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STUDENTS’ MORAL PROBLEM BASED ON TEACHER’S PERSPECTIVE: IMAM AL GHAZALI’S CONCEPT
Get PDFThis paper aims to analyze the moral problems that occur in the world of education through Imam Al Ghazali’s concept. He is a Muslim philosopher and theologian. Likewise, he has a book entitled Ihya ‘Ulumuddin in which discuss about moral education. The subject is one of the students in TPA (After school Qur’an program) at Baiturrahim Sleman Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The background of this study is a lot of Indonesian students have a lack of attitude and moral toward their teacher. This study uses qualitative methods with interviews. The findings revealed several factors that led to the crisis of moral education in students, such as those that lowered religious education material. The conclusion is to know the background of the moral education problem and using Imam Al Ghazali’s concept as a role model to minimize the occurrence of moral crisis among Indonesian students
RESEARCH CAPABILITY OF PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHERS: A BASIS FOR RESEARCH CAPABILITY ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM
Get PDFThis study aimed to assess the teachers’ research technical writing skills that set as the basis of capability enhancement program that can nurture and produce upright and competent graduates and empowered community, through relevant and sustainable higher professional and technical instruction, research, extension and production services should take part in helping the DepEd teachers as a member of the larger community. Based on the results most of the respondents were 21-30 years old, female, married, and almost 6-15 years in service as public elementary school teachers. Most of them were finished Bachelor’s degree with specialization on Bachelor of Elementary Education (BEEd). Most of them are Teacher I and II, few are Teacher III and Master Teachers. It was also determined that most of them attended 3-6 research seminars.It was also revealed that the teachers were moderately capable in terms of technical writing of completed research. The findings also convened that there is no significant relationship between their profiles and their research capability except from highest educational attainment which shows significant relationship with research capability, therefore the results of analysis is partly upheld. Based on the findings and conclusions the following are the researchers recommendations: the need for intensive seminar/ training write-shop for technical writing of completed research, the teachers needs to be highly capable in writing completed research that can be presented and published, and the researchers also recommended the action plan for the seminar/training write-shop activities, timeframe, expected output, material requirements, and the responsible entity/person
ABUSE OF VILLAGE FUND (VF) IN INDONESIA: CASE STUDY OF VF CORRUPTION IN EAST JAVA
Get PDFThe Indonesian government in the JokoWidodo-JusufKalla era (2014-2019) accelerated welfare in the village by launching the Village Fund (VF) program in accordance with Law Number. 6 of 2014 concerning Villages. However, since the VF was rolled out in 2015, cases of misuse of funds have continued to spread, mostly involving village heads and village officials. To minimize irregularities in the VF, the Ministry of Villages from Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration (Ministry of PDTT) established the Village Fund Task Force (VFTF) at the central level. Responding to the high case of corruption in the VF, there are two objectives in this research, namely analyzing the communication policy of the Ministry of PDTT organization by forming VFTF, as well asanalyzing ccommunication on Village Fund organizations in Dasok Village and constraints faced.This research uses a case study approach in Dasok Village, Pamekasan Regency, East Java.Data collection through in-depth interviews. Research subjects: 1) Regent,Village Head, Inspectorate; 2) Ministry of PDTT; 3) Anti-corruption NGOs. The results showed the VFTF of Ministry PDTT was not running optimally because it was limited to receiving reports of alleged abuse of VF corruption and the lack of personnel (34 people) to monitor 75 thousand villages in Indonesia.The effort to eradicate the misuse of the VF is a challenge for JokoWidodo government in the second period (2019-2024), so the use of this grant fund can be right on a target, the village is more developed and the village community prospered.These efforts are important for the realization of good governance and for the continuation of village development
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTS’ CREATIVITY BASED ON THE METHOD OF “INTUITIVE AESTHETICS”: RESULTS OF EN PLEIN AIRS (LITHUANIA, VILNIUS, 2018)
Get PDFThe article is devoted to the problem of development of creativity of modern painters in Lithuania. Development of painter’s personality helping to step of from the stereotypes of creativity is one of the most significant challenges of psychology of modern art. Psychologists conduct large number of studies, make publications on problems of visual communication, psychodynamic theories of personality, psychological characteristics of artists, but not enough attention is being paid to the development of methods that would help to deal with the issue of developing creativity. Impact of the “Intuitive Aesthetics” method as a way to step out from the stereotypes that hinder creativity was researched in the project for Lithuanian painters. 40 well-known Lithuanian painters took part in two En Plein Airs held in Vilnius (Lithuania) in 2018. The “Intuitive Aesthetics” method included four interactions:1) seminar on art psychology, mindfulness and embodyment; 2) practice for developing skills of reflection; 3) live painting; 4) independent painting. The article presents the results of the research showing how the “Intuitive Aesthetics” method helped to change stereotypes of creativity of painters. Method “Intuitive Aesthetics” can be considered as psychological authentication counselling of the painters that help them to step out from the stereotypes that hinder their creativity
CORRUPTOR FIGHT BACK: IDENTIFYING THE CORRUPTION ERADICATION COMMISSION'S ENEMY IN ERADICATING CORRUPTION IN INDONESIA
Get PDFThe Corruption Eradication Commission of the Republic of Indonesia (CEC) is a state institution established with the aim of improving the effectiveness of efforts to eradicate corruption. With a clear juridical foundation and real achievement, the CEC is considered successful in meeting public expectations in eradicating corruption in Indonesia. Even so, the CEC's corruption eradication agenda experienced many obstacles from those who were against corruption eradication. The parties are always trying to weaken the CEC institution even there are also efforts to dissolve the CEC. Various attempts to weaken the CEC are called corruptor fight back. But unfortunately, the incessant corruptors fight back are not matched by the CEC's readiness in dealing with the fight back. Not yet identified the pattern of corruptor fight back is one indication of the weakness of the CEC in the face of the corruptor fight back. Therefore, there are three objectives of this study namely; First, learn the forms of the corruptor fight back. Second, read the workings of the corruptor fight back. Third, determine the ideal design and strategy to prevent and fight any corruptors fight back.  
