Exploring Visualisation Methodology of Landscape Design on Rural Tourism in China

Rural tourism has become a hot topic in China in the context of the nation’s rural revitalisation. Rural tourism allows tourists to experience local life and promotes local economic development. However, there is considerable controversy over the landscape design of ancient Chinese villages. Many problems, such as how to design and protect the landscape of these ancient villages and how to improve the tourist experience, are not resolved. For our research object, we selected the ancient Gaotiankeng Village in Kaihua County, Zhejiang Province. Using questionnaires, image interviews, and some user experience techniques such as mental maps, we collected user experience data by assessing design cases. The visualisation method presented a wide range of experience in the landscape and planning field. This study primarily used computer image processing, image entropy calculation, and colour mapping to process the data. A visualisation framework was defined to highlight the landscape aesthetics, landscape service, and tourists’ emotion. The results indicated the relationship of three elements. The objective of our study was to develop a method of landscape design and planning that can effectively enhance tourists’ experience and provide practical suggestions for rural landscapes and relatively better services.

Using of digital technologies in the teaching of aviation chemistry in flight establishments of higher education

The article deals with the problem of development of cognitive interest of cadets of flight educational institutions in the process of teaching the discipline «Aviation Chemistry» through the use of digital technologies in the educational process. In the process of training cadets, taking into account the epidemiological situation, there is a need to use techniques that stimulate increased attention and interest in the classroom, in particular in the process of distance learning. Such techniques define digital technologies in the article. The concept of «digital technologies» is clarified, their composition and principles of application are substantiated. Monitoring of digital tools used in the process of student learning. The tools for setting the educational problem, summarizing the studied material, summarizing, tools for testing and consolidating knowledge, forming critical thinking, tools for organizing group work, reflection and for organizing independent work of cadets. Also, the criteria for selecting digital technologies are highlighted. Emphasis is placed on using the Google Workspace cloud service package. In particular, the use of such services as Google Classroom, Google Meet, Google Forms, Google Chat, Google Drive in the process of teaching the discipline «Aviation Chemistry». In addition, the use of digital tools is described: Learningapps - a tool that allows you to create interactive exercises; Answergarden - a concise tool for organizing instant evaluation of responses; Mindmeister is a tool for creating mental maps.

COACHING TECHNOLOGIES IN EDUCATION: THEORY AND PRACTICE

The article raises the topical problem of innovative activity of pedagogical higher education institutions. The authors take the position that in the context of changing the role of the teacher in the training of pedagogical specialists of the new generation is a popular and modern solution. One of the ways to solve the problem is to introduce into the cycle of general training of applicants for the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education disciplines that will contribute to the formation of students’ ability to solve complex professional problems, quality of teaching and learning, support, motivation, psychological and pedagogical support, their personal and professional development.The purpose of the article is to specify the content of the discipline “Coaching Technologies in Education” for H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University.The authors of the article present the experience of implementation and content of the selective discipline “Coaching Technologies in Education” for applicants for the first (bachelor’s) level of higher education. The list of general and professional competencies that are formed in future teachers during the study of the discipline is given, the program results are specified. Target and content aspects of the elective course are presented through the prism of standardized requirements for general secondary education teachers.Methods of teaching are revealed, including partial search, performance of practical exercises, conversation, discussion, work with the basic and auxiliary literature, information sources, the story, the decision of cases, practical exercises, writing of the essay, business game, drawing up mental maps, storytelling, case study method, World Cafe method.Of particular value is the presented content of the elective course, which consists of two modules “Philosophy, principles and types of coaching”, “Coaching in education”. The thematic plan and forms of lectures and seminars are presented. The peculiarities of conducting classes in the form of coaching sessions are specified.Prospects for further scientific research are to develop practical and methodological complexes for the discipline.

Perception of Daily Time: Insights from the Fruit Flies

We create mental maps of the space that surrounds us; our brains also compute time—in particular, the time of day. Visual, thermal, social, and other cues tune the clock-like timekeeper. Consequently, the internal clock synchronizes with the external day-night cycles. In fact, daylength itself varies, causing the change of seasons and forcing our brain clock to accommodate layers of plasticity. However, the core of the clock, i.e., its molecular underpinnings, are highly resistant to perturbations, while the way animals adapt to the daily and annual time shows tremendous biological diversity. How can this be achieved? In this review, we will focus on 75 pairs of clock neurons in the Drosophila brain to understand how a small neural network perceives and responds to the time of the day, and the time of the year.

