Paradigma piznannya: gumanitarni pytannya

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Authors: O. Tkach

The actual questions of environmental safety in the context of ideas of global evolutionism taking into account modern tendencies. The ecological situation in the country demonstrates the processes of deterioration and waste of natural resources, energy and habitat, as well as critical conditions in the quality of life of the population. Researchers in political ecology structure allocated direction: mechanism of environmental decision-making society and its political, economic and intellectual elites; the formation of a way of life, economic activity and culture, depending on the environment; the formation of its own environment by society; interaction of different societies solving the problem of access to natural resources and their transformation into a public resource; creation of systems of activity, their organization, infrastructure and hierarchy; the consequences of using performance systems; modern global geopolitical and ecological-political situation. Political scientists have tried to highlight and approve a new part of knowledge - political ecology - with its own laws, patterns and conclusions. The authors express the hope that the continuation of the development of the scientific theme of political ecology will allow in discussions and disputes to develop a scientific apparatus that allows us to obtain knowledge at what point in global history we are, what is permissible and unlawful for us to do, where we should go. All those conclusions that undoubtedly affect the life of both an individual and social systems. The article examines the problems that Latin American researchers are studying: how states face environmental problems, how they understand these problems and what decisions they make. Thus, a collision state and political systems to environmental issues, evaluation of possible management decisions and their consequences, the scientific analysis of the consequences of such decisions in the competition state systems is the subject of the political ecology research. The conceptual apparatus of political ecology includes the following positions: biosphere wars, wars for the division and redistribution of biosphere resources. Unlike economic wars, wars of the rich, who has something to share and who does not think about survival, biospheric wars are waged extremely cruelly - for the complete capture of biosphere resources and the total destruction of their previous users; resources of the biosphere: air, water, soil, forests, subsoil, biological resources of various natural zones, the minimum necessary biodiversity for the comfortable existence of man as a biological and social species in the biosphere of planet Earth and developed outer space; environmental diplomacy - ways and methods of achieving control over biosphere resources by diplomatic means that are optimal for the development of the state; bioresource management - a system for making management decisions regarding the use and conservation of biosphere resources; biosphere restructuring is a change in the species and landscape diversity of the biosphere due to human activity.

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Authors: О. Soroka

Priest vestments are an expressive way of a priest, a tool of cult which during the Divine Liturgy is combined with the belief involving clothing and its sacral components into this religious procedure. The article focuses on the peculiarities of colour in imaginative and liturgical sources of priest vestments. The research interprets a religious plot cultural and valuable potential of colouring as weighty priority criterion for defining artistic and stylistic features of folk ornaments in clerical clothing. It was also revealed the bases of colouring which besides the esthetic function have established canonical standards. Liturgical clothing`s combination of colours which have a significant symbolic meaning has been highlighted. The colour scheme of priest vestments on the example of the researched works from Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ternopil territories of the given chronical period has been analysed.

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Authors: А. Makovskyi

The article deals with the views of psychologists on the relevance of use of the religious faith potential in the context of the individual mental health maintaining. The state and problematic issues that arise during the introduction of the institute of military chaplaincy in the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine are considered. The need for involvement of Border Guard military chaplains and military psychologists in the psychological support of professional activity of the border guards of joint actions during psychoprophylactic, psychohygienic, psychotherapeutic, psychocorrectional measures is defined.

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Authors: O. Demianenko

The article reveals the issue of the effects of using SIOP model on self-efficacy and teaching skills of foreign language teachers. It is stressed that SIOP is an approach that can help English language learners to achieve academic success while gaining English language proficiency. It is worth noting that sheltered instruction offers the model for making academic material understandable and increasing the academic English language skills of learners through teaching. Attention has been paid to language skills that can be developed through collaboration and interaction. It has been concluded that the using SIOP model in modern educational process opens up unlimited possibilities for the foreign language teachers and students.

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Authors: Chen Rui

The problem of improving the quality of training of future teachers of art disciplines in the context of paradigmatic changes in the system of modern art education is actualized. The state of research of the scientific problem is clarified, the worldview positions of researchers related to the specifics of intercultural communication as a form of exchange of cultural meanings between the subjects of the educational process are singled out. The peculiarities of creating a dialogic field of intersubjective relations of students of faculties of arts in the music-pedagogical process of higher education, which is based on the principle of value interaction of representatives of different cultures, are revealed. The author focuses on the introduction of ideas of intercultural communication in the educational environment of higher education, which will promote the development of students' ability to understand the value of other cultures on the basis of tolerance, the formation of common meaning in dialogue between different activities