EXPLORATIVE STUDY ON THE PHENOMENON OF CONTRABAND CIGARETTES IN NORTHERN MALAYSIA
Get PDFContraband or smuggled cigarettes have caused socio-economy devastation and loss of revenue for this country. These cigarettes are sold at a lower price compared to the original cigarettes thus; attention is shifted to obtain the cheaper product. Law and law enforcement actions have been well defined; thus, such a phenomenon continues to occur. This study aims to explore the phenomenon of cigarette smuggling in Northern Malaysia and establish that attention is required to unearth the contributing factors and implement effective measures. This study was conducted using library design with reference materials derived from various resources related to the study. Based on the study conducted, contraband cigarettes impose a negative impact on the country, and identifying the contributing factors and combating this phenomenon is imperative. Combating this phenomenon requires close collaboration between the public, traders, and government
INSURANCE LAWS & PRACTICES IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND SOUTH AFRICA: INSIGHTS FOR NIGERIA
Get PDFThe United States of America (US) is one of the largest financial markets, and houses the most mature and viable insurance sector in the world, with a huge population and well developed technologically advanced insurance sector. Insurance as part of the finance sector added 21% to the GDP of the financial institutions in the US. Similarly, in the Republic of South Africa (SA), though smaller in population to the US and Nigeria, SA enjoys a robust insurance sector with the latest Insurance Act 2018 to help the sector and the economy. Nigeria, on the other hand is much larger in terms of size and population to SA, being over 200million in population, but with a weak insurance sector and the Insurance Act 2004 is the primary legislation sustaining insurance practice in the 36 states of Nigeria. This paper examines the prospects, challenges and pitfalls of these experienced sectors, with a view to gaining useful insights into their insurance laws and practices for useful guide that can benefit the Nigerian insurance industry and made recommendations that attention must be given to Nigerian Insurance law, by way of a review and an amendment for growth of the industry. Digital and technological infrastructure, though presently at its nascent stages in Nigeria, must be fully explored if the sector is to realize its full potential, while attention must be given to the cost and over-dependence on digital and tech innovations to avoid their pitfalls
MODEL OF ASSIMILATION/INTEGRATION OF IMMIGRANTS
Get PDFThe article aims to familiarize the scientific community with one of the results of a qualitative case study investigation that employed ethnographic methods of gathering data on Russian-speaking immigrants in the Brisbane region, Queensland, Australia, conducted in 2016-2017. The study, titled "Perceptions of Russian-speaking immigrants: A case study in Australia," was held in response to one of the most pressing and challenging questions on the agenda of many public administration offices around the world –"What can be done for better integration/assimilation of immigrants into host communities?" It set itself to identify factors affecting the processes of assimilation and integration of Russian-speaking immigrants into Australian society. The research not only pointed out alleged obstacles such as (1) employment, (2) education, (3) healthcare, (4) government assistance, and (5) discrimination but also suggested the theoretical Model of Assimilation/Integration of Immigrants (MAI). The proposed model could explain not only why immigrants cannot integrate easily into the host society but also some other futures of their behavior. The model indicates the possibility for quantification of assimilation/integration itself and thus, provides an opportunity for further comparison of degrees of assimilation in between population groups
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF GENDER MARKER AND MANDARIN CHINESE AFFIXOID
Get PDFThis study focuses on the recent morphological development -jie ‘sister’ in Mandarin Chinese. For example, in zhùpǎo-jiě 助跑姐 ‘a woman who ran up to pretend something’ -jie is an affixoid. Our data are taken from Taiwan News Smart Web (2019) and are examined within a semantic and morphological framework. The goal of the study is to investigate the semantic and morphological attributes of [X + jie] nominals and to find out social development the nominals revealed. The findings show that, semantically, [X + jie] refers to the outer appearance, emotion, and behavior of the targeted female. Morphologically, the nominals could be in sentential form and undergo omission, reversion, modification, etc. before reaching suffixation formatting with the affixoid. The high productivity of the gender marker -jie brings the social development of this Chinese speaking society to light. [X + jie] nominals demonstrate social activity, cultural organization, political event, and language contact in Taiwan
ADVERSITY QUOTIENT®, EMOTIONAL QUOTIENT AND ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF FILIPINO STUDENT-PARENTS
Get PDFThis study is descriptive-correlational research aimed to determine the significant relationship between Emotional Quotient, Adversity Quotient®, and the Academic Performance of Student-Parents. Chi-Square Test was utilized to test the significant relationship among variables. Purposive sampling was employed since there are only thirty (30) identified student-parents enrolled in the university. The General Weighted Average (GWA) during the second semester of AY 2016-2017 of the respondents was used to determine their academic performance. Based on the findings of the study, the majority of the student-parents are in their late 20’s and early 30’s, female, Education students, in their lower year, and have 1 – 2 children. These results suggest that the student-parents are in their matured ages since almost all of them are returnees. The respondents reported that they have a high level of emotional quotient. Therefore, the study revealed that there is no significant relationship among student-parents’ emotional quotient, adversity quotient, and academic performance. Hence, researchers fail to reject the null hypothesis. The researchers strongly recommended that the university should devise a program for student-parents dealing with life adversities. Similar studies may be conducted to explore more studies concerning adversity quotient® using other variables not included in this study