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Self-realization of teacher: personal meaning and direction
Authors: Sergejko Svetlana
Published: July 2022

On the basis of the study the problem of self-realization as a special type of activity taking into account the personal meaning of different types of teachers is revealed in the article. These results ascertained that the majority of modern Belarusian teachers do not possess the characteristics that contribute to their self-realization sufficiently. Relatively low rates were found in such important characteristics as internal locus of control, spontaneity, subjective well-being, positive temporal transspection, the value of development and self-realization, which makes it difficult to include teachers in self-realization activity. In the article also the typology of teachers according to the personal sense of self-realization, which can serve as a basis for finding ways to optimize selfrealization of educators, to identify the necessary conditions for the development of their self-realization activity has been identified.
Development of practical activity experience for pupils with moderate and severe retardation of mental development
Authors: Prudņikova Ilga
Published: July 2022

Modern epoch poses its own demands for special education, because provision of special education needs into inclusive environment is one of the prior courses of education policy in Latvia. The author of the research reveals discrepancy between politically stated progress and school practice in Latvia. Topicality of the research fortifies the necessity to advance pedagogical integrity of pupils with moderate and severe retardation of mental development (RMD). Research includes: analysis of education potential provision in legislation, investigation of theory regarding retardation of mental development, analysis of pedagogic process at special primary boarding school, model of the development of practical activity experience for pupils with moderate and severe RMD at special primary boarding school. As a result of theory analysis – model of the development of practical activity experience for pupils with moderate and severe RMD has been established. Empiric investigation of the development of practical activity experience for pupils with moderate and severe RMD has been done, using the form of quantitative methods investigation in order to examine effectiveness of the established model of the development of practical activity experience.
Holistic approach to the vocational counselling of students with special education needs
Authors: Baranauskienė Ingrida , Radzevičienė Liuda , Valaikienė Aistė , Kossewska Joanna
Published: July 2022

Vocational counselling is the first and one of the most important stages of prevocational education of pupils with SEN that has influence on successful integration into the labour market and human socialization. In the article the parameters of the ideal model of vocational counselling of pupils with SEN have been analyzed. In identifying the criteria of vocational counselling of pupils with SEN it has been referred to the model of systemic analysis constructed by Le Moigne, described by Baranauskienė, Juodraitis (2008), and in which 5 approaches towards successful participation of persons with disabilities in the labour market have been singled out: approaches towards success from the aspect of structure, aims, influence of environment, development, activity. In the article the data obtained during the research of the Delphi group during which the experts from 12 different countries having scientific and practical work experience of work with pupils with SEN present their approaches towards what criteria should be followed in vocational counselling of pupils with SEN have been analyzed and systemized.
Development of psychological readiness to work with gifted children for preschool institution teachers
Authors: Bondarchuk Olena , Dovgan Natalia
Published: July 2022

The article presents a model of pre-school teachers’ psychological readiness to work with gifted children. The program of a special course designed for extensive development of readiness and teachers’ training to work with gifted children is presented. The effectiveness of the developed program is confrmed by a formative experiment. The obtained results can become a basis for psychological activities aimed at such readiness formation.
Results of implementation of social rehabilitation technologies for people with lower extremity diseases/injuries
Authors: Usca Svetlana , Lubkina Velta , Kaupuzs Aivars , Rizakova Lorita
Published: July 2022

People with lower extremity diseases/injuries have limited mobility that affects their participation in socio-economic processes, including integration into the labour market. It is one of the risk groups that are exposed to the risk of social exclusion, and provision of the quality of their life requires the development of protection mechanisms. It is necessary to provide social rehabilitation and support services to facilitate their return to labour market and their involvement in all social activities alike other members of society. The article focuses on the provision of social rehabilitation services through innovative BIODEX SYSTEM 4, BIOSWAY and Vibro-massage facilities. The results of a linear research have been analysed and a description of case studies has been given.
Structure and directiveness of attitudes to disability
Authors: Kaffemaniene Irena , Jureviciene Margarita
Published: July 2022

The study seeks to answer questions: whether the integration of the disabled changes public attitude to people with disabilities? And if so, what is the direction of public opinion change? Representations of disability, understanding of disabled people’s needs and personality traits are analysed using interview and content analysis methods. The study involved students whose future profession is not related to the disabled. The structure of attitude to the disabled is revealed based on the analysis of theoretical (clinical and social) models.
Prevention and correction of disorders in the development of the “core” in reader’s competence of children with disabilities (based on education of children with deep impairments of vision and hearing)
Authors: Goncharova Elena
Published: July 2022

