upturned Glass (1947) are analysed in order to explore Mason's use of voice and gesture in detail.

scholarly journals On some tendencies in the grammar of news text on electronic news portals: The dissolution of the subject

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 396-408
Author(s):  
Eleonora R. Lassan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Syntactic Structure ◽  
Heterogeneous Structure ◽  
Indirect Speech ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Voice

The article deals with some general grammatical peculiarities of news texts on the Yandex por tal. According to the author, they reflect the present-day tendencies in the identified sphere. Following Van Dijk, the author examines text as a macrostructure with certain sequences of sentences. The present-day news text has a heterogeneous structure formed through the combination of the voices of the author and those who convey “the words of others” and act as immediate participants of the defined situation. The change in punctuation used to convey the speech of others in Russian texts highlighted by the author may have happened under the influence of English punctuation. This change creates a new pattern for the conveyance of the speech of others, according to which the boundaries between “one’s own” and “somebody else’s” words blur, with the role of the author becoming weaker. The voice of others represented in different ways, i. e., through the use of direct and indirect speech with various modification and the author’s interpretation of the Other’s words, becomes dominant in the news text. Due to the repetition of the same thought through the use of different means the news text quits being informatively impeccable. On the basis of the analysis of the syntactic structure of the news texts headlines, the author points out the frequency of indefinite-personal sentences.

scholarly journals The content and development of biochemical concepts in the school course of biology

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 180-185
Author(s):  
Irina Vyacheslavovna Nalivayko ◽  
Natalya Gennadevna Bobrova
Keyword(s):  
Laws Of Nature ◽  
Biological Knowledge ◽  
School Subject ◽  
Subject Knowledge ◽  
Logical Sequence ◽  
Biological Concepts ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Specific Section ◽  
School Curricula

The article reveals the content of biochemical concepts constituting school biology course, shows their development during the study of all the units of the subject mentioned above: from the vegetable organism to the general laws of nature. Biology as a school subject is a system of biological concepts, developing in a logical sequence. The handling of the relevant concepts shows the degree of assimilation of biological knowledge. That is why the teachers work on assimilation and development of biological concepts is so important. The study of biochemical concepts is included in the school course of biology. They can be classified according to the nature of the content, along with morphological, anatomical concepts etc. Some biochemical concepts belong to the group of basic biological concepts, i.e. concepts about the biological regularities concerning with the whole wildlife. They are: metabolism and interchange of energy, nutrition, breathing, selection, photosynthesis. A number of biochemical concepts such as proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, enzymes and some others are special, as they are studied within a specific section. The article analyzes school curricula and textbooks on biology; it allows making a conclusion that biochemical concepts are formed and developed throughout the biology course from 6 to 11 grades. There is a succession in formation and development of these notions: at first they are special and are studied as processes characterizing the functioning of a plant; considering the processes occurring in animal organism, biochemical concepts become general. In the General Biology unit they become special again. Such regularity is substantiated by the logic of construction of biological material. The formation of biochemical concepts is contributed to by all kinds of verbal, visual and practical methods of teaching biology, the role of the latter is particularly important. It requires the use of activity approach during the formation of biochemical concepts, because one of the conditions for their proper formation is the application of knowledge in practice. Skills acquired by students are the indicators of the effectiveness of education, together with the amount of subject knowledge.

Voice and Space

2010 ◽  
pp. 102-112
Author(s):  
Richard Coyne
Keyword(s):  
Visual Field ◽  
Film Studies ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Mobile Telephony ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Spatial Understanding ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Voice ◽  
The Way

The widespread use of mobile telephony prompts a reevaluation of the role of the aural sense in spatial understanding. There are clear correlations between voice and space. The attributes of the voice constitute important variables in the way people position themselves in public spaces: to speak, to hear, or to get away from the voice. The voice can connote intimacy, communality, and welcome, but also has the potential for disquiet and disruption, particularly as an unseen acousmêtre, (a term developed in film studies). Spatial design can benefit from an exaggerated consideration of voice, to counteract the primacy already given to the visual field. This chapter examines the relationship between the voice and space in public spaces, and the technologies and practices involved.

scholarly journals PERAN PENDIDIKAN DAYAH DALAM PEMBENTUKAN KARAKTER PEMUDA ACEH (STUDI KASUS DI ACEH TENGGARA)

2020 ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Muhammad Arif Idris
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Data Reduction ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Government ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Important Position ◽  
Research Show

In Aceh, the role of Dayah is very important considering its existence is supported by society especially in education.  Other problems arise when viewed from the socio-cultural context of society when faced with the diversity present in the midst of society, especially in the border area of ACEH. The existence of Dayah amid the diversity of society consisting of various tribes and religions is certainly a challenge for the existence of Dayah as an institution that provides the character of ACEH youth. This kind of condition happened in southeast Aceh. This article aims to see how the role of education in the form of youth character in Southeast Aceh. This study used a qualitative approach with the subject is the head of Dayah, the Council of Teachers, and the students in the Dayah. The Dayah is randomly selected. Data collection techniques using observation techniques, interviews, and documentation. Then the data is analyzed by using data reduction measures, displays. The results of research show that Dayah in southeast Aceh has an important position in the midst of society. Its existence is supported by the government and community, and one of the districts that have the most Dayah in Aceh. The students graduated from the Dayah felt a difference before studying in the father after studying in the Dayah. In the development Dayah did not experience any meaningful obstacles.

