ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТНЫЙ ПОДХОД В ОБРАЗОВАНИИ В СОВРЕМЕННЫХ УСЛОВИЯХ

Аннотация. Деятельностный подход к организации учебных занятий при профессиональной подготовке специалистов представляет технологию индивидуализированного обучения. В данной статье проведен экскурс по проблеме деятельности. Деятельность рассматривается как способ участия индивида в преобразовании существующей действительности, как метод познания, как условие проявления и развития личности, как условие конструирования отношений между людьми. Функции деятельности непосредственно связаны не только с проектной деятельностью, но и с развитием личности. Поэтому деятельностная организация процесса проектирования как метода развития личности является актуальной. Кроме этого отмечается, что роль преподавателя в ходе осуществления личностно-деятельностного подхода заключается в умелой организации образовательно- профессиональной среды. Ключевые слова: деятельность, личность, учебная деятельность, проектная деятельность, личностно-деятельностные технологии. Аннотация. Адистерди кесиптик даярдоо учурунда окуу сабактарын уюштуруунун ишмердик ыкмасы жеке инсанга багытталган окутуу технологиясы болуп эсептелет. Бул макалада ишмердик маселеси боюнча экскурс жүргүзүлгөн. Ишмердүүлүк учурдагы чындыкты кайра өзгөртүп түзүүдөгү индивиддин катышуу жолу катары, таануу методу катары, инсандын өзүн көрсөтүүсүнүн жана өнүгүүсүнүн шарты катары, адамдар ортосунда мамиле түзүү ыкмасы катары каралат. Ишмердүүлүктүн функциялары долбоордук иштер менен гана эмес, инсандын өнүгүүсү менен да түздөн-түз байланыштуу. Ошондуктан инсанды өнүктүрүүнүн ыкмасы катары долбоорлоо процессинин ишмердик уюштурулушу актуалдуу. Мындан тышкары, жеке инсанга багытталган – ишмердик ыкмасын ишке ашыруудагы окутуучунун ролу билим берүүчүлүк-кесиптик чөйрөнү эптүү уюштуруу экендиги белгиленет. Түйүндүү сөздөр: ишмердүүлүк, инсан, окуу иши, долбоордук иш, жеке инсанга багытталган – ишмердик технологиялар. Annotation. The activity approach to organization of study in the profession- al training of specialists represents the individualized training technique. This article makes the insight into the activity issue. The activity is considered as a way of person’s participation in transformation of existing reality, as a way of learning, as a condition for personality demonstration and development, as a condition for building relations be- tween people. The functions of the activity are immediately associated with not only de- signing activity but with development of the personality. That is why activity organization of the designing process as a way of personality development is relevant. However, in the modern education, the personal and activity approach is to be com- bined with other approaches of the collective activity based on self-government and competitiveness. Key words: activity, personality, studies, designing activity, personal and activity techniques

Perception-Based Classification of Expressive Musical Terms

Expressive Musical Terms (EMTs) are commonly used by composers as verbal descriptions of musical expressiveness and characters that performers are requested to convey. We suggest a classification of 55 of these terms, based on the perception of professional music performers who were asked to: 1) organize the considered EMTs in a two-dimensional plane in such a way that proximity reflects similarity; and 2) rate these EMTs according to valence, arousal, extraversion, and neuroticism, using 7-level Likert scales. Using a minimization procedure, we found that a satisfactory partition requires these EMTs to be organized in four clusters (whose centroids are associated with tenderness, happiness, anger, and sadness) located in the four quarters of the valence-arousal plane of the circumplex model of affect developed by Russell (1980). In terms of the related positive-negative activation parameters, introduced by Watson and Tellegen (1985), we obtained a significant correlation between positive activation and extraversion and between negative activation and neuroticism. This demonstrates that these relations, previously observed in personality studies by Watson & Clark (1992a), extend to the musical field.

Personality Studies in India

Personality, being one of the core areas of psychological enquiry, has been approached from diverse perspectives. It is deployed in psychological literature at different levels: as a school of thought; as a perspective; and as a configuration of psychological dispositions of an individual. Against this backdrop, the present chapter examines the progress of the field in the country during the last one decade. In addition to updating conceptual and methodological developments in contemporary personality research, this chapter brings out the relevance of culture in conceptualizing the construct of personality and its assessment. In particular, the chapter critically evaluates the progress made in a variety of studies carried out in academia and brings out the conceptual richness of various indigenous personality concepts and theories. Finally, some issues for further research are highlighted to make personality research a culturally relevant and applied area of enquiry.