The article is devoted to the problem of forming an ability to transform the meaning which the author has introduced in a text implicitly into own cognitive, emotional and creative experience of children with disabilities. The stages and methodical conditions for forming this ability in children with impairments of vision and hearing are described.
Leadership practices that support diverse learners from early childhood through adulthood
Authors: Rude Harvey A. , Banerjee Rashida
Published: July 2022

This article addresses the components of leadership and the effective demonstration of leadership behavior that supports strong systems of social welfare from an interdisciplinary perspective. The applications of evidence-based leadership principles are embedded within the context ofsystems that address the needs of all learners from early childhood through adulthood. Leadership considerations include values-based practice, effective use of data, and team learning for systems improvement.
Using Standards-Based and Evidence-Based Content in Early Childhood Professional Development
Authors: Banerjee Rashida , Rude Harvey
Published: July 2022

Converging empirical evidence has identifi ed key components of effective practices for providing high-quality services to young children and their families. The article describes the components of professional development that result in well qualifi ed, well-trained and effective early childhood professionals who can implement evidence-based practices to improve outcomes of young children and their families. Specifi cally, standards-based and evidence-based professional development competencies developed and guided by national and state agencies are discussed.
Research on Functional Mathematical Literacy of Pupils with Moderate Special Educational Needs Learning in Mainstream Schools
Authors: Tomėnienė Laima
Published: July 2022

The article deals with the research on functional mathematical literacy of pupils with moderate special educational needs (SEN) learning in eighth forms of mainstream schools. Research data were collected applying quantitative approach. The article describes aspects of research structure, material selection and received research results. The questionnaire survey was employed to fnd out how pupils with moderate SEN learning in eighth forms of mainstream schools are able to apply existing mathematical knowledge in real-life situations and solving practical type problems, their functional mathematical literacy abilities are assessed.
Passing the litmus test : are we preparing youth to manage basic health care needs? A preliminary investigation
Authors: Trout Alexandra L. , Lambert Matthew C. , Epstein Michael H , Avery Marybell
Published: July 2022

Although there has been growing awareness regarding the importance of health literacy on the social, emotional, and health related outcomes of adults, little is known about the preparedness of high school adolescents to access, navigate, and use health related information and services as they begin to enter into independence. This study evaluates the health literacy skills of 199 youth enrolled in high school health classes in a Midwestern region in the United States. Results revealed that nearly one out of three youth demonstrated some level of risk on applied measures of health literacy, and approximately half were unaware of how to access health insurance, regularly thought about what they eat and how it influences their health, knew how to make medical and dental appointments, and were aware of their family medical history. Implications, study limitations, and recommendations for practice and future research are discussed.
Oral motor praxis in individuals with autism spectrum disorders in the context of modern speech and language therapy
Authors: Vitásková Kateřina , Říhová Alena
Published: July 2022

The objective of the submitted contribution is to describe the issue of oral motor praxis in individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). The initial section of the contribution deals with the theoretical solutions relating to the given issue and, concurrently, provides information on the already implemented research focused on the given issue. The central domain is the analysis of oral motor ability in children with ASD through the application of the partial task activity ‘Warm-up’ from the software programme FONO 2. The results of the longitudinal observation are detected through the created evaluation scale and are recorded in the form of tables and graphs that are, subsequently, analysed. The results of the study constitute partial solutions of the specific research project IGA (IGA 2014/2015 PdF 2014_016), which was implemented by the Institute of Special Education Studies of the Faculty of Education Palacký University in Olomouc (principal researchers: Kateřina Vitásková, Alena Říhová).
Language cognizance and sign language awareness on the part of deaf individuals at 2 nd level primary schools for hearing impaired individuals in the Czech Republic
Authors: Kučera Pavel , Souralová Eva
Published: July 2022

A deaf individual’s language cognizance is one of the main factors leading to his/her inclusion in the community of the deaf. Sign language has a major influence on the development and creation of deaf individuals’ identity. The conscious use of sign language as a communication tool is closely related to the different perception of the world and, thus, culture dissimilarities. At present, the subject ‘Sign Language’, contributing to the overall development of language cognizance of deaf individuals — sign language users -, is being introduced at primary schools for hearing impaired individuals within the framework education programme. The following text presents the conclusions of the research focused on ascertaining the perception of sign language, the level of knowledge relating to the theory of sign language, and the position of sign language in the society (culture of the deaf) on the part of sign language users themselves — pupils at 2nd level primary schools for hearing impaired individuals — through the qualitative approach method.
Expression of social skills of a child with autism spectrum disorder. Case analysis
Authors: Jurevičienė Margarita , Šostakienė Nijolė
Published: July 2022

