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THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF INTERCULTURAL COMPETENCE AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN AZERBAIJAN

Author(s): IMANOVA Sevda / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2022

Keywords: intercultural competence; language teaching; tertiary system; teaching material; native and target culture; social network;

The paper deals with the issues of forming and developing students’ intercultural competence (IC) level and the demands for culture-based, appropriate teaching materials including social websites in Azerbaijan. In order to succeed in fostering students’ intercultural competence, the content and teaching strategies of foreign languages, all educational documents, programs, syllabi, and teaching materials must be thoroughly designed based on culture. The swift development of global economy, transportation, and communication necessitates the tendencies relating to intercultural competence meaning that people from multicultural backgrounds has made intercultural competence very relevant. In this context, social media play a key role in increasing the Internet users’ culture awareness and improving intercultural competence. In this study, the questionnaire was designed in order to gain the influence of social media in the development of intercultural competence and the impacts of learning foreign languages among the students who study at Azerbaijan University of Languages. Using social media in the classroom environment contributes to understanding of foreign cultures which facilitates the language acquisition

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HOW TO TEACH THE DISPOSSESSED BY LE GUIN?

Author(s): DOHAL Gassim H. / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2022

Keywords: The Dispossessed; Le Guin; teaching science fiction;

Ursula K. Le Guin proposes two dialectical worlds in a circular pattern and non-linear structure in her novel The Dispossessed. She also manages to mention and critique our earth in her book. And for science fiction teachers, teaching such a novel could be a nightmare. As a result, a lesson plan is created to aid in the teaching of this novel.

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TOWARDS WELL-BEING, THROUGH EDUCATION AND CULTURAL INTEGRATION. A CASE STUDY OF ROMANIAN WHITE-COLLAR IMMIGRANTS IN BRUSSELS

Author(s): NICOLA Sanda / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2022

Keywords: Brussels-Capital Region; education; EU employment; European identity; mobility; Romanian migration; transnational lifestyle; white-collar immigrants; well-being;

The decision to emigrate is almost always preceded by a period of unhappiness, and those who leave their homeland rely on this major change to improve their well-being. The strategies used by immigrants to integrate socially in the host country differ depending on several factors, such as: age, education, marital status, religion, connection to pre-existing support networks between compatriots, language proficiency or their long-term projections. In this paper we deliver a case study revealing a new pattern of migration: exponents of the Romanian middle class who choose emigration in their mid-life considering that Brussels, more than any other potential destination, ensures favourable conditions to reach their wellbeing aspirations. The study is a qualitative research based on data obtained through semistructured interviews and questionnaires, correlated with official quantitative data provided by Statbel, Eurostat, the European Commission, and the European Parliament on the migration of Romanians, particularly focusing on those with tertiary education. The findings of this research define the highly skilled Romanian immigrants in Brussels as a population that capitalizes on 1) European citizenship 2) tertiary achievement and 3) multilingualism, thus obtaining a transnational lifestyle and a stage of well-being that was still inaccessible in their country of origin, regardless of social status.

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SOCIALIZATION FEATURES OF ADOLESCENTS PREDISPOSED TO DEPRESSIVE STATES

Author(s): Alla Bodnar,GONCHARENKO Evelina / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2022

Keywords: adolescence; depression; socialization; anxiety; crisis; depressed mood; group; behaviour; social ties; communication;

The article address on the analysis and study of the relationship between socialization and depression in adolescence. The article presents the theoretical and practical parts of the research work. The first part considers theoretical approaches to the problem of adolescents’ socialization. The relationship between the problem of socialization and the depressed mood of adolescents is described. The practical part of the paper describes an empirical study of the relationship between adolescent depression and socialization. To provide information on these phenomena we had chosen a questionnaire "Depriscope" specially created for depression measurement, the method of Q - sorting according to V. Stephenson, to assess the social situation and the Taylor Anxiety Rating Scale.In the sample studied there were involved students of the 8th, 9th and 10th grades who participated in the research for several years, that allows to compare the correspondence with the previous results and identify in the development of the level depressive moods.It shows the understanding of the depression impact on adolescent social relationships, peer behaviour, self-esteem and self-perception. It determines the impact of communication on the negative states development and predicts possible consequences on the adolescent personality.Keywords: adolescence; depression; socialization; anxiety; crisis; depressed mood; group;behaviour; social ties; communication.

