scholarly journals Building Teacherly Roles Together

2021 ◽  
pp. 66-81
Author(s):  
Peter Stanley Kingston
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Democracy Education ◽  
Learning Group ◽  
Motivation For Learning ◽  
Cultural Democracy ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Learner Agency

Given that learner agency in making meaning from subjective learning experiences is central to constructivism, how can teachers provide structure without diminishing that agency? This paper comprises an a/r/tographic analysis of a practice-based research project situated outside formal education, which shares the teacher’s role across a community learning group. This group collectively chose and researched a new topic for each session, sharing this research in session and discussing the lesson this made. This model not only provides the basis for a consensual education, but also offers opportunity for empowerment through collectively taking ownership of learning, demonstrating that as engaged learners we can shape the structures through which we build learning agency. As education and culture shape each other, so learners emerge as critical citizens able to re/form community and culture for mutual benefit, open in turn to being re/formed by them. Understanding learning as a creative process, this paper juxtaposes Gert Biesta’s concept of creative practice as a dialogue with the world against the re-emergent concept of cultural democracy. Education re/produces cultural values; by not assuming control of learners’ education for them – by not inhabiting the role of teacher – we do not diminish the space for new, emergent structures to be realised. This paper seeks to show that by performing the teacher’s functions between us, we increase our intrinsic motivation for learning, also allowing for possibilities of new knowledge emerging. As will be shown, constructivism needs no singular teachers, only people to learn alongside and share the practice of learning with.

Making Meaning without a Maker: Secular Consciousness through Narrative and Cultural Practice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse M Smith ◽  
Caitlin L Halligan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Personal Narratives ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Normative Values ◽  
Making Meaning ◽  
Ultimate Concern ◽  
Worldview Formation ◽  
Moral Frameworks ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Drawing on fieldwork and in-depth interviews, this study examines the ways affirmatively secular individuals construct moral frameworks, navigate hardship, and create meaningful selves. Based on an inductive, thematic analysis of the data, we show that secular individuals’ identities and interpretations of everyday experience and important life events are made meaningful through personal narratives and shared social spaces where cultural values are practiced, imbuing secular worldviews with a sense of legitimacy. Through participants’ responses to questions of “ultimate concern” including life’s purpose, and the meaning of happiness, hardship, and death, we argue that a sense of otherness, appeals to normative values, and the reframing of existential questions in secular terms plays an essential role in the lives of a segment of the growing, increasingly diverse nonreligious community. Our findings have implications for scholars of secularity, including the role of ambiguity in secular beliefs and the importance of narrative in worldview formation.

scholarly journals STRATEGI PEWARISAN SENI PERTUNJUKAN DRAMA GONG KEPADA GENERASI PENERUS

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
I Wayan Sugita
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Formal Strategy

<p class="abstrak">This article aims to discuss the inheritance of the performing arts of drama gong to the next generation. As a form of qualitative research, data collection was carried out through analysis of four selected drama gong stories, namely (1) Suluh Ikang Praba; (2) Gesing Reed Beads; (3) Nila Warsiki; and (4) Jayaprana produced in 2019 – 2021. Research data were also collected through observation, document studies, and interviews with several informants who understand the performing arts of gong drama in Bali. Data analysis was carried out qualitatively by applying the theory of semiotics and Bourdeau's social practice. The results of the study indicate that the inheritance of drama gongs is very urgent: (a) to preserve drama gongs; (b) regeneration of young Balinese as supporters of the drama gong; (c) drama gongs are part of Balinese cultural identity, and (d) drama gong as a medium for educating Balinese language and culture. The inheritance of the performing arts of drama gong is carried out through a formal strategy, namely through formal education from kindergarten (PAUD) to college in part by the State Hindu University I Gusti Bagus Sugriwa Denpasar, and an informal strategy, namely the role of families and art-culture studios in socializing, enculturating values. cultural values in the art of performing the drama gong to the younger generation of Bali.</p>

Non-Formal Education and its Role in Establishing a Democratic Culture within Indonesian Heterogeneous Society

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mangatas Tampubolon
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
General Education ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Civic Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Democratic Culture ◽  
Democracy Education ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Living Skills