Profound deficit in social reciprocity skills is the core, underlying feature of the autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It is not doubted that social skills condition the quality of person’s social functioning and management of social situations and has enormous impact on individual’s personal and social life. Thus, social skills are behaviors that must be taught, learned, however, in planning the development of social skills at first it is important to identify individual powers of a child with autism spectrum disorder and problematic fields in the system child-family-school. In the present research the expression of social skills of a child with autism spectrum disorder is revealed through the following structural components: 1) interaction skills; 2) communication skills 3) participation skills 4) emotional skills 5) social cognition skills with the method of case analysis, combining content analysis of interview and observation data. The research data have been collected with the method of observation and purposeful semi-structured interview; methods of data analysis: interpretative content analysis of the texts of observation and interview.
Communicating mathematical ideas in a digital writing environment: the impacts on mathematical reasoning for students with and without learning disabilities
Authors: Huscroft-D’Angelo Jacqueline , Higgins Kristina , Crawford Lindy
Published: July 2022

Mathematical reasoning is often underdeveloped in students with learning disabilities (LD). Problem solving and reasoning represent one of the most important aspects of a mathematics curriculum. The purpose of the present study was to examine how communication through writing in mathematics via a digital environment impacts the mathematical reasoning of students with and without LD. Specifically, the research was guided by research questions: (1) What differences exist between the mathematical reasoning of students with and without LD prior to and after using a digital writing environment? (2) How does use of the digital writing environment differ between students with and without LD? (3) To what extent does student reasoning change overtime when emphasis is placed on communication via writing in mathematics? Oral reading and math fact fluency as well as participants’ working memory were used as academic variables. The Math Reasoning Inventory (MRI; Burns, 2012) is a formative assessment designed to evaluate mathematical reasoning through a face-to-face interview. The primary focus is on core numerical reasoning strategies and understanding. Subjects participated in an intervention focused on communication in mathematics through the use of digital writing tools in a computer-based mathematics program. Results reveal that communication through writing or peer-based discussions around mathematics can impact students’ reasoning skills. Reasoning is a fundamental skill in mathematics and remains an area in which students with LD continuously struggle; therefore, interventions focused on advancing student reasoning will be increasingly pivotal to mathematics education. Students in this study showed improvement in different areas of reasoning over the course of the intervention and responded differently to the types of writing environments that were offered. Regardless of which digital environment was preferred by students with and without LD, results demonstrated that incorporating writing into mathematics to communicate mathematical information benefited all students in this study and has the potential to impact mathematics education.
Changes in feeling of connectedness among senior adolescents
Authors: Kepalaitė Albina
Published: July 2022

Adolescents who have low level of social connectedness more often distinguish themselves by nonadaptive, inappropriate behaviour. This study aims to disclose changes in connectedness due to application of play therapy in the senior adolescents’ group. Research results disclosed that application of play therapy method “Game of Life”, grounded on psychodrama principles, adjusted the feeling of social connectedness among senior adolescents: changes were observed in connectedness to self, at the social level and to the close friend. Application of play therapy resulted in more significant changes in social connectedness in the girls’ group than in the boys’ group. Social connectedness did not change comparing fifteen — eighteen-year-old adolescent’s groups.
The emotional adjustment in the process of restorative art-therapy : the experience of interdisciplinary
Authors: Lebedeva Liudmila D.
Published: July 2022

Long-term changes in neuropsychological status of the female body (emotional deprivation, depression, neuroses) contribute to the development of cancer. Novelty of the research includes the evidence of influence of art therapy on emotional adjustment of cancer patients, the reliability of laboratory-confirmed levels of oxidative stress and cytokines (regulatory proteins) as a prognostic indicator in the assessment of neuroendocrine cancer patients. Program of Restorative Art Therapy proved efficiency of changes in emotional stability, motivation to recover, improvement life quality of cancer patients.
Links between adolescents’ subjective health assessment, type of physical activity and posture
Authors: Mockevičienė Daiva , Miliūnienė Lina , Dobrovolskytė Ilona , Žukauskaitė Renata
Published: July 2022

Schooling period is particularly important for posture formation because during this period pupils grow and develop quickly, bones and their commissures are intensively forming. The child should also get knowledge about hygiene and healthy lifestyle but still more significance is attached to physical exercises, active physical activities, strengthening all body muscles. 60 eighth form pupils at the age from 13 to 14 years participated in the research. The majority of adolescents choose more than one kind of physical activity but physical education lessons remain the main occupation during which children engage in physical activities. More than a half of adolescents do exercises on their own, less than a half of them go to workouts or the sports club.
Paradoxicality of the activity of institutional education institutions: principles and opportunities
Authors: Juodraitis Adolfas , Šapelytė Odeta
Published: July 2022

