WCES-2011

“New Learning Environments: Ecology of the Soul –

An innovative approach to teaching ethics and culture”

Dr. Marija-Emilija Kukubajska

University Goce Delcev Stip, School of Philology, Stip, R. of Macedonia

Abstract

Purpose: share positive results from synchronized ethics, culture and the arts learning in educational and professional settings. Method: “Ecology of the Soul” inter-active reinforcement, inter-disciplinary interpretation of ethics and its positive impact upon mental, social health. Application: moral ideas diffused through Art-Po concept (visual and verbal multi-media learning, creativity and presentation), integrate literature with inspirational moral messages, internalized through inventive cognitive environment. Ethics messages promoted: new mindsets of compatible, non- confrontational, non-polarizing, bilateral worldviews towards ecology of the physical environment. People-oriented, people-generated, intellectual, ethical and mental environment with cultural-climate change is accomplished through: 1) literary genres; 2) art and exhibitions; 3) music compositions; 4) health therapy. Case studies conducted: in California, Missouri, Virginia, Republic of Macedonia. Evidence proves: teaching “Ecology of the soul” concept is creative, constructive counteraction to destructive and decadent moral behaviour. Main argument: Innovative advancement of traditional moral value systems reports successful outcome on academic, artistic, medical, government and non-government, non-ideological, individual and institutional level. Conclusion: intellectual, emotional and spiritual environment of educated and cultivated individual awareness contributes to increased moral responsibility in dealing with physical environment. Advanced protection of moral, besides ozone layer, achieved positive change.

Keywords: Ethics-esthetics, art-literature therapy, mental environment, synchronized multi-media

The focus of this research is the expanded efficiency and creativity in the inter-disciplinary diffusion of moral values and ethical issues by multi-level, synchronized learning devised through the “Ecology of the Soul” concept applied in Art-Po (art and poetry inter-active creativity). Dr. Kukubaiska’s concerned awareness about preventing the depletion of traditional moral layers (besides the ozone layer), as well as deterioration of codes of ethics caused by relativistic and secular moral revisions, is the key issue of her cultural message created and displayed through synchronized visual and literary arts activities.

Findings of this research have been conducted by the civil society organization, EMARI (education, morals, academic research, istoria of culture). The paper: 1. discusses cases in applied ethics that depict global-scale devaluation of traditional moral norms and principles and 2. gives case studies of successful outcomes in creative, non-regulatory, culture and the arts, mental environment. It is primarily observed and evaluated in the US, and Macedonia. The research results are fusion of contemporary expressions of Macedonian and American moral worldviews that capture the variety and validity of the need: to expand the scope and content of learning environments that contribute to prevention and promotion of the system of values among academic and general population, international and local population.

© 2011 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Introduction

Applied ethics activities researched in this paper illustrate innovative achievements: organized, integrative inter-action of four major disciplines in teaching ethics: a) literary production (mini-essays and poems affirming and advancing virtues versus vice), in a synergetic unity with b) fine arts creativity and exhibitions (through inter-active interpretation of the literary messages on ethics as esthetics), while accompanying them with c) music composition (its synchronized perception and reception of spiritual, cultural values), expressing the “Ecology of the Soul” messages as d) health therapy (with the power of healing and prayer - to overcome negative behavioral addictions and degenerative mental illnesses of today’s critical behavior among students and young adults).

Diffusion of moral value systems through these four disciplines has been followed by case studies in the United States (Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA; Wignall Museum, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA; Gallery Kubaiski, Hollywood, CA; Viet Nguyen Corporate Art Gallery, Burbank, CA; United Cerebral Palsy, Spastic Children’s Foundation, Burbank Program, CA; University of Columbia Medical School, Children’s Hospital, MO; Branson Arts Council at US Army Corps of Engineers, MO; American College, Thessaloniki, Greece & AISM, Skopje, R. of Macedonia; NOVA high school, Skopje, R. of Macedonia; UMD, United Macedonian Diaspora 1st Global Conference, Washington D.C.; promotion coverage through media: TV, radio and printed; book publications and conference presentations.

