Model of Entrepreneurial Inclusive Civil Culture

This research aims to analyze the model of entrepreneurial inclusive civic culture created and developed in the Agro Ecological Park of Zapopan (PAZ). Based on the need to rescue vacant urban land use with the participation of residents residing in the surrounding colonies, social movements, civil society, and local government, they have designed and implemented actions to create PAZ (PEACE) as an area of green innovation. In addition to the cultivation of vegetables, vegetables, medicinal plants, and decoration under relations of cooperation, trust, and community support, the formation of social capital that sustains a culture of peace based on environmental sustainability activities. The results of the implementation of this project, born from bottom of the social and power structures, constitute a significant experience in the regeneration of public spaces and green areas that provides greater economic efficiency in terms of family income, a greater relevance of equity, inclusion and social justice, and improvement of environmental sustainability.

Conceptual Urban Renewal Outlines Against Proposed Mediaspree Project at Holzmarkt Area in Berlin: A Proposal to Remodel Vibrant Urban Space

The German capital city of Berlin, amongst all European cities, is well known as one of the most freethinking center but yet historical. Its industrial historic structures and heritage elements over the spree river shore are reanalyzed and reexamined in this case study with emphasis on club culture and social recreation. The important issue is that, the structures and architectural style of these few surviving buildings have the common features and also diversities which were never brought under light and even ignored to let them became hub for unsocial activities like drug dealing and unhygienic adobes for homeless peoples. To discover and recognize their current contribution and possible social attribute over the whole city fabric, the main construct of this paper is to rethink Berlin’s so called public cohesion on the basis of recreational character and its associated urban order. The research question is: “What is the topmost role played by such built elements for formation of a distinct civic culture and keep Berlin alive?” To reveal the conceivable theoretical framework of this study will try to accentuate same facts and aspects followed by descriptive-analytical method and suggest independent and dependent variables, possible cooperative urban inventions based on the inhabitants’ interest, protest and demands against privatization of Media Spree. Documentation, field survey, associated drawings, related photographs from different time intervals and model studying was helpful for analyzing the urban morphology. The proposed design will try to indicate that the historic industrial buildings, pubs and markets, art practice and the overall landscape has tremendous bilateral relations for the wellbeing of city dwellers; which could be shaped well into a main ‘Axis’ of cultural activities, which Berlin is not posed with currently.

CIVIC COMPETENCE FORMATION OF FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS BY MEANS OF MODERN LEGAL CULTURE

The urgency of the problem of civic competence forming in a higher education institution is due to the requirements of the Law of Ukraine «On Education», the concept of «New Ukrainian School», Professional Standard for Primary School Teachers. The purpose of the study is to carry out a theoretical justification of the content and ways of civic competence formation of future primary school teachers by means of modern legal culture on the basis of legal sources and scientific literature. Methods of scientific research applied to achieve the goal of research: analysis and synthesis to clarify the nature and components of civic competence of future teachers, to determine active methods of its effective formation in higher education; methods of generalization and systematization for the interpretation of their own views on the explanation of the essence of the content of the concept of «civic competence». The result of the study: the authors have provided the interpretation of the concept of «civic competence of future primary school teachers» as an ability that is formed in the educational institution during lessons and through the means of legal culture in extracurricular activities. It has been found that the civic competence of a specialist is formed by his civic maturity, civic culture and civic position. Interactive forms and methods of civic competencies formation of students, future primary school teachers, tested by the authors in the municipal institution of higher education «Lutsk Pedagogical College» of Volyn Regional Council.

Transforming the Party Identity of German Radical Right: In Search of Female Support

The crises of the beginning of the 21st century changed the political landscape of modern Germany, which was manifested in increasing right-wing radicalism. As the party identity of the far-right transforms, they shift from being marginal nationalist anti-migrant forces, contradicting the democratic culture of Germany, to movements which defend identity and rights, including womens rights. Thus, the far-right in Germany claim to become a part of the civic culture that includes the right to criticize and disagree with the governments policies. The article examines how far-right parties interact with the female electorate on the example of the Alternative for Germany party. The study highlights the main activities of the Alternative for Germany in attracting womens votes, based on the analysis of the partys political program, interviews with party members and media materials. These activities include the orientation towards the socio-economic issues, concerning women, the consideration of the migrant problem through the prism of the Muslim threat towards women, the protection of the interests of conservative women, the attraction of women as party leaders. The author pays a special attention to female right-wing activists, as independent actors in the political life of Germany. Based on the cases of Beate Zschpe, Francisca Berit and #120db movement, the following interests of female activists were determined: opposing to gender mainstreaming, which threatens the traditional family structure, and opposing to Islam as a source of violence against women. Alternative for Germany aims at strengthening its positions among all women, whose rights are an integral part of European identity, therefore, the actualization of womens involvement in the movement becomes not only instrumental, but also of value nature. More radically oriented female activists get involved in the European Identitarian movement.