The article presents the problem of paradoxicality of the activity of juvenile institutional education (i.e., socialisation centres operating in Lithuania). Several important variables have not been considered in the interaction of the activities of the socialisation centre, simultaneously of pedagogical and other staff and learners, their families/foster parents, and this resulted in inconsistency of the implementation of the complex resocialisation process. The article calls for the scientific discussion, actualising essential principles of resocialisation observed in socialisation centres, grounded on empirical data of children’s subjective experience (N= 97) and assessment of specialists of the child socialisation centre (N=94).
Expression of children’s rights at school: pupils’ opinion
Authors: Malinauskienė Daiva , Klungevičiūtė Gintarė
Published: July 2022

The article analyses 6-7 graders’ opinion about expression of children’s rights at school. The study has revealed that the right to education, the right to be health, the right to healthy and safe environment are viewed by 6-7 graders as the most important. These rights are of particular significance for teenagers’ education, comprehensive development and socialization. The least important right to the teenagers is the right to participate in activities of the educational institution. The study has shown that most of pupils still believe that their rights are violated at school often or even always. Pupils lack emotional and physical security when at school. Among other causes, children’s insecurity may also be related to school community members’ occasional non-compliance with duties, as has been noted by pupils
Characteristics of tolerance to stress of future specialists with socionomy occupations
Authors: Dubchak Halyna
Published: July 2022

The article discusses the issue of tolerance to stress of future specialists with socionomy occupations. The "professional stress" concept is expanded. The empirical research of stress tolerance of modern Ukrainian students from universities and vocational schools is described. General and distinctive characteristics of tolerance to stress of future specialists with different socionomy occupations are determined
Vocational education - new generation teaching material for people with ASD
Authors: Kossewska Joanna
Published: July 2022

New generation multimedia teaching material for people with autism vocational education was built under the international cooperation with the theoretical assumptions of personalistic and the person-oriented approach. The didactic material combined of two main parts: general vocational skills training and particular skills adequate in four work places training (library, hotel, kitchen, office), was evaluated during the microgenetic training sessions with ASD adults clients. The results of metha-analysis are presented.
Results of an evaluation study of induction and mentoring for beginning special education teachers: what do they need?
Authors: Sebald Ann M. , Rude Harvey A.
Published: July 2022

This study reviews the results from a three-year evaluation study of one local school district’s induction and mentoring program for beginning special education teachers in the United States.  Data were collected for two years, with an intervention implemented in year three.  Results indicate that through strategic and intentional support, the district improved how it supported this unique group of novice professionals.  Designing induction and mentoring programs with the intent to maintain and foster the professional development of beginning teachers has implications for supporting the district’s intellectual capital in developing feelings of efficacy in teaching. Connecting induction and mentoring support with teacher preparation programs is discussed as a promising strategy to develop more systematic efforts in these areas. The essential skills for successful mentor teachers in support of learning focused relationships are identified.
Possibilities for development of social education and social educational services for a family at children’s day care centres
Authors: Alifanovienė Daiva , Šapelytė Odeta , Bėčiūtė Nomeda
Published: July 2022

The article deals with the specificity of social education and socioeducational services for children from socially disadvantaged families provided at children’s day care centres and possibilities of development of these services in the aspect of family members’ social inclusion. The article presents the analysis of qualitative semi-structured interviews. Content analysis targeted at experiences of children’s day care centre professionals (N = 10) highlights the content of learners’ social education at children’s day care centres and of provided socioeducational services for the family, expressed through professionals’ subjective assessment of  the current situation and the need for services to be provided.
Psychological aspects of inclusive setting for children with disabilities
Authors: Scherbakova Anna
Published: July 2022

The article discusses the issues of inclusive approach. The approach is assumed to aim at ensuring self-fulfilment of every community member. Regarding children with disabilities, the notion of inclusive setting means the setting for rehabilitation, providing them with activities and maintaining their independent living. The major obstacle is inconsistence and indistinctiveness of how people understand any possible models of living of people with disabilities. The ambivalence is reasoned mostly by the difference of personal attitudes, and feelings and emotions of population towards people with disabilities. The article points out a sharp difference of the attitude towards a disabled person as a generalized notion and a mentally retarded person.
Significance of development with regard to takeover of life roles among persons with mild intellectual disability
Authors: Valaikienė Aistė
Published: July 2022