Figure 1. Emilia Kukubajska (1979-2006), co-founder of EMARI, advocates moral value systems at national inter-scholastic

“Ecology of the Soul” competition ceremony organized within NOVA HS curriculum, Ohrid, 1998, R. of Macedonia

The Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena, California, organized a multi-media display sponsored by Indo-China Smithsonian Museum Art Travel Exhibit (1992). It consisted of interactively created presentation of the Ecology of the Soul project of Dr. Marija-Kukubajska and the Vietnamese American contemporary painter, etching and embossing artist Viet Nguyen. The project called “The South Land and the Light of No End”, showed artworks of Nguyen integrated with Kukubajska’s essays on the beauty of goodness, and thus integrated the spiritual heritage of 4.000 years old history of Vietnam condensed in the artist’s imagination and the philosophy of culture coming from the ancient and modern Macedonian mind. The multi-media Art-Po show was reviewed by the prominent Los Angeles art critic Peter Frank, the Los Angeles Times art review considered it as an exceptional fusion of art and literature with motivational moral messages, and the Irvine Fine Arts Center in California awarded the visual and the literary artist of Nguyen and Kukubajska for their unique synchronization of etchings and embossing with mini essays and poetry that profiled impressions of the Ecology of the Soul in the museum gallery environment of the Pacific Asia Museum, enriched by traditional Vietnamese Dragon and Lion dance and music. The Center recognized both the engaged contribution of the fine artist, the witness/survivor of the Vietnamese war, who escaped the Communist regime on a boat to the western democracy and freedom of expression, and the poetic essays of the Macedonian American writer, and art director of the Corporate Art Gallery in Burbank, as her Ecology of the Soul elected to rather “project words against war and reject worlds in war” within cultures and countries in transition, such as the those that underwent conflicts: the former Yugoslavian republics and North and South Vietnam.

1.2. The Chaffey College with its Wignal Museum, in Rancho Cucamonga, California, 1992, present another academic yet general public environment that offered cultural diversity that brought together a wide variety of styles, techniques and geographic regions of the world (American, Macedonian and Vietnamese), that opted to see the future of the world as a better place to live and create, despite living and working among some Hollywood grim projections of tomorrow. Within their openness, the Art-Po partnership projects of Kukubajska-Nguyne was invited to organize an inter-disciplinary exhibit that was perceived as a totally new approach to expanding the visual and verbal language of creative learning and leadership in moral education innovations within the Los Angeles metro area and Southern California. The college campus made itself available for these new American-Macedonian-Vietnamese endeavors to promote awareness for the necessity of clean-conscience against war conflicts, against crime and corruption that present primary moral pollutants before the world devotes its attention to the secondary ones: industrial pollutants of the physical environment. Images imprinted on tri-dimensional paintings depicted a) footsteps from the hopeless to the celebration of love and faith in freedom, and b) fish skeletons swimming in their last flow as a result of ideologies that irreverently follow low ethics of their hard core propaganda. Again, Dr. Marija Kukubajska accompanies Viet Nguyen’s artworks with her literary faith in a better tomorrow where ethically clean conscience is raised first, before clean flora and fauna, rivers and fields and forests and urban and rural contamination demand proper attention. She again posted her interpretations next to the artworks and read their moral motto as a parallel message for a healthy moral and ethical environment as the primary goal in the war against polluting virulent ideologies and degrading discrimination of color, creed and cultures among mankind.

1.3. The same positive accomplishment of fusing ethics education through the fine arts and literary genres was recorded at the Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, 1992, where the exhibit was expanded with new essays and artworks. Discussions among the university staff, the audience and the poet Kukubajska with the artist Nguyn were held and led to the conclusion that ethics issues are becoming vital to moth Christian universities and non-Christian, secular ones.

F. 2. President of United Macedonian Diaspora, Meto Koloski and author Dr. Marija-Emilija Kukubajska, organizer of the Macedonian Art Exhibit “Ecology of the Soul” (Art-Po multi-media), at 1st UMD Global Conference, Washington, D.C.

