Problems That Accompany School Education for Combating Socio-Pathological Behaviors

Going to school today means living a creative life worthy of a young man. The school is a living community of students, teachers, and parents. Problems arising from the school environment are very common today and are present at all levels of education. The pursuit of a quality, free, and democratic school has become a reality in many parts of the world, but due to the complexity of certain curricula, and rigorous assessment techniques, schools are sometimes still a place of coercion to learn. It is especially important to know the prerequisites for proper school education, the problems faced by students, and the measures that can be taken to prevent, reduce, or eliminate them. In order for school education to be realized in accordance with positive educational outcomes, it is necessary to organize, realize, and monitor its outcomes and results in an appropriate manner.

Antropological Concept in Mystical Poetry of Parvin Etesami

The essay reflects on the creativity of Parvin Etesami (1907 – 1941), a distinguished Persian poet, little known abroad. We highlight anthropological teaching based on the religious worldview as one of the aspects of her mystical poetry. Created in the era when Persian literature and its classical tradition were breaking, Parvin’s poems affirm loyalty to the mystical tradition and the ways of self-creation of an individual laid down in it. The article shows that the Muslim science of behavior guides a person striving for wisdom and determines their path. The preaching of morality in Parvin’s poems, coupled with her mystical enlightenment, attempts to return her contemporaries to the classical world of their tradition. This research investigates the concept of man and is based on the only collection of 60 poems published in Russian (Journey of Tears, 1984), as well as on the new poetic translations. Two of the poems translated by M. Yahyapour and M. L. Reysner are introduced to the readers for the first time. The paper describes different facets of personality and fate, found in poetic self-reflection, the most significant of which is Parvin’s Auto-Epitaph. The values corresponding to Parvin’s spiritual personality are revealed: purity of soul, strictness, restraint, intellectualism, moral seriousness. Following the Sufi teachings about men, Parvin criticizes deviations from the true path —such as susceptibility to passions and pride. The poet considers them the destroyers and believes that they occur because of the evil forces distorting the human soul. The poet proposes a way out for the soul captured by the world — the knowledge of the Truth and the appeal to the experience of the righteous. The essay demonstrates that in Parvin’s poetry, fidelity to a thousand-year-old spiritual tradition and individual creativity appear as an organic unity. In the era that leads a person of the West and the East away from the spiritual roots of culture, the poet becomes a gnostic and a mystic in his individual creative life and, abandoning modern trends, consciously takes the path of mystical enlightenment and brings to her readers the wisdom found on these paths.

Превратности таланта: Дмитрий Налбандян

The article is dedicated to the study of celebrated Soviet painter Dmitry Nalbandian’s creative life and pictorial heritage. The author highlights master’s interest in subject matter and genre preferences, analyses the peculiarities of his image thinking and pictorial style, emphasizes public recognition of painter’s art.

‘Nothing to practice’: Julius Eastman, queer composition, and Black sonic geographies

I trace the musical performances and life of Black, queer composer Julius Eastman, considering Eastman’s oeuvre as a heterotopia defined by both revolutionary freedom and tragic capture. Eastman lived on the margins of 1970s and 1980s avant-garde minimalist music scenes unable and unwilling to comport to white norms of esthetic innovation and cultural acceptability. Eastman’s infusion of camp performativity with minimalist music and his Blackness and queerness challenged (and ultimately nullified) the avant-garde esthetic claims made by white composers. Whereas the white avant-garde insisted upon a tabula rasa, a separation from history to create (supposedly) new sonic forms, Eastman’s melding of genres, provocative song titles, playful disposition to the world, and his very presence in concert halls and university auditoriums challenged the racialized norms embedded within minimalist music. Eastman ruptured assumed codes of composition and performance yet was punished for these transgressions, barred from work and ultimately dying alone and homeless at the age of 49. Pursuing a creative life encased by erasure exemplifies the ways in which Blackness is parantological, constantly escaping from the fixity of racial ontologies that erase Blackness in the name of white supremacy. Examining Eastman’s artistic work and conflict with minimalist music prefigures the contemporary moment in which efforts to prioritize materiality, affective reality, and being over culture, signification, and discourse often belie white racialized standpoints. Intertwined with these theoretical concerns, I sketch how Eastman disrupts overwrought notions of scale, direction, rigidity, and intent through what Camilla Hawthorne calls ‘everyday practices of Black space-making’.

Realization of life creative ideas in the scientific, cultural, and educational activity of Myroslava Kachur

The purpose of the article is to reveal the specifics of M. Kachur's scientific, cultural, and educational practice in the discourse of realization of life creative ideas, to highlight the significance of the artist’s achievements in the development of Ukrainian civilization processes. The methodology consists of the application of biographical, analytical, historical, systemic approaches, which allowed to comprehensively mastering the main directions of M. Kachur's creativity, to determine their influence on the national culture. Scientific novelty. In the article, for the first time, the achievements of M. Kachur in measuring the implementation of life-creating tasks are explained. Conclusions. M. Kachur's professional practice is the sphere of realization of creative life ideas. They were formed during student years, deepened throughout professional activities, underwent transformations and in accordance with the innovations of humanistic tendencies, were completed in multifaceted areas of work. Mrs. Kachur's work has several main lines: scientific - research of music education problems, articles, and theses reviewing, management of diploma studios, etc.; pedagogical - teaching in educational institutions of different levels (school, college, university, teacher training courses), preparation of methodical publications, repertoire collections, etc.; cultural and organizational - management the structural units of the university, establishing partnerships with leading institutions of higher education; holding conferences, forums, master classes, seminars with the involvement of leader Ukrainian scientists, performers; membership in the jury of competitions, festivals; conducting public social actions, projects, etc. The essential qualities of Myroslava Mykhailivna's artistic life are systematic analysis of reality, conscious direction of efforts to its creative transformation; active interaction with the environment; productivity which manifested itself in solid achievements in all areas of work; constant improvement of own abilities, etc. M. Kachur's creative life significantly influenced the national cultural progress. Many years of master’s successful work is a response to the current humanitarian challenges of the time. The achievements of this personality contributed to the solution of many educational problems, were used in the teaching of her students, who based on the principles of their mentor were producing their own methods and approaches to the content of modern music education.