An Innocent Woman, Unjustly Accused? Charwe, Medium of the Nehanda Mhondoro Spirit, and the 1896–97 Central Shona Rising in Zimbabwe

1998 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 27-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. N. Beach
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Voice

The rising of the Ndebele and southwestern and central Shona people against colonial rule in the 1890s has become one of the classic cases of such resistance. Yet, since the independence of Zimbabwe in 1980, very little fresh research has been carried out on the subject. This paper re-examines the role of Shona religious authorities in the rising, especially that of the medium of the Nehanda spirit of the Mazowe valley in the central Shona area. In just over a century, the figure of “Mbuya Nehanda” has become the best-known popular symbol of resistance to colonial rule in modern Zimbabwe. She has been commemorated since 1980 in statues, street names, a hospital, posters, songs, novels, and poems, and is soon to be the subject of a full-length feature film. This paper examines the historical basis behind the legend.This legend runs as follows: the historical “Nehanda” was supposed to have been the daughter of the founding ancestor of the Mutapa dynasty, who lived in the fifteenth century. Her ritual incest with her brother Matope gave supernatural sanction to the power of the Mutapa state. After her death, she became a mhondoro spirit, and this spirit possessed a number of mediums (masvikiro, singular svikiro). During periods of possession by the spirit, the svikiro was regarded as speaking with the voice and personality of the original Nehanda and not with her own. In the last part of the nineteenth century one medium, Charwe, was responsible for the organization of resistance to the government of the British South Africa Company and the settlers in the Mazowe valley, and in particular for the killing of H.H. Pollard, Kunyaira, the extremely oppressive Native Commissioner of the area. This resistance began in June 1896, and from then until her capture in late 1897 the Nehanda medium was a major factor in the war. Tried and sentenced to death in March 1898, she refused to convert to Christianity and struggled right up to the moment when she was hanged.

Introduction

2006 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Johnny W. Lott
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Panel Discussion ◽  
High School Geometry ◽  
School Geometry ◽  
Original Question ◽  
The Subject ◽  
February Issue ◽  
Question Today ◽  
School Curricula

In 1972, the Mathematics Teacher published a series of three articles in “The Forum,” a section of the journal devoted to diverging opinions with respect to the role of geometry and the best approach to it. The February issue addressed the question “What should become of the high school geometry course?” The articles in “The Forum” in February were written by Howard F. Fehr, Frank M. Eccles, and Bruce E. Meserve. I chose the article by Fehr as one that has had an effect on high school curricula and still poses some answers to the original question today. The question was the subject of a panel discussion at the August 2006 MathFest of the Mathematical Association of America sponsored by the NCTM/MAA Joint Committee on Mutual Concerns.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Age and Happiness Varies by Income

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dimiter Toshkov
Keyword(s):  
Income Distribution ◽  
Old Age ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Relationship

The link between age and happiness has been the subject of numerous studies. It is still a matter of controversy whether the relationship is U-shaped, with happiness declining after youth before bouncing back in old age, or not. While the effect of age has been examined conditional on income and other socio-demographic variables, so far, the interactions between age and income have remained insufficiently explored. Using data from the European Social Survey, this article shows that the nature of the relationship between age and happiness varies strongly with different levels of relative income. People in the lowest decile of the income distribution experience a ‘hockey stick’: a deep decline in self-reported happiness until around age 50-55 and a small bounce back in old age. The classic U-curve is found mostly in the middle-income ranks. For people at the top of the income distribution, average happiness does not vary much with age. These results demonstrate the important role of income in moderating the relationship between age and happiness.

Top-Down Processing and Visual Reorientation Illusions in a Virtual Reality Environment

2004 ◽  
Vol 63 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred W. Mast ◽  
Charles M. Oman
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Visual Processing ◽  
Line Length ◽  
Perceptual Cues ◽  
Virtual Reality Environment ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Test Conditions ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Processing Mechanisms

The role of top-down processing on the horizontal-vertical line length illusion was examined by means of an ambiguous room with dual visual verticals. In one of the test conditions, the subjects were cued to one of the two verticals and were instructed to cognitively reassign the apparent vertical to the cued orientation. When they have mentally adjusted their perception, two lines in a plus sign configuration appeared and the subjects had to evaluate which line was longer. The results showed that the line length appeared longer when it was aligned with the direction of the vertical currently perceived by the subject. This study provides a demonstration that top-down processing influences lower level visual processing mechanisms. In another test condition, the subjects had all perceptual cues available and the influence was even stronger.

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