Is “Behavior” the Problem?

Doliński (2018, this issue) deplores the near absence of “real behavior” in social and personality studies and attributes to that omission several problems in our research. We concur in the depiction of problems but take issue with the diagnosis. In a sense, most we ever study is behavior (the definition of the concept is quite broad). The problems are better understood as those of validity, generalizability and consequentiality in contemporary social/personality research and they stem from the “double whammy” of (occasionally unwarranted) IRB restrictions on social/personality research and unrealistic perfectionism that constrain our efforts.

Methods for measuring mammalian personalities: In which animals and how accurately can we quantify it?

The study of personality, and individual differences in behaviour has experienced a steady rise in popularity in the past years. In this review and meta-analysis, we aim to introduce the concept of personality and related phenomena. A behavioural trait should meet two basic conditions to be considered a personality trait – it should be consistent (1) in time and (2) across contexts. In mammals, the two most common orders in personality studies are primates and rodents. We therefore introduce different approaches to personality testing in these two orders. Primate personality studies are based on psychology studies and often rely on the observer’s ratings. Rodent personality studies originate in the studies of physiology and use an experimental approach. We present a more detailed overview of methodological issues of repeatability as a statistical tool for measuring consistency across time. The classic methods of computing repeatability do not consider habituation and other trends which may become confounding factors and lead to underestimation of repeatability. We also discuss consistency across contexts and different understandings of the context definition. We illustrate the variability of personality studies in mammals with a meta-analysis of repeatability estimates. We found that repeatability of behaviour depends on the methodology of behavioural testing and statistical analyses used, but also the number of test repetitions and differences between the focal behaviours. Repeatability decreased with more repetitions and the tests of aggressiveness and exploratory behaviour yielded lower repeatability estimates than the tests of activity.

The productive service employee: personality, stress, satisfaction and performance

Purpose The purpose of this study is to more closely examine the trait antecedents and outcomes of frontline employee productivity propensity. The study is the first to use a job demands-resources perspective on productivity propensity and it reveals that the inclusion of the construct into service worker personality studies significantly improves the explanatory ability of hypothesized models. Design/methodology/approach The study follows a job demands-resources perspective and uses an empirical study that included two subsamples: banking and health care. Path analyses were performed using two-group modeling to test the hypotheses. Mediation and hierarchical regressions were also used. Findings The findings indicate that the conscientiousness trait has a consistent effect on productivity propensity. More importantly, the findings reveal that productivity propensity influences role ambiguity, job satisfaction and self-rated service performance and that the addition of the construct into personality studies significantly improves the explanatory ability of personality models. Research limitations/implications This study presents further evidence that productivity propensity is an important construct in services research. Beyond previously established influences on bottom-line service productivity and manager-rated work performance, the current work indicates that it also influences FLE stress, engagement and work outcomes. Practical implications Managers work under pressures to ensure service productivity and are well aware of the importance of selecting job applicants who will fit the service role. This study provides additional evidence that the productivity propensity work resource should be considered when selecting employees. The work also suggests that customer workload and the standardization of the service environment impacts the influence of productivity propensity on service outcomes. Social implications Given the importance of transformative service experiences that uplift the experiences of consumers and employees, the productivity propensity of frontline service employees not only impacts the ability of the employee to satisfy customer needs, but also leads the employee to experience increased job satisfaction. Originality/value This work is the first work to consider the effects of productivity propensity from a job demands-resources perspective and, as such, the first to examine the influence of the construct on job satisfaction and service delivery.

Comparing Online Personality of Americans and Chinese

Internet is a newly invented product in recent tens of years and has a profound effect on personality. Here come the new concept-Online personality-in recent studies. In this review, we want to find what are the similarities and differences of online personality studies in China and USA, two representative countries of eastern and western cultures. Firstly, 349 articles were selected and divided into three main areas, such as online personality measurement, online personality and its related Internet behavior, online personality and problematic Internet usage respectively, to address the question. Second, the potential reasons of these similarities and differences are discussed and finally future research directions are proposed that more direct online personality measurement should be developed and culture differences should be taken into consideration while doing research of online personality in different countries.