Introductory Comments

Introductory CommentsThe 10th, jubilee issue of Colloquia Humanistica (2021) contains a thematic section: Heritage and the Post-Socialist City: Cultural and Social Perspectives. Alongside this section devoted to cities and towns of Central and Eastern Europe, in the issue’s Materials section we publish the first Polish poetic translation, authored by Małgorzata Borowska, of the second poem by Grigor Prličev (1830/31–1893), Skanderbeg (1862, Σκενδέρμπεης). The translation is accompanied by two papers/commentaries in English, for a wider audience prepared by Małgorzata Borowska and Jolanta Sujecka. The Discussions, Presentations, Book Reviews, section features three reviews, including a presentation of the monograph “Et les Juifs bulgares furent sauvés”: Une histoire des saviors sur la Shoah en Bulgarie by Nadège Ragaru.Uwagi wstępneDziesiąty, jubileuszowy numer „Colloquia Humanistica” (2021) zawiera blok tematyczny zatytułowany: Heritage and the Post-Socialist City: Social and Cultural Perspectives. Obok poświęconego miastom i miasteczkom Europy Środkowej i Wschodniej bloku tematycznego, w dziale Materials publikujemy pierwszy polski poetycki przekład drugiego poematu Grigora Prličeva (1830/31–1893), Rzecz o Skanderbegu (1862, Σκενδέρμπεης), autorstwa Małgorzaty Borowskiej. Przekładowi towarzyszą dwa artykuły/komentarze w języku angielskim, dla szerszej publiczności, których autorkami są Małgorzata Borowska i Jolanta Sujecka. W dziale Discussions, Presentations, Book reviews, publikujemy trzy recenzje, wśród nich znajduje się prezentacja monografii francuskiej badaczki Zagłady Nadège Ragaru, “Et les Juifs bulgares furent sauvés”: Une histoire des saviors sur la Shoah en Bulgarie.

Editorial

We are pleased to announce several innovations at SComS. In July, SComS was added to the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ). This gives our young open access journal more visibility and connects us even better with the growing community dedicated to developing open access journals and making scientific knowledge accessible. In addition, there are technical innovations on the Submission Platform. Authors can now directly enter their ORCID ID as part of the submission process and link their papers to their unique researcher ID. In case you are not familiar with ORCID, you can find more information on https://orcid.org. Let us now turn our attention from future issues to this issue of SComS. It contains four articles in the General Section, a Thematic Section entitled “Critical perspectives on migration in discourse and communication,” and two book reviews in the Reviews and Reports Section. In addition, the Community Section contains the summary of Sina Blassnig’s dissertation, which was awarded the 2021 Dissertation Prize of the Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research (SACM). On a sad occasion, the issue also contains an obituary of the communication and media scientist Michael Schanne.

Coserian peripatetics Book review: Eugeniu Coșeriu – Vocația universalității Edited and coordinated by Gheorghe Popa Știința Publishing House, Chișinău

Eugenio Coșeriu’s Monumental Centenary Event ‒ 100 years since his birth, is successufully celebrated both in the space of his native lands and abroad. A series of scientific and cultural events are organized. In this context, Știința Publishing House launches the Eugeniu Coșeriu – Vocația universalității / Vocation of Universality book collection under the coordination of Gheorghe Popa. The book covers the protagonist’life in thematic section: in the field of linguistics, literature, interviews ‒ dialogues with and about Eugenio Coseriu, evocations ‒ confessions and reconstructions, reflections on the great coserian model, and, of course, at the end, the iconographic compartment that makes accessible the life in images of master Coseriu.