1.4. The Vietnamese Cultural Center “New Year Orchid Exhibit Art Show” in Santa Ana, California, a suburb of the L.A. Metro area, with the largest Vietnamese population concentration outside Vietnam itself, is to be mentioned as another innovative learning environment for diffusion of multi-media cultural and moral messages in support of the “Ecology of the Soul”. The novelty in this presentation was the accentuation of beauty of nature as universal goodness: 1. external nature: exemplified by live flowers, and pained floral designs from Hue, Dalath, and California; and 2. internal nature: the blossoming of the mother’s heart and the child joy as the most magic and magnificent flower that is to be preserved by the family habitat. Dr. Kukubajska illustrated the essence of love as a supreme ethical value, reading and displaying posters of her poetic essays on love for god, family and country. The Vietnamese Cultural center in Santa Ana was declared as a splendid environment of learning about integrated cultures and creative disciplines: the art and poetry of the power of love. The Art-Po show on the “Ecology of the Soul” was accompanied by the timeless beauty of the Vietnamese classical music, “The Silk Road” composed in Paris by Pham Dui. Maestro Dui greeted the unity of beauty of the mind and the heart, the reality and the art, and the international and national significance of inherited spiritual culture of living and of creative education through the visual, music and literary arts, offered to the consumers in one integrated learning and performing environment.

1.5. Based on urban anthropology issues of ethics and the previously treated issues of the rural beauty of nature, Dr. Kukubajska chose another Art-Po learning environment by organizing the “Ecology of the Soul” exhibit in the contemporary setting of the Gallery-Gallery on Santa Monica Blvd., in West Los Angeles, owned by Israeli-American artists and gallery owners. The poet and literary and art critic Kukubajska included this time the contemporary paintings of the Saigon university professor of fine arts, Lam Triet. Her multi-media Art-Po essays on excellence in moral and esthetic values were inspired by Lam Triet’s celestial love for the pristine soul and soil of his native land. The message of this multi-media show attracted primarily modern art connoisseurs with rather intra-national art and literature consumers, and the conclusion was that “location, location – of nature within the city” defined and launched the spectacular sensation of the messages: “Ethics is Esthetics” - Goodness is Beauty, love for mankind is power to prevent evil in this world.

1.6. The Gallery Kubaiski, in Hollywood/Universal City, Los Angeles, served for two years as a research ground for this observation of innovative learning environments. The profile of this gallery comprised of international contemporary painters, sculptors, designers and musicians, who again were monitored by its PR manager, Dr. Marija Kukubajska. She applied her “Ecology of the Soul” concept applied within the inter-disciplinary Art-Po display of visual and verbal articulations of the arts and monitored the reactions of the audience in regards to their receptivity, indifference or rejection of this concept. The results were groundbreaking, since the Hollywood entertainment industry had already set up the stage for reaction against violence in the movies, including even the animated children’s cartoons. As a methodology in my research observation I used three variants: 1. I created my literary genres that became inspired by the selected artists that were scheduled to exhibit in the Gallery Kubaiski; 2. My existing literary genres inspired their visual expressions in paintings illustrating my literary ideas; and 3. we worked together creating a parallel work on the same theme: how to become a better human being, how to exemplify the essence of the “Ecology of the Soul”. In this process I was lucky to have been given the opportunity to also organize and advertise these exhibits thus making record of the researched results in this innovative, inter-active learning and creative environment, while also evaluating the reaction of the art consumers.
The publications appeared as a sign of approval for this multi-media effort to integrate multiple fields of inter-active learning, and teaching the audience about the new directions in the creative cooperation of minds and morals, and of inspiration and imagination upgraded by mutual discoveries. Positive write ups appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the Gallery Guide of West Los Angeles, the magazine On-the-Boulevard, in Studio City, CA, the Vietnamese Santa Ana News and TV, etc. The result of this expanded diffusion of innovative Art-Po “Ecology of the Soul” display attracted and further cultivated co-production with many other art entities in the city of Los Angeles: the Los Angeles Metropolitan area galleries and artists, such as the Pacific Design Center, on Melrose, West Los Angeles; the Barrakat Gallery on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills; The Museum of African art and many others. It increased the already dynamic activities of the Corporate Art Frame Gallery in Burbank, CA.

