Генеалогия на активизма и семиотика на градското пространство: културни и социални практики във вътрешна Никозия през XXI век

Author(s): Gregoris Ioannou / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2016

This article traces the development of urban activism centered in the area of inner Nicosia (focusing on its southern part) in the last two decades. It provides an overviewof the main alternative social and cultural practices in the city through a discussionof meaning attribution by various different groups co-existing, sometimesconverging and sometimes diverging but expressing directly and indirectly in variousways and forms their dissent from the mainstream ideologies. The focus is on specificinitiatives and small social movements contesting existing institutions, structures andprocesses such as the division of the city (and country), consumerist lifestyles etc andengaging in semiotic struggles over the definition and interpretation of the city andthe right to it. It thus offers an account of the development of an open communityrooted in inner Nicosia formed on the basis on social networks and cultural traits asthese have been constituted through specific radical politics and ideational frames.The analysis stands at the intersection of social movements, urban studies and communicationwhile the primary methodology is ethnography. It adopts a historicalperspective examining the key processes under way at the turn of the Century inthe city of Nicosia and then discusses explicitly two particular forms of cultural andsocial contestation that have emerged in 2009-2010 and 2011-2012 arguing that theirunderstanding must be based on the genealogy of events and dynamics that precededtheir emergence.

Ecological Systems Theory: a Valuable Framework for Research on Inclusion and Special Educational Needs /Disabilities

Author(s): Leda Kamenopoulou / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2016

In this article I critically discuss some of the benefits and limitations of using Ecological Systems Theory (EST) in research on Inclusion and Special Educational Needs/Disabilities (SEN/D). In support for this discussion I draw on reflections from a study I conducted on the social inclusion and participation of young people with dual sensory impairment in mainstream schools (author, 2012). The aim was to explore to what extent the young people were socially included in the mainstream environment and to identify any barriers to their participation. I used EST (Bronfenbrenner, 1979) as the theoretical framework for the study and accordingly perceived the mainstream school as a system, components of which continuously interact and influence social inclusion. The aim of this article is to argue that the conceptual framework of EST is a valuable tool for research exploring inclusion in education of learners with SEN/D, because it helps the researcher focus on the crucial interplay between the individual and the context, in which the individual is embedded. Challenges for researchers adopting this framework are also considered.

Ромски дискриминационни практики и реч на омразата в преподаването на университетски преподаватели (Анализ на информацията от база данни от анкетно проучване)

Author(s): Sofia Dermendjieva,Daniela Tasevska,Gergana Dyankova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2016

There are cases when, intentionally or not, academics include in teaching material scientifically unfounded information that defame Roma ethnic group and promote the so-called “institutional racism”. Such cases affect the students' notions, reinforce or raise misconceptions about Roma and their problems. Such cases form a stable attitude of students - as future professionals, that Roma do not deserve their or state support.

Ключови компетенции в контекста на здравното образование в предучилищна възраст

Author(s): Sofia Karakehayova,Bilyana Kaloferova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2018

Health education is aimed at developing skills to create or maintain a healthy lifestyle, voluntary adaptation to health-friendly behavior. It is seen as a process of lifelong learning for people how to live, to maintain and improve their own and other people’s health. It is widely believed that in order to achieve the objectives of health education, approaches, forms and methods of pedagogical interaction should be appropriate and effective. According to a number of authors, effective health education repeats the natural processes through which children observe certain norms of behavior. Emphasis is placed on the discovery strategy for orientation of the child in a healthy and social environment, realized through a variety of variational solutions, based on the specifics of the research march. In a series of workshops that have the status of complementary forms of pedagogical interaction, which define goals, bring out basic content units - a combination of knowledge, skills and relationships that reflect key competences as a result of guiding the 6-7-year-old child into a healthy and social environment.