The school plays an important role in preparation of persons with mild intellectual disability to adult's life. A person who starts his/ her independent life, usually experiences a shift in three general roles at work, in recreational activity and in socialization. An in-depth interview was conducted among persons with mild intellectual disability at the age of 18-33 in Lithuania and Italy in 2012-2013, in order to reveal the structure of takeover of life roles and the significance to success related to the participation in labour market. The successful structure of takeover of life roles among persons with mild intellectual disability along with the prerequisites for its formation and the significance to occupational integration are analysed in the current article. The article emphasizes the importance of prevocational education in formation of skills with regard to takeover of life roles.
Feed protein solubility as an indicator of digestibility and availability of nutrients in the diets of bulls
Authors:   State Institution Institute of Grain Crops NAAS, 14 Volodymyr Vernadskyi str., Dnipro, 49027, Ukraine, Kozyr V. S. , Petrenko V. I. ,   State Institution Institute of Grain Crops NAAS, 14 Volodymyr Vernadskyi str., Dnipro, 49027, Ukraine, Dimchya G. G. ,   State Institution Institute of Grain Crops NAAS, 14 Volodymyr Vernadskyi str., Dnipro, 49027, Ukraine, Maistrenko A. N. ,   State Institution Institute of Grain Crops NAAS, 14 Volodymyr Vernadskyi str., Dnipro, 49027, Ukraine
Published: July 2022

The research was conducted on steppe red bulls with duodenal and ileocecal anastomoses when feeding isoenergetic, isoprotein hay-concentrate diets with different levels of soluble protein (SP) and rumen degradable protein (RDP). We studied the transformation of dry matter (DM), organic matter (OM), crude protein (CP), crude ash (CA), crude fat (CF), crude fiber (CF) and nitrogen-free extractives (NFE) separately in a complex stomach, small (SI) and large (LI) parts of the intestine. Assimilation of protein by animals was assessed by the amount of it digested in SI, and unproductive costs — by the part of nitrogen in the urine. Diets consisted of hay, peas and mineral supplements. Different amounts of SP in the diets were achieved by feeding natural pea (control) or pea grilled at a temperature of +105°C (experiment). When feeding a diet with a reduced level of SP and RDP, the apparent intensity of digestion decreased, which was manifested in a slightly smaller amount of feed consumed, and in a smaller number of duodenal and ileocecal chyme. In a complex stomach, the CP digestibility of the experimental diet with a reduced level of SP was 10% lower. In the control diet with a high level of SP, more CP was degraded in rumen and more ammonium nitrogen was supplied to SI. The availability of CP for digestion in SI on the experimental diet was 5.8% higher, against control, with 8–10% higher digestibility of DM, OM and CP, but lower digestibility of CA and CF. In LI, the digestibility of nutrients in the studied diets was multidirectional. A significant amount of dietary protein was depreciated in the control diet with a high level of SP due to a 40% increase in urinary nitrogen excretion.
Genotypic structure of micropopulations of domestic pigs at the locus of the ryanodine RYR1 receptor
Authors:   Andrei Krupinsky Lviv Medical Academy, 70 Petro Doroshenko str., Lviv, 79000, Ukraine, Ryk T. M.
Published: July 2022

An important problem in transplant medicine is the lack of organs and tissues for human transplantation. One of the promising areas of its solution today is the use of organs and tissues of animals — xenotransplantation. Pigs for medical and biological needs must be stress-resistant and adapted to the conditions of keeping and feeding within the vivarium. Stress syndrome in pigs is caused by a point mutation that replaces 1843CT in exon 17 of the ryanodine RYR1 receptor gene in a homozygous state. The aim of the study was to examine the genetic structure of individual pig populations at the locus of the RYR1 gene responsible for hypersensitivity. DNA testing of 102 pigs of Poltava meat, Myrhorod, Great White, Landrace and Pietren breeds was performed. The studies were performed on DNA samples obtained from pig blood. DNA was isolated using Chelex 100 reagent. Studies of the RYR1 gene fragment were performed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFPR) by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Two alleles of the ryanodine RYR1 receptor gene (n and N) and three genotypes (NN, Nn, nn) were identified in the studied animals. A molecular study of pigs of different breeds revealed a polymorphism of the RYR1 gene. The number of animals carrying the recessive allele n of the ryanodine receptor gene RYR1, which is responsible for the sensitivity of pigs to stress factors, varied considerably: from its complete absence in the Vietnamese Pot-bellied, Ukrainian meat, Large White and Ukrainian Spotted Steppe breeds up to 100% of animals of homozygous RYR1nn genotype in the Piétrain breed and 50% of Landrace individuals with the heterozygous RYR1Nn genotype The mutant RYR1n allele was found in animals of the Piétrain breed with a 100% frequency. Heterozygous genotype RYR1Nn was found in pigs of Poltava Meat (10%), Landrace (50%), Myrhorod (15%) Ukrainian Spotted Steppe (50%). Homozygous RYR1NN genotype was detected in all Large White, Vietnamese Pot-bellied, and Ukrainian Meat pigs studied, indicating the absence of stress syndrome. It has been established that pigs of the Great White, Vietnamese Pot-bellied, and Ukrainian Meat breeds are preferred for breeding for biomedical purposes. Breeding of Piétrain pigs and any combinations with this breed makes it impossible to use such animals for biomedical experimental work.
Guiding Principles for Managed Care Arrangements for the Health of Newborns, Infants, Children, Adolescents and Young Adults
Authors: Carlson Kenneth M. , Berman Suzanne K. , Price Jonathan ,   THE COMMITTEE ON CHILD HEALTH FINANCING
Published: July 2022

