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Iris Winston. Staging a Legend: A History of Ottawa Little Theatre
Authors: Gardiner Jessica
Published: December 2020

There is an argument among community theatre practitioners that goes something like this. If the same resources were available to community/amateur theatres as are available to professional theatres, there would be no qualitative difference in the nature of their performances. Indeed, many community theatre companies believe their performances to lack only the critical esteem afforded to those of the professional theatre. They believe that they are marginalized by critics because their performances are prejudged, tainted by the negative connotations of leisure and facility associated with the term amateur. Amateur theatre practitioners, they would argue, participate in the theatre for the sheer love of it. They are not paid like their professional counterparts, but have chosen the security of regular wages in the business world while confining their creative passions to a limited number of hours each evening. Certainly it is the contention of Iris Winston's Staging a Legend: A History of Ottawa Little Theatre that the Ottawa Little Theatre (OLT) provides quality performances which have benefited from, and survived for eighty-four years because of, this arrangement. Furthermore, while living in the shadow of such professional giants as the National Arts Centre and the Great Canadian Theatre Company, the OLT, Staging a Legend argues, by traditionally offering a season of Broadway and West End favourites, consistently pleases its subscribers to such an extent that it never fails to balance its books, an accomplishment its professional counterparts are not always able to achieve. In other words, the OLT, an amateur company, conducts the business of theatre more successfully than its professional rivals. However, Winston shows, that due to a fear of losing its subscriber base, the OLT avoids challenging or difficult material; and, it is for this reason that the OLT rarely presents the work of Canadian playwrights.
Lynda Mason Green & Tedde Moore. Standing Naked in the Wings
Authors: Weiss Peter Eliot
Published: December 2020

In 1949, Toby Cole and Helen Krich Chinoy published Actors on Acting, a collection of writings by actors on the theories, techniques and practice of their craft. Now, almost fifty years later, Lynda Mason Green and Tedde Moore have compiled another collection of actors' words, Standing Naked in the Wings. This time, however, the focus is on neither theory nor craft, but rather on the experiences that go along with practice. The book has weaknesses and strengths, but ultimately proves both largely entertaining and useful.
Introduction: Tout ce qui est nouveau redevient nouveau (encore et encore et encore...)
Authors: Barton Bruce , Kirkley Bruce
Published: December 2020

L’idée de co-diriger un numéro de Recherches théâtrales au Canada sur le thème de l’intermédialité nous est venue pour la première fois en juin 2006. Nous savions que la liste de numéros thématiques en coulisses chez RTaC était longue et que nous allions donc devoir attendre plusieurs années avant que notre idée se concrétise, et pourtant nous avions tous deux très envie d’explorer les possibilités qu’offrait un tel projet. Quand le moment est venu pour nous de passer à l’action, nous avons été surpris par le peu de réponses (selon nous) à nos deux premiers appels d’articles, ce qui nous a incité à repousser le moment de passer sous presse. Or, le laps de temps singulièrement long entre la conception et la réalisation du projet nous a donné une occasion peu commune de revoir ce à quoi nous aspirions en projetant ce numéro. À l’automne 2011, alors que nous sommes sur le point de passer sous presse, le contenu que nous proposons donne un aperçu de l’évolution prolongée et quelque peu sinueuse de ce numéro. Un des articles nous a été soumis au courant de l’année 2008; un autre vient d’être évalué par les pairs il y a à peine quelques mois. En retraçant la progression de ce projet, depuis les premiers échanges dont il a fait l’objet, en passant par la séquence des soumissions, de l’évaluation et des révisions, nous constatons que le domaine des études intermédiales a évolué rapidement et considérablement au cours de cette période. Ce numéro est donc, sans que nous ne l’ayons nécessairement voulu ainsi, un témoignage éloquent de cette évolution.
Théâtralite, médialité et sociomédialité: Fondements et enjeux de l'intermédialité théâtrale
Authors: Larrue Jean-Marc
Published: December 2020

Née de l’avènement des technologies numériques, l’intermédialité recouvre des phénomènes aussi vieux que les plus vieux médias. Qu’on considère le théâtre comme un média ou qu’on lui reconnaisse des propriétés médiatiques, l’approche intermédiale renouvelle considérablement la compréhension que nous avons de sa nature et de sa conjoncture : ses rapports avec d’autres médias et d’autres pratiques, en particulier ceux et celles nés des technologies électriques puis numériques. La dynamique intermédiale repose autant sur le principe de remédiation tel que l’ont défini Bolter et Grusin que sur celui de reste et résidu—les médias résiduels d’Acland. Mais un média peut aussi bloquer la logique remédiante quand des agents considèrent que cette remédiation va à l’encontre des intérêts ou de l’identité du média. C’est ce que nous appelons la résistance médiatique dont l’histoire récente du théâtre offre de nombreux exemples. Parmi eux, celui de la très lente pénétration des technologies de reproduction sonore sur les scènes et dans les processus de création. L’article suggère différentes hypothèses qui expliqueraient à la fois les causes, les modalités et les effets de cette résistance au théâtre au cours du Long Siècle (1880 à aujourd’hui), c’est-à-dire depuis la révolution électrique qui a vu, en même temps, naître la lampe à incandescence et le micro. Si la première a envahi toutes les scènes du théâtre occidental en moins de vingt ans, le second a été tenu à l’écart de la représentation pendant trois quarts de siècle.
Verbatim Theatre and Social Research: Turning Towards the Stories of Others
Authors: Gallagher Kathleen , Wessels Anne , Ntelioglou Burcu Wayman
Published: December 2020