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STRATEGIES FOR IMPROVING TRANSITION FROM ONE SCHOOL CYCLE TO THE NEXT

Author(s): Camelia Nicoleta MEDELEANU,Nicoleta MORON / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2022

Keywords: school transition; professional skills; intercultural education; family-school partnership;

In these trying times for the Romanian education system, due to the challenges brought by the COVID-19 pandemic, we intend to return to a topic of permanent relevance, namely the school transition of students from one school cycle to another. Through our research we aim to identify the views of teachers on how to successfully facilitate transition from one school year to another. Our research is qualitative, with the use of in-depth interviews. This study is based on the analysis of over 60 interviews conducted with teachers from educational institutions in the North-East Region of Romania. Findings: The solutions proposed by the respondents revolve around the idea of development in connection with professional skills, intercultural education, programs on parenting education, tutoring activities, development of common work strategies, development of school-parent-child partnership etc. The conclusions of this research underline first of all that an optimal solution of this moment is the development of the teachers' professional skills, the personal development of students, communication, information, constant interaction of parents, children and teachers. Education is not an isolated experience, but a lifelong interactive effort, involving resources and actors of change

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TEACHING TRIP AND EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE

Author(s): Ioan MAXIM / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2022

Keywords: teaching trip; non-formal education; logical project; educational software; resource-based; learning paradigm;

The teaching trip, as organizational form of teaching, is situated at the border between formal and non-formal education. An adequate teaching scenario for a teaching trip can place this activity in the field of formal education definitely. In educational terms, non-formal educational trip makes from itself, an attractive, dynamic and consistent activity, strongly influenced by technical memo elements, which combines intuitive scientific argument, rigorously and systematically. The paper aims to implement in an unitary teaching scenario, the attractive and spectacular elements specific to the educational trip, with the ones of formal teaching, leading to a logical project of educational software, which constitutes a turning point in the designing learning programs. The teaching scenario of the learning program allows to the student, to approach scientific context of the lesson, intuitive initially, afterwards using traditional teaching methods and procedures, as exposure, demonstration, explanation and also, to be presented the scientific content to the student, systematically and organized. The learning program creates a virtual scientific space and allows the student to explore and discover new content elements in a logical and intuitive context. Prospective manner places the student at the center of cognitive context, maintaining and feeding its interest for scientific content. The logical sequence of content elements generates a succession of visual frames for the virtual scientific space of the lesson. This script element of didactic scenario is inspired from the trip didactic. The teacher, who intervenes with rigorous explanations supported with audio, video or text format arguments, is the guide of the student in the virtual space of lesson. A return in similar contextual frame offers the possibility of implementation, a sequential feedback and formative assessment, in the learning program. The new manner of designing the learning programs, presented in the paper, allows an easy removal from the paradigm of instruction centered on student and an approach to the paradigm of learning based on resources.

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NEW DIMENSIONS OF THE CHILD-CURRICULUM RELATIONSHIP IN THE CONCEPTION OF THE AUTHOR JOHN DEWEY

Author(s): Marius-Costel Eşi / Language(s): English / Issue: 17/2022

Keywords: child-curriculum; constructivism; teaching method;

The education is the result of the experience of culture which the child can amass and assimilate under certain conditions. Thus, the curriculum should guide the child's experience taking into account the shortest paths. However, the reference to the past should only be considered as a form of departure in what will later be the child's true experience. The experience is the result of all that humanity has accumulated over time forming ongoing experiences through a permanent process of cultural reconstruction. In other words, education is the very reconstruction of experience in relation to the previous experience

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“MY SOUL’S FAR BETTER PART”: HOMER’S HECTOR AS MAN OF FEELING

Author(s): Jessica Glueck / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: Hector; “man of feeling”; sentimentalism; Homer; epic; gender; Alexander Pope;