Inventing Laziness

Neither laziness nor its condemnation are new inventions, however, perceiving laziness as a social condition that afflicts a 'nation' is. In the early modern era, Ottoman political treatises did not regard the people as the source of the state's problems. Yet in the nineteenth century, as the imperial ideology of Ottomanism and modern discourses of citizenship spread, so did the understanding of laziness as a social disease that the 'Ottoman nation' needed to eradicate. Asking what we can learn about Ottoman history over the long nineteenth-century by looking closely into the contested and shifting boundaries of the laziness - productivity binary, Melis Hafez explores how 'laziness' can be used to understand emerging civic culture and its exclusionary practices in the Ottoman Empire. A polyphonic involvement of moralists, intellectuals, polemicists, novelists, bureaucrats, and, to an extent, the public reveals the complexities and ambiguities of this multifaceted cultural transformation. Using a wide variety of sources, this book explores the sustained anxiety about productivity that generated numerous reforms as well as new understandings of morality, subjectivity, citizenship, and nationhood among the Ottomans.

'Free to the People': The Design and Function of Aotearoa New Zealand's Carnegie Libraries

<p><b>Libraries have formed an inherent part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s communities since the beginning of organised European settlement. Through the case study of New Zealand’s participation in the international Carnegie library programme, this thesis considers the intersection of library architecture and librarianship. It is asserted that libraries have made a significant contribution to New Zealand’s regional civic culture but, despite their social importance, have sat outside most architectural historical surveys. The study explores how a critical analysis of the design and function of purpose-built Carnegie library buildings provides a deeper understanding of these central social institutions.</b></p> <p>Despite the prevalence and value of libraries, very little has been published on the history of library architecture in New Zealand. Only a small amount of research in this country’s library and information studies field addresses library architecture, and architectural writing on libraries is similarly scarce. This research addresses the gap in the literature by employing an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach based on historical and archival research, and site visits. Two key areas of investigation are examined through the case study. Firstly, the form of New Zealand’s Carnegie libraries is analysed in order to determine the principal elements of the buildings and to trace the influences on their design. Secondly, the function of the buildings is investigated, with a focus on the developing library profession and the service provided to the only two groups allocated dedicated space: women and children.</p> <p>This thesis argues that New Zealand’s participation in the Carnegie library programme occurred at a significant time in the development of library architecture and librarianship, and the libraries reflect the profound shifts that were taking place. The findings demonstrate that these library buildings serve as physical evidence of a local interpretation of the major trends in early twentieth-century librarianship and the wider social context of that developing professional practice. Moreover, it shows that a more fulsome understanding of library architecture furthers the appreciation of the part libraries have played in New Zealand social and cultural history, and adds to the field of heritage and museum studies by broadening the understanding and recognition of related cultural institutions. Due to the international nature of the Carnegie library programme and continued importance of libraries, the results of this study are not solely of benefit on local and national levels; they have transnational value.</p>

'Free to the People': The Design and Function of Aotearoa New Zealand's Carnegie Libraries

<p><b>Libraries have formed an inherent part of Aotearoa New Zealand’s communities since the beginning of organised European settlement. Through the case study of New Zealand’s participation in the international Carnegie library programme, this thesis considers the intersection of library architecture and librarianship. It is asserted that libraries have made a significant contribution to New Zealand’s regional civic culture but, despite their social importance, have sat outside most architectural historical surveys. The study explores how a critical analysis of the design and function of purpose-built Carnegie library buildings provides a deeper understanding of these central social institutions.</b></p> <p>Despite the prevalence and value of libraries, very little has been published on the history of library architecture in New Zealand. Only a small amount of research in this country’s library and information studies field addresses library architecture, and architectural writing on libraries is similarly scarce. This research addresses the gap in the literature by employing an interdisciplinary and multi-method approach based on historical and archival research, and site visits. Two key areas of investigation are examined through the case study. Firstly, the form of New Zealand’s Carnegie libraries is analysed in order to determine the principal elements of the buildings and to trace the influences on their design. Secondly, the function of the buildings is investigated, with a focus on the developing library profession and the service provided to the only two groups allocated dedicated space: women and children.</p> <p>This thesis argues that New Zealand’s participation in the Carnegie library programme occurred at a significant time in the development of library architecture and librarianship, and the libraries reflect the profound shifts that were taking place. The findings demonstrate that these library buildings serve as physical evidence of a local interpretation of the major trends in early twentieth-century librarianship and the wider social context of that developing professional practice. Moreover, it shows that a more fulsome understanding of library architecture furthers the appreciation of the part libraries have played in New Zealand social and cultural history, and adds to the field of heritage and museum studies by broadening the understanding and recognition of related cultural institutions. Due to the international nature of the Carnegie library programme and continued importance of libraries, the results of this study are not solely of benefit on local and national levels; they have transnational value.</p>

Гражданско образование и активност на студентите – между формалното и неформалното (във и извън аудитория) – педагогически паралели и проекции

The article aims to present the results of a study with students, dedicated to the connections and dependencies between formal and non-formal education. On the basis of the research, intersections and complementarities and discrepancies and deficits are outlined; the genesis of civic culture in the subjects; the challenges facing civic education and the connection between formal and nonformal education, incl. with a focus on real civic activity of students

Local Clubs and Sports Culture in Kerala

S.Mohammed Irshad’s essay describes the crumbling of a local sports club in Kerala that was once the heart of a vibrant sports culture and deliberates upon the reasons for the decay. Being a symbol of community ownership and sustaining political mobilization, the local sports club promoted a civic culture within the community through local training and competition. However, the newly-emerging stadium-based sports and emergent cultures of party politics have slowly replaced the community-based sports clubs of old representing sports commons in nurturing talent to new institutions like the gymnasium and sports associations.