This paper analyses the convergence of ethnographic research and Verbatim theatre in both the context of an urban secondary school drama classroom and in two professional theatres in the city of Toronto. This four-year international, digital, collaborative ethnography focuses on performance and its relationship to youth engagement. As part of the larger project, this paper analyses data gathered in the school research site that charted youth reactions to a Verbatim theatre workshop and performance of The Middle Place, a powerful Verbatim play about shelter youth, created by the socially committed theatre company, Project: Humanity. Additional digital data included the subsequent videotaped youth-created Verbatim monologues. The research team also followed Project: Humanity into two professional theatres in Toronto (Theatre Passe Muraille and Canadian Stage) where youth and adult audiences, fresh from seeing The Middle Place, were interviewed about the play, cultural representations of youth, and theatre as a form of social intervention. The third data set occurred back in the classroom of our school research site, where the The Middle Place filtered back into student drama work in surprising ways. To analyse these data, we bring performance theory, Brechtian theory, relational art theory and Foucault’s concept of ‘parrhesia’ to address the ethics of representing trauma and the possibility of ‘fearless speech’. In responding theatrically, these youth offered our research valuable glimpses into the subcultures of urban youth and their theatre-making practices.
Elephant Wake : élégie pour une culture moribonde, ou fable sur la pluralité des appartenances identitaires?
Authors: Côté Nicole
Published: December 2020

Dans le théâtre franco-canadien de l’Ouest, il semble que seules de constantes négociations avec le groupe hégémonique permettent la survie des groupes minoritaires, toujours déjà marginalisés. Elephant Wake, de Joey Tremblay, présente cette résilience qui caractérise la minorité franco-canadienne de l’Ouest. Par son récit ironique, où le dernier survivant francophone narre dans un anglais mâtiné de français l’abandon progressif du village francophone par tous ses habitants, le monodrame montre que ni le total rejet de l’autre hégémonique ni la fusion avec ses valeurs ne constituent des solutions viables. Elephant Wake suggère donc qu’il est impossible de fixer une identité et d’en faire un énoncé « pur », l’identité étant toujours en processus, hybridée par les individus et leurs cultures.
Lawless Lawyers: Indigeneity, Civility, and Violence
Authors: Davis-Fisch Heather
Published: December 2020

On 8 June 1826, young members of the Family Compact—allegedly disguised as “Indians”—raided William Lyon Mackenzie’s York office, smashing his printing press and throwing his types into Lake Ontario, to protest defamatory editorials. This essay investigates how the cultural memory of “Indian” disguise emerged by asking what this memory reveals about the performative and political dynamics of this protest. At first glance, the performance conventions and disciplinary function of the Types Riot allow it to be compared to folk protest traditions such as “playing Indian” and charivari. However, the Types Riot differed from these popular performances because the participants were members of the provincial elite, not protestors outside of the structures of power. The rioters’ choice of how to perform their “civilized” authority—through an act of lawless law legitimated through citations of “Indigenous” authority—demonstrates inherent contradictions in how power was enacted in Upper Canada. Furthermore, by engaging in a performance that resembled charivari, the rioters called their own civility—attained through education, wealth, and political connections—into question by behaving like peasants. The Types Riot demonstrates that the Family Compact’s claim to authority based on its members’ civility—their superior values, education, and social privilege—was backed by the threat of uncivil violence. The riot revealed a contradiction that the Upper Canadian elite would, no doubt, have preferred remained private: that in the settler-colony, gentlemanly power relied upon the potential for “savage” retribution, cited through the rioters’ “Indian” disguises.
Introduction: Pushing the Limits
Authors: Schweitzer Marlis
Published: December 2020

Whenever I review an article submission to Theatre Research in Canada/Recherches théâtrales au Canada, one of the first questions I ask is: Does this article push the limits of theatre and performance studies in an exciting, provocative, or challenging way? Does it open up a fresh approach to existing material, shed light on an overlooked subject, excavate new primary sources, employ innovative methodologies, or introduce a novel theoretical approach? In short, does the article do something different for the discipline and does this difference matter? I am pleased to say that all six of the articles gathered in this issue of TRIC/RTAC push the limits of theatre and performance studies scholarship in diverse and engaging ways. This pushing continues in the excellent Forum section edited by Adriana Disman, which explores four of the performance art pieces she curated as part of the LINK & PIN series in 2013-14.
Diamanda Galás and Amanda Todd: Performing Trauma’s Sticky Connections
Authors: Vosters Helene
Published: December 2020