1.7. The renown California artist and designer Alexander Kubaiski’s participations at the Cancer Society of America Fund Raising - Annual Celebrity Auction Show at the Rotonda Hall in Beverly Hills, CA, was one of those high-end learning environments, adjacent to UCLA and yet independent beyond its academically structured programs. The Cancer Society Celebrity Auction Show resulted in an increased cooperation between the brother-artist and the sister-writer, Todor Alexander Kubaiski and Marija Kukubajska (aka Maria Kubaiska). Their cooperation reached its peak into a high-profile event of raising moral awareness with anti-war messages. The Los Angeles and California cultural, educational and artistic circles had the opportunity to see and read about the war in the Balkans (at that time in Bosnia), through the Art-Po performance of the “Ecology of the Soul” concept, with essays in verse dedicated on the significance of being loyal to the moral defense of freedom, liberty and pursuit of happiness (even in the Balkans), moral values and duties that apply both in war and peace times, in individual battles as well as in institutional and social conflict resolutions. This patriotic and patriarchal art-show displayed Alexander Kubaiski’s paintings and Marija Kukubajska’s mini-essays under the common theme “Yugoslavo I-O-U”, with the underlining context of “ask what you can do for your country and not the opposite – in order to show respect and love for its people and their cultural and national heritage”. The learning environment expanded beyond the Corporate Art Frame Gallery in No. Hollywood as the Californian cultural audience greeted it for its human lessons on love and devotion for the home-land and on the opposition of using war as the method for crisis management and conflict resolutions. UCLA art-graduate students, medical doctors, an executive from the City of L.A. EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), painters from Poland to Mexico also offered their body of art and sculpture to serve as learning tools through their exhibits at Gallery Kubaiski, as it organized the option of integrating their artworks within the promotion of moral value systems. The learning process was conducted at weekly art-education workshops organized by the Gallery Kubaiski Studio in Hollywood, CA.

1.8. At the American International School of Macedonia, AISM, Skopje, 1999-2000 (with its director being the researcher of moral messages and their impact upon the increased learning interest in various courses), at the American School Macedonia, ASM, Skopje, Macedonia 1995 (where the researcher was an assistant principle) and at the American “NOVA” High School, 1997-1999, Skopje, Macedonia (where the researcher was member of the Board of Directors and taught world literature and ethics) the “Ecology of the Soul” concept achieved exceptional results among the students. The Music and Ballet School of Macedonia, the public schools in the country as well as the American College in Thessaloniki, benefited from the application and promotion of the “Ecology of the Soul” concept through:
- Inter-Balkan educational and cultural cooperation that was initiated by Dr. Kukubajska. Moral values competition between students of AISM and of ACT, American College Thessaloniki was conducted and the winners’ literary works were published in the annual book of AISM, Macedonia. This learning experience of integrating moral messages into artistic and literary messages with moral points, was a novelty for the American-Greek students in Greece, as well, although inter-active, multi-media and inter-disciplinary education was an existing method in their other courses.
- Implemented were broadened lessons and lectures in ethics through literature within the upgraded curriculum of the American International School of Macedonia.
- Introduced was “Ecology of the Soul” project and the same was applied at inter-scholastic national competitions in moral education and literary writing contests. It resulted in organizing the “Ohrid inauguration of the champions in moral values and character virtues”, which was the first extra-curriculum ethics education event in the last decade of the 20th century in Macedonia, before Ethics was first introduced in Macedonia and taught at the private NOVA HS in Skopje, in 1998, by Dr. Kukubajska, and before “Ethics and religions” was first introduced by the Ministry of Education in the elementary public schools in Macedonia, in 2010.

The learning environments for ethics, civics and moral values promoted by the founder of the “Ecology of the Soul” contributed to other novelties in the Macedonian society of transition:
- developed volunteerism as a rather new moral concept
- introduced the first Ethic course in Macedonia (through NOVA HS, Skopje)
- designed creative methods in teaching ethical values through courses such as Culture and Civilization of the United States, and American Studies, in the private American schools in Macedonia.

