scholarly journals Interaction of Traditional Musical Cultures and Their Adaptive Potential: Cultural and Pedagogical Aspects

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 137-144
Author(s):  
Alexander Bazikov
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Adaptive Potential ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Cultural Approach ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Musical Activity ◽  
Musical Cultures ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

The author of the article considers the interaction of traditional musical cultures in Russia from a historical perspective and a philosophical point of view. The cultural approach allows us to consider traditional musical culture as a multi­level system, the musical and cultural tradition as part of the system and as a multi­component model. The pedagogical approach allows to justify the feasibility of introducing this issue into the content of the university training of future musicians and teachers in order to understand by them the mechanism of functioning of traditional musical cultures and to use their knowledge in their subsequent professional musical activity. The author pays special attention to the analysis of the possibilities of the musical and cultural tradition as a social and cultural phenomenon and the nature of its interaction with foreign cultures. It is shown that the musical and cultural tradition as a means of consolidating different nationalities is an effective way to unite all peoples not only of Russia, but also beyond its borders.

scholarly journals Phenomenon of Choral Sonority in the Context of Intonation Theory as a Component of the University Training of the Musician-Pedagogue

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 54-71
Author(s):  
Aleksandr B. Kritskiy ◽  
Boris D. Kritskiy
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Theoretical Study ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Audio Quality ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Collective Work ◽  
Broad Interpretation ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

The article was written based on the results of a theoretical study by Boris Dmitrievich Kritskiy, my father, who proposed to introduce scientific terms “musical phonics” into the spheres of musicology, pedagogy of music education and performing arts. In his view, “musical phonics” should be considered as a field of scientific and methodical research of audio (instrumental, vocal-choral) design of the process of music performed. And the audio embodiment of the musical text as a relatively independent phenomenon in a broad interpretation is a phonic form. Vocal design of choral sound is a necessary structural component of the performance. From the point of view of intonation theory of music, choral sonority – singing, vocal-choral materialization of the score – is a specially interpreted text. The audio quality is seen as a problem of vocal choral performance in the preparation of a future teacher-musician/choirmaster. There is a belief about the need for future teachers-musicians to understand the methods of constructing the audio matter of music. The methods transform the musical text in accordance with the form, logic of the development of the figurative and artistic meaning of the work and are aimed at the education of the audio culture among the choral collective. Work on the creation of a phonic form involves establishing intonation links between the performed work and the methods of its mastery. The leading role in its crystallization is played by a meaningful plan of music, which allows us to speak about it as a historical category, defined by genre-stylistic features of performed works. Built according to the laws of beauty and at the same time reflecting the spirit of its time, the era in which the performer creates, it reveals the changes that characterize the culture of vocal and choral performance. The performed composition, included in the context of broad cultural and life relations, is saturated with a new meaning. As an example, the phonic form in orthodox liturgical singing is considered.

scholarly journals The Role of Canalization and Plasticity in the Evolution of Musical Creativity

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Podlipniak
Keyword(s):  
Biological Evolution ◽  
Evolutionary Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
Environmental Challenges ◽  
Musical Activity ◽  
Genetic Perturbations ◽  
Musical Creativity ◽  
The One

Creativity is defined as the ability to generate something new and valuable. From a biological point of view this can be seen as an adaptation in response to environmental challenges. Although music is such a diverse phenomenon, all people possess a set of abilities that are claimed to be the products of biological evolution, which allow us to produce and listen to music according to both universal and culture-specific rules. On the one hand, musical creativity is restricted by the tacit rules that reflect the developmental interplay between genetic, epigenetic and cultural information. On the other hand, musical innovations seem to be desirable elements present in every musical culture which suggests some biological importance. If our musical activity is driven by biological needs, then it is important for us to understand the function of musical creativity in satisfying those needs, and also how human beings have become so creative in the domain of music. The aim of this paper is to propose that musical creativity has become an indispensable part of the gene-culture coevolution of our musicality. It is suggested that the two main forces of canalization and plasticity have been crucial in this process. Canalization is an evolutionary process in which phenotypes take relatively constant forms regardless of environmental and genetic perturbations. Plasticity is defined as the ability of a phenotype to generate an adaptive response to environmental challenges. It is proposed that human musicality is composed of evolutionary innovations generated by the gradual canalization of developmental pathways leading to musical behavior. Within this process, the unstable cultural environment serves as the selective pressure for musical creativity. It is hypothesized that the connections between cortical and subcortical areas, which constitute cortico-subcortical circuits involved in music processing, are the products of canalization, whereas plasticity is achieved by the means of neurological variability. This variability is present both at the level of an individual structure’s enlargement in response to practicing (e.g., the planum temporale) and within the involvement of neurological structures that are not music-specific (e.g., the default mode network) in music processing.