Though trauma transgresses borders and produces displacements, too often its study and the treatment of its harmful affects contain it historically, geographically, and institutionally. In the process, trauma becomes dislocated from the larger affective economies through which it is produced. Following the lead of feminist and queer studies scholars, Ann Cvetkovich and Sara Ahmed, Helene brings together two performances—Diamanda Galás’s Defixione , Will and Testament: Orders from the Dead, and Amanda Todd’s My Story: Struggling, bullying, suicide and self harm—to illuminate sticky connections across the geopolitical particularities of violently produced trauma. She proposes that Galás’s and Todd’s performances of two radically disparate traumas—genocide and sexual assault—need to be understood as contemporary variations of traditional laments that use embodied affective expression to communicate the overwhelming and “inarticulate grief” associated with the trauma of loss and violation (Holst-Warhaft Cue 4). With this essay, Vosters aspires not only to bring Galás and Todd into dialogue, but also to join with them as part of an interdisciplinary and polyphonic chorus of lament against the forgetfulness of trauma’s production.
Investigating Afghanada: Situating the CBC Radio Drama in the Context and Politics of Canada and the War on Terror
Authors: Thistle Lindsay
Published: December 2020

In 2008, Globe and Mail theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck made a significant remark about Canadian theatre and the War on Terror, noting a clear absence of stage plays that addressed Canada’s participation. There was, however, a long-running CBC radio drama series, Afghanada, which centred fully on the experiences of Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan. Because relatively little research has yet to be published about the radio series, Lindsay Thistle details Afghanada’s production history, major players, creative processes and goals. She also considers how the radio medium affected the objectives of the series and its ability to represent war, ultimately arguing that Afghanada was inescapably politicized throughitsrelationship with national institutions, its interest in realistic and true-to-life stories, its focus on everyday soldiers, its casting choices and its inclusion of post-traumatic stress disorder. Throughout this investigation, Thistle raises important questions about the politics of dramatizing war while Canada itself was at war. She concludes by observing that while Afghanada avoids an explicit message in support of or against the Canada’s involvement in the War on Terror, it engaged with the political from its inception, through its creation, and in its reception.
Inclusion: Building a Culture of Desire and Resilience
Authors: Bulmer Alex
Published: December 2020

On February 15, 2015, a day rumoured to be colder than the North Pole, a crowd of people filled Toronto’s Theatre Centre on Queen Street West to participate in an afternoon conversation event called The Republic of Inclusion. The audience—a range of academics, theatre makers, community activists, and educators—arrived on foot, wheels, with guide dogs and sticks.
“Having a whole lot of show going on”: Diasporic Caribbean Theatre in Toronto
Authors: Knowles Ric
Published: December 2020

The following conversation about Caribbean Canadian women’s theatre took place on November 22, 2010 in Toronto at the invitation of Hyacinth Simpson, editor of Macomere: Journal of the Association of Caribbean Women Writers and Scholars. The conversation was transcribed by Cristina Naccarato, edited and annotated by Ric Knowles, and scheduled for publication in Macomere. Because the journal suspended publication the interview was never published. A short version of it appears here as the record of a significant historical moment.
An Effigy of Empire: A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Canadian Imperial Nationalism During the Second Boer War
Authors: Bretz Andrew
Published: December 2020

On October 31, 1899, as a part of undergraduate University of Toronto Halloween celebrations, a performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at The Princess of Wales Theatre on King Street West was interrupted by shouts from the gallery calling for the death of “Oom” Paul Kruger, the leader of the South African Republic, who had recently declared war on the British Empire. The student demonstration was not, in itself, seen as objectionable or surprising—a similar interruption by Trinity students at convocation on October 25 was lauded in The Globe as “Patriotic.” What was unusual to the Toronto newspapers that spent the next week decrying the demonstration was the students’ lack of decorum at a Shakespeare performance. In this contribution, Andrew Bretz looks at the tension between how paratextual signifiers such as costuming choices, lighting, and the theatre space itself constructed the Halloween 1899 performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as an imperial text, and how Shakespeare as “high culture” moderated the ways in which individuals could express imperial allegiances. This alignment of A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Canadian and British imperial projects may serve to explain why the students chose a performance of that particular play to enact their patriotic violence, yet the condemnation of the event by the daily newspapers troubles the relationship between imperial identity, partially predicated on a sanitized vision of Shakespeare, and the enacting of violence against the colonized other. For the newspapers, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as a representation of paternalistic British culture and identity, ultimately could not be reconciled with the bald violence of a jingoistic imperialism.
Beyond a Boundary: Washington’s Historic Districts and Their Racial Contents
Authors: Logan Cameron
Published: December 2020