F. 3. Promoting the importance of moral values in living with chronic illness,

Dr. Marija-Emilija Kukubajska at the Alliance for Lupus Research conference, Bethesda, MD, 2009,

with Oscar Rieken, a kidney transplantee, and a member of the organizing committee of the “Walk with us” campaign

1.9. United Cerebral Palsy, Spastic Children Foundation, after-school program, 1989-91, in No. Hollywood, CA, was a research ground for the director/teacher, author of this research, in reference to the receptivity of the “Ecology of the Soul” in a special-needs learning environment with children with mild to severe retardation, age 3-11. The results of the one year engagement of the researcher: in expanding the skills, abilities, knowledge and cognitive aptness far exceeded the expected benefits. The students included in the programmatic and extra-curricular activities outdid their medical level expectations. Their emotional intelligence increased and their social skills expanded with sympathy and cooperation refinement. The volunteerism became practiced wider, by family members and NGOs. The best students, including Ryan, age 6, were aired on National TV, annual UCP Telethon, and displayed remarkable intelligent response and verbalization of his high moral motivation to self-help and hope in a “must do better” future for his family and friends. Dr. Kukubaiska’s program, supported the students’ moral motivation, behavioral quality, interpersonal and self-cognitive skills and abilities cultivated on the basis of her “Ecology of the Soul” issues implemented in the program as well. As a result some of the benefits of this innovative learning environment were:
- Fund-raising for spastic children’s creative education and restorative development in after-school programs increased
- Newly designed and improved educational methods for multi-task, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-religious clients/students (Jewish, Christian, Buddhist, Latin-American pagan) received the universal education on moral value systems which reinforced students creative learning advancement.

- Coordinated special education training for high school volunteers with mild learning disabilities was facilitated for their simple-task training in the learning environment of helping small children with mild-retardation. Those were students of the ADAPT employment agency for the Los Angeles metropolitan area special education initiatives.

The moral value systems applied in the program by the researcher/director also:

- Improved parent/teacher cooperation, discussions between client’s family and teaching staff brought to light crucial issues to be addressed

- initiated closer involvement of parents into their children’s health care management at the UCP facility after school program

- encouraged extensive family coping with health challenges of their children through case-management at UCP and cooperation with UCLA computerized, technology-based learning devices
- Bio-ethics, moral values, family values, personal self-esteem and positive reinforcement methods for quality mental and physical health-care management for special children was an unprecedented result.

It is also to be mentioned that, in addition to internal, ethical values, external, physical qualities of the facility were upgraded as a result of the positive learning spirit, such as remodeling of health-oriented, people-friendly interior design of the facility (with Art-in-Design intervention by artist/designer Todor A. Kubaiski).

1.10. Prime Pre-School and Kindergarten, 1993-94, Van Nuys, Los Angeles, CA, served as a testing ground for the “Ecology of the Soul” concept, which integrated classical education in the humanities, in science and in the arts, as well as ethics-based learning motivation, inspiration and imagination. The results were:
- Introduced new teaching methods for gifted children, advanced their learning/performance skills
- designed PR strategies to attract clients (from corporate day-care: Disney Corporation Day Care) who elected the European Classical Education curriculum designed for talented and early childhood literacy oriented children
- increased enrollment due to efficiency of the ethics classes based on “Ecology of the Soul” concepts (co-designed by Emilija, age 14, and her mother Marija Kukubajski)
- introduced course in “A-Z ethics” kindergarten lessons
(novel method of language arts, inspired by and in cooperation with prodigy young writer Emilia Kubaiska)
- applied “Ecology of the Soul” in multi-disciplinary Art-Po projects in class
- added classical music/ballet dance to existing music education in order to uplift and upgrade students’ motivation for learning through higher self-control, and traditional moral virtues.

F. 4. Macedonian Prime Minister, Nikola Gruevski and Dr. Marija-Emilija Kukubajska, New Jersey, 2008,

discuss literature and ethics messages from the book “EMI – Notes: Versed in the Universe”