Transhumanizm czy humanizm? Krytyczne spojrzenie na nową ideologię

Author(s): Marian Falenczyk SAC / Language(s): English,Polish Issue: 1/2018

The western world is slowly recognizing the threats resulting from the new ideology called transhumanism that started thirty years ago in the United States. The ideology of transhumanism draws from rapidly converging technologies such as nanotechnology, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, cognitive science and genetic engineering. Transhumanism wants to be a positive response to postmodernism and nihilism sweeping developed countries. It aspires to ignore the natural law and current anthropology. It aims to cover all dimensions of the human being to ensure unlimited earth-life extendibility, happiness and unfathomable pleasure. Transhumanism takes aim to eradicate current civilizations and cultures, rejects history, nationality, family and religion. Instead transhumanism wants to introduce global culture and civilization for a human as a product of biotechnology. Transhumanism reduces the human to a material dimension and intentionally confines him to this dimension. The progress of the new ideology appears difficult to stop and its catastrophic impact on humans and society is difficult to foresee. We must therefore explore the field of philosophy; mostly through returning to the metaphysics of existence by St Thomas Aquinas, through affirmation of biblical anthropology and finally through a comprehensive return to contemplative theology.

За питането в урока по литература

Author(s): Temenuga Teneva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 5/2018

The article examines a problem that is not posed on its own in the literary education methodology. There is no research answer to the problem “How to ask questions in a literature lesson?” based on the different question-response system in the pedagogical discourse. The essence of asking as an opportunity to explore the unknown through the word implies, on the one hand, some interest of the ignorant towards new knowledge, different than his prejudices, and on the other - sets directions for the discovery of the object of study (HG Gadamer). In the communicative situation of a lesson, however, the roles of the questioner and the respondent are usually exchanged – more often the knowledgeable (the teacher) asks the questions, and the unknowing (the student) responds. This reversal of positions also changes the essence of the question - it should help students learn how to ask questions about the subjects studied (unfortunately in practice test and disciplinary questions dominate). The literature lesson further complicates the formulation of good questions guiding the thought process due to the creative, essentially ambiguous subject of study. In an educational group reading of fiction, the questions of the teacher suggest a possible way to search and discover the meaning of the text through genre pointers of its creation. The examples in this article illustrate the principles for creating models of guiding question that will help the students develop as asking, active individuals - wanting to know and to be able to achieve what they need to.

Йелис Еролова, Магдалена Славкова. Етничност, религия и миграции на циганите в България. София, 2013 г.

Author(s): Evgenia Troeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 2/2018

Homely Spaces: Readings of Homeliness in American Culture

Author(s): Agnieszka Pantuchowicz / Language(s): English Issue: 04/2017

Societatea informaţională sau o bombă informaţională?

Author(s): Henrieta Anișoara Șerban / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2018

Information society can be defined from a technological, spatial, occupational, cultural or economic perspective. This is a society of technological, cultural, social and economic rapid change. But it is also a society that changes its purposes and ideals under the incentives of technologization and globalization via technology. Certain particular changes within the realm of information which are taking place in contemporary times induce significant consequences for society. A ”new class” can provide us with vocabularies for the social discourse of change, while creating new ideals for organising social affairs. Social capital gains a new virtual dimension. The Internet provided the means for an exacerbated development of investigation market methods and techniques which seems to come closer to a kind of totalitarian espionage. After the atom bomb, we are now facing the spectre of a second bomb: the information bomb, capable of using the interactivity of information to wreck the peace of mind for the individuals and maybe even the peace between nations.

La mosaique des traits culturels

Author(s): Georges CHAPOUTHIER / Language(s): French Issue: 1/2018

La complexité en mosaïque se définit par l’application de deux grands principes: juxtaposition d’éléments semblables, puis intégration de ces éléments dans un ensemble plus vaste dont ils constituent alors des parties. Comme dans une mosaïque au sens artistique du terme, les parties intégrées conservent alors une autonomie par rapport à l’ensemble. Cette conception, directement inspirée de l’anatomie des êtres vivants, peut aussi s’appliquer à divers traits culturels. Ainsi on peut montrer que sont des structures en mosaïques: le langage humain, la fabrication d’artefacts comme les objets techniques, la construction des villes, divers aspect du comportement animal etles bases de la morale. La dialectique philosophique elle-même est construite selon un schéma en mosaïque de juxtaposition, puis intégration. L’ensemble des exemples donnés dans cet article montre qu’au-delà de son adéquation à l’anatomie des êtres vivants, le modèle de la complexité en mosaïque peut aussi s’appliquer aux phénomènes d’ordre culturel.