scholarly journals The Problem of Supervision as an Entry Point to Improve the Quality of Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Ben Farag Zwaina
Keyword(s):  
Educational Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
University Education ◽  
Quality Of Higher Education ◽  
Supervision Process ◽  
Process Outcomes ◽  
University Professor ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

The final stage of university formation at any level (BA, MA, PhD) represents a very important turning point in the student’s path, as it constitutes a transition bridge for the student from one position to a better position, and in which the student’s personality is built in its various cognitive and skills aspects. The outputs of the stage are considered the most important inputs in the university educational process for a more advanced stage. Our study comes to shed light on the process of supervising the graduation notes from the point of view of the graduation students of the Faculty of Economic, Business, and Management Sciences at the University of Bordj Bou Arereig, considering this stage is one of the most important approaches to achieving the quality of university education outputs, and coming up with recommendations that increase interest in this aspect. In order to improve the level of manpower working in this institution, especially the teaching component, which is the university professor, the quality of university training is mainly related to its quality, as it is considered the most important element or key in the quality of higher education, which contributes to providing distinguished services. At the end of the study, we aim to reach the most prominent challenges and difficulties that students face during the supervision process in order to improve the process in the future and thus improve the educational process outcomes.

scholarly journals The present and the future of Russian higher education shown through university typology

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (RL. 2020. vol.1. no. 2) ◽  
pp. 133-140
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Lbova
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Current State ◽  
Russian Higher Education ◽  
The Future ◽  
The University

In the article, through the study of various typologies of universities, the current state and the future of Russian higher education are assessed. There are different approaches to the classification of higher education institutions: classical, which views the university through the history; an approach that systematizes higher education institutions by belonging to a particular cultural tradition; economic approach. The authors of the typologies offer two opposite points of view regarding the future of the Russian university. According to the first point of view, the existing university system must be completely reformed. Supporters of the second one suggest adjusting the existing system to the requirements of modern society. Due to the analysis, we concluded that a hybrid option is more suitable for Russia, in which gradual changes allow preserving the advantages of Russian education and minimize the disadvantages.

Environmental cell studies of deformation and fracture

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 516-517
Author(s):  
H. K. Birnbaum ◽  
I. M. Robertson
Keyword(s):  
National Laboratory ◽  
Argonne National Laboratory ◽  
Damage Threshold ◽  
Chromatic Aberration ◽  
Good Choice ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Deformation And Fracture ◽  
Environmental Cell ◽  
Gas Molecules ◽  
The University

Studies of the effects of hydrogen environments on the deformation and fracture of fcc, bcc and hep metals and alloys have been carried out in a TEM environmental cell. The initial experiments were performed in the environmental cell of the HVEM facility at Argonne National Laboratory. More recently, a dedicated environmental cell facility has been constructed at the University of Illinois using a JEOL 4000EX and has been used for these studies. In the present paper we will describe the general design features of the JEOL environmental cell and some of the observations we have made on hydrogen effects on deformation and fracture.The JEOL environmental cell is designed to operate at 400 keV and below; in part because of the available accelerating voltage of the microscope and in part because the damage threshold of most materials is below 400 keV. The gas pressure at which chromatic aberration due to electron scattering from the gas molecules becomes excessive does not increase rapidly with with accelerating voltage making 400 keV a good choice from that point of view as well. A series of apertures were placed above and below the cell to control the pressures in various parts of the column.

A Futures Study on the Quality Of Life from the Point Of View of Iranian Youth

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sina Saeedy ◽  
Mojtaba Amiri ◽  
Mohammad Mahdi Zolfagharzadeh ◽  
Mohammad Rahim Eyvazi
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Life Satisfaction ◽  
Mixed Model ◽  
Satisfaction With Life ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Futures Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The University

