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Folk art education is an important way to inherit and develop traditional culture. In this paper, the cascade propagation of typical decentralized Internet-social networks is modeled as a propagation dynamic graph model, and an enhanced graph-aware neural network is proposed through the analysis of the learning process of neural graph networks. A further recurrent graph-aware neural network is proposed for the characteristics of information dissemination in the decentralized Internet, and the transmission and development of traditional culture in folk art education are analyzed based on this network model. In folk art education, the most common type of traditional culture dissemination is ink painting, accounting for 20.32%, which is 6.91%, 12.35%, and 14.86% higher than other types, respectively. From 2014 to 2021, the percentage of Internet-based communication media increased from 12.47% to 24.78%, an increase of 12.31 percentage points. The analysis based on the decentralized Internet can accurately extract the characteristics of traditional culture integrated into folk art education, which helps to inherit further and promote the excellent traditional culture.

Folk-art works offer a glimpse of the beauty of folk culture. Taking painting as an example, this paper attempts to determine the influence of folk-art education on the mental health of college students. First, a questionnaire survey was carried out among 160 college students to evaluate the mental pressure of college students and identify the status quo of folk-art education in colleges. Next, comparative experiments on college students with or without painting training. Through the analysis of the experimental results, it is concluded that mental problems are common among college students; most college students agree that folk-art education can alleviate mental pressure; painting art can significantly promote the self-consistence and mental health of college students. This research provides a reference for applying folk-art in mental health education in colleges.

In the past, the apprenticeship system was used to inherit folk art. However, the traditional and rigid teaching methods in the classroom led to the poor effect of learning ethnic and folk art and even the loss of many folk arts. Nowadays, related technologies such as the Internet, cloud computing, and big data are constantly being updated. Under this background of rapid technological development, it is of strong practical significance to integrate ethnic and folk art with technical means. Based on the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework, the ethnic and folk art space course was constructed in this study by combining the “technology + teaching method + subject knowledge” integration model. Scientific technology was integrated with the education of ethnic and folk art to propose the solution idea and system architecture. Meanwhile, the TPACK-based ethnic and folk art space course was put into practical application to verify its learning effect. The final results show that compared with the traditional teaching, the TPACK-based ethnic and folk art space course can improve the teaching efficiency and promote students’ mastery of various skills of ethnic and folk art.

Decorative handcrafts are commonly associated with traditional femininity and unthreatening docility. However, the artists connected with interwar Vienna's \"female Secession\" created craft-based artworks that may be understood as sites of feminist resistance. In this book, historian Megan Brandow-Faller tells the story of how these artists disrupted long-established boundaries by working to dislodge fixed oppositions between \"art\" and \"craft,\" \"decorative\" and \"profound,\" and \"masculine\" and \"feminine\" in art. Tracing the history of the women's art movement in Secessionist Vienna—from its origins in 1897, at the Women's Academy, to the Association of Austrian Women Artists and its radical offshoot, the Wiener Frauenkunst—Brandow-Faller tells the compelling story of a movement that reclaimed the stereotypes attached to the idea of Frauenkunst, or women's art. She shows how generational struggles and diverging artistic philosophies of art, craft, and design drove the conservative and radical wings of Austria's women's art movement apart and explores the ways female artists and craftswomen reinterpreted and extended the Klimt Group's ideas in the interwar years. Brandow-Faller draws a direct connection to the themes that impelled the better-known explosion of feminist art in 1970s America. In this provocative story of a Viennese modernism that never disavowed its ornamental, decorative roots, she gives careful attention to key primary sources, including photographs and reviews of early twentieth-century exhibitions and archival records of school curricula and personnel. Engagingly written and featuring more than eighty representative illustrations, The Female Secession recaptures the radical potential of what Fanny Harlfinger-Zakucka referred to as \"works from women's hands.\" It will appeal to art historians working in the decorative arts and modernism as well as historians of Secession-era Vienna and gender history.

