scholarly journals The school library that germinates in a very unfertile land and acts as a moon rise for Malawi’s rural children’s library

2021 ◽  
pp. 255-258
Author(s):  
Georgee Makhalira
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Library ◽  
School Staff ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Library Service ◽  
The World ◽  
Book Award ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Printed Materials

The paper highlights a school library service in a rural set up in Lilongwe, Malawi. It is a school library that has germinated from a ray of hope from the primary school staff, the surrounding community members and leaders (village chiefs, religious leaders, etc.) who garnered to support their children to access printed materials. In conclusion, the paper details how the author and the IASL 2014 Children Book Award has boosted the primary school library window to the world and the promotion of reading and access to printed materials.

James J. Strang: The Prophet Who Failed

1981 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence Foster
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Lake Michigan ◽  
Charismatic Leadership ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Nineteenth Century America ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Beaver Island

The founders of successful religious and social movements have received much attention from popular and scholarly writers. Would-be prophets who failed, on the other hand, generally have been ignored, except for a few sensational cases such as those of Sabbatai Sevi, the Jewish messianic pretender of the seventeenth century, or Jim Jones, whose charismatic leadership of a group suicide in Guyana shocked the nation and the world. Yet although religious leaders who fail usually attract little attention, they are often as interesting as those who succeed. Their lives vividly highlight aspects of new religious and social movements which we might otherwise overlook. One of the most remarkable religious failures in nineteenth- century America was James J. Strang, the schismatic Mormon prophet who set up a community of 2,500 on Beaver Island in Lake Michigan and ruled it for nearly ten years until he was assassinated in 1856. Strang was articulate and capable, a compelling intellect and speaker who seemed totally sincere to some yet an utter fraud to others. His life raises fundamental questions about the promise and the dangers inherent in prophetic leadership, not simply in early Mormonism but in many similar movements as well.

scholarly journals EFEKTIVITAS SISTEM LAYANAN PERPUSTAKAAN BERBASIS TIK DENGAN MODEL AMALIA DALAM MENINGKATKAN MINAT MEMBACA

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 146
Author(s):  
Suci Almalia ◽  
Efendi Napitupulu ◽  
Asih Menanti
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Service System ◽  
School Library ◽  
Research Result ◽  
School Level ◽  
Library Service ◽  
School Students ◽  
Step Cycle ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Reading Interest

Abstrak: Perpustakaan sebagai sumber belajar sekaligus sumber informasi bagi siswa dalam kegiatan membaca yang dimulai sejak tingkat Sekolah Dasar. Suatu media sangat diperlukan untuk memudahkan anak dalam belajar membaca dari awal hingga akhir pendidikannya di Sekolah Dasar. Media layanan perpustakaan berupa perangkat lunak di dalam penelitian ini telah diperkenalkan kepada siswa yang mengacu pada tahapan model AMALIA (Attention, Memoryzing, Accelerating, Literal, Improving dan Assets). Model AMALIA dilengkapi dengan kartu perpustakaan yang belum diterapkan sebelumnya di perpustakaan sekolah ini. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah terimplementasikannya sistem layanan perpustakaan berbasis TIK dengan model AMALIA dalam meningkatkan minat membaca siswa Sekolah Dasar di Tanjung Gading Kabupaten Batu Bara. Penelitian ini adalah suatu penelitian pengembangan (R & D) yang mengikuti tahapan-tahapan penelitian pengembangan, setiap proses tahapan yang ditempuh untuk membangun produk penelitian. Untuk mengetahui perbedaan minat membaca dilakukan pretest – posttest terhadap sampel 86 siswa Sekolah Dasar di Tanjung Gading Kabupaten Batu Bara. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa minat membaca siswa ke perpustakaan lebih tinggi setelah menggunakan sistem layanan perpustakaan berbasis TIK dengan model AMALIA dibanding dengan sebelum menggunakan sistem layanan perpustakaan berbasis TIK dengan model AMALIA. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian direkomendasikan agar manajemen sekolah dapat mengimplementasikan sistem layanan perpustakaan berbasis TIK dengan model AMALIA dalam mengelola perpustakaan Sekolah Dasar. Kata Kunci: Sistem Layanan Perpustakaan, Model AMALIA, Minat Membaca  Abstract: The library as a learning resource and all at once as information sources for students related to reading activity started from the primary school level. A media is really needed to ease the students on reading study since the initial until more graduated at the primary school. The library service media by means of software has been introduced to students refers to stages AMALIA model (Attention, Memorizing, Accelerating, Literal, Improving and Assets). The AMALIA model is equipped with a library card that has not been implemented previously in the school library. The objective of this study was the implementation of an ICT-based library service system with the AMALIA model in increasing the reading interest of primary school students at Tanjung Gading of Batu Bara Regency. This study was educational research and development (R & D) which follows a step-by-step cycle, each step process used to develop the product. To prove, the difference in reading interest was conducted by using pretest-posttest 86 students sample of primary school in Tanjung Gading of Batu Bara Regency. The research result indicates that the reading interest of students to the library was higher after using ICT-based library service system with AMALIA model compared before using ICT-based library service system with AMALIA model. Based on the research result is recommended that the school management can implement an ICT-based library service system with the AMALIA model in managing the primary school library.