Artikel ini membincangkan peranan pendidikan non–formal bagi membentuk budaya demokrasi dalam satu masyarakat majmuk, khasnya dalam masyarakat Indonesia. Hari ini, demokrasi semakin menjadi pusat perhatian, kerana berbagai–bagai negara tengah mempersiapkan diri untuk menjadi sebuah negara demokratik. Namun demikian, aspek–aspek pengetahuan dan pengalaman yang berhubungkait dengan demokrasi belum sampai ke tahap yang membanggakan. Bagi mencapai matlamat agar memiliki kefahaman yang lebih tinggi mengenai demokrasi ini, maka pendidikan sivik (kewarganegaraan) menerusi pendidikan non–formal perlu dijalankan dan digalakkan. Hakikatnya, di negara–negara berkembang termasuk di Indonesia, pelaksanaan pendidikan demokrasi menghadapi pelbagai masalah. Hal ini wujud, kerana didapati majoriti masyarakatnya masih rendah tahap pendidikan formalnya. Oleh itu, bagi mencapai kejayaan pembangunan demokrasi ini terutama pada masa globalisasi dan demokratisasi, maka peranan pendidikan umum, khususnya menerusi pendidikan non–formal telah dikuatkuasakan sebagai satu cara untuk mempertingkatkan kepercayaan, perhatian, pengetahuan, sikap, nilai–nilai, norma, dan tingkah laku masyarakat. Kata kunci: Pendidikan non-formal; demokrasi; budaya demokrasi; masyarakat majmuk This paper highlights the role of non–formal education in establishing a democratic culture particularly; within the Indonesian heterogeneous society. Democracy is in the center of attention because many nations today are preparing themselves to be democratic even though their knowledge and experiences dealing with democracy are still inadequate. The implementation of civic education in the form of non–formal is necessary in order to have a letter understanding democracy. Generally, the main contraint of the implementation of democracy education in developing countries is the low level of formal education of the peoples. Therefore, for the establishment of a proper democratic culture in this era of globalization and democratization, the role of general education, particularly, non–formal education has been accepted by all nations as an instrument to enhance societal beliefs, awareness, concerns, knowledge, attitudes, values, norm, living skills and even behavior. Key words: Non-formal education; Democracy; Democratic culture; Heterogeneous society

scholarly journals STYLISTIC FEATURES OF CONTEMPORARY ADIRE IN NIGERIAN TEXTILE PRACTICE

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-118
Author(s):  
O. O. BRAIDE
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
International Market ◽  
Dual Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
New Variety ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
New Generation

With the whole lot of  innovation the adire textile is going through, the indigenous craft still maintained and retained its cultural values among its various users most especially the Yoruba people. The paper therefore examines the styles and forms of contemporary adire in Nigeria, its distribution and entrepreneurship. Of further interest is the wide gamut of other product which Kampala technique images have been adapted. From clothing to postcard and house hold decoration items. Examination of contemporary adire and its mellowed design, ease of production and recent acceptance as wearable fashion material and other uses, indicate the diverse direction that traditional art forms may take as it enters the international market, The paper deduced that the different innovations that have taken place in the traditional textile craft is as a result of the formal education been acquired by the very few 7.4% of new generation producers of adire and this innovations has in one way or the other improve the patronage of adire and the calibre of its users. It has also transformed adire into ceremonial attire, other than the usual knockabout. It highlights the differences in the patterning methods of the cloth and also the preference choice of users. The study discovered that adire can play a dual role of a commodity and a gift because of its new variety of uses among the customers, from dress to house hold materials and souvenir. 

scholarly journals Inconvenient Truths About Learner Agency

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Stewart Hase
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Evidence Based Practices ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Learner Agency

Formal education, in all its guises, faces some significant challenges to remain relevant in a rapidly changing world where personal access to information and the capacity to learn has never been easier. Education is a an inherently conservative undertaking, slow to give up traditional and outmoded curricula, methods and policies, based on folklore for evidence-based practice and new realities. For some areas of educational endeavour, notably higher education, the commodification of what is called learning has diminished the role of pedagogy for pragmatism.   This presentation explores the relevance of learner agency and its offspring, heutagogy or self-determined learning, as a modern pedagogy for the digital age. It will then issue some challenges for educators and educational policy makers in adopting innovative, evidence-based practices.