Between the mid-1970s and the mid-1980s there was a wave of citizen-initiated preservation activity in Washington, DC, much of it directed towards identifying and expanding neighbourhood historic districts. These efforts were driven by several different events and influences that coalesced in the period: a new sense of local control that came with the establishment of municipal self-government in the District of Columbia after 1975; the expectation that a comprehensive historic preservation law would be enacted in the district; the U.S. Supreme Court’s affirmation of the legality of preservation controls in 1978; and the renewed salience of the idea of place that affected everything from community art and neighbourhood activism to urban design and architectural theory. This paper addresses this moment of intense activity by investigating the ways in which preservation advocates in one neighbourhood, Dupont Circle, sought to expand their historic district. The proposal to add several square miles of new territory to the designated historic area was led by a predominantly white preservation organization, the Dupont Circle Conservancy. The proposal aroused significant opposition from a group calling itself the 14th and U Street Coalition, which styled itself as the representative of African-American interests and historical identity in neighbouring Shaw. They protested that the Dupont Circle preservationists were attempting to annex their neighbourhood and with it, their history. At first glance this conflict appears to be a predictable case of inner city gentrification fought along the lines of racial identity. But when examined more carefully, the series of claims and counter-claims embedded in the conflict exposed a more nuanced set of issues related to skin tone, class, and historical entitlement. The conflict highlighted the absence of any agreement about what constituted the historicity of such a historic area and cast doubt over who might be qualified speak on behalf of the history contained in such an area.
Little Burgundy: The Interwoven Histories of Race, Residence, and Work in Twentieth-Century Montreal
Authors: High Steven
Published: December 2020

Until the 1950s, most black men in Montreal worked for the railway companies as sleeping car porters, dining car employees, and red caps. The city’s English-speaking black community took root in Little Burgundy because it was close to Windsor and Bonaventure train stations. The area between Saint-Henri and Griffintown, north of the Lachine Canal, in the city’s Southwest Borough, was once known by many names. “Little Burgundy” was invented in the 1960s by city officials to describe their urban renewal plans for the area. If employment mobility was foundational in making this community, it proved just as central in its unmaking in the 1960s and 1970s. The shift from trains to cars and trucks had a two-fold impact on Little Burgundy. First, employment levels collapsed with the decline of passenger train travel, leaving many black men unemployed. Then the state built a highway through the neighbourhood to facilitate the mobility of mainly white suburban workers and consumers making their way to the central city. Next, the neighbourhood was “renewed” on a massive scale. What followed were years of dislocation and crisis. Much of the black community was dispersed as a result. It was no coincidence. The radical restructuring of North American cities disproportionately affected racialized minorities and poor whites. What was different here was that the area’s reputation for being the birthplace of black Montreal emerged after the community had been largely dispersed by urban renewal.
Anthropometric characteristics of rhythmic gymnasts
Authors: Lukić Jelena
Published: December 2020

In esthetic sports, such as rhythmic gymnastics, body size and body composition can directly affect performance and outcome. The aim of this study was to identify anthropometric characteristics and to notice their impact on the prediction of higher performance in rhythmic gymnastics. For the needs of this review, scientific literature was analyzed from prestigious scientific journals. This systematic review included available data from the following databases: Google Scholar, Springer, PubMed, Europe PMC and research databases. Studies with the following criteria were included: anthropometric characteristics, profile or status and somatic constitution, body composition, somatotypes and morphological models, factors influencing performance and the level of the performance (reliability), and being published in English and Serbian language. Out of total 52 studies, reviewed 9 studies met the inclusion criteria. Based on the findings of the present study it could be concluded that anthropometric characteristics are an important item on the basis of which talent identification, sports selection and programming of training and nutrition plan is performed.
BRAIN CHANGER. Felice Jacka, 321 pages, Macmillan, 2019 (ISBN: 978-1-76055-651-8)
Authors: Meulenberg Cécil J.W.
Published: December 2020

This easy readible and thoroughly scientifically-backed book by australian professor Felica Jacka, explains the recent science on how diet can affect the brain and mental health, with a specific focus on the risk to anxiety and depression. The scientific evidence is drawn from the results with larger cohorts and randomized controlled trials including amongst others: ALSPAC (Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, United Kingdom); HELFIMED (Healthy Eating for Life with a Mediterranean Diet, Australia); HUSK (Hordaland Health Study, Norway); PREDIMED (Prevencíon con Dieta Mediterránea, Spain); SMILES (Supporting the Modification of Lifestyles in Lowered Emotional States, Australia). These and other studies show that wherever the geographical area, plant-based Mediterranean-like diets improve the health outcomes of children, adolescents, adults and ageing individuals affected by mental health illnesses, in cost-effective ways. Consecutive chapters illustrate recent understandings of the effects of diets on the immune system, their influence on brain plasticity (which also occurs in older humans), epigenetics, food sensitivities, inflammation, and centrally, the importance of food to the gut microbiota (including the consumption of fermented foods). These effects are explained simply and efficiently in relation to mental health, as well as briefly to psychotic illnesses, autism and ADHD. By doing so, it is possible for every physical-activity researcher or athlete interested in the combination of nutrition, lifestyles and good habits, to get up to date easily, or to make a first aquaintance with the fields of nutrition and brain health. The appendix contains a reference list that restricts itself to the most influential studies like systematic reviews and meta-analysis. Also included is the Modified Mediterranean Diet (ModiMED) food pyramid, and several ModiMEd recipies (used in the SMILES study), as well a weekly meal planner, that all could be of use to get started with an easy intervention study. Although it is intended for the general public, the book is recommended for scholars of any life sciences. With her to-the-point and easy language writing gift, professor Jacka manages to explain the complicated matters of brain health effortlessly. She does this convincingly, but not superficially, relevant and correct, without any simplification. To influence mental health through nutritious, whole foods will be an essential topic to come, also in the fields of sports. In that sense Brain Changer, can be exactly that.
Formation of professional stress resistance of future heads of educational institutions at the stage of master's training
Authors: Meshko Halyna , Meshko Oleksandr
Published: December 2020

