Review of "Ethics of Chemistry: From Poison Gas to Climate Engineering" by Joachim Schummer & Tom Børsen, eds. World Scientific Publishing, Singapore, 2021

BRINGING THE ETHICS OF CHEMISTRY TO THE CLASSROOM AND THE EXISTENCE OF A DOMAIN OF KNOWLEDGE Whoever has attempted to bring ethical discussions on chemistry to a student audience of chemistry and related fields knows of the problem: in contrast to the relatively robust bioethical literature, the literature of chemical ethics is poor, disconnected, and scattered all around the place even in rare cases that it exists. This is an interesting fact, especially if one considers the extended moral (and moralist) discussions over chemistry and its products, and that a great part of the bioethical challenges of the last forty years or so have been generated not by biology (or medicine) per se, but from their marriage to chemistry and its practices. The lack of ethics of chemistry literature dictates to the lecturer unprecedented levels of creativity and demands extra workload to be effective –and this, in times where ethics courses, in general, have become a necessity. It is this gap that the editors of this book (Schummer and Børsen, Ethics of Chemistry: From Poison Gas to Climate Engineering, World Scientific, 2021) have detected, and they strove to create a collection of case studies to cover it. In the introduction of the volume, the editors state teaching as the first aim of its existence –and add the establishment of the ethics of chemistry as an autonomous discipline in its own right.

Questioning activity of informatics teachers and authors of school textbooks

The article examines the questioning activity, firstly, of teachers of informatics, and secondly, the authors of school textbooks on informatics. For the first case, some methodological techniques are presented that contribute to an increase in the degree of variety of questions that sound in a school or student audience. For the second case, the analysis of the question-task (QT) subsystem of the educational book containing the sections “Questions and Tasks” and “Tasks and Exercises” is carried out. The purpose of this part of the work is to introduce a quantitative characteristic of the question-task subsystem, which reflects the stylistic features of the work of the authors of textbooks and, therefore, can be attributed to the digital trail of the work of the group of authors. With regard to the organization of the work of students, the formation of their individual educational trajectories, a similar digital trail can play the role of one of the characteristics of the digital profile of the student. In the work, B. Bloom’s goal-setting technology is used to consider the questioning activity, and, in particular, the widespread in the literature misconception about the strong verbal predetermination of the types of educational tasks is criticized. This remark is true for Russian-language educational texts.

FROM THE EXPERIENCE OF IMPLEMENTING LESSON STUDY IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS OF THE UNIVERSITY

The authors of the article emphasize that in modern conditions the demand for a social, creative person who is able to independently make decisions and be personally responsible for their implementation has increased. The importance of the process of forming professional competence among teachers has objectively increased. In the article, the authors talk about the experience of introducing Lesson study into the educational process of the university in order to improve. Teaching methods, improve the pedagogical skills of teachers and other continuous professional development. Lesson study is considered as a special form of research in action directly in the student audience and aimed both at improving the quality of students' knowledge through the joint work of teachers, and the results are analyzed. The conclusion is made about the need to use this approach in university practice.

FEATURES OF STUDYING THEME «CORRUPTION AS A SOCIAL PHENOMENON» IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE TRAINING COURSE «JURISPRUDENCE» IN CHEMICAL UNIVERSITY

The article discusses the peculiarities of studying corruption by students of a technical university from the standpoint of the relevance of its research component. The acquisition of knowledge of a legal nature is substantiated from the point of view of importance not only from the standpoint of the humanitarian discipline «jurisprudence», but also the significant situation of knowledge of legal aspects in any sphere of life. The authors assign a special role in the materials of the article to the dynamic component in the study of the student audience with a view to increasing interest in the humanitarian disciplines, where «jurisprudence» comes to the fore among the disciplines of the humanitarian block. Problematic issues of a social plan, in particular, the negative manifestation of the phenomenal and modern criteria elements of corruption schemes in the current modernity. According to the results of the study, the peculiarities of the procedures of judicial proceedings in relation to criminal acts in general, in particular, in the field of education, arouse keen interest among students. The article presents the effective positions of the research on the subject of active discussion and analysis of situations of corruption in the educational environment. The materials of the study of the disciplines of the humanitarian cycle in higher education are given according to the priority ranking among students.

A Revenger’s Tragedy

This chapter develops a number of themes introduced in the previous chapter, most obviously those which touch on contemporary expressions of child-abuse. The broader focus of the chapter is on the familiar, and contentious, issue of pornography and its legal regulation. More particularly, though, it is concerned with the challenges presented by the internet ‘age’. And more closely still with cultural and legal responses to what has become know, itself contentiously, as ‘revenge porn’. The play upon which the chapter focuses is Evan Placey’s Girls Like That. The fact that Placey wrote his play for a student audience reinvests the educative capacity of modern theatre, whilst also inviting his audience to contemplate, once again, the place of empathy and compassion in (legal) education.

