Assessment of the Application of Content and Language Integrated Learning in a Multilingual Classroom

(1) Background: based on the constantly increasing requirements for modern university graduates, we have developed an educational model that allows us to introduce content and language integrated learning into classes with a multilingual approach, which will allow students to use several foreign languages in the process of professional communication. The purpose of the paper is to evaluate the efficiency of a newly introduced integrated learning model from the perspective of students, to identify the impact of such a model on students’ professional discipline learning outcomes and to determine if the learning model contributes to an improvement in foreign language proficiency. (2) Methods: for our research we used qualitative and quantitative data from students’ records of professional discipline and Spanish testing, as well as surveys and interviews on proposed learning model efficiency. Two groups of students took part in the experiment (N = 23 and N = 24). (3) Results: results on students’ Spanish proficiency showed that the proposed learning model had a positive influence. Students from the experimental group got higher results on Listening, Reading and Speaking. According to results on professional discipline, both groups achieved approximately equal scores. Moreover, students described such a proposed learning model as efficient and progressive, giving a lot of advantages. (4) Conclusions: the experiment conducted confirmed the efficiency of the proposed learning model. In conclusion, it can be recommended for the realization of a multilingual approach, as well as the learning of a professional discipline.

Predicting the Past

Drawing from the social theories of Niklas Luhmann and Mary Douglas, Predicting the Past advocates a reflexive understanding of the paradoxical institutional dynamic of American literary history as a professional discipline and field of study. Contrary to most disciplinary accounts, Michael Boyden resists the utopian impulse to offer supposedly definitive solutions for the legitimation crises besetting American literature studies by “going beyond” its inherited racist, classist, and sexist underpinnings. Approaching the existence of the American literary tradition as a typically modern problem generating diverse but functionally equivalent solutions, Boyden argues how its peculiarity does not, as is often supposed, reside in its restrictive exclusivity but rather in its massive inclusivity which drives it to constantly revert to a self-negating “beyond” perspective. Predicting the Past covers a broad range of both well-known and lesser known literary histories and reference works, from Rufus Griswold’s 1847 Prose Writers of America to Sacvan Bercovitch’s monumental Cambridge History of American Literature. Throughout, Boyden focuses on particular themes and topics illustrating the selfinduced complexity of American literary history such as the early “Anglocentric” roots theories of American literature; the debate on contemporary authors in the age of naturalism; the plurilingual ethnocentrism of the pioneer Americanists of the mid-twentieth century; and the genealogical misrepresentation of founding figures such as Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Lowell.

Educating activity of Oleksandr Kolosok in Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts

The purpose of the article is to cover the teaching activities of Oleksandr Kolosok at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts and to reveal its influence on the formation and development of higher choreographic education in Ukraine. Methodology. To achieve this goal, general scientific methods of theoretical and empirical levels are used: analysis and generalization of scientific and theoretical bases of research, chronological method, interview method. Conclusions on the peculiarities of the pedagogical activity of O. P. Kolosоk are made on the basis of the analysis of the revealed complex of sources: pedagogical, methodical and creative achievements of the artist, own experience of communication with him, memories of colleagues and students. Scientific Novelty. The article covers for the first time the teaching activity of O. Kolosоk at the Department of Choreography (later the Department of Folk Choreography) at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts; the teacher's work on the creation of the professional discipline "Ukrainian folk-stage dance" and the peculiarities of teaching the discipline "Art of the choreographer" are analyzed; materials of interviews with the teacher and his students and colleagues were put into scientific circulation. Conclusions. The teaching activity of Professor O. P. Kolosоk was aimed at the development of folk dance traditions in a harmonious and logical combination with the expressive means of academic choreographic art and the best achievements of the modern world performing culture. Thanks to his efforts, the discipline "Ukrainian folk-stage dance" was introduced into the system of training choreographers in the higher school of Ukraine, and today the teaching of choreographic art in higher education institutions is based on the methodological developments of folk dance theorists and practice O. Kolosоk. His work with students on mastering the art of choreography was multifaceted, and choreographer-director thinking reached deep sources of folk dance. Oleksandr Kolosok's many years of pedagogical activity were fruitful, and today many choreographers and choreographers, whom he nurtured, owe him their high professional level.

