{"title":"Selfie-fying the Landscape. Space Awareness through Social Media","authors":"C. Enache, Iulia Simona Floroiu","doi":"10.18662/LUMENPHS/11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/LUMENPHS/11","url":null,"abstract":"Ever since William Whyte’s The social life of small urban spaces (1980) we have become preoccupied with analyzing, understanding and predicting how users are going to react, behave or interact with their surroundings. We’ve noticed patterns, we’ve come up with formulas, we’ve written about space consumption, about design and public space becoming goods or products. What experience and sensible research have shown is that in fact we are able to impact our environment just as much as it impacts us. Once you add social media to the mix you get the new urban citizen: the prosumer. He interacts with the city and his peers in a new way; within a slightly virtual, slightly surreal environment, he adapts design to his needs, he has the freedom to express himself with little regard to the (initial) intent of his surroundings. He is the Millennial. The undeniable force that is the power of the Millennials to see things differently, to experiment tirelessly, to brake rules without thinking about it has in fact changed the urban perception and social guidelines. Thus we observe a new trend, one that has developed organically throughout the last decade: the Space SELFIEfication. The concept derives from the already habitude of the space consumer, to take self-pictures with the surrounding landscape – natural or built landmarks. The study is an open-paper, continuing the preoccupation expressed in a previous research regarding the Landscape Consumerism and Social Sustainability, aiming to improve the relation between society and its surrounding landscape.","PeriodicalId":117939,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Science","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128083612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Communicative Act – Feedback","authors":"I. Manole","doi":"10.18662/LUMENPHS/12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/LUMENPHS/12","url":null,"abstract":"Our study aims to create an analysis, from multiple perspectives: philosophical, pedagogical, informatics on the communication act, respectively the concept of feedback. In the philosophy of the 20th century, an important direction is the \"rediscovery of language\". Ludwig Wittgenstein opens the communication on \"language games\". These are used as a logical analysis by post-modern authors, between the language and the structures with the role of formation within the thinking. In pedagogy, communication plays a very important role. The way it is achieved, the resources that come into its composition, and the characteristics of the actors involved, give importance to the desired educational finalities. Out of cybernetics, the concept of reverse link has profound implications in computer science as well. Basically, everything that happens in an information system is related to the cybernetic principles of circulation of information. Claude Shannon and Warren Weaver have developed a very influential model (with applications in various fields), starting with Shannon's idea of studying the fidelity of transmission of various types of signals from the transmitter to the receiver. Cybernetics is required when a system subjected to an analysis has in its structure a closed signalling loop (causal relationship, circular) where the action of the system creates a change in its neighbourhood and the change creates changes to the initial system. Cybernetics is relevant in physical, mechanical, psychological, social, but also in political, pedagogical, medical, and other related fields.","PeriodicalId":117939,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Science","volume":"214 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133454447","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Aspects of Technology in Contemporary Art Education","authors":"M. Rusen","doi":"10.18662/LUMENPHS/08","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/LUMENPHS/08","url":null,"abstract":"Technology might just be a contemporary solution to the ever-growing gap between younger student generations and the teaching systems in Art Education, which has led to lowest levels ever of attending students in modern artistic education in Romania. The causes are multiple and led to a dramatic decrease of student`s number, increase of university drop-out and reorientation of Romanian students to European Art universities with the necessary openness to new ideas and technologies of contemporary artistic transposition. In our opinion, a potential solution is to approach artistic transposition technologies from two perspectives: first, implementing existing digital technologies, and adapting them to a competitive Art Education system correlated with realities in the labor market - 3D scanning and printing, augmented reality, graphic and concept design on digital support, unconventional materials, on-line and social media documentation, smart-phone creative applications, constant involvement in creative and participatory projects, artistic research and experimentation. The second perspective involves traditional technologies, or creatively identified as expired technologies - those of the industrial age of the last century. Those are part of the history and already developed aesthetic and cultural potential, at least for the Visual Arts - e.g. Typewriter Art. We may consider as object of study for Visual Arts a whole post-industrial archive - blueprints, designs, and accessible artifacts of the age. Facilitating the practice of contemporary art technologies means democratizing access to creativity, originality and experimental knowledge in a highly professional field, deeply dependent on abilities and skills whose traditional development is today prohibitive expensive - resources, time and a global labor market with requirements already adapted to contemporary creative realities.","PeriodicalId":117939,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Science","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125979602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theoretical Aspects of Globalization Philosophy","authors":"Tudorita Rabigan, Dana Stana","doi":"10.18662/LUMENPHS/13","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/LUMENPHS/13","url":null,"abstract":"Globalization, as a multidimensional process, raises interest through its scope, in terms of both the topicality of the phenomenon, and the content dimension. The literature in the field reveals contradictory opinions of that manifestation, yet one thing is certain, as far as the effects of globalization are concerned, i.e. once the phenomenon becomes chronic, there appear both winners and losers. The views and opinions of number of specialists can produce clear arguments relating to the perception of globalization. The present study textually analyzes a few points of view held by the specialists in the domain of globalization and world economy, whishing assert, in this manner, the critical thinking concerning the phenomenon of globalization.","PeriodicalId":117939,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Science","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127562301","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Learning