“My Soul’s Far Better Part”: Homer’s Hector as Man of Feeling. Eighteenth-century sentimentalism may seem foreign to the brutal world of Homer’s Iliad. Yet the parting of Hector and Andromache as depicted in the ancient Greek epic was a key symbol of sensibility in British culture at this time. Translations of the scene became staples of poetic anthologies and were quoted in periodicals, conduct books, and novels. The same passage was a popular theme for neoclassical art. This article will explore what attracted readers so persistently to the Homeric farewell scene. In contrast with previous scholarship, which maintains that eighteenth-century thinkers saw this episode primarily as an affirmation of separate, gendered spheres, I argue that interpretations of Hector and Andromache in this period blur the lines between traditionally masculine and feminine traits, transforming Hector into a “man of feeling.” This article begins by outlining how the ideals of sensibility created ambiguities in the construction of masculinity. In the second section, a close reading of Alexander Pope’s translation of the parting scene reveals that he deployed these ambiguities to make Hector a more appealing masculine archetype for a modern audience. Finally, I explore two important eighteenth-century artistic works directly inspired by Pope’s translation, demonstrating how the artists Angelica Kauffman and Gavin Hamilton used the parting scene to challenge traditional notions of manly heroism and to highlight themes of love and sympathy within the Iliad.

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HUMOUR AS AFFECT IN SUSANNA CENTLIVRE’S PLAY A BOLD STROKE FOR A WIFE

Author(s): Ellen Dengel-Janic / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: eighteenth-century drama; comedy; affect theory; empathy; ethics;

Humour as Affect in Susanna Centlivre’s Play A Bold Stroke for a Wife. Susanna Centlivre’s plays are conceived in a cultural climate of moral debate and ideological reconsideration of values such as virtue, goodness and liberty. Centlivre’s use of humour becomes an ethical instrument and shows eighteenth-century audiences how liberty and freedom triumph over the excesses and follies of opposing figures such as parents and guardians. On the one hand, Centlivre’s comic playwriting creates an empathetic drama in which the female heroines are virtuous and elicit edifying responses from the audience and, on the other, the comic experience, following Bakhtin’s notion of laughter and the comic, enables freedom from the socially conventional notion of selfhood, thus making space for a re-orientation of values and norms.

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THE TRIUMPHS OF AFFECTIONS: CRÉBILLON FILS, TRANSLATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NARRATIVES OF MOTION AND EMOTION

Author(s): Elena Butoescu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: translation; sources françaises; sentimental writing; Crébillon fils; motion; emotion; eighteenth-century affective theory;

The Triumphs of Affections: Crébillon Fils, Translation and the Eighteenth-Century English Narratives of Motion and Emotion. The French influence on eighteenth-century English sentimental writing has been a rich topic for criticism ever since translations of French novels were imported into England as early as the first decades of the eighteenth century. In the “long” eighteenth-century history of English literature, there was a great deal of translation from French sources, which clearly indicates a market for fiction and the need to satisfy it (sources françaises were often mentioned as tokens of legitimacy). French sources took a stance on English realist fiction by infusing it with emotional narratives of men of feeling that hinged on acts of translation, whereby translation is understood not only as adaptation, but also as resistance against long-standing literary practices that advocated institutionalised moral codes in realistic fiction. Hence, the concerns of this study are threefold: to discuss the ambivalent nature that early modern philosophers granted to emotions, which triggered conflicting motions in an individual or in a specific social context, resulting in a taxonomy of passions; to consider Crébillon fils’s novel in English translation in order to epitomize the new type of discourse that intended to popularize virtue through eroticism, satire and decadence; and to re-ground human experience as it was discussed in eighteenth-century literary texts from the perspective of natural philosophy. This article aims to rethink eighteenth-century affective theory in relation to translation studies, while reading Thomas Hobbes’ concept of motion as a metaphor for the historical and mindset transformations that were fundamental to the writing of the history of literature.

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AGGRESSION, SUFFERING, AND AFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT IN ELIZA HAYWOOD’S THE HISTORY OF MISS BETSY THOUGHTLESS

Author(s): Amelia Precup / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: Eliza Haywood; The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless; sights of suffering; aggression; affective development; sentimental fiction; the eighteenth-century novel;

Aggression, Suffering, and Affective Development in Eliza Haywood’s The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless. Published during a period of transition from “the epistemological or cognitive” to the “affective dimension of fiction”, to use Catherine Gallagher’s conceptualization of the progress of the mid-eighteenth-century novel, The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless is often read as a story of development from “thoughtless coquette” to “thoughtful wife”. With these two social roles in the background, this paper sets forth to examine the affective and emotional development of Betsy Thoughtless through a close reading of her reactions to scenes of suffering and forms of aggression. The claim of the paper is that Miss Betsy’s history progresses as her empathy and capacity to internalize potentially traumatic events grow, which invites sympathetic identification.