Managed care arrangements are an approach to health care delivery in which the payer or other health care entity has policies that affect where care is delivered, what services are covered, and how payment is determined. When policies are intentionally designed, transparently administered, and continuously monitored, they are more likely to improve the population’s utilization of services, access to quality primary and specialty care, and access to appropriate medications. When managed care arrangements are designed well, particularly within evolving payment models, health care can be delivered in a manner that supports the goals of the Quadruple Aim: to reduce per capita costs of health care, to improve the health of populations, to improve the experience of patients receiving care, and to improve the experience of those who are providing care.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) urges payers and health care entities to use the key principles outlined in this statement when designing and implementing managed care arrangements and policies that cover newborn infants, infants, children, adolescents, and young adults to support the goal of improving the effectiveness of the health care delivery system for the pediatric population. The principles described in this statement are intended to complement those previously published in other AAP policies including “Principles of Child Health Care Financing,” “Scope of Health Care Benefits for Children From Birth Through Age 26,” “Patient- and Family-Centered Care and the Pediatrician’s Role,” and the “AAP Access Principles.”
Application Model of Non-Standard Techniques in Pedagogical Situations in Fine Arts within First Age Group
Authors: Kirova Delyana , Ilieva Milena
Published: July 2022

The presented article contains a brief theoretical basis of the need to select innovative elements in the educational fields of "Fine Arts". An experimental model for application of non-standard techniques in pedagogical situations in fine arts in the first age group is described.
The embodied palimpsest
Authors: Zubko Katherine C
Published: July 2022

In the South Asian dance style of bharatanatyam, the devotional bodies of dancers and the gods they portray model a performative porosity about ‘religious bodies.’ But what embodied resonances of religiosity transfer when the intention of the dancer or topic is not marked as devotional? Apsaras Arts’ Agathi: The Plight of the Refugee (2017–18) offers an ethnographic case study through which I aim to deepen the theory around the porosity of bodies by developing the theoretical construct of an embodied palimpsest: a framework that allows previous ‘erased’ layers to become present and interactive with later layers. I demonstrate how the choreographed gestures and rasas, or aesthetic moods, utilized to embody certain Hindu myths inform this danced portrayal of migrant experiences, but also note how the interactive layers of the palimpsest reshape classical theories about rasa, in particular karuna rasa, the mood of compassion, and can be used to particularize theories about kinesthetic empathy.
‘The body is a tool for remembrance’
Authors: Sijapati Megan Adamson
Published: July 2022

This article is a preliminary analysis of the role of the body in core rituals of a North American branch of the Shadhilyya Sufi order. It draws upon fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2020 to consider how spiritual healing practices involve the human body sensorily and in experiential, imaginative realms, as conveyed through practitioners’ verbal descriptions of what they feel in the body and how they understand their bodies and the bodies of others. I demonstrate how, in these healing practices, the body is instrumentalized in three key modes – as barometer, controller, and ground of energy – that change the way it is experienced. I argue that the ‘ordinary’ – or, non-extraordinary – body is instrumentalized through these healing modalities to become the site of transformation from spirit to material and material to spirit, and that through this the body emerges as central to everyday, lived Sufi practice. The healings discussed incorporate traditional Muslim devotional practices and long-standing Islamic and Sufi rituals such as dhikr (remembrance, recollection of the divine), recitation of the 99 names of the divine, Qur’anic recitation, cupping, and less traditionally Islamic practices such as acupuncture.
Hybrid mediation and Zoom
Authors: O’Sullivan Jo
Published: July 2022

This case study will consider the application of hybrid mediation, which is a combination of the civil and family models of mediation, relational mediation, and the wonders of working virtually on Zoom (video). We will look at how these processes operate with a vulnerable separating couple and their solicitors.
What can different fields of mediation learn from one another and how might this inform current practice?
Authors: Sims Andrew
Published: July 2022

This article will examine two innovative aspects of mediation practice that are evident in some, but not all, mediation fields: an ‘extended preparation’ phase following an initial pre-mediation meeting; and the identification and application of wider learning opportunities at an organisational level, based on anonymised mediated outcomes. It will explore the impact these two distinct aspects have in the mediation fields in which they are currently used, including their costs and benefits, and consider the extent to which they could be applied to other mediation contexts. It will offer some observations about how current mediation practice might benefit from ‘cross-field’ learning and it will conclude by urging practitioners to consider adopting a more expansive view of the mediator’s role and the mediation process.
First-time mediator stories
Authors: Moon Cathia A. , Raines Susan S. , Brelland Jr Laffon
Published: July 2022