The article deals with the problem of professional stress resistance of future principals at the stage of master’s training. The results of studying the level of professional resistance of future principals using the Jenkinson technique for determining stress susceptibility and the SACS-strategy questionnaire and coping behavior model are presented. The state of development of the identified problem in the psychological and pedagogical science and practice of higher education institutions is analyzed. The essence of stress resistance is revealed, opportunities for preventing professional stress, the resources of stress resistance formation and ways to increase the level of stress resistance at the stage of Master’s training are identified and analyzed. The complex program of increasing the level of professional stress resistance of future principals which is aimed, first of all, at eliminating potential sources of stress in their inner world, which includes: formation of skills of productive interaction and skills of constructive conflict resolution, constructive difficulties; teaching methods of analysis, interpretation and realistic assessment of stressful situations, mastering constructive coping strategies; formulation of stress protection strategies; teaching self-regulation methods and techniques; formation of sanogenic thinking is justified, developed and implemented. The main ways of realization of the complex program are: educational activity (lecture-educational work, practical classes, performance of creative work (individual educational-research task), independent and research work of undergraduates, functioning of student problem group, individual-advisory work tasks during management practice, training practice. The role of psychological and pedagogical disciplines and, in particular, of the course “Occupational health of the teacher”, developed by the author and psychological and pedagogical training in the formation of professional stress resistance of future educational institutions principals is identified. The matters require amplification are defined. They are substantiation and implementation of antistress sanogenic psychotechnologies, technologies of the resilience formation among educational institutions principals in the system of postgraduate pedagogical education.
Development of internet psychology in Ukraine and in the world
Authors: Akimova Nataliia
Published: December 2020

The article is devoted to a new branch of psychological science that is the Internet psychology. The current state of the psychology of the Internet, some prerequisites for its development, main directions, achievements and unresolved problems are analyzed. The purpose of the research is to analyze of the current state of Internet psychology, outline the prerequisites for its development, main directions, achievements and unresolved problems. For this purpose, methods and techniques of generalization, analysis and synthesis were used to prepare the theoretical part, also elements of conceptual analysis (definition of meaningful structure, isolation of keywords) were used to classification of the mentioned studies. The author comes to the conclusion from the theoretical analysis that the Internet psychology in the meaning of a branch of psychology unites the methodology, theory and researching practice of the types, methods and principles of people using of Internet services. It appeared almost immediately after the Internet and develops in parallel with it. Now this branch is still at the stage of formation and requires significant revision of the terminological apparatus and the development of its own methodological base. Her active development will depend directly of increasing amount of time that modern man spends in cyberspace. In addition, the article identifies some significant discoveries in the area of the Internet psychology, classic works, main research problems and their representatives, and also the technical and psychological specifics of the Internet in their interconnection. The key directions of the modern Internet psychology developing are the psychological analysis of human-internet interaction, the psycholinguistic specificity of Internet genres and discourses, the peculiarities of Internet communication, the specificity of virtual world existence (psychology of hypertext), personality on the Internet. The technical specificity of virtual technology causes some psychological features on the Internet, in particular the restriction of sensory experience only visual and auditory, different from the real world sense of space and time, the emergence of negative emotions with limited accessibility to cyberspace, the constant fixation of cyberspace results, virtual identity, online self disengagement, status alignment, unlimited contact availability, changing priorities.
Psychological mechanisms of development of mathematical research abilities’ components in schoolchildren
Authors: Kolinets Hanna
Published: December 2020

