Approach to the Ethnoeducation and the Religious Experience of Young Colombian Afro-descendants

Religion is a complex human phenomenon that can be analyzed from different epistemological and anthropological perspectives, from which religious experiences are reconstructed as part of the active relationship between personal consciousness and the disruptive presence of a transcendent "other". In Colombia, there is a significant population of young Afro-descendants who have a series of religious and cultural beliefs rooted in their origins and traditions. Under this consideration, in this research, case of study, it is analyzed how ethno-education, as a public policy in Colombia, allows the development of the religious experience of young Afro-descendants.

A Study of Endurance and Aspiration in Maya Angelou’s Poems The Caged Bird (1968) and Still I Rise (1978)

The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (1994) manifests that Maya Angelou’s personal consciousness and public awareness sharpened her poetic capabilities. She used art to communicate the pathos and joys of her evolving spirit. This research paper explores the elements of survival, that is, endurance and aspiration in her poetry. The only freedom she enjoyed was the freedom to write which was rooted in her mind and not curbed by societal forces. The rationale of this paper is to trace how personal struggle and the quest for self-sustaining dignity in Maya Angelou’s poetry serves as an aspiration for America’s black community. Her cerebral autobiographies manifest her struggle for survival in a hostile and racist social environment and her poetry reflects the same. The objective of this research is to locate the motifs of endurance and aspiration in two of her poems namely The Caged Bird (1994) and Still I Rise (1994) from her anthology of Complete Collected Poems (1994). Caged Bird has become legendary due to the use of strong images, dichotomy and masked metaphors. Through these devices the poetess depicts her span of fragile development. As she grows physically and emotionally she discards her old mask and in Still I Rise, she presents her self-image with courage. The lyrical qualities of both poems provide soothing and healing power to the black community. In the light of the current analysis, this research paper concludes that the ultra fine resonance with repetition in Angelou’s poetry generates strong emotions. At the same time, it becomes a mode of free expression and endurance for the poetess. Furthermore, the outcome of this research is that it traces the dynamic elements of aspiration in her poetry through which she gains a voice, a voice to address her pathos with a modulated tone and to introduce the tools for productive survival.

Animosity towards Women in Eudora Welty's Literary Canon

The paper investigates Eudora Welty’s concept of animosity towards women in her fiction. Her novels and short stories portray rape, sexual exhibitionism, sexual threats and brutality as inhuman experiences that sarcastically result in a vicious conversion of indignity and humiliation to the female sufferer instead of the male perpetrators. Welty suggests that this context creates a sense of intolerance which acts as a destroyer of women’s identity and sense of self. In this paper, the researchers attempt to reveal the mechanisms that subvert women’s sense of identity in a world usually controlled by men. Welty’s vision, in this sense, is that the social consciousness of the woman does not only evolve from the personal consciousness, but also intricately interacts with it. Welty’s works that are central to this study include Delta Wedding, The Robber Bridegroom, and the short fiction, including The Whole World Knows and Sir Rabbit.

Sustainable development and the role of instrumentalism concepts for social institutions and educational system

The conception of pragmatism and the educational theory deriving from it are quite popular in management systems and social sciences in the context of the need of implementing sustainable development strategies. This is facilitated, firstly, by the combination in the renewed conceptions of this trend of its bottom-up positions with the ideas of other worldview trends – neo-positivism, existentialism, neoFreudism – which enabled enriching the categorical apparatus and general theoretical content of the educational model, management and social education of pragmatism, while preserving the spirit of the conception. Secondly, the changes undergone by the conception of pragmatism in education have allowed it to successfully integrate into the currently intensified general trend of understanding educational management as a process of socialization of the individual, his/her adaptation to the existing values of Western society. In this context, it is a matter of assessing human behavior not in terms of whether it is consistent with fixed, „eternal‟ moral principles, but rather in terms of the practical results that human actions contribute to the achievement of a given aim. This aim was understood in different ways: some identified it with the development of personal consciousness, while others linked it to self-improvement or integrity, still others linked it to the ultimate development of all human faculties, etc. Obviously, the very desire for such a shift in the assessment of human behavior reflected the fact that the absolute principles and norms of classical ethics were no longer „working‟ under the new social conditions; a more sophisticated criterion was needed to evaluate behavior in the context of constantly changing factors in social and individual life.

Men’s Perception about Domestic Violence in Rural Sindh, Pakistan

This study investigates men’s understanding, beliefs, experiences, and responses about domestic violence; their personal consciousness about gender relations, notions of masculinity and patriarchy; and their views about marriage and domestic violence. Men still subscribe to very patriarchal views about the contexts of marriage, family, and society. These three sets of main findings are analysed together to establish connections and inter-relatedness between them that lead to further findings about their attitudes and responses to domestic violence. This also provides inferences about the acceptance and tolerance of domestic violence amongst Pakistani rural men. Methodologically, this study is based on qualitative (inductive) method by its nature, where N=15 - male respondents who ranged from 18 to 65 years age have been interviewed from rural taluka Khair Pur Nathan Shah Dadu, Rural Sindh, Pakistan, while employing (Non-probability) purposive sampling with phenomenological approach. The perception and notion of men for committing domestic violence is as a part of their socio-culture beliefs. Besides, this also comprises men’s positive behavioural responses to domestic violence inside and outside of family in rural Sindh, which needs to be re-addressed through the social counselling and demands to be highlighted its impacts on society in general and particularly on women.