Introduction: IJCAR - Volume 8

Dear readers, I am pleased to introduce the 2021 Issue of IJCAR, the International Journal of Child and Adolescent Resilience, addressing various aspects of youth resilience. We also have a thematic section focused on resilience in Indigenous and multicultural populations. This issue includes five regular articles on different aspects of resilience. First, Lafrenaye-Dugas et al. document the sources of distress of adolescent boy victims of physical violence within their romantic relationships. Then, Martinez and her colleagues examine the effect of disclosure on resilience in adult female victims of childhood sexual abuse. In the following paper, Dr. Medico proposes a theoretical model of trans affirmative approaches for trans and non-binary youth based on Axel Honneth's ethics of recognition model (2000; 2006). Richard et al. investigate the role of perceptions of harm and perceived peer and parental attitudes towards substance use in the association between adverse childhood experiences and substance use in adolescents. Finally, Villate and her colleagues document the subjective experiences of emerging adults who have a parent with a mental disorder and suggest ways to support their resilience in the transition to adulthood. In addition to these regular articles, we also have a commentary on the 5th World Congress on Resilience by Dr. Ionescu and a thematic section focused on resilience in Indigenous and multicultural populations. This section presents five articles on the effects of the Lantern|Awacic sexual violence prevention program training for workers in Indigenous care settings (Attard et al.), the relations between virtues, well-being, and resilience in Indigenous youth in the Peruvian Amazon (Bullock et al.), Child Maltreatment-Related Investigations of Children from Newcomer Households in Canada (Houston et al.), a review of the use of mobile applications to support Indigenous youth well-being (Noronha et al.), and finally, the validation of the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-28; Ungar & Liebenberg, 2011) in Nicaraguan youth. I wish to take this opportunity to warmly thank each member of the IJCAR team, namely Dr. Isabelle Daigneault, Dr. Rachel Langevin and Dr. Tara Black, associate editors; Catherine Moreau, managing editor; Manon Robichaud, layout editor; Andréanne Fortin, senior copyeditor; and Ruo Feng, Sereena Pigeon, and Carley Marshall, junior copyeditor. We hope you enjoy your reading! Don’t forget to prepare your manuscripts for the 2022 issue. In addition to regular papers, we will feature a thematic section on research presented at the Child and Youth Trauma Symposium. Submit your manuscripts in English or in French by November 15th, 2021. Please feel free to send the information to colleagues and students who may be interested. Martine Hébert, Editor-in-Chief

Plants in Culture: A Paradigm of Anthropology [Rasteniia v culture: paradigmа antropologii]

The article introduces a special theme of the issue on “Plants in the Culture of Peoples of Eurasia: From Magic to Resource”. We take a retrospective look at the polyfunctionality of plants in the history of human culture and trace their polysemanticism, symbolism, and variety of applications (in food, medical, sacred-magical, and legal matters) from antiquity to the present day in various regions and among various peoples. We discuss the state of the art in research in these areas and review the principal directions of scholarly studies, such as ethnobotany or phytoanthropology, in Russian and other academic traditions. The thematic section features contributions by V.B. Kolosova, K.A. Jernigan and O.S. Belichenko, A.A. Novik and M.V. Domosiletskaya, O.D. Fais-Leutskaia, and V.N. Davydov.

National Curricular Parameters for Mathematics: From the Creation of the Kaleidoscope to the Necessity to Look Back to Move Forward

Background: In the last decades in Brazil, the prescriptions of the official curricular documents of school mathematics have been constituted as a practice of successive governments. However, there is still little research on the participation of mathematics teachers and educators in the construction of these prescriptions. Objective: To present the perspective of the research collaborator in the general coordination of the PCNs (National Curriculum Parameters) in the area of Mathematics (3rd and 4th cycles of elementary education). Design: This is a qualitative research, with the production of a documentary source through interviews with thematic oral history procedures. Setting and participants: The research collaborator was professor Dr. Célia Maria Carolino Pires, and the interviews were conducted at her residence. Data collection and analysis: Oral sources were used, in the form of interviews with a researcher in the field of mathematics education, as well as written sources that complemented the necessary information. Results: This article presents a thematic section that, on the one hand, makes public the opinions of a person who actively participated in the elaboration and diffusion of the PCNs; and, on the other hand, it invites us to reflect on how - in the last 50 years in Brazil - primary school teachers have had the opportunity to be supporting/protagonists in terms of curriculum production, and how this production has been conducted and understood as a government policy (and political parties) and not a State policy. Conclusions: The article presents considerations made by a participant engaged in the process of elaborating and disseminating the Mathematics PCNs for the 3rd and 4th cycles of elementary education and - in addition - it was constructed to promote a reflection on more recent themes that include, for example, to think about how external assessments start to induce the production of curricula, functioning as thermometers that supposedly can capture the productivity indices of the school system and, at the same time, promote more symptoms of the illness they intend just to “gauge”