International Survey on the Use of Emerging Technologies Among Forensic and Correctional Mental Health Professionals

Although the global diffusion of e-mental health has increased in recent years, research on the use of technologies in criminal justice settings is limited. To bridge this knowledge gap, we conducted an international online survey ( N = 555) of forensic and correctional mental health professionals from Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and 20 additional countries. Telecommunication technologies and mental health platforms had the highest numbers of users, the broadest scope, and the largest increase in use due to the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. In contrast, the use of social media and advanced technologies was lower, narrower in scope, and remained the same or decreased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Respondents’ age, professional discipline, country, and clinical setting significantly predicted total technology use in clinical practice. The study findings provide an overview of the current patterns of technology use and point to opportunities for research and development.

Planting the Seeds for High-Quality Program Evaluation in Public Health

Evaluation and evidence-informed decision making are central to public health practice. In recent decades, the professional discipline of evaluation has experienced tremendous growth that can be leveraged for use in public health. To meet the growing need for program evaluation training, the National Asthma Control Program presents the e-textbook Planting the Seeds for High-Quality Program Evaluation in Public Health. This free e-textbook is designed to help public health students and professionals understand evaluation approaches and techniques to improve public health programs.

Organization of credit work

The textbook presents theoretical and practical issues related to the organization of credit work of commercial banks with borrowers. The training material on the organization of lending to corporate and individual borrowers, interbank, international and state loans is presented in a short and accessible way, according to the modules. The risks inherent in various types of loans and credit bureaus are considered. In addition, to consolidate the knowledge of students, tasks, control and test questions are given. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of secondary vocational education of the latest generation. For teachers and students studying in the general professional discipline "Organization of credit work" in the specialty 38.02.07 "Banking".

Urban Analytics: History, Trajectory, and Critique

Urban analytics combines spatial analysis, statistics, computer science, and urban planning to understand and shape city futures. While it promises better policymaking insights, concerns exist around its epistemological scope and impacts on privacy, ethics, and social control. This chapter reflects on the history and trajectory of urban analytics as a scholarly and professional discipline. In particular, it considers the direction in which this field is going and whether it improves our collective and individual welfare. It first introduces early theories, models, and deductive methods from which the field originated before shifting toward induction. It then explores urban network analytics that enrich traditional representations of spatial interaction and structure. Next it discusses urban applications of spatiotemporal big data and machine learning. Finally, it argues that privacy and ethical concerns are too often ignored as ubiquitous monitoring and analytics can empower social repression. It concludes with a call for a more critical urban analytics that recognizes its epistemological limits, emphasizes human dignity, and learns from and supports marginalized communities.

Canadian Librarianship and the Politics of Recognition

Recent controversies in Canadian librarianship—the Toronto Public Library room rental to a "gender-critical feminist" group and the institution of “airport-style” security at the Winnipeg Public Library—have exposed divisions within the profession. This article attempts to untangle the relationship of Canadian libraries to state power and explores hegemonic leadership within the library profession. It also investigates the part played by a politics of recognition, both in the reinforcement of professional discipline and in the maintenance of the social, political, and economic status quo regarding the rights and democratic participation of marginalized communities. The paper begins with a brief account of recent controversies, looks at intellectual freedom, and then analyzes the ways in which politics of recognition play out in libraries and settler-colonial societies. Based on Taylor’s theory of recognition and its critique by Coulthard and Fraser, this article argues that, within the context of a needed refoundation of social relations, recognition must be combined with real redistribution of rights and participation.

ON THE ISSUE OF USING THE METHOD OF CONTENT-LANGUAGE INTEGRATED LEARNING IN A NON-LINGUISTIC UNIVERSITY (IN THE FRAMEWORK OF AN INTERDISCIPLINARY METHOD)

The purpose of this work is to analyze domestic and foreign theoretical material and practical experience of using an interdisciplinary approach in teaching foreign languages in a non-linguistic University, in order to identify the most effective approach or model. Results: after studying and analyzing the existing theoretical and practical experience of teaching foreign languages, the authors came to the conclusion that the method of content-language integrated learning is the most effective within the framework of an interdisciplinary approach, since it allows integrating the content of a professional discipline and a foreign language in the learning process. The article defines the method of content-language integrated learning, considers the models of using this method, and provides examples of practical use of this method in teaching students of a non-linguistic University. With this approach, a foreign language becomes a means of learning from the goal of learning, which leads to an increase in students ' motivation. Conclusion: the article analyzes the advantages of using this method, as well as notes the objective difficulties and possible problems.