Municipality Strategic Prospects in the Post-COVID Time

The municipalities development planning consists of two main streams—the spacial planning and the strategic planning—intents, objectives, and tactics of which are coordinated with various successes and outputs. The strategic planning has been implemented into the East European municipalities' management since the end of the 1990s. It had to respond to many oncoming circumstances. Economic, security, environmental, and other crises, both national and global, occurred. But the COVID-19 disease pandemic has brought wholly new challenges in the life management in the societies all over the world. The chapter intends to investigate how the value priorities within the municipalities strategic objectives changed during the pandemic, taking the Czech Republic (one of the European COVID-19 most affected countries) as an example.

Axiological Dimension of the Concept of the Soul in Pamfil Yurkevych’s Philosophical Works

In the article, the author analyses Pamfil Yurkevych’s vision of the interaction between the heart and the reason as well as analyzes his axiosphere, which is absolutely necessary for the development of our country. The author argues that Pamfil Yurkevych is the founder of the axiosphere, which was in compliance with the European Continental Philosophy’s understanding of the being-with-other (Mit-Sein) and it remains also relevant nowadays. Therefore, the main emphasis in the article is placed on the value component of Pamfil Yurkevych’s philosophical reflection and significance of the concept of the soul as a bearer of axiological foundations for the development of spirituality in society. The author interprets the concept of the soul as the interaction between the heart and the reason. At the same time, the heart is a kind of value filter, and the reason plays the role of an instrument of intentional activity in the field of values, involvement in which enables the real development of society. The author relies on the representation, interpretation and analysis as operations of cognition with the help of which it is possible to reproduce a holistic picture of Pamfil Yurkevych’s axiosphere and prove its significance for the formation of value priorities in the contemporaneity.

Gratitude communication in academic written acknowledgement

In the existing literature, no attempt has been made to inspect how men and women rhetorically manage their gratitude communications in the academic written discourse. To bridge this knowledge gap, the present article examined how students of different gender construct their thanking acts in the acknowledgements of their M.A. theses. Discrepancies between male and female postgraduates’ employment of linguistic patterns and gratitude themes were compared. The results showed that student writers’ gratitude communications to a certain extent are conditioned by the conventional rhetorical patterns of the academic genre. Remarkable gender variations were evidenced in the students’ selections of lexical items for encoding the thanking expressions, thanking modifiers, and gratitude themes of their acknowledgements. These gender discrepancies in gratitude communications are highly pertinent to the social expectations of masculinity and femininity, the students’ psychological orientations toward the emotion of thanking and their own value priorities.

ICONOGRAPHY: ON BAROQUE MENTALITY OF UKRAINIANS

Based upon the empirical background of professional and folk baroque icons represented in the Radomysl Castle Museum’s exhibitions, this article reveals the compositional, artistic and ideological characteristics of the Ukrainian baroque icon painting. The coincidence of its images and ideals with the national character and public aspirations of Ukrainians is also described. It is due to this that the Ukrainian baroque icon painting (both professional and folk) in the time of long statelessness and cultural decentralization became the main means of rendering collective reminiscences that are basic for the preservation of ethnic and cultural identity, and social ideals with them. The latter transformed over time into mental models that unconsciously determined the ideological and value priorities of Ukrainians. They, as evidenced by the compositional specification of the baroque icons presented in the Radomysl Castle Museum’s collection, were much influenced by the ideas of the world’s transformation and achieving the Kingdom of Heaven on earth through the ascetic activity of heroes, which was basic for the baroque worldview. For a man of the “Baroque era,” such heroes were not only Orthodox saints, but also religious and political figures. Moreover, it was assumed that they could even ignore the demands of Christian moralists for the sake of promoting the specific vital interests of the people. Their ascetic activity was considered one of the main prerequisites for the transformation of the world, the prototype of which was the Mother of God. For Ukrainians, she was not only a tireless patron for disadvantaged and suffering ones, but also a prototype of the selfless love that would rule the world (“the holy Ukrainian land”), as the result of its transformation. The sincere hope of Ukrainians for the protection of saints, combined with an unshakable faith in the divine “omnipresence” and the fullness of the whole world with God’s wisdom led to the establishment of ontological optimism in the Ukrainian consciousness. This means the belief in the ultimate overcoming of all life obstacles without personal efforts. Ideas and mental models formed and transmitted by Ukrainian baroque icon painting, due to the spiritual leaders of the 19th century’s national revival (with the absolute primacy of Taras Shevchenko and his both literature and art heritage) acquired secular features. They continued to determine the way of thinking and behavior of Ukrainians. Even today, they sincerely believe that the renewal of the world and the formation of new and just order does not require any personal effort and is to be achieved by the forces of some heroes they would call.

