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BUILDING INDONESIAN HUMAN CAPABILITY: REDUCING DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN EXPERTISE IN THE FURTHER EDUCATION AND TRAINING SECTOR
Get PDFForeign expertise holds a revered status in the Indonesian Further Education and Training sector, with the notion of ‘Bule’ playing a pivotal role in how international interventions are resourced. Foreign expertise often brings with it many local assumptions, particularly around the sharing of contemporary and start-of-the-art western knowledge, but often in reality this is not practically manifested. It is for these reasons that Maconick (1999) contends that greater emphasis needs to be placed on defining the operational role of local capacity building. The authors believe that greater emphasis should be placed on building local human capital, and this paper describes the engagement process in the design of occupational standards challenging the conception that foreign expertise and influence should be unfettered. While foreign skills and talent can play a pivotal role in developing local human capability, it must be recognised that these interventions must be cultural appropriate and look towards creating a sustainable future where indigenous human resources are given equal standing. The methodology applied reflected a ‘most significant change approach’ (Dart & Davies, 2003) to the evaluation of training methods with an emphasis on workplace engagement
ASSESSING JAPANESE FEMALE COLLEGE STUDENT FEELINGS ABOUT MATHEMATICS LEARNING AREA CONTENTS
Get PDFThis study was designed to examine Japanese female college students’ feelings toward mathematics that they had learned before beginning college study. The 235 surveyed participants were all Japanese college students from the humanities course of a two-year junior college in a local city in Japan. For this investigation, respondents were divided into groups based on their feelings about mathematics. They were scrutinized using conjoint analysis for their learning anxieties about specific learning contents. The analysis consisted of assessing these students’ awareness of ‘being good at’, ‘neutral’, and ‘being not good at’ one specific aspect of mathematics relative to others. These groups were characterized. Results revealed differences in the perceptions of difficulty specific to the learning areas. These findings suggest the importance of providing female students with appropriate learning content from elementary school to high school, depending on their feelings about mathematics. These findings might help teachers plan mathematics learning classes for secondary education
A CORRELATION ANALYSIS OF LEARNING ORGANIZATION AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT: IS IT A STRATEGY TO HAVE A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN YOUR ORGANIZATION?
Get PDFFor an organization to be competitive, employee involvement plays a significant role. As human wants and needs are always changing, it necessitates new products and services in the market. When it comes to external triggers; social, political, economic, and technological changes impact organizational policies and processes. To update these elements, organizations must have a learning culture by adopting a strategic move in its structure. A mixed-approach (theories and survey/interview) study with an investigation on change management and learning organization in selected industrial companies in the UAE, with a sample size of 400, aids to find the relationship between learning organization, change management, and competitiveness. The quantitative and qualitative analysis confirms the significance level of related dependent variables and the acceptance of hypothesis tests. Hence, organizations can utilize the model, strategic learning-change bundle that is crafted from this study towards its competitive advantage. Moreover, this study can further be analyzed with other change management variables as change is a continuous process
MANAGING AND IMPLEMENTING CHANGE SUCCESSFULLY WITH RESPECT TO COVID-19: A WAY FORWARD FOR SMES
Get PDFThe pandemic has changed the way of doing things in the entire world. To survive in situations, we need change. All the organizations are trying their level best to implement change successfully, however, all of them are facing severe issues. The purpose of this study is to identify the major hurdles in implementing change and identifying a way out to cope with the situation based on available literature on SMEs and change management. This study follows a synthesized literature review methodology and is a kind of review paper. In this research, literature that has been written on crisis management and especially over the COVID 19 has been reviewed. In this review analysis, previous studies regarding change management and the importance of SMEs in economic sustainability have been discussed. The paper is a review of existing literature and will identify how the organizations can survive through implementing change successfully. The study is significant for SMEs in the entire world. The study is useful for understanding the issues that are related to managing and implementing change in small and medium enterprises especially while facing contingencies. Finally, in this research, future researchers are guided to empirically test the factors identified in the findings of the study
A GENERAL REVIEW OF ZIMBABWE’S RESPONSE TO DRUG AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE AMONG THE YOUTH
Get PDFDrug abuse among the youth in Zimbabwe has reached crisis levels, and the number of youths engaging in drug abuse is increasing yearly. The purpose of this study was analysing the response, and efforts made by the Government of Zimbabwe, and its stakeholders, civic organizations, and the Zimbabwean community to addressing the problem of drug abuse by the youth in the country. The study used a qualitative research method, in the form of desk research by analyzing secondary data in the form of books, peer-reviewed articles, and relevant websites. Findings from the study showed that the Zimbabwean Government, and its stakeholders, civic organizations, and the community have in place strategies for drug abuse rehabilitation, and prevention in Zimbabwe; however, the problem of drug abuse is recurring and increasing among the youth population. The study also found out that, though the church plays a significant role in addressing social issues, and a voice, listened to in the community; there is no Psycho- Christian based rehabilitation module for youth drug abusers in Zimbabwe. The study concluded that there is a need to widen intervention programs for youth drug abusers in Zimbabwe. The study recommends for future studies to look into the idea of establishing a Christian based rehabilitation module for youth drug abusers in Zimbabwe, to support the youth drug abusers in recovery and quitting