WHAT KIND OF EPISTEMOLOGY OF HEALTH-CARE? A NOTE ABOUT ÉMILE KENMOGNE’S MALADIES PARANORMALES ET RATIONALITÉS. CONTRIBUTIONS À L’ÉPISTÉMOLOGIE DE LA SANTÉ

Author(s): Ana Bazac / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2018

The paper is a critical review of the announced book, and its core is given by the analysis of the arguments and unfolded logic of the book put face to face with their effects.In this way, both the book and the review are parts of the necessary dialogue concerning the legitimacy of the irrational. The critical stance does not reproduce at all the mechanical view of the human rationality as mere cold logic, but is opposed to a “critique of the instrumental character of reason from the standpoint of faith”. From an epistemological point of view, this critique of extreme positions (the mechanical rationality and faith) draws attention to the necessity of a permanent awareness of researchers and common people, too, concerning the consequences of their theories.

Artificial versions of intelligence and consciousness, steps toward the society of conscience

Author(s): Radu NEGOESCU / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2017

Whilst the artificial intelligence seems recently to approach its human-close specimen, artificial consciousness still has some way to go before becoming an experimental terrain for a bunch of sciences that deals with the problem of conscience, including philosophy and theology. Depending on our capacity to inseminate a machine transposition of natural ethics at the same time with increasing machine autonomy, a well guided artificial consciousness holds the promise to offer a representation of what natural consciousness could be in absence of distorting influences exerted by biologic (genetic) inheritance on human being as it presents nowadays. The most important, advances in the field of artificial intelligence & consciousness, and inherently related reflection upon the human ones, appear as salutary steps on the road towards the Society of Conscience as theorized by Mihai Drăgănescu from 2000 to his passing away.

Prism: Understanding Non-Sites of Memory

Author(s): Roma Sendyka / Language(s): English Issue: 2/2015

The text refers to “memory non-sites” scattered around Poland: empty plots of land, its past known only to locals. These are former concentration camps, mass graves, or kirkuts. History becomes a hypostasis here where palimpsest seems insufficient to describe their complicated nature. Detritus is also not an accurate notion. Recent developments in history may allow to see them as geological structures. Plaszow concentration camp will be a case study example. The author offers a metaphor borrowed from geology to describe its singularity: a prism. With this term she tries to analyse the nature of non-memory places as “refuse dumps” of “tectonic” forces of nature, history, politics, etc.

From a Poetics of Space to a Politics of Place: The Topographical Turn in Literary Studies

Author(s): Elżbieta Rybicka / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2016

The article’s subject is a topographical turn in literary research, considered in association with the spatial turn in humanities. It in particular concerns contemporary reconfigurations, both in the area of new concepts of space and the discipline itself which is open today for circulation of ideas and notions from other areas. The essay indicates the main directions of interest of the research current in question, including e.g.: new regionalism; ecocriticism; literary urban studies; relations between literary representations of space and individual/collective identity; interrelations between literature and geography. Characterised are the basic determinants of new concepts of space, e.g. connecting spatiality with temporality, reinstated category of site, interest in hybrid(ic)/transitive spaces and heterotopias, and the fundamental shift in the perspective – from a poetics of space to one of site.

Градските градини: възможност за разгръщане на градското земеделие чрез потенциала на неправителствените организации

Author(s): Emilia Chengelova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2018

The article considers urban gardens as a typical urban farming practice, with a high potential for organizing social energy and the emergence of intensive and sustainable social relationships in time. There are four models for urban gardens, which were created on different occasions but successfully implemented by non-governmental organizations on the territory of a metropolitan municipality. The article reveals the specificities of the functions that urban gardens perform and proves that the non-governmental sector has a huge role to play in promoting urban farming practices and unleashing the potential of urban gardens. Through in-depth interviews, the enthusiasm and the high social commitment of people who have implemented urban gardening initiatives are demonstrated. The models presented could be implemented as examples of the deployment of urban agriculture in the capital.

