‘Enter the Dream Tiger’. Borges, Abbau and the Shrouded Hall of Mirrors of Educational Reflection

This article reflects upon initial teacher education programme’s employment of reflection. The article argues that the orginary ground of educational reflection, dominated by theorists such as Dewey and Schon, has been colonised by a form of ‘Total Reflection’ that is conceptualised and manufactured within the Teacher Standards and its associated discourse. Through employment of the concept of Abbau, the work of Borges and mirror theory, the article reveals how student teachers are not enabled to be reflective but instead are created as the celebrated automata whose professional image is shrouded, codified and solidified by a Master Weaving machine. The article suggests that if educational reflection is to become useful in teacher development, then it must return to its past incarnations.

The professional image of a modern university lecturer

The article analyzes the structure of the university lecturer image consisting of basic competencies, a social status and professional competencies – didactic skills, conceptual training, and professional-Self. The article considers the factors affecting the professional image of the universities’ teaching staff, nowadays, such as: the transition to a skills-oriented education, the Russian employers’ requirements for university graduates, the commercialization of higher education, and the students’ audience specifics of the represented by generation “Z”, preferring the Internet resources as the main information sources. The article highlights the professional image of the teaching staff both in the eyes of the administrative structures of universities and students. A pilot study of the teaching staff professional image perception as seen from the students’s perspective was carried out the department of industrial policy and business administration of Kazan National Research Technological University. Due to the conducted research, it became possible to establish the most important characteristics of the internal image of a university lecturer from the students’ point of view and the significance of his/her external image.

IMAGE-CREATING POTENTIAL OF DISCIPLINES OF SOCIAL AND HUMANITARIAN CYCLE

Characteristic of image-creating potential of disciplines of the social and humanitarian cycle of higher technical education for the following resources: information-content, communicative-interactive, organizational-functional and cultural-image is made on the basis of the concept of “potential” and “image-creating potential”. Possibilities of the discipline of the social and humanitarian cycle for the formation of the professional image of the future IT specialists are: the focus of the content of discipline on the values of professional activity; diversity of choice of the practice of image-forming activity; multilevel image interaction and communication between subjects; means of methodological support for teaching the discipline are also disclosed in the article.Analysis of curriculum and programs for the future IT professionals' training have identified significant characteristics of potential content of disciplines of the social and humanitarian cycle of IT professionals' training for the image competence formation: enrichment of the range of image knowledge; possibility of image-forming activities; activation of productive ways of image-creative interaction.It is established that social and humanitarian disciplines allow forming a person capable of discovering and realizing one's own potential in society. These disciplines require the following teaching principles: general science, fundamentalism, systematic unity of historical and logical, national and universal, social and personal, theory and practice of teaching and education.For the realization of the image-creating potential of disciplines of the social and humanitarian cycle, a set of classes and tasks for the formation of an IT specialist's professional image were developed. These include discussion questions, discussion of popular public opinion on the internal and external image, the generalization of image management methods, identification of features of the public figures kinetic image, exercises for formation an attractive image of a professional subject, reflective exercises, role situations, designing your own image. These exercises become the basis for the creation of such an IT specialist's image, which will assist the prototype subject in achieving success, socially significant goals, creating a positive image.

High-sensitivity FEES® with the professional image enhancement technology “PIET”

Purpose Flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES®) is a standard diagnostic tool in dysphagia. The combination of FEES® and narrow band light (narrow band imaging; NBI) provides a more precise and detailed investigation method. So far, this technique could only be performed with the NBI illumination. The new version of the “professional image enhancement technique” (PIET) provides another image enhancing system. This study investigates the eligibility of PIET in the FEES® procedure. Methods Both techniques, NBI and PIET, were compared using a target system. Furthermore, the image enhancement during FEES® was performed and recorded with the two systems during daily routine. Results Performing an image enhancement during FEES® is possible with both systems PIET and NBI. On the target system, the contrast of the PIET showed a brighter and a more detailed picture. In dysphagia patients, no difference between PIET and NBI was detected. Conclusions PIET proved to be non-inferior to NBI during image enhancement FEES®. So far, image enhancement FEES® was exclusively connected to NBI. With the PIET system, an alternative endoscopy technology is available for certain indications.

Organizational and pedagogical conditions of formation of teacher’s professional image in the context of education standartization

In the structure of modern standards of education, one of the important and popular components that increases the effectiveness of pedagogical activity is the professional image of the teacher. The importance of teachers professional image formation is actualized as this image promotes not only productivity, but also influences the perception of the teaching work representative by participants of the educational process. In the process of teachers professional image formation organizational and pedagogical conditions should be provided considering the context of standardization of education. The concept of the conditions in question is defined. The analysis of theoretical research of pedagogical conditions of teachers professional image formation is based on the requirements to pedagogical activity of Federal state educational standards and the professional standard Teacher, which allowed to determine current organizational and pedagogical conditions of the teachers professional image formation in terms of standardization of education. The objective organizational conditions for teachers professional image formation are the following: standardization of the education process, creation of a polysubject educational environment, teachers motivation formation for professional and image development, the development of professional and image competence of teachers, the development of image self-reflection in the professional activities of teachers.