FUNCTIONAL LITERACY AS AN EFFORT TO DEVELOP HOME BUSINESS FOR RURAL’S WOMEN IN SEMARANG-INDONESIA
Get PDFRural’s women home business is very important considering that women are often the saviors of the family economy. This study aims to describe functional literacy as an effort to develop home business for rural’s women. The research method uses qualitative, in women's study groups. Data collection uses in this study consists of documentation, observation, and in-depth interviews. Qualitative descriptive method consists of data reduction, data presentation, and conclusion. The description of the results in this study shows functional literacy in learning groups can improve basic literacy and practical skills as an entrepreneurial development. The representation of women entrepreneurs is still relatively low which can be attributed to factors such as low level of education, lack of capital, and cultural. The development of effective home business is carried out continuously and simultaneously through functional literacy which has implications for improving the economy and family welfare. The application of functional literacy is to develop a woman's home business, so it will build a potential business center such as food stalls, various handicrafts, and the utilization of natural potential around. The development of women's home business in rural areas has become more prosperous and has a better livelihood. Home business Development has been conducted with various activities ranging from functional literacy activities to various skills required by poor women in rural areas
RELATIVE CLAUSES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR STUDENTS’ AND TEACHERS’ GRAMMATICAL AWARENESS
Get PDFThe use of relative clauses in English language teaching and learning is considered as a useful way for English as a Foreign Language (EFL) students and teachers to give more information about the head noun of their written or spoken sentences. It modifies a noun or noun phrase (Richards & Schmidt, 1985, p. 494). In spite of the benefits of introducing relative clauses in classroom contexts, there might be some obstacles which students and teachers face in the process of construction and relative clause use. In addition, using the relative clause needs a good understanding of their different types, the punctuation, the right pronoun and the agreement. This paper is based on literature review and will also describe and analyse a complex sentence with a relative clause. The description and analysis will be organised through sentence components analysis, different types of relative clause, the aspects of relative clause construction and use and grammatical awareness development. The purpose of this paper is to help EFL students and teachers have an overall understanding of the aspects of relative clause construction and use, and then emphasize the difficulties, which occur in the classroom context. Accordingly, through a detailed discussion of relative clauses, this paper will determine how the understanding of relative clause construction and use might develop EFL students’ and teachers’ grammatical awareness
TRANQUIL WAVES OF TEACHING, LEARNING AND MANAGEMENT
Get PDFExploring aspects of: Teaching, Learning and Management at one of the leading Sino-Foreign Universities, The University of Nottingham, Ningbo, which relate to an Art and Design Tutor, and Academic Lead for History and Social Sciences within The Centre for English Language Education (CELE) Department, from 2014-20. This paper looks at aspects of: Design and planning of learning activities, teaching support of learners, assessment and feedback, the development of effective learning environments (and approaches to student support and guidance) and also at continuing professional development relating to research and scholarship. It also reveals aspects of two case studies pertaining to leadership and coaching
DEVELOPMENT OF LEADERSHIP QUALITIES THROUGH METHODS OF DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF LIVE LIVING
Get PDFThe purpose of this study was to examine the problem of formation of special mindset of the leader. The training of leaders (AUTHENTICUS program, HAI.LT institute) is focused on the shaping of independent decision-making and freedom from stereotypes. In order to break out from automatic reactions of the brain and create novelty we taught leaders to reflect on his/her emotional reactions that arise in situations of real life – live living. AUTHENTICUS program of consciousness leadership is a modular training program held by HAI.LT Institute since 2011. We conducted psychological study of participants of leadership training program (44 leaders, 2013 - 2015). Results of the study showed the changes in value orientations, in the behavioral priorities in the locus of control, also in the stereotypical beliefs, and motivation of decisions
USING SEARCH ENGINES IN THE TEACHING AND LEARNING PROCESS
Get PDFIt is a well-known fact that technology and electronic devices play a huge role in the globe today. Due to these advances in technology, the world is gradually becoming frontier-less and thus becoming a small village through digital media. The Internet and use of smart devices are now a trend in modernizing human culture and thus being part of the totality of ways of human life. As education is part of a society and plays a great role in shaping an individual, this research study aimed at exploring the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in an education setting in Tanzania. The study explored how the inclusion of ICT played a role in facilitating the teaching and learning process in the education system. This research was taken in the form of a qualitative Action research, looking at a simple-everyday used application ‘a search engine’ as a tool to facilitate learning as a case. It recorded students’ and teachers’ perspectives on the effect of the use of technology in class as a pedagogy. In its findings, the study unveiled that a tool like Search Engines as well as the general use of technology supported and built on various education theories such as constructivism, critical thinking, active learning and differentiation when consciously applied