Personal Values Across Cultures

Values play an outsized role in the visions, critiques, and discussions of politics, religion, education, and family life. Despite all the attention values receive in everyday discourse, their systematic study took hold in mainstream psychology only in the 1990s. This review discusses the nature of values and presents the main contemporary value theories, focusing on the theory of basic personal values. We review evidence for the content and the structure of conflict and compatibility among values found across cultures. We discuss the assumptions underlying the many instruments developed to measure values. We then consider the origins of value priorities and their stability or change over time. The remainder of the review presents the evidence for the ways personal values relate to personality traits, subjective well-being, and the implications of value differences for religiosity, prejudice, pro- and antisocial behavior, political and environmental behavior, and creativity, concluding with a discussion of mechanisms that link values to behavior. Expected final online publication date for the Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 73 is January 2022. Please see http://www.annualreviews.org/page/journal/pubdates for revised estimates.

CRITERIA AND INDICATORS OF THE LEVEL OF FORMATION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS’ VALUE ATTITUDE TO THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE IN THE LYCEUM EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENT

Раскрываются критерии и показатели определения уровня сформированности ценностного отношения обучающихся к русскому языку в процессе урочной и внеурочной учебной деятельности, которые отражают нравственные позиции обучающихся на основе сформировавшихся ценностных приоритетов и позволяют сделать вывод о степени интериоризации ценностного отношения к русскому языку. Данная система критериев и показателей представляет интерес для преподавателей русского языка и может быть использована в исследованиях, рассматривающих аксиологически ориентированный аспект преподавания русского родного языка. Представлены результаты исследования уровня сформированности ценностного отношения старшеклассников к русскому языку. Диагностика уровня сформированности ценностного отношения обучающихся к русскому языку осуществляется на основании анализа ценностных приоритетов по следующим критериям: ценностно-мировоззренческому, когнитивно-рефлексивному, деятельностно-поведенческому. Эксперимент проведен на базе Лицея ФГБОУ ВО «Благовещенский государственный педагогический университет», в исследовании приняли участие обучающиеся 8, 9, 10-х классов. В ходе эксперимента использованы такие методы исследования, как методика «Ценностные ориентации» (по М. Рокичу), планинг «50 жизненных целей», методика «Решение ситуаций нравственного выбора», анкетирование, предметная диагностика (сочинения-эссе). The article reveals the criteria and indicators for determining the level of formation of the value attitude of students to the Russian language in the process of lesson and extracurricular educational activities, which reflect the moral positions of students on the basis of formed value priorities and allow us to draw a conclusion about the degree of interiorization of the value attitude to the Russian language. This system of criteria and indicators is of interest to teachers of the Russian language and can be used in research examining the axiologically oriented aspect of teaching the Russian native language. The article presents the results of the study of the level of formation of the value attitude of high school students to the Russian language. Diagnostics of the level of formation of the value attitude of students to the Russian language is carried out on the basis of the analysis of value priorities according to the following criteria: value-worldview, cognitive-reflexive, activity-behavioral. The experiment was carried out on the basis of the Lyceum of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education «Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University», the study involved students in grades 8, 9, 10. In the course of the experiment, such research methods were used as the “Value orientations” technique (according to M. Rokeich), “50 life goals” planning, the “Solving situations of moral choice” technique, questionnaires, subject diagnostics (essays).

Egyesült államokbeli apák gyakorlati szerepvállalása a kisgyermekgondozásban

In my review of the literature, I aim to present the roles that men play in caring for their young children in the US. On weekdays, the father continues to be primarily a breadwinner, while the image of a fully involved “new father” appears mainly at the weekends. Men are primarily involved in activities that are related to free time and direct interaction to their children. The father’s role in childcare can be influenced by individual social and economic status, such as income, education, labour market position and available time; and also, by his attitude to different gender roles, value priorities and religiosity.

Associative Dictionaries as an Ethnic Mental Phenomenon: Basic Values in the Core of Ethnic Group Language Consciousness

Introduction. Associative research is widely practiced in the field of sciences related to linguistics as an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the relationship of language with consciousness, psyche, and human culture; the corpus of associative data we have created in the Kazakh language replenishes associative lexicography in the context of broad intercultural comparisons. Materials and methods. The dictionaries of the associative norms of the Kazakh language (Dmitryuk, 1978; Dmitryuk, Moldalieva et al., 2014), prepared on the basis of data of free associative experiments (SAE) with 1000 Kazakh students, contain unique information about the mentality and ethnocultural characteristics of the Kazakh ethnic group in the Soviet and modern period. FAE is a well-known method of employing the associative experiment data, the reliable way to access a person’s linguistic consciousness; statistical processing of the FAE body associative data provided for the analytical comparison of a hierarchical sequence of the Kazakh basic values as a linguistic consciousness core – its central and peripheral zones – in the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Results. Due to the diachronic and interethnic comparative analysis: such basic Kazakh values as religion beliefs, freedom, sovereignty, state symbols have been subjected to the significant changes; ethnic cultural kernel preferences remained traditionally unchanged, constituting the specific essence of the ethnic national mentality: attitude to motherland, mother, elders, men, gender and age as specific peculiarities in the hierarchy of family relations. Conclusions. The intralingua comparison of the dictionaries’ contents revealed a very stable body of unchanging value priorities, indicating a fairly strong core and a significant vitality degree of Kazakh society. The work contributes to the intercultural associative research, associative lexicography and provides for the development of promising research in Psycholinguistics in Kazakhstan.