DIARIO FILOSÓFICO Y MARATÓN EN LÍNEA COMO FORMATOS CONTEMPORÁNEOS DE PRÁCTICA FILOSÓFICA: EL CUIDADO DEL YO EN EL MUNDO MODERNO.

The article presents two relatively new formats of philosophical practice: a philosophical diary and an online marathon. The authors of the article were developers of both formats; we have tested these forms at the university with a student audience and outside university. As a result of the study, we came to the conclusion that the philosophical diary can be an effective form of a person’s work with the self; along with the psychotherapeutic diary, this is a modern format of practice of care of the self. The online marathon is a format of group practice when you analyze and reflect on various existentials together with the facilitator of the marathon and other participants. Both formats fit into the Internet environment. The final result of our study was the formulation of an original method of philosophical practice, which we called philosophical meditations.

Prospective directions of improvement of university professor�s scientific image

The article focuses on the exceptional importance of university professor�s scientific image as a factor in gaining loyalty from the student audience. The emphasis is on the dependence of the pole of modality of university professor�s scientific image on the degree and specificity of awareness of target audience, as well as on its direct correlation with the dominant image of science in national and international information space. It is specified that the university professor�s scientific image is for the student audience an additional proof that the knowledge, abilities and skills formed in the course of educational cooperation with him are relevant to the economic and cultural needs of modern society. The author was differentiated the concepts of "scientific school", "scientific current" and "scientific direction" and was given the classification of scientific schools into four types: "scientific school � a direction in science"; "scientific school � educational system"; "scientific school � production system"; "scientific school � incubator". There are analyzed prospects for the transformation of temporarily singular basic and applied sciences first into technoscience and later � into megascience on the basis of a synergistic combination of bio-, info-, nano- and cognitive technologies. Perspective directions of improving the university professor�s scientific image are offered: ensuring fast and non-alternative identification of professor in online and offline mode using naming technologies; starting your own scientific school or joining an existing one; positional attraction to technoscience as an organic and mutually beneficial combination of basic and applied science. The inexpediency of using the citation index as a leading parameter of formation of the university professor�s scientific image is proved, because the algorithm of its calculation is not able to solve the problems of self-citation and intentional mutual citation, this algorithm does not take into account the starting points of the theory of diffusion of innovations and it conditionally equates the indicators of "scientific activity of the specialist" and "the scientific significance of his research". Ways to improve the algorithm for calculating the impact factor of a scientific journal and the university professor�s h-index are outlined in the article. Key words: scientific image, professor, university, h-index, scientific school.

PRACTICAL APPROVAL OF MASS MEDIA THROUGH DISTANCE LEARNING OF DISCIPLINES IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS CAUSED BY THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE OPEN INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT "UKRAINE", KYIV)

The results of the study of distance learning of disciplines on the example of inclusive education of students of the International Open University of Human Development "Ukraine" in a pandemic are presented. Theoretical and practical developments in the use of mass media are analyzed, approaches and understanding, communication through information and communication technologies, which significantly changed the educational process, thanks to new tools and channels of influence on the student audience, are comprehended. The versatility of communication is traced through the analysis and comparison of different approaches to understanding mass communication as a form of indirect communication through technical means to disseminate information to a mass student audience, the variability of communication tools. At the present stage of its development, mass communication promotes change (sometimes irreversible), dominated by tendencies of depersonalization and unification, which simultaneously affect the increase of student audience and reduce the dialogic quality of communication. Emphasis is placed on the ambiguity of this phenomenon, its shortcomings (dangerous viruses, lack of motivation, confidence, teamwork skills, difficult student identification, etc.) and advantages over traditional teaching of disciplines. Communication serves to unite the audience around a common goal, has an open, public nature, aimed at large student audiences, increasing information platforms, modularity, a large amount of educational information, no geographical boundaries, individual approach, webinars, videos, audio scripts, forums, on-line testing, interactive textbooks, boards, etc. The main factors of e-education implementation in the conditions of inclusion are given, examples of educational Internet environment, key tendencies of distance learning that transform learning with the help of technological innovations are highlighted, the need to reveal the experience of higher education institutions on special methods of teaching students is emphasized. special needs.

Performance, the Arts, and Curricular Change

The need to improvise and take action as a practitioner draws on Schwab’s notion of deliberation and the Greek concept of poiesis. Inspired by an impromptu discussion with students at a computer summer camp, the author uses the worksof Sarason, Eisner, and Stenhouseto show how practitioner performance, student audience, educational inquiry, teacher as researcher, and curricular change are interrelated.