Psychological and Pedagogical Characteristics and Functions of the Future Junior Bachelors-Journalists’ Image

The author summarizes the views of scientists on the essence of the scientific definition of the «image» in the context of pedagogical imageology. The purpose of the article is aimed at the theoretical substantiation of the essence of the scientific definition of "image" and the disclosure of the feasibility of its formation and coverage of the semantic characteristics and functional spectrum of the image. A set of theoretical methods was used to achieve this goal, namely: system-structural analysis and systematization of psychological and pedagogical developments; comparative pedagogical analysis and synthesis, deduction and induction, classification and generalization. The results. It is found that from the psychological and pedagogical point of view, the study of the professional and personal image is carried out during: analysis of political image; determination of psychological mechanisms of its formation; research of socio-cultural aspect of the image of the future specialist; the analysis of the practical principles of an image. Based on the generalization of the positions of scientists, it is established that an image plays an important role in the professional activities of future junior bachelors-journalists. The article presents that the professional image has a psychotherapeutic effect for a future journalist. It provides sociability, responsibility, professional confidence, social activity, diplomacy, reflectivity. The article contains a list of contradictions that are resolved during the formation of students majoring in 061 Image Journalism. The author interprets the image as a complex socio-psychological-pedagogical phenomenon, that the individual forms purposefully with the view to emotional and psychological influence and creating others’ impressions and opinions about the bearer of this image. The main semantic characteristics of the image are analyzed, namely: it is formed purposefully and has a specific addressee and the ultimate goal; it is recognized as an image-stereotype used as a «business» image of the individual. It is behavioral by nature and is formed in the process of practical activities. It covers the external component and elements of self-presentation and presentation. It involves a close relationship and interaction between an individual and a group image. It covers the emphasis on specific features that are characteristic of the representative of a particular profession. It depends on the characteristics of a particular society (its values, norms, traditions, attitudes). Conclusions. Based on the generalization of scientific information, the main functions of the image are characterized, which include the following: firstly, the image must have a certain expression, which is subject to a specific goal and corresponds to the real strategy; secondly, it must position a particular organization or leader in front of the target audience; thirdly, the image should motivate the individual to take an active action. In the psychological and pedagogical fields, the practical activities of college teachers in the formation of future journalists' professional image are focused on the development of the flexibility of thinking, creativity, originality and intuition.

Psychosemantic research of the professional image of law enforcement officers

It is stated that in recent years, in civil society and legal science there has been growing interest regarding the problem of the police officer’s image in the social conscience. Many scientific articles devoted to this theme have been published, where such issues as forming the police officer’s image in the mass media, appreciating the police activity by civil society, searching for ways of forming the positive police officer’s image, etc. are of special interest. This scientific research was aimed at appreciating the peculiarities of perceiving the professional image of law enforcement officers. In the course of the research 92 police officers were interviewed through filling the anonymous questionnaire in google-forms. Trainees of the management faculties and postgraduates of the scientific-pedagogic personnel training faculty of the Academy of Management of the MIA of Russia were the research participants. The data collection was accomplished by means of filling the google-forms. The research was conducted in anonymous format. It was stated that the application of the psychosemantic approach allowed to obtain more reliable information from the respondents than the methods of direct questions. The data were collected over the period from April to June 2020. The semantic field containing 828 words was obtained by means of applying the method of free associations to the incentive “image of law enforcement officers”. The obtained associations were classified into some semantic groups. Such service as https://облакослов.рф was used for selecting the largest semantic units. It allowed to visualize the most frequently used associations (100 of them) in the form of “word cloud”. The research results identifted the key importance of such words as “law”, “responsible”, “honest”, “to protect”, “to help” and others when characterizing both the image and professional activities of police officers. Conclusions: 1) the application of the psychosemantic approach in the research of the professional image allowed to study the representation of law enforcement officers; 2) the activities of the law enforcement units responsible for moral and psychological training are considered as effective since the professional image of law enforcement officers is formed from the semantic markers of positive connotation, reflecting their functions related to law protecting and ensuring security and social health. The study was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research within the framework of scientific project No. 20-013-00423.

What Black Women Political Elites Look Like Matters

This chapter centers the narratives of Black women political elites to demonstrate how they think about their professional image and how they craft their look in response to voters’ expectations. A series of one-on-one interviews with Black women political elites shows that these women are deeply aware of how their bodies are assessed and that they are constantly determining how they want to present themselves. This chapter addresses Black women’s agency—how Black women prefer to look given the constraints of their physical characteristics. It also considers the political structure—how Black women believe voters and constituents view them based on their chosen appearance or styling choices. The chapter finds that Black women political elites vary in how they choose to present themselves and in their rationale for their styling choices. However, all the women interviewed recognize the racist and sexist constraints that inform their personal aesthetics.