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“NOT A SINGLE SYLLOGISM FROM BEGINNING TO END”: ON FRAGMENTARINESS AND THE CRITIQUE OF THE NOVEL IN HENRY MACKENZIE’S THE MAN OF FEELING

Author(s): Alexandra Bacalu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: fragmentariness; moral sentimentalism; logic; self-knowledge; art of thinking;

“Not a Single Syllogism from Beginning to End”: On Fragmentariness and the Critique of the Novel in Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling. Henry Mackenzie’s The Man of Feeling (1771) is known to be particularly striking for its high level of formal and narrative fragmentariness. Formlessness and fragmentariness have long been discussed as key features of the early British novel (see Hunter 1990; see Starr 1998) and are often understood as defining features of mid and late eighteenth-century sentimental novels, which foreground their own materiality (see Wetmore 2013). Indeed, the unfeeling curate-logician who hands the manuscript over to the editor famously opines that its author cannot be found “in one strain for two chapters together” and that the text does not contain “a single syllogism from beginning to end” (Mackenzie 2001, 4). In this article, I explore the highly eclectic and fragmentary generic make-up of The Man of Feeling (cf. Benedict 2016) in order to flesh out the specific critique that the text mounts against the emerging genre of the novel and the poetics of moral sentimentalism. Mackenzie does, in fact, disparage the new genre in his essays for The Mirror and The Lounger and never claims to be writing a novel – whether in his correspondence or in the narrative introduction to The Man of Feeling – but rather a “medley” of sorts. By providing a more nuanced account of Mackenzie’s critique that remains sensitive to its inherent tensions, I want to shed light on the manner in which the text’s fragmentariness stages the unreliability of Harley’s perpetually-frustrated acts of sympathy and benevolence, which function as counterexamples to a proposed “art of thinking” (Mackenzie 2001, 32). If properly understood and practiced, such an art would allow a coherent grasp of human nature and potentially provide a suitable moral-affective remedy for the ills of modern commercial society (cf. Harkin 2005c) that Harley witnesses and describes along his journey.

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THE SENTIMENTAL TRAVERSE OF CLAUDE-HENRI WATELET’S EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY PICTURESQUE GARDEN ISLE, THE MOULIN JOLY

Author(s): Rebecca J. Squires / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: the eighteenth century; picturesque aesthetics; sentiment; Claude-Henri Watelet; Moulin Joli;

The Sentimental Traverse of Claude-Henri Watelet’s Eighteenth-Century Picturesque Garden Isle, the Moulin Joly. Claude-Henri Watelet’s 1774 Essai sur les jardins (Essay on Gardens) was the first French garden treatise to enter the picturesque garden debate, set into motion in England with the 1748 publication of William Gilpin’s A Dialogue Upon the Gardens […] at Stow, a dialogic garden tour which delineated the aesthetic principles of the picturesque, advancing a formalist approach to the visual apprehension of the landscape. Watelet’s Essay on Gardens, however, exemplified the affective development of the garden treatise in the second half of the eighteenth century, which featured a textual, oftentimes sentimental traverse of the picturesque landscape, evoking a sensation-imbued garden walk, or in this case, ferry crossing. Watelet’s Essay describes the new domain of landscape architecture as inhabited by artists, poets, and designers, or décorateurs, who conceived gardens as pictures, and the garden walk as a series of volatile, shifting tableaux. The picturesque garden ramble, vivified in Watelet’s ekphrastic prose, could thereafter be traversed and re-traversed by the reader regardless of their location in space-time. In Essai sur les jardins, Watelet crosses the Seine by boat, en route to Paris, when he serendipitously discovers his future garden isle, the Moulin Joly. Watelet’s gaze errs along the otherworldly pastorale, seizing upon what would become his future ferme ornée, or embellished farm, catching sight of its flowing waters and verdant groves, fortuitously up for sale. This fleeting glimpse, or coup d’œil, in which the fugitive tableau is instantaneously imprinted onto the retina, enabled the garden visitor an immediate entrée into the terrain of the subconscious, embarking upon an ever-changing traverse of the emotions suggested by the imagery, symbolism, and vocabulary of the landscape garden.