How can mediation trainers and programme directors ensure that mediators are ready for their first solo case? This study utilised an online survey of forty-one mediators across case types to learn from their first mediation experiences; we asked them to reflect on how it felt to mediate for the first time and the ways in which their training had (or had not) prepared them to succeed. We found that more mediators used negative descriptors than positive ones to describe their initial mediation experience, yet nearly all claimed to have enjoyed mediation training. Study participants voiced a desire for more observations and co-mediation of real cases, or short of that, more role-play practice to prepare them for mediation. This study shares their narratives, analyses their feedback for mediation trainers, and helps to normalise the nervousness felt by most mediators during their first (and subsequent) cases.
THE ECSTASY OF INVOLVEMENT. CHELYUSKIN’S DIARY OF A GEOGRAPHY TEACHER
Authors:   National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Mishenev А. М.
Published: July 2022

In the article, the interconnection of modern subject with temporality is considered through the source of the historical present – the diary that the Moscow geography teacher and one of the Soviet leading supervisor in geography, Vera Rausch, kept in the first days after the sinking of the Chelyuskin steamer in the Arctic (around February 1934). Presenting a unique ego-document of the Soviet era, the researcher solves three problems. First, he describes the indirect, confusing, and incomplete relations between Rausch's biography and her archive, writing and curation in terms of the archival self. Second, he analyzes the diary, focusing in its multiple temporality. After revealing three layers of heterochronic corrections, recycling of the diary entry into a scholarly fiction becomes visible and localized in the biographical timescape. Finally, he explores the discursive and affective background that allowed the geography teacher to carry out a special kind of mediation through rejecting her “self”. Rausch shortens the distance to the Arctic event and shares the experience with her pupils. She uses school physical geography as a resource for mastering the position of the Soviet subject. Her experience of participation is described in the article against the background of the diaries of contemporaries, reflecting the Chelyuskin epic.
HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF CATHOLICISM IN CHINA IN THE 14TH – FIRST HALF OF THE 20TH CENTURIES
Authors:   Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Gorokhov S. A. , Dmitriev R. V. ,   Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Published: July 2022

The article is devoted to the development of Catholicism in China. The broad chronological framework (the 14th – first half of the 20th centuries) makes it possible to determine the nature of its spatial expansion. The attention is paid to the geographical logic of the Roman Catholic Church progress within China. The territorial and organizational structure of Catholicism in the country included the main core located in Northern China and covering the historical Zhili province with the center in Beijing and the adjacent regions of Inner Mongolia, Shandong and Shanxi. It was distinguished by the highest number and density of the Catholic population, as well as the greatest concentration of administrative-territorial institutions (units) of the Roman Catholic Church, clergy and religious infrastructure. The four cores of the second order, which had a smaller number and density of the Catholic population, were: the Jiangsu province with the main centers in Shanghai and Nanjing in the east, Hubei in the center, Guangdong with the greatest concentration of Catholics in the Pearl River Delta in the south, and Sichuan in the west. Considering both the population and the political side of the network of the Roman Catholic Church institutions in China, the authors conclude that the structure was in need of institutional consolidation from the Holy See, which could give the status of dioceses to its temporary administrative units in China – apostolic vicariates, uniting them into ecclesiastical provinces – metropolises. Until this happened, the unity of the space of Catholicism in China could not be ensured, since each apostolic vicariate was directly subordinate to the institution of the Roman Curia, the Congregation for the Propaganda of the Faith, responsible for missionary activities.
URAL VERSUS THE SOUTH: CRAWLER TRACTOR IN THE VISUAL CULTURE OF THE USSR IN THE ERA OF INDUSTRIALIZATION
Authors:   Institute of History and Archaeology, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Bugrov K. D.
Published: July 2022