1.11. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Earth Day Fair was a one day event by the Lake of the Ozarks, Branson. Missouri. The display location was the Children’s Tent where the “Ecology of the Soul” project was performed with an “Art-Po” workshop that involved another novelty: an inter-generational creative writing and art project, called “The Pioneers and the Veterans of the Tree of Life”.
1.The pioneers were represented by the “Girl Scouts” of Branson and 2. The veterans came from the senior citizens home operated by “Beverly Enterprise”. The theme of this event was not the physical tree of life, but rather the “spiritual tree of life that bears the fruit of the spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control. The traditional ethics theme was entitled “Moral issues and the environment - healthy spiritual for healthy physical habitat”.
This “Ecology of the Soul” moral values workshop was conducted for two years. Scholastic issues were viewed from moral perspectives, such as nature, the universe, man’s destiny on earth, health and children’s purity and need to protect it from violent entertainment. Celebrities from the entertainment industry, who shared the respect for traditional moral values brought their children to participate (among them were Yakov Smirnoff’s children and wife, the children of Dr. Patrick Bays (doctor of the Olympic Committee, etc). The poetry with moral messages was read by Emilija and Marija Kukubajski while children and senior citizens expressed their visual and literary interpretation of the spiritual values of children and adults. Their essays were published by the Branson Tri-Star newspaper. The Missouri born Space Shuttle astronaut Tom Akers attended the “Ecology of the Soul” activities at the children/senior citizens tent and was delighted by their interest to understand the spiritual and moral laws in the nature of man and the universe. All of the participants in the creative learning process surprisingly placed God as the supreme source and substance of what is good and glorious in on earth and in the skies.

Figure 5. U.S. Ambassador to R. of Macedonia, Phillip Reeker, and Dr. Marija-Emilija Kukubajska, discuss an article on ethics and education,

American Corner, Bitola, 2008, R. of Macedonia. EMARI director of Stip chapter, Mariana Dimitrova, MA, in the middle

1.12. The Columbia University Hospital, Pediatric Department, Columbia, MO, USA (1996), became a learning environment through its recreational room for children, teenagers and young adults. The researcher of these learning results, together with her assistant, daughter Emilia Kukubajska (1979-2006), at that time a patient at the same ward, age 16, organized a 3 week course in Art-Po applying the “Ecology of the Soul” concept in order to enhance the life-styles and to offer moral and overall learning support to the chronically ill children, diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, cancer, lupus nephritis, or severe anorexia.
Patients were engaged according to their interests and choice in reading and listening to poetry written as custom-designed for them, upon which their visual expressions followed in a series of drawings representing their intellectual and emotional reaction to the poem “To have and to be…” (reflection on the difference of having health versus having terminal illness).
The goal of this workshop, which resulted into a fascinating children’s exhibit at the university hospital was the moral encouragement of the severely sick children and young adults (of whom one died 4 months later, at age 22), and the induction of the idea of healthy spirit that contributes to healthy body. The children-patients with medical problems claimed to have greatly benefited by this learning environment and method of “Art-Po” performance of their understanding of what “Ecology of the Soul” means to them. The head of the department, the world renown nephrologist Prof. Dr. Ted Groshong, welcomed this creative surprise when the poetry and the children’s drawings created an exuberantly positive spirit of his seriously ill patients, when that morning their artworks decorated the hallway’s walls, greeting the personnel and the parents with zest for life and zeal to be cured. The children-patients at that learning event were not bitter any more, and were not sad with anyone or within themselves (at least during their activity and its display, or at least in their external looks), as their soul was filled with the extraordinary goodness of internal beauty: love and faith in the future of medicine - for their helpless yet hopeful lives. The innovative initiative for expanding the learning environment by means other than technology-based educational supplies, which was by touching their hidden world of love for life and fear of death, made the front news for the Columbia Missourian newspaper, featuring patients and their artworks depicting the lessons of “to have – moral values despite of being challenged by illnesses of this world”.

Figure 6. Emilija Kukubajska, author of literature with moral messages, at her neighborhood Hollywood Bowl:

“If I cannot change the bad girls in Hollywood, I do not let them change me”

Acknowledgements:

To my forever most beloved human being on earth, my only child Emilia Kukubajska (1979-2006), author, splendid humanitarian who dedicated her entire life of 27 years, to advocating moral and intellectual excellence and applied ethics in life, with superbly motivating strength, even amidst her catastrophic health battles with Lupus Nephritis, always with peace, patience, understanding and graciousness even among inter-cultural or ethical intolerance, always with love among hopeless adversities, and with hope for people - to transform into ever better human beings.

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