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SENSIBILITY AND PROGRESS IN MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT’S RATIONALISED “SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY”

Author(s): Éva Antal / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: women writers; Mary Wollstonecraft; sensibility; travelling; sublime; Sterne; Rousseau; reverie;

Sensibility and Progress in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Rationalised “Sentimental Journey”. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was an ardent believer in individual freedom and self-development; consequently, she frequently discussed the possibilities of women’s education and self-reliance in her writings. Being rather reckless in her life, she was often on the move, not only searching for better life conditions but also following her own impulses in her critical reading. The motif of intellectual mobility features her educational writings, argumentative works, novels, and her last publication, Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark (1796) as well. In my paper, I will map the multiplicity of the concept of mobility and elaborate on the senses of escapism in Wollstonecraft’s travel-letters, moving beyond Laurence Sterne’s notion of “a sentimental journey” (A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, 1768). Moreover, in Letters, in her solitary walks and fanciful reveries, not only Wollstonecraft’s inclination to the (natural and textual) sublime but also Rousseau’s ideas on exercise and movement will be detected (cf. Reveries of the Solitary Walker, 1782). On the one hand, my interpretation is contextualised by the late-eighteenth-century view on women’s limitations of “sensibility”, displaying the constraints the age demanded; on the other hand, I intend to place the travelogue in Mary Wollstonecraft’s oeuvre and highlight the synthesising quality of the writing as a piece of “travail” and/or “a labour of love”.

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JANE AUSTEN’S NORTHANGER ABBEY AS A PARODY OF SENTIMENTAL AND GOTHIC NOVELS

Author(s): Emese Kunkli / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: Jane Austen; Northanger Abbey; sentimental novels; Gothic novels; Bildungsroman; parody; moral philosophy;

Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey as a Parody of Sentimental and Gothic novels. Jane Austen is one of the most outstanding British literary figures of the early nineteenth-century. In my article, I attempt to interpret her first completed novel, Northanger Abbey, regarding moral-philosophical, aesthetic and literary motifs. I would like to emphasize why it is advisable to read the novel both as a Bildungsroman and as a parody of sentimental and Gothic novels. In my opinion, in Northanger Abbey, Austen shows both the similarities and differences between sentimental and Gothic novels in such a way that she wants to break out of their usual patterns. In Austen's works, the heroines need to get to know new places and people in order to re-evaluate their perspective. In addition, they must learn to face their mistakes and their consequences. What makes the heroine of Northanger Abbey even more relevant for the proposed reading is that her personality traits are apparently created by denying the characteristics of the idealized heroines of sentimental and Gothic novels. Furthermore, from the way Jane Austen closes her story, we can conclude that she rejects the conventions of Gothic and sentimental novels and makes explicit the possible psychological reading of female Gothic novels and at the same time she rewrites romantic literature and even the conventions of the female Gothic novel ending.

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AUREA MEDIOCRITAS: HEROES AND FAKE HEROES/ANTIHEROES IN ROMANIAN HODONYMY

Author(s): Oliviu Felecan / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: hodonymy; landscape changes; heroes/antiheroes/fake heroes; street names;

Aurea mediocritas: Heroes and Fake Heroes/Antiheroes in Romanian Hodonymy. Specialised literature has shown that, regardless of geographical space and historical era, authorities have sought to honour heroes and grant them “immortality” by giving their names to various roadways: streets, boulevards, squares. From a socio- and psycholinguistic viewpoint, there is the issue of associating positive or negative values with the given figures depending on the political regime. Those who are seen as heroes at one point in time can be considered war criminals at a different moment in history. Similarly, the heroes of a certain nation can be the sworn enemies of a neighbouring people. Therefore, a theory of values needs to be advanced, a balance in judgement that should be above the circumstantial interests of those in power. This study analyses Romanian hodonymy from the aforementioned perspective. Since the officialization of street nomenclature, Romanian hodonyms have been subjected to several processes of street-name changes, determined by the unification of the country, the world wars, the various stages of the institution of the communist regime, and the establishment of democracy after 1989. Names of streets and squares are eloquent markers of all the onomastic changes that have occurred in Romanian space over different historical periods.