Formation of legal culture of cadets of the National guard of Ukraine in professional training process

The article reveals the main provisions of the legal culture of cadets of the National Guard of Ukraine in the process of professional training, in the context of defining its essence, functions and mechanism. The content of legal culture is analyzed considering the fact that the changes take place in the system of vocational education, public relations, and personal consciousness. The concept of the legal culture of cadets of the National Guard of Ukraine, we understand as the integrative personal quality, characterized by a valued attitude to law, conscious application of legal knowledge in professional activities based on intellectual, moral, reflective and communicative qualities of an individual. Peculiarities of professional activity of military personnel of the National Guard of Ukraine strengthen the requirements to the legal culture of future officers, who must be able to determine their worldview priorities and to be responsible for their behavior. The formation of the legal culture of future officers directly depends on the level and quality of their professional training in higher educational institution. An important role in the formation of the legal culture of future officers of the National Guard of Ukraine is played by worldview education, carried out by military commanders through perfect, focused on universal values, knowledge, skills and abilities within their worldview competence. The professional training of cadets of the National Guard of Ukraine in a higher educational institution should be based on the norms of morality, ethics, religion, corporate norms and traditions, which also form the legal basis of their professional activity. The presence of a high level of legal culture of the future officers of the National Guard of Ukraine after graduating from higher educational institution is a mandatory condition for the quality performance of their professional responsibilities. Considering the current needs for training military personnel in the structure of the National Guard of Ukraine as high-level professionals, with the appropriate level of legal awareness and legal professional culture, it is necessary to clarify the concept, essence, content, functions and forms of legal education of cadets of the National Guard of Ukraine as the basics of their future professional activity. Key words: legal culture, cadets of the National Guard of Ukraine, education, vocational training

Specific of artistic world modeling in the Russian symbolism fiction: theory, trends, transpersonal models

The article is devoted to the study of the peculiar properties of artistic world modeling in the Russian symbolism fiction with an emphasis on the anthropological and ontological concepts of Man and Being, structuring the world-like novel model. The ability to identify the evolutionary dynamics of both the aesthetic and ethical-philosophical paradigm of the modernist type of artistic consciousness, identified in the context of existentialization and neo-mythologization trends, determines the relevance of the research problem. The novelty of this research is in the analysis of the author's transpersonal models of myth in Russian modernist novels at the beginning of 20th century, in terms of knowledge of the aesthetic imperative of integrity integrating text consciousness (the world as a text), personal consciousness (I-being) and ontological consciousness (being-in-me). Mythological-cultural concepts of Christological philosophy of D. Merezhkovsky, the semiosphere of V. Bryusovs novel The Fiery Angel, mythological codes of the anti-utopian novel-myth L. Andreev, reflecting the most important categories and attitudes of the transpersonal anthropological and religious-philosophical concepts of the new religious consciousness of Russian symbolism became the object of this study.

A New Type of Subjectivity in the Works of Dmitry Prigov

The article dwells upon the issue of a subject intrinsic to the art of the 70s and 80s of the 20th century, it elicits the reasons determining the problematization of “the Self” category inherent in the aesthetic program of the Moscow Conceptualism, preeminently with regards to the works of Dmitry Prigov. “The crisis of the language describing ‘the Self’” has been considered as discrediting the dominant discursive models, disabling the possibility of individual expressing. Within the first part of the article we problematize “the Self” category inherent in the aesthetic program of the Moscow Conceptualism, examine the dominant discursive models and denote the crisis of the language describing “the Self.” The second part is devoted to the issue of “the personal consciousness” coming into being within the aesthetic program of Moscow Conceptualism. The Self is considered as a “category of categories” in dichotomy between “the collective” and “individual” ones. Finally, the third part represents the analysis of a subject of the aesthetic activity. “An imaginary personality” intrinsic to the works of Dmitry Prigov is considered as a subject of “a gnoseological game.”

The Spiritual Heart

The heart has been a symbol within ancient philosophy and spiritual practice for personal consciousness, wisdom, intuition and love. In recent decades, scientists with growing interest in spirituality have built a strong case for the beneficial relationship between religiosity/spirituality and physical health. Explanations for this connection have included associated health behaviors that negatively impact cardiovascular health but have failed to adequately explain away this consistent association. Here, we suggest a central and bidirectional relationship between the heart, the “Master Organ,” and the phenomenology of spiritual experience. Further, we provide existing evidence for a synergistic, salutogenic relationship between robust cardiac function and spiritual wellbeing that may offer a roadmap to spiritual, psychological and physical recovery and health at the individual, interpersonal and global level.

Comparative description of "primary" bioethical notions of first-year and final-year medical students

Objective: to conduct a sociological study aimed at identifying the «primary» bioethical notions of the first-year and six-year students of the Faculty of General Medicine of the educational institution «Gomel State Medical University».Material and methods. The results of a survey of 115 first-year students and 114 six-year students of the Faculty of General Medicine were analyzed. Results. The survey has revealed statistically significant differences in the responses of the first- and six-year students to questions regarding the use of the human body or its separate organs and tissues for purposes of practical medicine or biomedical research ( χ2 = 5.27; p = 0.022), personal social status as the basis for making decisions about any medico-biological manipulation ( χ2 = 9.33; p = 0.002), necessity of the present-day form of human biological existence in future ( χ2 = 6.51; p = 0.011), acceptability of separating personal consciousness from the physical body for the human society in future ( χ2 = 4.23; p = 0.04), necessity to take a special «oath» to perform professional activities in everyday medical practice ( χ2 = 8.92; p = 0.003).Conclusion. The results of the study have shown that the first-year students have no clearly formed system of bioethical notions of living beings and possibilities for medical manipulations with them due to the lack of essential relevant knowledge. The sixth year students demonstrate more conscious answers to the questionnaire questions, which indicates the presence of theoretical knowledge and formation of their bioethical outlook for the subsequent development of practical skills for making moral decisions on this basis.