Staging the Social Drama of Work: Ethnography of a Theater Company as a Means of Analyzing Theater Activity

This paper shows how conducting the ethnographic study of a theater hall and company can help define theater activity. Once the aesthetic of the social organization is set apart from the proper division of labor, theater appears as a collective activity which requires the cooperation of eight groups playing different social roles. The cooperation modes rest on a meshing of direct or indirect services for the actors who carry out the core task of performing. This specific organization of work around a central group is what makes the activity artistic. Simultaneously, the service relation offers the possibility for some categories to bring their relationship with actors closer to a state of symmetry and sometimes reverse asymmetry. As a status enhancing opportunity, service relationship for actors also directly or indirectly provide the grounds for participant commitment and thus guarantee long-lasting operation for the theatrical organization.

INDICATIVE APPROACH AS A MEANS OF INFLUENCING THE CORPORATE CULTURE OF AN EDUCATIONAL ORGANIZATION ON THE FORMATION OF THE PROFESSIONAL IDENTITY OF TEACHERS

The problem considered in this article is to determine the role of the corporate culture of educational organizations in the process of forming the professional identity of teachers. Emphasis is placed on the indicative approach, within the framework of which the potential of teachers is supported; detection by teachers of their own problems and giving them a developmental character by turning the problem into a task of activity. It has been determined that the indicative approach brings closer to understanding the mechanisms of formation of new subjective qualities of teachers in the process of putting forward and achieving goals at the stages of mastering certain types of activities, as a result, the development of the fragmentary experience of teachers into a stable motivation for professional improvement in the process of collective activity.

ACTUAL ASPECTS OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL AND COMMUNICATIVE ACTIVITY OF STUDENTS

The paper considers the procedural aspects of social communication such as meeting the requirements of today’s comprehensive characteristics of social skills of the future specialist, which is manifested in his ability and ability to effectively perform professional duties adequately to each situation by activating socially and professionally important qualities in the competent application of the existing arsenal of professional knowledge, skills and abilities. The semantic elements of social communication as forms of expression of will, practical actions of an individual or a social group in a certain collective activity to achieve a socially significant result are revealed. It is established that the level of development of social and communicative skills can characterize not only the mechanisms of acquiring knowledge, skills, professionally significant qualities in the learning process, but also the peculiarities of the students’ understanding of social reality in general and in specific situations in particular, when both the adaptive mechanisms and the integrated life narratives of the individual are significantly influenced by the characteristics of the social environment. The need for coordination and focus on creating appropriate conditions for attracting external and internal resources (as a set of objectively existing conditions, means, opportunities that can be mobilized and used in the process of development of any system) to address this issue, including the intensification of participation in the development of communication skills of leading agents of influence ‒ subjects of all levels and types of education – traditional, alternative, extracurricular, “non-formal”, etc. Keywords: social communication; educational environment; communicative approach; social interaction; subjects of social communication; extracurricular activity; socialization skills; applicants of higher education.

Background to the Village of Kala

The village setting is described, patterns of settlement, the presence of different ethnic groups, and village and lineage structures. Bambara peasant society and household organisation are presented, and the role of individual and collective activity, assets and incomes. The impacts of French colonisation and Independence, on government administration, taxation, health and education are described, before discussion of recent economic and political developments in Mali.

High-throughput imaging of Caenorhabditis elegans aging using collective activity monitoring

The genetic manipulability and short lifespan of C. elegans make it an important model for aging research. Widely applied methods for measurements of worm aging based on manual observation are labor intensive and low-throughput. Here, we describe the Worm Collective Activity Monitoring Platform (WormCamp), a system for assaying aging in C. elegans by monitoring activity of populations of worms in standard 24-well plates. We show that metrics based on the rate of decline in collective activity can be used to estimate the average lifespan and locomotor healthspan in the population. Using the WormCamp, we assay a panel of highly divergent natural isolates of C. elegans and show that both lifespan and locomotor healthspan display substantial heritability. To facilitate analysis of large numbers of worms, we developed a robotic imaging system capable of simultaneous automated monitoring of activity, lifespan, and locomotor healthspan in up to 2,304 populations containing a total of ~90,000 animals. We applied the automated system to conduct a large-scale RNA interference screen for genes that affect lifespan and locomotor healthspan. The WormCamp system is complementary to other current automated methods for assessing C. elegans aging and is well suited for efficiently screening large numbers of conditions.

Architectural Coalescence : a Focus on Connectivity and Flow Within Socio-Spatial Networks

This thesis stems from an analysis of spatial morphology of the urban campus. The organization of the urban campus provides pockets for social interactivity amid public, private, and interstitial realms. Availability of collective activity contributes to the positive student experiences by fostering social interactivity and communal growth. Encouraging forms of collective activity, as well as connecting user circulation, plays a significant role in making students feel they are part of a larger whole. The focus is placed on how architectural design can provide the potential to explore the in-between condition of the public and private. This interstitial condition may be used as a platform to connect the two realms. Testing methods of socio-spatial and circulatory reconfiguration of Ryerson’s Kerr Hall may improve the understanding of how the built form impacts the movement and experience of user flow within the condition of the urban campus.

Architectural Coalescence : a Focus on Connectivity and Flow Within Socio-Spatial Networks

This thesis stems from an analysis of spatial morphology of the urban campus. The organization of the urban campus provides pockets for social interactivity amid public, private, and interstitial realms. Availability of collective activity contributes to the positive student experiences by fostering social interactivity and communal growth. Encouraging forms of collective activity, as well as connecting user circulation, plays a significant role in making students feel they are part of a larger whole. The focus is placed on how architectural design can provide the potential to explore the in-between condition of the public and private. This interstitial condition may be used as a platform to connect the two realms. Testing methods of socio-spatial and circulatory reconfiguration of Ryerson’s Kerr Hall may improve the understanding of how the built form impacts the movement and experience of user flow within the condition of the urban campus.