The paper analyzes the role of the tractor as a visual symbol in the Soviet culture of the industrialization era, using a number of different cases including those of painting, photography, graphics, textual narratives, and presentations of material objects. The author shows that, originally, it was wheeled tractor that served as a visual symbol of the socialist transformation of the Soviet village, including both imported machines and those produced by Soviet factories in Leningrad. The start of industrialization and launching of facilities in Stalingrad and Kharkov led to changes in symbolic system: the wheeled tractor SKhTZ-15/30 (“international”) moved to the foreground. However, since the mid-1930s, the symbolic status transferred to the crawler tractor, which corresponded with the major trend of the Soviet economy of the period. Thus, the “Stalinets” tractors of the Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant started to dominate in the sphere of symbols, combining spectacular appearance, technological reputation of the plant, choice of name, and design solutions in regard for coloring. The paper examines the ways in which the “Stalinets” crawler assumed the leading role in the Soviet visual culture of the second half of the 1930s. However, in 1937, both Stalingrad and Kharkov plants launched their own mass-produced crawler under the name of SKhTZ-NATI. A sort of competition between crawler machines of the South and the Urals unfolded in the Soviet culture of the late 1930s – early 1940s. The author investigates the case by studying the presence of crawler tractors imagery in the decorations of the All-Union Agricultural Exhibition (VSHV) in 1939 and in the mosaics of Moscow Metro in 1943. The conclusion is made about the double character of the symbolism of crawler tractors, which served both as general symbols of the promoted success of the Soviet agriculture, and as manifestations of the industrial identity of particular enterprises, cities and territories.
1934. TOWARDS THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF OUR TIME
Authors:   National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Orlova G. А. , Balakhonskaya M. N. ,   National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Berlov А. А. ,   National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Zaripova А. А. ,   National Research University “Higher School of Economics”, Lukin М. Yu. ,   National Research University “Higher School of Economics”
Published: July 2022

The authors record a sharp rise of the present (from the routine of every day to the monumental and ideologically elaborated our era) in the discursive environments of 1934 and dedicate the article to the archaeology of our time. The analysis of the arrangement, becoming and conditions of possibility for extended and shared socialist present in 1934 is based on the archaeological method, dispositive analysis, the anthropology of time, and the experience of introducing one-year histories. The historical present is considered in the specifics of its eventfulness, connections of times, patterns, timescales, timescapes, time frames, modalities, positions, the art of navigation and existence in time. Daily newspapers, weekly magazines and diaries are used as sources of the present. The authors describe the becoming of the socialist present dispositive or timescape of our time through: a) its production in discourse; b) its technological objectification and inventory through measurement; c) the development of ethical standards for action in the present and the transformation of the present into an ethical criterion. The discursive opening of the present as a political resource, a stage for demonstrating the achievements of socialist construction, a priority area for updating the Soviet experience and identity are considered against the background of the mobilization temporality of the five-year plans and the shift from situational to total mobilization (discipline of the present). The extension and sharing of the present are realized through the formation of new relationships with the immediate past and future, the increase in the verbal mass of words-indicators of the current moment, the framing of Soviet identity through temporality, procedures for changing the temporal scale and the construction of a monumental present. Three patterns of extended and shared present are described. The actualization of interest in measuring time and technological access to the present, establishing control over it are recorded. The paper problematizes the formation of ethical standards and criteria that makes it possible to evaluate the actions of Soviet people in the extended present. A special role of the propaganda use of the Chelyuskin epic in the extension, sharing and political opening of our time is discussed.
HUMAN RIGHTS IN SOUTH AFRICA: AN ASSESSMENT
Authors: Clive Plasket
Published: July 2022

In the 20 years that have passed since the Langa Massacre on 21 March 1985, the South African legal system and the constitutional system that underpins it have changed in most fundamental ways. This paper examines the constitutional structures of 1985, and of 2005, and traces South Africa’s progress from autocratic rule to democratic governance, from a system in which fundamental rights were routinely violated to one in which they are constitutionally protected. It examines a selection of issues that defined the pre-democratic legal order and looks at how those issues have been dealt with in the new dispensation. It concludes that “whatwe have achieved so far in creating a society that respects human rights and freedoms stands as an enduring monument – albeit one continually in the process of being built – to all those, such as the victims of the Langa Massacre, who lost their lives in the quest for a better future”.
SOME THOUGHTS ON THE CONSTITUTIONALITY OF “INDEPENDENT” TRIBUNALS ESTABLISHED BY THE STATE
Authors: Kevin Hopkins
Published: July 2022

An interesting question for constitutional lawyers arises around the legality of some of the so-called “independent tribunals” or forums that are established to make quasi-judicial decisions. Sometimes the tribunals are designed to only perform administrative functions and other times they are designed to perform purely judicial functions – perhaps on issues of compensation or to make decisions that resolve disputes. The point of this note is not to examine the legality of any specific tribunal but rather to discuss some general considerations that ought to drive any debate on the legality thereof. It sometimes happens that, for reasons of control, the state envisages creating a tribunal that will be part of the executive arm of government. The consequence of this may be that decisions taken by the tribunal effectively remove the resolution of a dispute referred to that tribunal from the judiciary and place it instead in the hands of the executive. This kind of arrangement immediately raises at least two significant constitutional concerns:(a) First, the separation of powers doctrine, given that the Constitution requires a functional divide between executive and judiciary; and (b) Second, the right of access to a court of law that all people have in terms of section 34 of the Constitution.