Traditions of the Old Believers and the Fate of the Russian World in the XXI Century: Cultural and Philosophical Aspect

Introduction. Questions of continuity and cultural conservatism of the Russian society of the Modern era are one of the problems of the research in this article. The author suggests that the Old Russian religious and moral heritage was not completely destroyed by the Nikon church reforms in the Moscow state. The purpose of the article is to consider the diversity of forms of Russian religiosity in the context of the development of traditions of Russian society. Materials and Methods. In modern conditions, interest in religion and Old Believers continues to grow, as a rich cultural heritage of Russian society. Therefore, the appeal to the texts of the past in the philosophical method of dialogicality, hermeneutics, and a comprehensive analysis of the works of the Old Believers allows us to identify all the features of the heritage of the past of Russia. Results. The positions of the ethical and aesthetic consciousness of the schism teachers worried many Russian philosophers of the “Silver Age” era. The dramatic nature of the situation was that there was no complete reconciliation between the parties to the split in Russian spiritual thought. Discussion and Conclusion. Many of the ideas of Protopop Avvakum, one of the leaders of the Old Believers in Russia, continue to be relevant to the present day. The questions of the moral and socio-cultural identity of the Russians as the “last Orthodox kingdom” are of an eschatological nature. Many aspects of ritualism and rite-believing are preserved among the Russian people and among many Russian and foreign communities of believers. The confessional culture of the Old Russian epoch remains a mystery for many modern researchers and is of an actual nature, since many aspects of this problem remain poorly studied. The subject of the analysis of the influence of Old-Belief traditions on the fate of the spirituality of the Russian people is important.

The “Africanization” of an African Diaspora Household: Toyin Falola and the Idea of Diasporic Home-Making

This essay is an exercise in the interrogation of cultural globalization, and how the idea of transnationalism generates identity responses. The authors used the concept of home-making to examine how Toyin Falola deployed an aesthetic sensibility of African art as ideological dynamics for the personalization of his home situated in a suburb in Austin, Texas. The Africanization agenda that the Falola house operationalized points at the critical role that interior decoration can play in African diaspora homes. The project is crucial because it undermines the homogenizing reach of globalization that dislocates the sense of identity of an average African transnational migrant. In the Falola home, we confront an assemblage of aesthetic consciousness, dynamics of Africanity, and identity construction.

The Effect of Regional Body Satisfaction on Appearance Interest of Female University Students in Vietnam

The recent economic affluence in Vietnam is leading to a growing interest in beauty. Especially, beauty-related industries, including cosmetic brands, beauty shops and spas are developing, beauty products are becoming more diversified and the interest in appearance is growing. Therefore, this study aims to examine Vietnamese female university students’ interest in physical appearance and the real state of their appearance management behaviors. As for the conclusion of the effect of regional body satisfaction on appearance interest, it can be seen that the higher the satisfaction with the face, the higher the interest in appearance in the northern region. In the central region, higher satisfaction with skin and face means higher interest in appearance. In the southern region, the higher the satisfaction with height, abdomen, weight, and upper body, the higher the interest in appearance. These results can serve as basic data for understanding of the consumer market and analysis of the consumer class in the beauty industry by showing aesthetic consciousness and appearance management behaviors of Vietnamese female university students, who are central consumers of the beauty industry. It is considered there is a need to analyze consumption behaviors, including consumption patterns of Vietnamese female university students in more detail, and further studies on aesthetic consciousness and appearance management behavior patterns among more various types of subjects should be carried out for application to the present beauty industry.

Work with aphorisms at school (a system of analytic, creative and project tasks)

The paper describes the best practices for multi-aspect work with aphoristic statements in Russian lessons. Studying aphorisms at school stems on the one hand from the need to enhance learners’ abilities to understand and decode writing of a variety of genres. On the other hand, it is determined by the immaturity of secondary school students’ skills required to create original statements of ethical, civic, or philosophical nature. Such a lack of essential skills becomes a key problem area during end-of-course assessment. The eight stages of instruction proposed in this paper are based on the axiological and system-activity approaches. They include a logical sequence of exercises teaching learners to manipulate aphoristic statements and boost different types of their verbal and cogitative activity. In the process of fathoming the paradoxical nature of aphorisms special attention is paid to those methods which develop flexible thinking and cognitive activity. This is only possible with dependence on learners’ emotional intellect (surprise, doubt, guesswork). Employing these practices not only improves the subject proficiency quality, but also facilitates the achievement of meta-subject and personal results. Cognitive competences are formed while interpreting and classifying aphorisms. Universal regulatory acts are honed in the process of judging aphorism ‘competitions’, self-testing, and mutual testing. Communicative acts are assessed during group project work. Personal learning outcomes are the strengthening of learners’ axiological attitudes and the development of their aesthetic consciousness.

An Investigation on College Students’ Basic Aesthetic Quality and the Needs of Aesthetic Education Curriculum—Empirical Evidence from Ten Universities Data in China

The research defines the basic aesthetic qualities and divides them into three parts: aesthetic consciousness, common sense, and behavior. Empirical evidence from more than 1000 college students of ten universities showed that many students still lack basic aesthetic knowledge and skills, and there are also significant differences in gender, location, and qualification. Therefore, college students have a relatively large demand for aesthetic education curriculum, especially in the arts. But obviously, the current aesthetic education curriculums in colleges and universities cannot meet the needs of students, and it is even more difficult to guarantee the aesthetic ability of students who lack art education in primary and secondary schools. Therefore, it is necessary to make up for deficiency in university courses, and to carry out professional-based and even interdisciplinary and cross-border aesthetic courses can achieve the goals of aesthetic education in universities.

MUSIC TEACHER’S ARTISTIC AND AESTHETIC CONSCIOUSNESS: ESSENCE AND CONTENT OF THE CONCEPT

The paper reveals the essence and content of the concept of ‘artistic and aesthetic consciousness of the teacher,’ where aesthetic consciousness is defined as one that determines the attitude to the phenomena of nature and culture and reveals their value aspects. The author analyzes the main components of artistic and aesthetic consciousness, which are aesthetic sense, aesthetic taste, aesthetic ideal, and shows art as a means of emotional development of the world, which becomes possible only in a socio-cultural environment by mastering certain cultural standards and cultural heritage. Given that art in the aggregate of its artistic images is a spiritual, ideal model of the world, which reflects not so much the real world as the desired, the author defines it as the basis of the spiritual culture of the era, its collective memory. Analyzing the essence and content of the concept of a music teacher’s artistic and aesthetic activities in today's conditions the following factors acquire: possession of a high level of professional training in various fields of music, on which their profession is based; possession of a wide range of creative skills in the field of music; ability to use various forms of work that contribute to the setting-up creative activity, interest in music lessons; ability to apply different types of creative activities in each lesson, based on the content of the development of aesthetic consciousness of future teachers of music; conscious understanding of the essence and content of the concept of a music teacher’s artistic and aesthetic activity in today's conditions. Artistic and aesthetic consciousness is the basis of the professional competencies of a music teacher, who extrapolates musical and aesthetic values into the educational process of student youth, forming their aesthetic culture.