Nimíciwinán, nipimátisiwinán – “Our food is our way of life”: On-Reserve First Nation perspectives on community food security and sovereignty through oral history in Fisher River Cree Nation, Manitoba

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shailesh Shukla ◽  
Jazmin Alfaro ◽  
Carol Cochrane ◽  
Cindy Garson ◽  
Gerald Mason ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Food Sovereignty ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Community Food Security ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Indigenous Foods ◽  
Oral History Interviews

Food insecurity in Indigenous communities in Canada continue to gain increasing attention among scholars, community practitioners, and policy makers. Meanwhile, the role and importance of Indigenous foods, associated knowledges, and perspectives of Indigenous peoples (Council of Canadian Academies, 2014) that highlight community voices in food security still remain under-represented and under-studied in this discourse. University of Winnipeg (UW) researchers and Fisher River Cree Nation (FRCN) representatives began an action research partnership to explore Indigenous knowledges associated with food cultivation, production, and consumption practices within the community since 2012. The participatory, place-based, and collaborative case study involved 17 oral history interviews with knowledge keepers of FRCN. The goal was to understand their perspectives of and challenges to community food security, and to explore the potential role of Indigenous food knowledges in meeting community food security needs. In particular, the role of land-based Indigenous foods in meeting community food security through restoration of health, cultural values, identity, and self-determination were emphasized by the knowledge keepers—a vision that supports Indigenous food sovereignty. The restorative potential of Indigenous food sovereignty in empowering individuals and communities is well-acknowledged. It can nurture sacred relationships and actions to renew and strengthen relationships to the community’s own Indigenous land-based foods, previously weakened by colonialism, globalization, and neoliberal policies.

Environmental Conservation Through Study Value of Bali Aga Tenganan Pegringsingan Community Culture

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Nyoman Wijana ◽  
I Gusti Agung Nyoman Setiawan ◽  
Sanusi Mulyadiharja ◽  
I Gede Astra Wesnawa ◽  
Putu Indah Rahmawati
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Time Orientation ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
Community Activities ◽  
Orientation Time ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Relational Orientation

This research aimed to know the implementation of environmental conservation in terms of cultural value orientation, including humanistic nature orientation, man-nature orientation, time orientation, activity orientation, and relational orientation. The population of this research was the entire community in traditional village Tenganan Pegringsingan, Karangasem, Bali. This research sample amounted to 25 people, consisting of the conventional village apparatus, community leaders, and the general public. Methods of data collection were the method of observation, interview, questionnaire, and checklist. The collected data were analyzed descriptively. This research indicated that the orientation of cultural values of humanistic nature orientation and man-nature orientation had an excellent quality. The time orientation, activity orientation, and relational orientation parameters had good quality. Culture in the study community generally showed a positive thing, so the impact of culture on the quality of the environment, in general, was excellent. The results of observations in the field revealed that there were all community activities at Tenganan Pegringsingan that could not cause environmental pollution. Therefore, the role of traditional regulation or awig-awig to regulate environmental and social-culture.

THE ROLE OF EDUCATION ON DISASTER PREPAREDNESS CASE STUDY OF 2012 INDIAN OCEAN EARTHQUAKES ON THAILAND’S

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raya Muttarak ◽  
Wiraporn Pothisiri
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Emergency Preparedness ◽  
Disaster Preparedness ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Disaster Experience ◽  
Individual Household ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
The Individual

In this paper we investigate how well residents of the Andaman coast in Phang Nga province, Thailand, are prepared for earthquakes and tsunami. It is hypothesized that formal education can promote disaster preparedness because education enhances individual cognitive and learning skills, as well as access to information. A survey was conducted of 557 households in the areas that received tsunami warnings following the Indian Ocean earthquakes on 11 April 2012. Interviews were carried out during the period of numerous aftershocks, which put residents in the region on high alert. The respondents were asked what emergency preparedness measures they had taken following the 11 April earthquakes. Using the partial proportional odds model, the paper investigates determinants of personal disaster preparedness measured as the number of preparedness actions taken. Controlling for village effects, we find that formal education, measured at the individual, household, and community levels, has a positive relationship with taking preparedness measures. For the survey group without past disaster experience, the education level of household members is positively related to disaster preparedness. The findings also show that disaster related training is most effective for individuals with high educational attainment. Furthermore, living in a community with a higher proportion of women who have at least a secondary education increases the likelihood of disaster preparedness. In conclusion, we found that formal education can increase disaster preparedness and reduce vulnerability to natural hazards.

