Art Integration in EFL

The global pandemic of COVID-19 has evidenced the need EFL education has of better and innovative practices in its classrooms; in response to these challenges, art integration in the EFL classroom comes as an alternative to improve not only linguistic development, but to promote critical thinking, social and cultural awareness, and enhance empathy in students. However, this tool cannot reach its full potential without reflecting its use and the purposes it can serve in daily practices, most especially during an emergency educational period such as the one the world is currently going through. This chapter portrays the experience of 35 pre-service teachers registered in an elective class called Artistic Expressions in the Language Classroom and how the implementation of art-related activities, their follow-up, socialization and discussion in class, and their reflections in the assigned papers led them to acknowledge the pedagogical value art can constitute in their educational communities, particularly when teaching online.

Arts choreographical arts as means of integration of student to European space

The article considers the issue of the integration of student youth into the European space. The purpose of the article. The choreographic art is actualized at the present stage of cultural creation. Assimilation of art and its integration into the European space is an important guarantee of the development and interaction of human civilization. The research methodology is based on the synthesis of general scientific methods and cultural-historical approaches. Therefore, the study, assimilation, protection from distortion, multiplication, and transmission to the next generation, therefore, the integration of the main achievements of art is an honorable and responsible matter. Interacting with modern requirements and needs of society, the art of dance affects social relations, economic system, political, ethnic, and national relations. Art makes adjustments to the spiritual composition of society, serves as a prerequisite for the stabilization of all aspects of social life, and thus provides the appropriate balance of historical and cultural formation. The scientific novelty of the research is in an attempt to trace the actualization of choreographic art at the present stage of cultural formation is substantiated. Choreographic art is analyzed as a means of integration into Eurospace. The growing interest of young people in the art of dance gives rise to a natural desire to maximize the reserves of plastic body language, demonstrating the interest of their own artistic worldview and acquired competencies in the educational space. Conclusions. Interacting with the contemporary demands and needs of society, the art of dance influences social relations, economic order, political, ethnic, and national relations. It is emphasized that choreographic art is a socially significant value and is a feeling-filled aesthetic reproduction of knowledge, skills, and competencies. Key words: choreography, art, integration, student youth, Eurospace.

The problem of adaptivity of the street art into social and cultural environment of the city (Ukrainian context)

The purpose of the article is to carry out cultorologic comprehension of the adaptivity of the street art into social and cultural environment of the Ukrainian city and to define the directions of the city environment humanization. The topicality of the article. The street art became the inherent part of the social and cultural environment of the city, the ground for artistic self­expression, visual ring for discussions, conflicts and a means for promotion and branding of the city. Despite the humanization of the city environment, the issue of adaptivity of the street art into social and cultural environment of the city remains still urgent and open. The methodology is based on application of the hermeneutic interpretation (to define the notion of the “street art” at the modern stage of research), comparative analysis (with the purpose to detect the peculiarities of the process of the street art integration into the cultural landscape of the city environment), structural and functional method (to clarify the prospective adaptation directions of the urban art into the urban cultural environment), axiological approach (to define the role of the street art in the cultural and artificial development of the city). The central position in the research is allotted to culturological approach allowing to clarify the specific features of the street art adaptivity into social and cultural environment of the city, to reveal the peculiarities of the multicultural city environment formation. The scientific novelty lies in theoretic comprehension of the process of the street art adaptivity into social and cultural environment of the city and detection of the priority ways of the urban art integration into the cultural matrix of the city. The results. Variability of the street art interpretation in the context of the city environment was considered. The specifics of the street art existence at the modern stage of the research was defined. The prospective directions of the urban art integration into the cultural landscape of the city was traced: differentiation at the legislative level of the notions “street art” and “vandalism”, application of the urban art in design of the city environment and creation of the city brand, application of the information and communication technologies in creation of the artistic objects, tourist guides, etc. The practical significance. The research results may be used in training the higher education applicants in the social and art fields of knowledge, for example, lecture materials of the disciplines aimed at the study of ХХІ century culture, mass culture, urban science, etc.

INTEGRATION OF ART AND TECHNOLOGY: HYBRID ART APPLICATIONS

Today, hybrid art applications attract attention as the integration of science, technology, new media and design. These art practices started with Modernism at the beginning of the 20th century, with the search for some changes in the understanding of art based on knowledge and talent, and a more determined search was started, especially since the 1960s. Artists collaborated with experts from different disciplines, and although these collaborations did not lead to a complete change in modern art, they aroused interest as hybrid applications that combine different competencies; It has been described as a necessity of modernism's search for innovation. Over time, it has been seen as interdisciplinary combinations, applications that combine experimental and research-based art, design and technology. In this study, it is aimed to clarify the definition, scope and blurriness of hybrid art by examining the application and theoretical infrastructure of today's hybrid art practices in the historical process, which combines different disciplines and stands out in unlimited processes and environments. The works, which have been put forward by the meeting of technology and art from the 1960s to the present, have been examined with examples through the theoretical framework. Keywords: Hybrid art, integration, interdisciplinary art, art and technology, new media

Reflective visual journals as a means for promoting generalist preservice teachers’ professional identity in art education

In many countries, the subject of art in primary education is entrusted to generalist teachers rather than art specialists. This article explores ways of promoting in-depth learning in art education courses while simultaneously gaining an understanding of how preservice generalists develop their professional identities. This study focuses on the journey of five senior B.Ed. in primary education students from Frederick University in Cyprus, who were invited to engage with reflective practices through visual journaling on art, education and on art integration with social issues. The findings suggest that reflective visual journals can be used to promote generalist preservice teachers’ autonomy and self-reliance in their art making and art responding as well as in the design of art units for their future pupils. The implications of the study open up possibilities for teacher education as it recognizes the role of visual journaling in enhancing different forms of knowledge, acknowledging feelings of both tension and pleasure, promoting perceptions of self-efficacy and supporting inquiry. Overall, such efforts allow preservice teachers to transition from student to teacher identity.

New and More Solitary Wave Solutions for the Klein-Gordon-Schrödinger Model Arising in Nucleon-Meson Interaction

This paper considers methods to extract exact, explicit, and new single soliton solutions related to the nonlinear Klein-Gordon-Schrödinger model that is utilized in the study of neutral scalar mesons associated with conserved scalar nucleons coupled through the Yukawa interaction. Three state of the art integration schemes, namely, the e−Φ(ξ)-expansion method, Kudryashov's method, and the tanh-coth expansion method are employed to extract bright soliton, dark soliton, periodic soliton, combo soliton, kink soliton, and singular soliton solutions. All the constructed solutions satisfy their existence criteria. It is shown that these methods are concise, straightforward, promising, and reliable mathematical tools to untangle the physical features of mathematical physics equations.