The article deals with the problem of psychological mechanisms of development of students’ mathematical research abilities in the process of solving mathematical creative tasks. It is indicated on the growing role of mathematical knowledge in connection with the implementation of a new, broader approach to the social functions of the school. Therefore, the formation of creative, research thinking, high level of need for achievements of schoolchildren is, of course, an important task of modern education, in particular its intermediate level. In order to develop the flexibility of thinking, developed and proposed to students of the upper classes, three types of problems with gradually increasing complexity: analytical and synthetic problems, problems with different degrees of assistance, tasks of self-research orientation. The results of recent researches and publications on psychology of creative activity, specifics of the process of formation of mathematical abilities are analyzed. The definition of concepts of research abilities, research mathematical abilities is given. The relationship between research abilities and the development of the problem of creativity psychology has been established. It was created the methodology for the development of components of mathematical research abilities of pupils in the process of carrying out special classes, which was focused on the development of separate components of mathematical research abilities. It has been confirmed that specially organized training positively influenced the development of structural components of mathematical research abilities of senior pupils. It is indicated on certain differences in the definition of research abilities in psychological and pedagogical literature, in revealing the essence, structure of research abilities, which affects the absence of valid methods of their detection. This is precisely why we can explain the inadequate development of this problem in methodological, theoretical and practical plans. It is proved that the senior school age is the age of development of the pre-professional scientific orientation of the person, in particular research abilities. The research mathematical orientation of high school students is manifested in the ability to quickly and easily find original, non-standard ways of solving problems, to investigate problems for compatibility and sufficiency of data, to establish cause and effect patterns. It is confirmed that the role of the motivational-personal component of mathematical research abilities is increasing among the high school students, namely: the interest in mathematical thinking is increasing, the desire to learn new is growing, showing persistence, determination, commitment and so on.
The Men and the Boys, Twenty Years On
Authors: Cann Victoria , Madrid Sebastián , Ratele Kopano , Tarrant Anna , Ward Michael R.M. , Connell Raewyn
Published: December 2020

It is twenty years since the publication of Raewyn Connell’s highly influential text The Men and the Boys. This book, building on feminist and pro-feminist perspectives of gender formation, was written over a ten-year period from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. It was published five years after the release of the groundbreaking text Masculinities (1995) and tackled multiple issues concerning boys and men. While providing an important platform and summary of where the research from the social science and humanities on men and masculinities stood in the year 2000, the book also contained a theoretical framework for understanding men and masculinities as part of gender relations. Importantly, the future direction of the field was outlined, and suggestions were made as to likely future agendas. These subjects included investigating the implications of globalization and its different characteristics on gender formation, the role of men’s bodies, the impact of the media and culture in men’s lives, sexuality, education, health, politics, change, violence, and peace. In recent years, questions about the lives and experiences of men and boys continue to raise remarkable media interest, public concern, and controversy on a global scale. Global changes in practices of knowledge have ensured that across the humanities and social sciences, research in the field of masculinities (of all ages) has continued to flourish and expand.
Regional Anaesthesia in a Combat Setting
Authors: NAMBIAR B C , PAHWA B , GHATAK M
Published: December 2020

Background: Recent advances in combat casualty care have contributed signifi cantly to higher survival rates in previously fatal injuries from military trauma. However, most of the literature comes from international data during Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom. Despite having conflicts, counter insurgency operations spanning over decades, very few studies in Indian scenario have analyzed injuries related to Combat and Military Trauma. Method: A retrospective observational study was done based on the records of management of military trauma cases in a zonal hospital deployed in an operational area. All trauma/ combat casualties over a one year period from Oct 2018 to Oct 2019 were included and data was segregated based on type of mechanism of trauma, limb injuries involved, and choice of anaesthesia given based on type of surgery. Results: Total 371 combat casualties were included in the study, maximum patients had splinter injuries with grenade blast (43.4%), followed by gunshot wounds (39.9%). Other injuries included mine blast (11.3%) and miscellaneous including road traffi c accidents (5.4%). Due to predominant involvement of limbs, regional anaesthesia was used most commonly (78%) and general anaesthesia was used only in 23.7% of cases. Conclusion: In our study maximum casualties were peripheral limb injuries both upper and lower limbs. Regional anaesthesia, peripheral nerve blocks for upper limb injuries and sub arachnoid block for lower limb injuries, were more commonly used in comparison to general anaesthesia (GA), while injuries involving body regions other than limbs were performed exclusively under GA.
Penerapan Strategi Pembelajaran Preview Question Read Reflect Recite Review Untuk Meningkatkan Keterampilan Membaca Pemahaman Teks Eksplanasi
Authors: Alawiyah Susi
Published: December 2020

Abstract:  This study aims to determine the effect of implementing the PQ4R learning strategy on reading comprehension skills of explanatory text. This research was conducted at SMK N 5 Tangerang Regency. The population in this study were all students of SMK N 5 Tangerang Regency. The sample of this study were students of grade 12 TBSM 1 and grade 12 TBSM 2. The approach used in this study was a quantitative approach. This research design uses a control group pretest-posttest design so it requires a control group and an experimental group. The results of this study indicate that the average increase in the application of the PQ4R learning strategy is 25.71 while the average increase in the conventional learning strategy is 15.87. This means that the application of the PQ4R strategy can improve students' reading comprehension skills of explanatory text more effectively when compared to conventional learning strategies at SMK N 5 Tangerang Regency.Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh penerapan strategi pembelajaran PQ4R terhadap keterampilan membaca pemahaman teks ekplanasi. Penelitian ini dilakukan di SMKN 5 Kabupaten Tangerang. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh Siswa SMKN 5 Kabupaten Tangerang. Sampel penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas 12 TBSM 1 dan kelas 12 TBSM 2. Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah pendekatan kuantitatif. Desain penelitian ini menggunakan desain control group pretest-postest design sehingga memerlukan kelompok kontrol dan kelompok eksperimen. Hasil dari penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa kenaikan rata-rata penerapan strategi pembelajaran PQ4R adalah 25.71 sedangkan kenaikan rata-rata strategi pembelajaran konvensional sebesar 15.87. Artinya penerapan strategi PQ4R dapat meningkatkan keterampilan membaca pemahaman teks eksplanasi peserta didik lebih efektif jika dibandingkan dengan strategi pembelajaran konvensional di SMK N 5 Kabupaten Tangerang.
Sınıf Öğretmenlerinin STEM Eğitimine Yönelik Görüşlerinin Değerlendirilmesi
Authors: KÖSE Mücahit , ATAŞ Reha
Published: December 2020