Mykhailo Hrushevskyi in the History of Ukrainian Journalism

Mykhailo Sergiiovych Hrushevskyi, an outstanding scientist, a man of broad erudition, extraordinary diligence, takes one of the honorary places in the history of Ukrainian science and culture of the late 19th – first third of 20th century. Possessing encyclopedic scientific knowledge, the ability to comprehensively analyze and reproduce historical processes in an artistic form, he clearly manifested himself in many fields of knowledge: history, archeography, literary studies, folklore, and others. But first of all, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi is a prominent historian and patriot of his people, who created the first most complete, generalizing study of the history of Ukraine from ancient times to the second half of the 17th century. The scientific concept of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi is based on the organic unity of high professionalism of materials presentation, deep knowledge of literature and sources, and originality of their interpretation. As a politician, he worked his way from the founder of the National Democratic Party of Galicia and the Society of Ukrainian Progressives in Kyiv to the creator of the foundations of an independent Ukrainian state. He was Chairman of the Central Rada, and later recognized the Soviet regime in Ukraine and expressed readiness to serve it. His views were changing; socio-political concepts and philosophical perceptions of life were evolving but love for his people and for the historical truth for him have always been the highest standard in scientific creativity and political activity. Mykhailo Hrushevskyi was the son of his time. As well as many other prominent figures of Ukraine, he presented the tragic historical fate of the Ukrainian lands dismembered by political borders, which were deprived of their own statehood, in his works. As a scientist and politician, Mykhailo Hrushevskyi was deeply saddened by the fate of his people. Mykhailo Hrushevskyi, prominent Ukrainian historian, politician, writer, publicist, editor, publisher, also made a significant contribution to the development of the native journalism. Work and studying of the bibliographic sources, important periods in the creative life and work of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi allowed to identify the main periodicals that he edited and published or acted as a leading publicist (reviewer, reader, literary critic, author of iconic and travel essays, notes, articles, etc.). The article enlights the organizational talent in the field of publishing and editorial skills in the newspaper and magazine area of Mykhailo Hrushevskyi in the late 19th – early 20th centuries. The purpose of this article is to trace the main milestones of the journalistic activity of the scientist and politician, to find out the essential issues reflected by Mykhailo Hrushevskyi in the pages of newspapers and magazines.

University professor: scientific trajectory in the conditions of integration and internationalization

The article considers the concept and the basis of the legal status of a professor of a Russian university. Comparisons with a similar position in France and Germany are given. According to the results of a comparative analysis of legal acts of Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, significant differences in scientometric indicators for applicants for the degree of Doctor of Law were revealed. The differences in the criteria for awarding the academic title of professor in the member states of the Eurasian Economic Union are shown. The opinion is expressed about the negative impact of this differentiation on labor mobility and academic mobility. It is concluded that the achievement of scientific indicators is necessary throughout the active creative life of the professor. The tendency of “internationalization” of publication activity is revealed, since the requirements for the availability of publications indexed in international databases are present in legal acts regulating various aspects of the professor's activity. It is recommended to take this factor into account when building the scientific trajectory of a modern professor.

Remembering Oleksandr Pronin: the Stained Glass Art Laboratory of KSADA in 1980–2000s

The material covers the years of creative life of a famous Ukrainian artist-monumentalist, O. Pronin (1934–2002), associated with his leadership of the Department of Monumental Painting of the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts and the development of stained glass as a technique and a form of monumental and decorative art in education. The author focuses on the formation of a school of artistic stained glass in Kharkiv, the founders of which were professors Oleksandr Pronin and his wife Galyna Tishchenko. The article has some features of autobiography and is presented in the form of memoirs about the activities of the stained glass workshop of KSADA – Kharkiv Art and Industry Institute, and life of the author and the main character of the story, O. Pronin, and his students, around this workshop. These are the times of formation of the laboratory, certain stages of gaining experience in the stained glass industry, analysis of works of art and the spread of stained glass art through the work of the head of the department and laboratory and his many followers. Documentary and illustrative materials on the activities of the stained glass workshop, which was created by O. Pronin in 1967 and is still developing thanks to the efforts and activities of the author of the article, who is a direct student and a follower of the master, mention significant for Kharkiv and all Ukraine monumental art projects, behind which O. Pronin stood as the author or leader. The facts and memoirs presented by the author of the article have historical and scientific value, since the author himself took part in the creation of the stained glass laboratory of KSADA as its head. Although the emphasis is made on the 1980–2000s, which was the period of the heyday of the laboratory, the author also cites the modern works of O. Pronin’s and his own students, showing the continuity of the traditions in the Kharkiv school of stained glass.