Paradigma piznannya: gumanitarni pytannya

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Authors: R. O. Liashenko

The article deals with the main approaches of the psychological-pedagogical paradigm to the definition of the content and structure of the category of activity. The main ideas of significant researches on the direction of studying the professional self-actualization of personality and its aspects, in particular, its interrelation with the determining role of activity in the development of personality have been highlighted. It has been proved that the phenomenon of activity is one of the defining factors for effective development of professional self-actualization of the personality, a level of its development and the hierarchy of actions types, which at successively changing stages of personality development become dominant for successful solving of professional tasks.

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Authors: S. М. Symonenko, І. V. Rozina

The actual problem of studying creativity as properties of visual thinking and development of its procedural and substantive characteristics is considered. By visual creativity, we mean the empirical characteristic of visual thinking, which is related to its creative function and is aimed at creating new visual images, symbols, models through visualization operations based on verbal and visual stimuli. The processual components of visual and thinking creativity are the activity of hypothesizing, productivity, visual originality. The relevance of the study is related to the need to study visual thinking as one of the mechanisms of creativity in various fields of human activity, which is not sufficiently studied and requires a more in-depth study, in particular, one of its main properties - visual creativity and its development. The purpose of our research is to study the visual creativity and development of its procedural and substantive characteristics. By visual creativity, we mean the empirical characteristic of visual thinking, which is related to its creative function and is aimed at creating new visual images, symbols, models through visualization operations based on verbal and visual stimuli. The general methodology of empirical research includes the following methods, observation, analysis of product activities, the method of P. Torrance's test; U. Ave-Lallemant’s "Stars and Waves" Graphic Test and the methods of mathematical statistics, the Student's t-test, the correlation analysis, and others. The research sample was 125 adolescents aged 10 to 14 years (25 students in each age group). The analysis of the results of the empirical research has shown that the age of 10 and 13 is favorable for the development of both procedural and content characteristics of visual creativity. The obtained results allow us to make a generalization that the development of content components of visual creativity occurs in parallel with the development of its procedural characteristics. Both content and procedural components have in their development both favorable periods and periods of decline, which coincide in time, but there is a clear tendency towards their development in adolescence and the formation of visual-thinking creative strategies.

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Authors: T. Grinie

The article explores the specifics of gag and trick in the genres of musical eccentrics and clownery as means of expression in the circus and variety. By establishing relationships and distinctive features between the trick and gag, the author discovers an innovative approach to the theoretical understanding of the clown genre and musical eccentrics. The problem of the relationship of main assets of expressiveness is considered separately in clowning and musical eccentric numbers, which gives the author the opportunity to identify discrepancies in the theoretical conclusions of Slavsky R. regarding the definition of the term "gag”. The article proves the failure of the substitution of the term gag for the term comic trick with reference to a musical eccentric.

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Authors: D. Orel

In the article, for the first time in the domestic circus criticism (circus studies), a detailed analysis and ontological substantiation of the circus genre of aerial gymnastics in Cord-de-Parille is given. Clarifies the principles and techniques of the creative work of a circus artist on the Cord-de-Parille. Specifies the features of the work and its principles. Exercises and tricks on Cord-de-Parille are specified according to the methodology and terminology adopted in circus gymnastics.

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Authors: P. Shymanskyi, V. Kucheruk

In this article the key aspects of our contemporary Davor Bobitch's famous and often performed composer in Europe are discussed in the great musical, pedagogical, performing and cultural activities of society, to the great sorrow of almost unknown in our fields. There are no publications about the composer in Ukraine, no published or analyzed his works. From this review, information about the composer and analysis of his sonatas can be a step in the interest of our performers and musicologists, in particular his accordion work.