Quality of life and satisfaction with life as tightly interconnected concepts have become of much importance in the urbanism era. No doubt, it is one of the most important goals of every human society to enhance a citizen’s quality of life and to increase their satisfaction with life. However, there are many signs which demonstrate the low level of life satisfaction of Iranian citizens especially among the youth. Thus, considering the temporal concept of life satisfaction, this research aims to make a futures study in this field. Therefore, using a mixed model and employing research methods from futures studies, life satisfaction among the students of the University of Tehran were measured and their views on this subject investigated. Both quantitative and qualitative data were analysed together in order to test the hypotheses and to address the research questions on the youth discontentment with quality of life. Findings showed that the level of life satisfaction among students is relatively low and their image of the future is not positive and not optimistic. These views were elicited and discussed in the social, economic, political, environmental and technological perspectives. Keywords:  futures studies, quality of life, satisfaction with life, youth

scholarly journals Spirals of Sustainable Academic Motivation, Creativity, and Trust of Higher Education Staff

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7057
Author(s):  
Martina Blašková ◽  
Dominika Tumová ◽  
Rudolf Blaško ◽  
Justyna Majchrzak-Lepczyk
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Academic Motivation ◽  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Scientific Management ◽  
Administrative Staff ◽  
Sustainable Systems ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Future Improvement ◽  
The University

Sustainability has to penetrate more and more into higher education. It should not focus only on traditional elements. It should also enter new, but for future improvement, extremely important areas. Based on this premise, creativity and motivation, when additionally interconnected and supported by trust that is provided and achieved, decide on the progress and sustainability of universities. This connection is gaining importance especially from the point of view of building solid foundations and mechanisms that functionally preserve the potential effects of these elements in the future. For this reason and following the nature, importance, and content of sustainable academic motivation (SAM), the paper introduces two new concepts: sustainable academic creativity (SAC) and sustainable academic trust (SAT). For further original contributions, the paper hypothesizes the existence of mutual—spiral—relations of sustainable academic motivation (SAM), sustainable academic creativity (SAC), and sustainable academic trust (SAT). The empirical section tests the validity of this claim in the universities of two countries: the Slovak Republic and Poland. A survey performed on a sample of n=181 pedagogical, scientific, management, and administrative staff in higher education confirms the existence of these spirals. The results indicate the spiral effect of motivation when connected with creativity and trust and show that it is accented by the crucial principles of sustainability (responsibility, novelty, usefulness, progress, etc.). Therefore, the paper’s conclusion contains the explanations for the potential occurrence of three types of sustainably mutual systems and complexes. These are: (a) individual sustainable systems of SAM, SAC, and SAT; (b) group/sectional sustainable systems of SAM, SAC, and SAT; and (c) the global sustainable complex of SAM, SAC, and SAT in the university.

Future Perioperative Registered Nurses: An Insight into a Perioperative Programme for Undergraduate Nursing Students

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 432-435 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Clark-Burg
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing Students ◽  
Perioperative Nursing ◽  
Undergraduate Nursing ◽  
Operating Room Nurses ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training ◽  
Nursing Training ◽  
Insight Into

An Australian College of Operating Room Nurses (ACORN) submission (ACORN 2002–2008) recently stated that the specialities that suffered significantly from the transition of hospital-based nursing training to university training were the perioperative specialty, critical care and emergency. The main reason for this was that perioperative nursing was not included in the undergraduate nursing curriculum. Less than a handful of universities in Australia offer the subject as a compulsory unit. The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) is one of these universities. This paper will provide an insight into the perioperative nursing care unit embedded within the Bachelor of Nursing (BN) undergraduate curriculum.

The university training of engineers in economic geology

1906 ◽  
Vol 1 (5) ◽  
pp. 476-481
Author(s):  
Leonidas Chalmers Glenn ◽  
C. K. Leith
Keyword(s):  
Economic Geology ◽  
The University ◽  
University Training

Technical services and user service improvement

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (6/7) ◽  
pp. 505-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jie Huang ◽  
Katherine Wong
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Service Improvement ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
University Of Oklahoma ◽  
Online Catalog ◽  
Efficient Processing ◽  
The University ◽  
Technical Services

PurposeFrom the cataloging librarians' point of view, this paper aims to present how technical services, especially the cataloging department, can play important roles in the improvement of user services.Design/methodology/approachThe paper examines the practices of the University of Oklahoma Libraries.FindingsThe paper identifies several aspects in which technical services can enhance the quality of user services, especially in the cataloging department. A library's online catalog becomes the first point of access to the library's information resources. Its quality can be improved and enriched in many ways to raise users’ satisfaction. Aside from the improvement in technical aspects, efforts should also be made to promote collaboration between technical and public services so as to ensure efficient processing of materials and to meet the needs of library users.Originality/valueThe value of the paper is in showing that the quality of an online catalog and the cooperation between public and technical services are two of the key factors in achieving high quality of user services.

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