Environmental Aspects of the European Experience in Landscape Planning

Understanding all the possibilities of environmentally oriented landscape planning will contribute to the effective environmental planning of the territory and nature management in general. Accordingly, the purpose of the study was to investigate the experience of the European countries towards the introduction of an effective system of environmentally oriented landscape planning and improvement of territories, as well as their protection. For this purpose, it is necessary to comprehensively study the strengths and weaknesses of existing developments in the field of environmentally oriented landscape planning in Europe. An analysis of the best practices of environmentally oriented landscape planning in such countries as Great Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, etc. has been conducted. The findings allowed to state that the effectiveness of development and implementation of substantial planning for landscape design depends not only on the volume and depth of research, but to a very large extent from their reasonable and productive organisation. The paper summarises that in environmentally oriented landscape planning, it is first necessary to determine the reasons for planning. Before choosing the object and territory of planning, it is necessary to find out: who are the potential customers and investors – their goals and motivation; what are the problem situations and conflicts in nature management in the area; what is the practical use of the results of landscape planning; the purpose of the territory, including cartographic; the availability of source information, and more. And then make decisions regarding the stages of landscape planning, taking into account the environmental component and, accordingly, the implementation of the idea of landscape planning.

NUMBER SENSE DALAM MEMECAHKAN MASALAH MATEMATIKA PADA MAHASISWA IKIP PGRI PONTIANAK

Number sense is a person towards numbers, number sense is needed for students in the process of learning mathematics. Students with good number sense will be able to use their knowledge of numbers in solving mathematical problems. Therefore, it is necessary to do about how students use their number sense skills in mathematical problem situations. This study aims to determine how the number sense of students in solving mathematical problems. This type of research is qualitative research. The method used is a descriptive method in the form of case study research. The subjects in this study were IKIP PGRI Pontianak students who came from the mathematics education study program which collected 8 people. The instruments used in this study were test questions and interviews. From the results of data analysis and subject representation in displaying number sense in each C1-C5 component, the researcher concluded that all subjects had good number sense, seen from all who had number sense with a percentage of more than 60%.

The Mechanism for Effectively Meeting the Needs of the Population in Essential services by Regions Municipal Economy: Current State and Trends

The importance of effectively meeting the needs of the region's population in essential services under conditions of uncertainty is becoming an increasingly important and relevant area of economic development of the local economy. A systematic study carried out in the article pertaining to assessing and using the potential of interaction between the state, regions and municipalities in order to meet the needs of the population in essential services contributes to strengthening the capabilities of the local economy. But this cannot be achieved without analyzing the external and internal environment and implementing, on this basis, a forecast of a dynamic change in the economic situation, to which the power structures do not pay due attention. It was found that the shortcomings of the methodological tools lead to a low quality of the developed forecast and management decisions. The article clarifies the concept of strategic management in relation to the socio-economic development of territories, shows that solving such problem situations increases the potential of the local economy, aims at increasing efficiency and has a positive effect on strengthening the socio-economic potential of the Siberian territories. Proposals aimed at solving the problems of forecasting socio-economic development have been prepared. It is shown that the mechanism of work of state structures of territories and of business on the field of rendering socially important services to the population, based on the use of optimization theory in forecasting activity, allows to reveal unused opportunities and redistribute them in the areas being the bottlenecks. The proposals include a conceptually distributed in time optimization model of effective solutions to meet the needs of the population in the region in services based on the real state of the economy and the emerging prospects for dynamic change towards growth. This view of the problems of the local economy makes it possible to use the proposed organizational and economic solutions to the challenges with a high degree of efficiency. This stimulates the search for new approaches to the study of the problems faced by municipalities, the identification of relevant forms and methods of solving socially significant problems.

Problems and Principles of Reconstruction of Certain Concepts of Philosophy and Cultural Narratives (Methodological Considerations)

The article deals with the problems and principles of reconstruction of certain concepts of philosophy and cultural narratives. The reason was the discussion of N. Kanaeva's report at the Institute of Philosophy, read at a seminar on the geography of rationality. Analyzing V. Bibikhin's work "Wittgenstein: Change of Aspect", the author poses the problem of correctly (to avoid contradictions and reach an understandable logic of text interpretation) reading the narratives of a foreign culture or even the narratives of one's own culture, but belonging to a different direction of thought. Such a reading, he claims, presupposes special optics, a hermeneutic concept and a cultural-historical reconstruction. To introduce and clarify what can be understood by such concepts (optics, concept and reconstruction), an analysis of two cases is proposed: semiotic schemes and G. Oldenberg's study of the Buddha's teachings. The schemes are discussed on the basis of the works of Plato ("Feast" and "Timaeus"). The author shows that Plato in "The Feast" constructs schemes for solving problem situations and specifying ideal objects, and in "Timaeus" he discusses the nature of schemes. In turn, Oldenberg reconstructs the prehistory of Buddhism and the basic ideas proposed by the Buddha. A feature of its reconstruction is an appeal to the culture of Ancient India, an analysis of the ancient Hindu consciousness and mentality, a discussion of the features of Buddhist discourse. The author concludes that if the ideas about Buddhism outlined by Oldenberg are used for the purpose of understanding Buddhist narratives, then these ideas as optics can be summed up under the notion of a hermeneutic concept. This concept is structured in such a way that it clearly takes into account the peculiarities of the Hindu culture and mentality, as different from the European ones.