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(RE)CONSTRUCTING THE SELF IN WOMEN’S AUTOFICTION: THE CASE OF SAȘA ZARE’S DEZRĂDĂCINARE

Author(s): Alisa Ștefania Tite / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: Saşa Zare; Romanian literature; autofiction; women’s writing; autotheory; metatextuality;

(Re)constructing the Self in Women’s Autofiction: The Case of Sașa Zare’s Dezrădăcinare. This paper aims to examine the (re)construction of the female subject in contemporary autobiographical fiction by looking into Sașa Zare’s debut novel, Dezrădăcinare. Drawing on feminist and postfeminist theory as well as research on self-writing centred on women’s inscription of personhood in their works, this study attempts to investigate the relationship between the narrator and the narrated self, focusing on the negotiated distance between the two fictional constructs. This analysis will build on concepts such as metatextuality, autotheory, performativity, and on Lacanian and post-Lacanian feminist means of understanding the self as a product of societal and cultural discourse (as opposed to the idea of a unified self), by centring on the narrative techniques that show the narrator’s perception of herself, and struggle to represent different parts of her identity (the writer, the daughter, the girlfriend, the student and the therapy patient). As language plays an important part in rendering the feminine subject’s fragmented vision of her identity, this paper will highlight the role of personal and societal narratives in constructing an idea of the self.

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BOOK REVIEW: FLAVIA TEOC, PERSPECTIVA SOFIANICĂ ÎN SAGA REGELUI HARALD. STUDIU PRIVIND ARTICULAREA SENSULUI DIN UNGHIUL TEXTEMELOR KENNING, CLUJ-NAPOCA: CASA CĂRȚII DE ȘTIINȚĂ, 2020, 211 PP.

Author(s): Daniel Rusu / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: FLAVIA TEOC; Review;

Perspectiva sofianică în Saga regelui Harald. Studiu privind articularea sensului din unghiul textemelor kenning (The Sophian Perspective in Haralds saga Sigurðarsonar), by PhD Flavia Teoc, proposes an in-depth analysis of the kenning metaphors from a linguistic perspective. Applying the integralist concepts of language theoretician Eugen Coșeriu and the literary Sophian perspective of the author, philologist and philosopher Lucian Blaga, the work offers an alternative interpretation of the meaning and creative process of the skaldic poetry, acquainting the reader with medieval Scandinavian mythology, history, literature, and culture – each component essential for the understanding of the old poetic metaphors. The first chapter begins with an introduction to Coșeriu’s five principles for linguistics as a science of cultures: the principle of objectivity, of humanism, of tradition, of anti-dogmatism and of response/ public utility.

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BOOK REVIEW: RUXANDRA CESEREANU, LUMI DE FICȚIUNE, LUMI DE REALITATE, BUCUREȘTI: EDITURA TRACUS ARTE, 2022, 354 P.

Author(s): Borbála Szász / Language(s): English / Issue: 3/2023

Keywords: RUXANDRA CESEREANU; Review;

What do the relation between C. S. Lewis and T. S. Eliot, the horrifying serial murders described in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 and Ion D. Sîrbu’s dystopic novel have to do with each other? Apparently, nothing, yet Ruxandra Cesereanu’s latest work, entitled Fictional Worlds, Real Worlds and published in 2022, brings them together in a meaningful and thought-provoking manner.

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The Application and Reflection of Philosophy on Social Science to Elementary School Students

Author(s): Reza Syehma Bahtiar,Suyanto Suyanto,Haryanto Haryanto,Diah Yovita Suryarini / Language(s): English / Issue: 37/2022

Keywords: philosophy; social science; elementary school;

A lot of transformations have been made worldwide due to technological advances. However, there are significant consequences of these advances that humans cannot avoid. This article examines the application and reflection of philosophy on the Social Science of higher grade elementary school in Indonesia. It is motivated by the rapid technological progress that reduces the social interaction of elementary school students. The purpose of this study is to identify (1) the essence of symptoms or objects of the application and reflection of philosophy on the Social Science of elementary school (ontological grounds), (2) how to obtain or manage symptoms or objects (epistemological grounds), (3) the benefit of symptoms or objects (axiological grounds), and (4) understanding and two-way understanding of symptoms or objects (hermeneutics) in Social Science. The data was collected from various relevant sources, including journal articles, books, and relevant research. The results show the need to uncover the application and reflection of philosophy on social science ontology, epistemology, axiology, and hermeneutics.

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