BackgroundMood disorder is a common mental health problem, which has a negative impact on the quality of life and work of patients. The intervention methods of educational psychology have been widely used in the treatment of patients with mood disorders. Suzhou folk art is a unique cultural tradition with rich artistic expression and emotional expression, which may play a positive role in the psychological function of patients with mood disorders.Subjects and MethodsSixty patients diagnosed with mood disorders were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group. The experimental group received a 12-week Suzhou folk art intervention to improve their mental health through learning and participating in Suzhou folk art forms, and the control group received regular treatment and nursing. Both groups were evaluated using the Stanford Acute Stress Response Questionnaire (SASRQ) and the Three-Minute Delirium Diagnostic Scale (3D-CAM) before and after the intervention.ResultsThe results showed that there was a statistical difference compared with the control group (significance level less than 0.05). In the experimental group, the degree of mood disorder was significantly reduced, and the mental health status was also significantly improved. At the same time, the experimental group showed more positive emotional expression and participation in artistic creation activities during the intervention period.ConclusionsSuzhou folk art can promote the emotional release of patients with mood disorders and enhance their mental toughness. The introduction of Suzhou folk art into local higher vocational art education is helpful in improving the mental health level and quality of life of patients with mood disorders.AcknowledgementResearch achievements of key projects in the 13th Five-Year Plan of Jiangsu Education Science in 2016 (No. T-a/2016/03); Suzhou Higher Vocational Education Teachers’ Innovation Team; Chongqing Humanities and Social Sciences Research Project (No. 19SKGH225).

In A Saving Science, Eric Ramírez-Weaver explores the significance of early medieval astronomy in the Frankish empire, using as his lens an astronomical masterpiece, the deluxe manuscript of the Handbook of 809, painted in roughly 830 for Bishop Drogo of Metz, one of Charlemagne's sons. Created in an age in which careful study of the heavens served a liturgical purpose—to reckon Christian feast days and seasons accurately and thus reflect a \"heavenly\" order—the diagrams of celestial bodies in the Handbook of 809 are extraordinary signifiers of the intersection of Christian art and classical astronomy. Ramírez-Weaver shows how, by studying this lavishly painted and carefully executed manuscript, we gain a unique understanding of early medieval astronomy and its cultural significance. In a time when the Frankish church sought to renew society through education, the Handbook of 809 presented a model in which study aided the spiritual reform of the cleric's soul, and, by extension, enabled the spiritual care of his community. An exciting new interpretation of Frankish painting, A Saving Science shows that constellations in books such as Drogo's were not simple copies for posterity's sake, but functional tools in the service of the rejuvenation of a creative Carolingian culture.

In much of the current academic and public discussion, conspiracy theories are portrayed as a negative phenomenon, linked to misinformation, mistrust in experts and institutions, and political propaganda. Rather surprisingly, however, philosophers working on this topic have been reluctant to incorporate a negatively evaluative aspect when either analyzing or engineering the concept conspiracy theory. In this paper, we present empirical data on the nature of the concept conspiracy theory from five studies designed to test the existence, prevalence and exact form of an evaluative dimension to the ordinary concept conspiracy theory. These results reveal that, while there is a descriptive concept of conspiracy theory, the predominant use of conspiracy theory is deeply evaluative, encoding information about epistemic deficiency and often also derogatory and disparaging information. On the basis of these results, we present a new strategy for engineering conspiracy theory to promote theoretical investigations and institutional discussions of this phenomenon. We argue for engineering conspiracy theory to encode an epistemic evaluation, and to introduce a descriptive expression—such as ‘conspiratorial explanation’—to refer to the purely descriptive concept conspiracy theory.

The research on problems on preserving identity of tradition folk art and craft for strategic objective to design modern methods and tools in order to contribute to the creation of an education process. Experience was acquired in conducting relevant large-scale festivals, competitions, science conferences clearly demonstrated the younger generations growing ability in ownership to provide effective Russian Art cultural. Increased attention to realize workshops with Folk art and craft in the Moscow region system of additional education indicated positive dynamic for introducing teachers and children’s through period 2010-2020 years. It is notable for protection cultural historical heritage areas of Moscow region, which directed towards traditional Russian decorative Art especially over the past years.

You are reading the second issue of IJELS in 2025, volume 13. Our articles in this issue cover Digital, Health, Information, Linguistic, Music and Art, Management and Leadership, Numeracy, and Sports Literacy. Our articles in this issue are related to research settings related to literacy studies in Bangladesh, China, Iraq, Malaysia, Mongolia, Nigeria, Philippines, Thailand, and The United States.

This paper argues that our folk-psychological expertise is a special case of extended and enculturated cognition where we learn to regulate both our own and others’ thought and action in accord with a wide array of culturally shaped folk-psychological norms. The view has three noteworthy features: (1) it challenges a common assumption that the foundational capacity at work in folk-psychological expertise is one of interpreting behaviour in mentalistic terms (mindreading), arguing instead that successful mindreading is largely a consequence of successful mindshaping; (2) it argues that our folk-psychological expertise is not only socially scaffolded in development, it continues to be socially supported and maintained in maturity, thereby presenting a radically different picture of what mature folk-psychological competency amounts to; (3) it provides grounds for resisting a recent trend in theoretical explanations of quotidian social interaction that downplays the deployment of sophisticated mentalizing resources in understanding what others are doing.