to Learn: Critical Thinking Skills to Help Students for Life","authors":"Cristina Tripon","doi":"10.18662/LUMENPHS/06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/LUMENPHS/06","url":null,"abstract":"With the last two decades, critical thinking has become imperative for integrated students at the workplace. Critical thinking includes the component skills of analyzing arguments, making inferences using inductive or deductive reasoning, judging or evaluating, making decisions or solving problems. Involves both cognitive skills and dispositions, which can be seen as attitudes or habits of mind, include flexibility, a propensity to seek reason, a desire to be well informed, a respect for and willingness to entertain different viewpoints. This paper describes a study to investigate the impact of critical thinking strategies applied to work with students, to develop critical thinking skills. The research was conducted about 6 months, in a technical university, focuses on developing critical thinking skills in part by using complex contextualized problems. Upon conclusion of the study and analysis of the data, we observed significant gain in those skills, measured with the standard instrument: Watson Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WGCTA). The WGCTA has been used to compare students on entry and exit program, make comparisons between different levels and investigate the correlation between critical thinking and variables. All test items include problems and arguments based on situations experienced in the daily workplace, classrooms, social media and others. The tool has five subsets designed to evaluate different elements of critical thinking, comprise deduction, inference, the relevance of assumptions, interpretation, and evaluation of arguments.","PeriodicalId":117939,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Science","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121415645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Introduction to the Phenomenological Approach to Urban, Residential, and Domestic Space","authors":"Cătălina-Ionela Rezeanu","doi":"10.18662/lumenphs/10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/lumenphs/10","url":null,"abstract":"During the last century, in social and humanistic sciences, the dominant perspective on space was the political economy, focusing on how space relates to macro-social phenomena and minimizing the role of the micro-social ones, by conceptualizing space as a social force, constraining social actions. Despite sporadic attempts to theorize how people could escape the dominance of power by investing spaces with subjective meanings, appropriating spaces through body practices, or anchoring memories and identities into specific spaces, there is still a need to understand how spaces are lived and how daily life spatial contexts become micro-foundations for social actions. I conduct an interpretive synthesis to show how social scientists borrowed ideas from philosophers to understand the phenomenology of everyday life by capturing the experience of urban, residential, and domestic space. I explore space through phenomenological lenses to clarify concepts as: the constitution of space through perception, the sensorial and emotional experience of space and the atmosphere of a specific place, the sense of space, the meaning of feeling at home and being intimate with a particular place, the practice of home as a body extension. To nuance these ideas, I use results from four research projects I participated in: Couple living space in Brasov metropolitan area; Hidden faces of homelessness - Measuring homelessness in Europe; Inhabiting urban places and experiencing citizenship; I was a citizen of Stalin town. I conclude by extracting implications for the sociology of space field.","PeriodicalId":117939,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Science","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126444198","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Atmosphere of Antim Monastery in Valeriu Anania's Memorii","authors":"Adrian Bărbieru","doi":"10.18662/LUMENPHS/09","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/LUMENPHS/09","url":null,"abstract":"Valeriu Anania is the first Bishop that had the courage to publish an autobiography volume called Memorii (2008). The volume presents the atmosphere in Antim Monastery before the movement Rugul Aprins. Anania became a monk during the Second World War. The lively scenes presented to the reader do not correspond with the seriosness which is usually asociated with the monastic life. The author tells his life in a very bright way, with humour, avoiding promiscuity and human degradation in the Second World War.","PeriodicalId":117939,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Science","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130604898","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Epistemological Model of Pedagogy, Promoted by Stefan Barsanescu","authors":"G. Cristea","doi":"10.18662/LUMENPHS/07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.18662/LUMENPHS/07","url":null,"abstract":"Pedagogical epistemology is an area of the philosophy of education. As pedagogical science (or science of education), pedagogical epistemology is methodologically built on the interdisciplinary relationship between pedagogy and philosophy. This education science builded interdisciplinary, has a general aim the analysis of the historical and theoretical fundamenting process of pedagogy as a socio-human science specialized in the study of education and training in the open framework of the system and the educational process. Fulfilling this general purpose requires the construction of an epistemological model. Such an epistemological model is the one promoted by Ştefan Bârsănescu, during two historical stages. At the stage of modern inter-war pedagogy (1936) and - through deepening and updating - in the stage of contemporary pedagogy (1976) - see \"Unity of Contemporary Pedagogy as a Science\", 1st Edition, 1936, 2nd Edition, 1976. The epistemological model proposed by Ştefan Bârsănescu highlights the necessary premises for the unitary construction of \"pedagogical science\", assured at the level of fundamental concepts, of \"scientific style\" and \"research\" system. Its realization involves the historical research of the evolution of the field and the reference to a necessary specific theory because \"pedagogy suffers from the dictatorship of its word or more just from an anarchy of formulations that hold the place for ideas\". The epistemological issue is referred to \"two main questions\": a) how was the specific research object of pedagogy designed ?; b) what is the methodology of research specific to pedagogy ? In this sense, \"the use of the historical method in demonstrating of an epistemological problem\" is welcome. With the help of it, the progress of pedagogy can be seen in its path \"towards a true science of education\".","PeriodicalId":117939,"journal":{"name":"Logos Universality Mentality Education Novelty: Philosophy & Humanistic Science","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130651615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}