Nouveaux anciens paradigmes : Approche orientée objets, Classes d’objets, Psychologie écologique et Linguistique

Author(s): Wiesław Banyś / Language(s): French Issue: 30/2018

In this text we will briefly discuss some examples of the influence of the chosen philosophy and epistemology leading in a natural way to a change in research paradigm and consequently to a change in methods of linguistic description. We will present two types of situations: • The situation where one arrives at the same types, basically, of descriptive methods in the same discipline starting from different philosophical and epistemological foundations, generally without being aware of it or without having specified them (see, e.g., Predicates-Arguments Structures vs Object-Oriented Approach vs Classes of Objects vs. SketchEngine). • The situation where one arrives at the same types, basically, of descriptive methods in different disciplines starting from different or similar philosophical and epistemological foundations (see e.g., Object-Oriented Approach, Classes of Objects vs Ecological Psychology / Incorporated Radical Cognition). In a “good method”, descriptive methods derive from the philosophical and epistemological foundations adopted consciously or unconsciously. Sometimes, if the choices are more operational and more practical applications oriented, in “normal science”, in T. Kuhn’s terminology, one must go backwards to discover these foundations from the chosen descriptive principles. At the same time, different philosophical foundations can lead to the same types, at least roughly, of descriptive methods of reality. The descriptions made in the framework of different paradigms, like these paradigms, are complementary and, in the last instance, “cumulative”, thus giving a more complete description of the reality, which, while submitted to different visions, does not, naturally, change.

Гражданска отговорност за вреди, причинени от генномодифицирани организми

Author(s): Polya Goleva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2010

For the first time in our country the civil liability for damages caused by genetically modified organisms is regulated in art. 144 of the Law on the genetically modified organisms. This is happened in 2010 by the amendment of the Law. (Official Journal Nr. 25/2010). The subject of the new regulation is the tort liability. The function of the liability is to compensate the damages and to prevent further injuries. The new regulation is a result of the implementation of some directives of the European Union on this field. According to art. 144 of the over mentioned Law everyone, who uses Genetically Modified Organisms and causes another persons damages as contamination of agricultural products, situated in the neighborhood is obligated to compensate the damages. The liability is objective and doesn’t depend of the fault of the wrongdoer. The scope of the liability are only material damages. Pain or suffering damages are not covered by this kind of liability. For the first time in our country the civil liability for damages caused by genetically modified organisms is regulated in art. 144 of the Law on the genetically modified organisms. This is happened in 2010 by the amendment of the Law. (Official Journal Nr. 25/2010). The subject of the new regulation is the tort liability. The function of the liability is to compensate the damages and to prevent further injuries. The new regulation is a result of the implementation of some directives of the European Union on this field. According to art. 144 of the over mentioned Law everyone, who uses Genetically Modified Organisms and causes another persons damages as contamination of agricultural products, situated in the neighborhood is obligated to compensate the damages. The liability is objective and doesn’t depend of the fault of the wrongdoer. The scope of the liability are only material damages. Pain or suffering damages are not covered by this kind of liability.

Bevezető a Fordulat 25. számához

Author(s): Dénes Csurgó,Mátyás Domschitz,Márton Fabók,Nóra Fülöp,Bence Horváth,Kristóf Nagy,Zoltán Sidó,Liza Szabó / Language(s): Hungarian Issue: 25/2019

This issue examines the interrelation of capitalism and climate change

Модел на работа в интеркултурна среда (научноизследователска саморефлексия)

Author(s): Rumyana Neminska / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 7/2019

The article presents a self-reflective research on a constructed model for teaching in an intercultural academic environment and aims to analyze personal teaching experiences, come up with pragmatic and useful strategies, and others to enrich and reformat. An overview of the specifics of academic teaching is made. A comprehensive model of intercultural learning is presented, which includes case studies, simulations, research of own reflexes and working with a multimedia product called “Coloring Game”. The overall model of work in an academic intercultural environment is constructed according to the specifics of a particular group of students. Beyond these limits, the model may have other interpretations and results.

Technologie self, czyli „programowanie” dryfujących tożsamości

Author(s): Anna Kalinowska / Language(s): Polish Issue: 03/2018

How to define an identity? As a product of individual or result of social and cultural influences through the ages? One, main and only answer could not exist. Ones identity in post-modern reality will be elusive. From time to time, from information or network to alghorithmic society some new identity concepts have appeared. But it is a fact that the category of identity becames smooth and undefined nowadays. We all have its plural. Technologies of self may be a solution to search for specific identity settings. Looking at actions and attitudes that lead to the realization of the goals and self-improvement, technologies of self represent the modern coordinates of identity formation. The use of analog and digital tools makes it possible to control and characterize the factors forming ones personality. In the end, it is expressed as media practices. This article is an essay to redefine the concept of technologies of self, including digital return during last 20 years. The conclusions are based on the analysis of the author’s qualitative research. The paper presents a short specification of the definitions focused on daily on-line activities and user habits.