Araştırmada sınıf öğretmenlerinin STEM eğitim yaklaşımına yönelik görüşlerini değerlendirmek amaçlanmıştır. Araştırma temel nitel araştırma deseninde gerçekleştirilmiştir. Araştırmanın çalışma grubu olasılığa dayalı olamayan yöntemlerinden amaçlı ölçüt örnekli yöntemiyle belirlenmiştir. Araştırmanı çalışma grubunun araştırmanın amacına uygun olarak STEM eğitimi almış yedi sınıf öğretmeni oluşturmaktadır. Araştırmacılar tarafından konu ile ilgili yarı yapılandırılmış görüşme formu tasarlanmış pilot uygulama ile formda düzenlemeler yapılmıştır. Araştırmaya katılan sınıf öğretmenleri ile görüşmeler gerçekleştirilmiş, veriler kaydedilmiş ve içerik analiz yöntemi ile analiz edilmiştir. Araştırmanın sonuçlarına göre sınıf öğretmenleri STEM eğitimini ülkemiz açısından önemli görmekte olup, uygulamalar yapmak için eğitime ihtiyaç duyduklarını belirtmişlerdir. Sınıf öğretmenleri STEM eğitim uygulamalarında fen bilimleri alanını tercih ettiklerini bunun nedeni olarak diğer disiplinlerde kendilerini yeterli görmediklerini belirtmişlerdir. Öğretmenler STEM eğitim uygulamaları sürecinde materyal temini ve ders süreleri açısından sıkıntı yaşadıklarını ifade etmişler. STEM Eğitimi uygulamalarına özellikle mühendislik disiplinini entegre etmekte zorlandıklarını ve STEM eğitiminin sınıflarda etkili uygulanabilmesi için Millî Eğitim Bakanlığı tarafınca öğretmenlerin eğitimler ile desteklenmeleri gerektiğini belirtmişlerdir.
MENINGKATKAN HASIL BELAJAR MATEMATIKA SISWA MENGGUNAKAN MODEL PEMBELAJARAN TEAMS GAMES TOURNAMENTS (TGT) PADA MATERI TRIGONOMETRI
Authors: Siti Aisah Lusi , Wicanti Ine
Published: December 2020

Penilitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peningkatan hasil belajar matematika siswa yang mendapatkan model pembelajaran Teams Games Tournament (TGT) pada materi trigonometri.Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode kuasi eksperimen dengan desain non-equivalent pretest and postest control group design. Penelitian ini dilakukan di SMA Negeri 1 Krangkeng. Pengambilan sampel dilakukan berdasarkan pertimbangan (sampling purposif).Sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah sebanyak 2 kelas, yaitu X-5 MIPA sebanyak 33 siswa sebagai kelas eksperimen dan  X-6 MIPA yang berjumlah 33 siswa sebagai kelas kontrol. Dalam pembelajarannya, kelas eksperimen melakukan pembelajaran kooperatif tipe Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) sedangkan kelas kontrol melakukan pembelajaran biasa (tidak menggunakan pembelajaran kooperatif tipe TGT). Perbedaan peningkatan  rerata N-gain dianalisis menggunakan uji independent sample t test. Hasil analisis statistik menunjukkan bahwa pembelajaran kooperatif tipe Teams Games Tournaments (TGT) dapat meningkatkan hasil belajar matematika siswa pada materi trigonometri.
The low-lying triplet excited state of N-sulfinylanilines explains their reactivity and inclination to cycloaddition across N–S=O group
Authors:   The Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Minaev B.F. , Minaeva V.A. ,   The Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Panchenko O.O. ,   The Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy, Bondarchuk S.V. ,   The Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University of Cherkasy
Published: December 2020