Editorial: Advancing the Debate on Architecture, Planning, and Built Environment Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashraf M. Salama
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
Journal Ranking ◽  
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology ◽  
Open Access Journals ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Institute Of Technology ◽  
Number Of Citations

With an acceptance rate that does not exceed 25% of the total papers and articles submitted to the journal, IJAR – International Journal of Architectural Research is moving forward to position itself among the leading journals in architecture and urban studies worldwide. As this is the case since the beginning of volume 5, issue 1, March 2011, one must note that the journal has been covered by several data and index bases since its inception including Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals, EBSCO-Current Abstracts-Art and Architecture, INTUTE, Directory of Open Access Journals, Pro-Quest, Scopus-Elsevier and many university library databases across the globe. This is coupled with IJAR being an integral part of the archives and a featured collection of ArchNet and the Aga Khan Documentation Centre at MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA.In 2014, IJAR was included in Quartile 2 / Q2 list of Journals both in ‘Architecture’ and ‘Urban Studies.’ As of May 2015, IJAR is ranked 23 out of 83 journals in ‘Architecture’ and 59 out of 119 in ‘Urban Studies.’ Rankings are based on the SJR (SCImago Journal Ranking); an Elsevier- SCOPUS indicator that measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of scholarly journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from. See here for more information (http://www.scimagojr.com/index.php) and (http://www.journalmetrics.com/sjr.php). While the journal is now on top of many of the distinguished journals in Elsevier- SCOPUS database, we will keep aspiring to sustain our position and move forward to Q1 group list and eventually in the top 10 journal list in the field. However, this requires sustained efforts and conscious endeavours that give attention to quality submissions through a rigorous review process. This edition of IJAR: volume 9, issue 2, July 2015 includes debates on a wide spectrum of issues, explorations and investigations in various settings. The issue encompasses sixteen papers addressing cities, settlements, and projects in Europe, South East Asia, and the Middle East. Papers involve international collaborations evidenced by joint contributions and come from scholars in universities, academic institutions, and practices in Belgium; Egypt; Greece; Italy; Jordan; Malaysia; Palestine; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Serbia; Spain; Turkey; and the United Kingdom. In this editorial I briefly outline the key issues presented in these papers, which include topics relevant to social housing, multigenerational dwelling, practice-based research, sustainable design and biomimetic models, learning environments and learning styles, realism and the post modern condition, development and planning, urban identity, contemporary landscapes, and cultural values and traditions.

SISTEM PENDUKUNG KEPUTUSAN PEMILIHAN GURU BERPRESTASI KOTA MEDAN MENERAPKAN METODE PREFERENCES SELECTION INDEX (STUDI KASUS : DINAS PENDIDIKAN KOTA MEDAN)

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fajar Syahputra ◽  
Mesran Mesran ◽  
Ikhwan Lubis ◽  
Agus Perdana Windarto
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Support System ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Selection Index ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Selection Of

The teacher is a major milestone in the world of education, the ability and achievement of students cannot be separated from the role of a teacher in teaching and guiding students. Based on the Law of the Republic of Indonesia No. 14 of 2005 concerning Teachers and Lecturers, in Article 1 explained that teachers are professional educators with the main task of educating, teaching, guiding, directing, training, evaluating, and evaluating students in early childhood education through formal education, basic education and education medium. Whereas in Article 4 of the Act, it is explained that the position of teachers as professionals serves to enhance the dignity and role of teachers as learning agents to function to improve the quality of national education.Decision making is an election process, among various alternatives that aim to meet one or several targets. The decision-making system has 4 phases, namely intelligence, design, choice and implementation. These phases are the basis for decision making, which ends with a recommendation.The Preferences Selection Index (PSI) method is a rarely used decision support system method. This method is a method developed by stevanie and Bhatt (2010) to solve the Multi Criteria Decision Making (MCDM). With the right consideration, this method can be one of the tools to determine policies in decision-making systems, especially the selection of outstanding teachers. Determination of policies taken as a basis for decision making, must use criteria that can be defined clearly and objectively.Keywords: Decision Support System, PSI, Selection of Achieving Teachers

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