UNDERSTANDING SAMPLING BY CHILEAN SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

In statistical inference, importance of sampling is recognized as one of its key concepts, which has allowed its incorporation internationally in different curricular guidelines and specifically in the Chilean curriculum, since the first notions of sampling are introduced in 7th Grade. This paper presents an analysis of the responses to an open-ended written questionnaire, designed to evaluate understanding of sampling, that was applied to a sample of 1,241 Chilean secondary students of 8th, 10th and 12th Grades in six different secondary schools. A mixed methodology was used, with qualitative description of responses and a quantitative analysis of their frequencies. The results reflect outstanding difficulties in the use of elements related to sampling and its properties in different problem situations. For example, students can distinguish the concept of sample in contexts close to their experiences; but when faced with different sampling methods, they are not able to identify biases associated to sample selection. Thus, when deciding if a sample is representative, they mostly identify cases in which the given sample is not. Abstract: Spanish En inferencia estadística se reconoce la importancia del muestreo como uno de sus conceptos clave, lo que ha permitido su incorporación a nivel internacional en diferentes lineamientos curriculares y específicamente en el currículo chileno, dado que las primeras nociones de muestreo se introducen en el séptimo año de educación primaria. En este trabajo se presenta el análisis de las respuestas a un cuestionario de respuesta abierta, diseñado para evaluar la comprensión del muestreo, que fue aplicado a una muestra de 1241 estudiantes de secundaria chilenos, de octavo año de primaria, segundo año de secundaria y cuarto año de secundaria, en seis centros educativos. Se empleó una metodología mixta, con una descripción cualitativa de las respuestas y un análisis cuantitativo de sus frecuencias. Los resultados reflejan dificultades destacables en la utilización de los elementos relacionados al muestreo y sus propiedades en las diferentes situaciones problema planteadas. Por ejemplo, los estudiantes distinguen el concepto de muestra en contextos cercanos a sus experiencias; pero cuando se enfrentan a diferentes métodos de muestreo, no son capaces de identificar los sesgos asociados a la selección de muestras. Así, al momento de decidir si una muestra es representativa, identifican sobre todo los casos en que la muestra dada no lo es.

Analysis of predictive capabilities of metacognitive strategies in the expression of professional thinking of military personnel

The article examines professional thinking in relation to the conditions of military activity. The goal is to identify a model of cadets’ metacognitive competence, contributing to the successful formation of professional thinking in the conditions of military activity. The construction of two regression models is carried out by means of multiple stepwise regression analysis with inclusion. In the first model, the variable response was the over-situational style of thinking of servicemen, determined by the questionnaire «Determination of the dominant level of problematicity in solving service-professional problem situations.» In the second model of the variable, the response was the type of professional thinking determined on the basis of the case method. Cadets’ metacognitive strategies were used as variable predictors. It was possible to establish that both regression models are statistically significant, the level of error probability is less than 0.01% and explain more than 40% of the variability of the variable responses. All metacognitive strategies (six variable predictors) in the first model have a statistically significant relationship with variable responses (p≤0.05). The predictive influence on the dominance of a certain type of professional thinking among cadets has the character of structural interaction. Metacognitive strategies such as information acquisition, concentration, time management and the level of reflection are facilitators for the formation of a supra-situational level of cadets’ professional thinking. Whereas metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive activity act as inhibitors.

«METHODS OF FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE LESSONS AS A MEANS OF FORMING REGULATORY ULA»

Modern society makes ever higher demands on the individual, which consist in the ability to analyze information, predict the result, effectively respond to ongoing changes, and resolve emerging problem situations.

Simulation of Teacher Interventions in a Training Course of Mathematics Teacher Educators

This work aimed to characterize simulated teacher interventions to manage a didactic configuration in which students solve problem situations using an ICT resource. We also aimed to identify patterns of interaction between the teacher and the students that make it possible to characterize styles of interaction and assess both their interactional and their ecological suitability. To do this, we used the tools of the Onto-semiotic Approach to Mathematical Cognition and Instruction to analyze the level of reflection of 102 educators of preservice teachers of mathematics, about hypothetical problem resolutions of their students and the types of interactions simulated by them to manage the students’ learning. The educators were participants of a Teacher Training of the Teacher Specialization in Education and ICT in Argentina. The results show that there are three levels of reflection and four types of interaction (maieutic, falsificationist, dogmatic and paternalistic). We did not find a high interactional suitability in their proposals of dialogues, and participants do not consider aspects of the ecological suitability, such as the adaptation to the official curriculum. We conclude that the type of interventions that teacher educators propose is closely related to their level of reflection about the reasons why their students respond to problems in one manner or another.

Systems methodologies for handling problem complexity

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine how holistic thinking and the use of systems methodologies can help organisations handle increased problem complexity. The paper provides a critical discussion of the development of applied systems thinking and examines how its main strands can deal with problem complexity, multiple perceptions of reality and the unequal access to power resources in organisations. Design/methodology/approach The paper uses social theory and a systems meta-theoretical framework to examine the different ontological and epistemological assumptions that each strand of applied systems thinking makes about the nature of problems and the way in which an intervention will be made. Findings Complex problems require joined-up thinking and the use of systems ideas. Viewing the problem situation from a holistic perspective and applying appropriate systems methodologies and tools can help managers handle the complexities that their organisations face. Originality/value The paper makes a clear link between systems approaches and social theory and emphasises the need to understand the different assumptions that theories, methodologies or people make when they intervene in complex problem situations.