Density functional theory calculations for p-Br-N-sulfinylaniline and m-nitro-N-sulfinylaniline in the ground singlet (S0) and triplet (T1) excited states are presented and analyzed in terms of their specific physicochemical properties. As all aromatic N-sulfinylamines, these compounds are rather unstable being sensitive to moist air and we assign this instability to the thermally allowed S0T1 excitation induced by internal magnetic forces. Our calculations indicate that the T1–S0 energy gap in these molecules is unexpectedly low and spin-orbit coupling matrix element between these states is relatively high, being allowed by the orbital symmetry selection rules. We also apply the exchange mechanism of spin-catalysis concept in order to explain the prone of N-sulfinylamines to the Diels-Alder cycloaddition with dienes.
Multifractal analysis of geometric parameters of nanoforms formed on the surface of ultrathin layers of ZnO and ZnO–CdO synthesized by the sol-gel method
Authors:   Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, Moskvin P.P. , Sadowski W. ,   Gdansk University of Technology, Kryzhanivskyy V.B. ,   Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, Skyba G.V. ,   Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University, Polonsky L.G. ,   Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University
Published: December 2020

Superthin layers in ZnO and ZnO–CdO systems, which are intended for the use as transparent electrodes of modern optoelectronic devices, were synthesized by modified sol-gel method. The ranges of parameters of the technological process were established to obtain high-quality layers of material on glass substrates. Surface morphology depending on the synthesis conditions was studied by scanning electron microscopy. SEM images of the surface served as a basis for the multifractal analysis of the surface areas and volumes of nanoforms that are formed on the surface of the obtained layers. The dependences of the multifractal parameters of the surface nanoforms characterizing the surface state were determined as a function of the temperature of the final annealing of the layers. The relationships between Rainier numbers and fractal ordering parameters describing the surface geometry of the layers with the temperatures of the final annealing were established. The numerical values of the fractal characteristics of the obtained surface were used to estimate the influence of the fractal surface geometry on the value of the molar surface energy of the layers.
Synthesis of N-[3-(2,3-dimethyl-1H-indol-1-yl)-4-hydroxyphenyl]arylsulfon(aroyl)amides
Authors:   Donbass State Engineering Academy, Avdeenko A.P. , Konovalova S.A. ,   Donbass State Engineering Academy, Yakymenko I.Yu. ,   Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology
Published: December 2020

Indole derivatives are an essential elements of many natural and synthetic compounds having significant biological activity. New derivatives of 2,3-dimethylindole were synthesized in this work by the reaction of N-(4-oxocyclohexa-2,5-dien-1-ylidene)arylsulfon(aroyl)amides and 4-methyl-N-(4-oxonaphthalen-1(4H)-ylidene)benzene-1-sulfonamide with 2,3-dimethylindole. The possibility of these reactions is determined by the redox potential of the starting amides and steric factor. If there is a free C=C bond in the quinoid ring of the starting arylsulfonamides, the reaction proceeds under the 1,4-addition scheme with the formation of corresponding N-[3-(2,3-dimethyl-1H-indol-1-yl)-4-hydroxyphenyl(naphthyl-1)]arylsulfonamides which are potentially biologically active compounds. N-(4-Oxocyclohexa-2,5-diene-1-ylidene)aroylamides have a high redox potential as compared with similar arylsulfonamides and naphthalene derivatives; therefore, two processes proceed in their reaction with 2,3-dimethylindole: reduction and 1,4-addition. The 1,4-addition product was obtained only for the 2,3-dimethyl derivative, which has the lowest redox potential among the investigated aroylamides. Analysis of the potential biological activity of the synthesized compounds by using the PASS program showed that the synthesized products can exhibit the following activities: para amino benzoic acid antagonist, glutamyl endopeptidase II inhibitor, CYP3A2 substrate, insulysin inhibitor, membrane integrity agonist and phobic disorders treatment.
Protective and decorative properties of titanium glass enamels
Authors:   Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Goleus V.I. , Nahorna T.I. ,   Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Kyslychna R.I. ,   Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology, Naumenko S.Yu. ,   Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology
Published: December 2020

It is known that enamel coatings with enhanced protective and decorative properties can be fabricated on the basis of boron-silicate glass frits with an increased content of TiO2 in their composition. Opacity and white color of enamel coatings are due to their crystallization at firing temperatures. Titanium glass enamels are not pure white visually, and show yellow and blue shades depending on their chemical composition. The purpose of this work was to establish the influence of basic components on the water resistance and color characteristics of titanium enamel coatings. Our experimental study was focused on the glass frits with the chemical composition described by the generalized formula (76–n–m)SiO2nB2O3mNa2O24MexOy, where MexOy is the total content of TiO2, ZrO2, Al2O3, MgO, СaO, P2O5, and K2O. It was found that the glass frits with the following content of basic components (mol.%): Na2O 12–13, K2O 3, B2O3 10–11, SiO2 49–51 demonstrated the highest water-resistant properties. The color characteristics of titanium enamel coatings prepared on the basis of the mentioned glass frits differ significantly from the reference white light A; the titanium enamel coatings under consideration have a yellow-green tint. The highest deviations of the enamel coating color purity and color tone from a standard of white color were observed when increasing the Na2O content in the glass frits composition at the expense of SiO2. The color of titanium coatings with the highest water resistance has a deviation from the standard of white color within 4–6%.