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Living spirituality in social work practice in Indonesia
No full textSpirituality is defined variously in relation to the search for meaning, life purpose, values, inner experiences, transcendence, and connectedness with others and God. In Indonesian, this term is well known as ruhani or ruhaniah （an Arabic term）, as opposed to something physical. It is used interchangeably with religion or religiousness. In the context of social service, the terms spiritual and spirituality are understood to concern the concepts of the mind, piety, morals, a vertical relationship with God, the inner aspects of being human, among others. In brief, spirituality is not defined but rather lived in praxis and daily life. Such living spirituality is not clearly expressed in social work practice, especially in interactions between practitioners and their elderly clients. Each one practices different components or features of spirituality. To what extent living spirituality is implemented in practice depends on the capability of practitioners to understand the spirituality of their clients and of themselves as well as their ability to articulate. In general, spirituality is not an issue, nor is it taught in schools or training. It is not uncommon for social workers or welfare practitioners to be unfamiliar with this dimension and scarcely use-for instance-forms of spirituality-based assessment and intervention developed by Western scholars or their modified versions. Their living spirituality sourced from either religious or nonreligious beliefs, teachings, and traditions may illuminate their practices. Unfortunately, such practices have been scarcely uncovered, let alone written about and published. Therefore, they represent a significant research challenge for scholars and researchers to explore
KONTRIBUSI KETERHUBUNGAN TERHADAP KESEJAHTERAAN LANJUT USIA DAN IMPLIKASINYA BAGI PEKERJAAN SOSIAL
No full textIn social work, spirituality is understood around the search of meaning, life purpose, transcendence, and connectedness. Connection with all of being out of the self is one of the research findings on the older adults’ spirituality. This research explored how the elders live spirituality which is expressed partly through the way they respond life experiences and sufferings. In addition, the exploration was also steered to understand how the elders’ spirituality contributes to their well-being. This qualitative study recruited eleven older persons as beneficiaries of institutional and home care social services. NVivo software was used to help to analyze data and to manage the coding results in a simple manner. The theme connectedness is reflected by some elements ranging from relationships, intimacy, isolation, to prayer. These elements have significant impact in shaping the elderly well-being. As the research implication, integrating spirituality into social work theory can be represented by the theme connectedness, that is by broadening the concept of person and environment in the person-in-environment theory
KEMISKINAN DAN LINGKUNGAN DALAM KERANGKA OTONOMI DAERAH Studi Kasus di Lereng Gunung Merapi, Magelang, Jawa Tengah
No full textPenelitian ini menggali pelaksanaan otonomi daerah di tingkat bawah dan mengungkap perannya dalam pengentasan kemiskinan dan pelestarian lingkungan melalui kasus penambangan pasir di kawasan Gunung Merapi. Dengan pendekatan induktif, teknik pengumpulan data yang digunakan yaitu: (i) mengkaji dokumen terkait; (ii) mewawancarai berbagai pihak; dan (iii) mengobservasi kegiatan penambangan, kehidupan para penambang, dan kondisi lingkungan. Hasil kajian eksploratori ini menunjukkan pelaksanaan otonomi daerah tingkat desa sangat bergantung pada pemerintah kabupaten. Dominasi tingkat atas danketergantungan desa masih sangat kentara. Di samping itu, otonomi daerah tidak banyak menghasilkan kebijakan-kebijakan yang dapat berperan mengentaskan kemiskinan dan menjaga kelestarian lingkungan bagi aktivitas penambangan pasir Merapi. Kebijakan yang ada cenderung berorientasi pendapatan daerah tanpa mempertimbangkan kelestarian lingkungan. Kebijakan tersebut lebih memihak pada kaum pemodal (para pengusaha) dan memarginalkan penambang manual. Sistem penambangan rakyat lebih tepat untuk mengentaskan kemiskinan dan dengan pengawasan ketat demi menghindari kerusakan lingkungan
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
No full text“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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