Mice identify subgoal locations through an action-driven mapping process

Mammals instinctively explore and form mental maps of their spatial environments. Models of cognitive mapping in neuroscience mostly depict map-learning as a process of random or biased diffusion. In practice, however, animals explore spaces using structured, purposeful, sensory-guided actions. Here we test the hypothesis that executing specific exploratory actions is a key strategy for building a cognitive map. Previous work has shown that in arenas with obstacles and a shelter, mice spontaneously learn efficient multi-step escape routes by memorizing allocentric subgoal locations. We thus used threat-evoked escape to probe the relationship between ethological exploratory behavior and allocentric spatial memory. Using closed-loop neural manipulations to interrupt running movements during exploration, we found that blocking runs targeting an obstacle edge abolished subgoal learning. In contrast, blocking other movements while sparing edge-directed runs had no effect on memorizing subgoals. Finally, spatial analyses suggest that the decision to use a subgoal during escape takes into account the mouse's starting position relative to the layout of the environment. We conclude that mice use an action-driven learning process to identify subgoals and that these subgoals are then integrated into a map-based planning process. We suggest a conceptual framework for spatial learning that is compatible with the successor representation from reinforcement learning and sensorimotor enactivism from cognitive science.

IMAGES OF THE URBAN IDENTITY OF THE REPUBLIC’s CAPITAL CITY IN THE STRUCTURE OF RUSSIAN FEDERATION (THE CASE OF SARANSK)

The article based on the data of qualitative and quantitative res earch undertaken by the authors in the capital of the Republic of Mordovia - Saransk, identifies and analyzes the symbolic components of the social identity of the population of the administrative center of the repub lic in structure of the Russian Federation - the images of a capital city on the example of Saransk. There are such levels of metropolitan identity as the level of representations (ideas about the territoriality of the city as a "space of belonging" and its visual images) and the level of social practices, including a set of ideas, assessments and attitudes for the use (individual and shared with other citizens) of urban social sp ace in those spheres of activity and in those territories that are the residence of individuals and groups of the urban population (for example, in certain urban areas). The "representative" components of the identity of citi zens include integral visual images of the city, artistic and architectural sights that perform the fu nctions of "places of memory" and asso ciated performative rituals, traditional "folk" toponyms in the "mental maps" of citizens. The level of representations, as more superficial, is most likely a product of urban and regional symbolic identity politics, while the formation of metropolitan identity at the level of social practices depends on the results of urban development and the degree of participation in it of individuals and population groups that are subjects of urban identity. The soci al construction and transformation of the "practical" level of the capital's identity are mediated by the satisfaction of the population of the capital with the state of the urban environment as a means of meeting various needs, as well as the personal experience of citizen s, in particular, the experience of staying in larger cities, acting as a comparison criterion. Such experience creates limitations to the influence of republican symbolic politics, giving grounds for assessing the status of Saransk as a peripheral city and becomes the basis for a critical assessment of the authorities' activities in th e development of the capital city and the very concept of the capital's identity.

Sensing the City - Mapping the Beat. A rhythmanalysis of music-making in Wellington and Copenhagen

<p>The idea of rhythm has figured as a key conceptual and empirical motif in current research on (urban) space, place and everyday life. Urban spaces are considered polyrhythmic fields, a compound of varied everyday life and spatial rhythms, which produce a particular, but ever-changing, complex mix of heterogeneous social interactions, mobilities, imaginaries and materialities (Edensor 2010). Music-making in the city therefore constitutes and is constituted by a plurality of urban rhythms including the movement between different locations as well as regular temporal patterns of events, activities, experiences and practices as well as energies, objects, flora and fauna which shape the music-maker’s mundane ‘pathways’ through the city. Based on current ethnographic fieldwork in the urban spaces of Wellington (Aotearoa/New Zealand), and Copenhagen (Denmark) this project proposes a way of capturing, understanding and interpreting the multi-faceted rhythmical layout of urban spaces. It will do so by introducing a rhythmanalytical methodology, which draws on interviews, participant generated photographs and mental maps as analytical tools for capturing the interwovenness of socialities, atmospheres, object, texts and images in people’s everyday lives and in this way affords opportunities for attending to the multiple rhythms underlying music-making in the city. The use of cartographic and photographic means of representing these rhythmical dimensions allows us to better attend to an affective register that is often overlooked in studies of music-making. It makes visible some of the ways in which places, from the home to the studio to the performance venue and points in-between form a connective tissue, which anchors the music-makers to the city as well as lends the city its ambience, and, more importantly, its affective charge. As such, the manner in which mood, feeling, a “sense of place,” is evoked through the visual representation of music-makers’ everyday life suggests how the scenic aspects of the city work to simultaneously frame, mediate and facilitate meaningful experiences of place. Consequently, this study documents, through a unique medley of research methods, the way in which music-making serves as a vehicle for the social production of place and the creation of an affective attachment to that place both individual and collective.</p>