scholarly journals Public–private tragedy

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola O’Leary
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Community Living ◽  
Community Members ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Public Property ◽  
The World ◽  
To Come ◽  
Societal Reaction ◽  
The Impact

On 13 March 1996, Thomas Hamilton shot and killed 16 children and 1 teacher at Dunblane Primary School, Scotland. In the weeks and months that followed, intense and extensive media coverage focused on the victims, the community, the aftermath and the subsequent intense and emotional outpouring of grief for Dunblane that seemed to come from around the world. The impact of crime on indirect victims has generated a wealth of research; however, surprisingly little is known regarding the impact of ‘high-profile’ crime on a community living in a location that has become synonymous with the crime that took place there. Drawing on a unique set of interviews with members of the Dunblane community, this article explores the victimizing experiences and processes by which some build their sense of identity in the wake of such a high-profile crime. Empirical findings highlight the ways in which private tragedy becomes public property and how some community members are stigmatized by, manage (and are sometimes resilient to) the impact of wider societal reaction. The aftermath of events at Dunblane encouraged some to identify as victims, whilst others were more resilient to the stigmatizing effects of the crime that labelled them and their community with a ‘spoiled victim identity’.

konsep dasar, prinsip dan peranan supervisi

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isra Revenia
Keyword(s):  
Education Quality ◽  
School Staff ◽  
The World

When we compare with the quality of the best education in the world, Indonesia can catagorized as far behind. This can be seen from the achievments of students who become rejected measuring education quality in improving the qualitu of education, education supervision has very important role in developing education quality. Supervision can be interpreted as a coaching activity that has been planned to assist teachers and staff and other school staff in carrying out work effectively so that it gets good results. Supervision is a process that is applied to a job that has been carried out and even evaluates and corrects the work I to match what was determined from the start.

The World Underfoot

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hallie M. Franks
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Social Fabric ◽  
Physiological Reaction ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Land ◽  
Social Gathering ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The Ideal

In the Greek Classical period, the symposium—the social gathering at which male citizens gathered to drink wine and engage in conversation—was held in a room called the andron. From couches set up around the perimeter of the andron, symposiasts looked inward to the room’s center, which often was decorated with a pebble mosaic floor. These mosaics provided visual treats for the guests, presenting them with images of mythological scenes, exotic flora, dangerous beasts, hunting parties, or the specter of Dionysos, the god of wine, riding in his chariot or on the back of a panther. This book takes as its subject these mosaics and the context of their viewing. Relying on discourses in the sociology and anthropology of space, it argues that the andron’s mosaic imagery actively contributed to a complex, metaphorical experience of the symposium. In combination with the ritualized circling of the wine cup from couch to couch around the room and the physiological reaction to wine, the images of mosaic floors called to mind other images, spaces, or experiences, and, in doing so, prompted drinkers to reimagine the symposium as another kind of event—a nautical voyage, a journey to a foreign land, the circling heavens or a choral dance, or the luxury of an abundant past. Such spatial metaphors helped to forge the intimate bonds of friendship that are the ideal result of the symposium and that make up the political and social fabric of the Greek polis.

scholarly journals Seed Yam Production Using High-Quality Minitubers Derived from Plants Established with Vine Cuttings

Agronomy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 978
Author(s):  
Beatrice Aighewi ◽  
Norbert Maroya ◽  
Lava Kumar ◽  
Morufat Balogun ◽  
Daniel Aihebhoria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Block Design ◽  
Research Station ◽  
International Institute ◽  
Tropical Agriculture ◽  
Single Node ◽  
Cropping Season ◽  
Randomized Complete Block Design ◽  
The World ◽  
Cropping Seasons ◽  
Set Up

Yam (Dioscorea spp.) is a valuable food security crop in West Africa, where 92% of the world production occurs. The availability of quality seed tubers for increased productivity is a major challenge. In this study, minitubers weighing 1, 3, and 5 g produced from virus-free single-node vine cuttings of two improved yam varieties (Asiedu and Kpamyo) growing in an aeroponics system were assessed for suitability in seed production at a population of 100,000 plants ha−1. A 3 × 2 factorial experiment with randomized complete block design and three replications was set up during the cropping seasons of 2017 to 2019 at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture Research Station in Kubwa, Abuja, Nigeria. Results showed field establishments of 87%–97.8%. Yields differed with minituber size, variety, and cropping season; the highest was 31.2 t ha−1 in 2019 and the lowest, 10 t ha−1 in 2018 from 5 and 1 g Kpamyo minitubers, respectively. The estimated number of tubers produced per hectare by 1, 3, and 5 g minitubers was 101,296, 112,592, and 130,555, with mean weights per stand of 159.2, 187.3, and 249.4 g, respectively. We recommend using less than 6 g minitubers for seed yam production due to their high multiplication rates.

scholarly journals Immigration and Multiculturalism in Italy: The Religious Experience of the Peruvian Community in the Eternal City

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 478
Author(s):  
Verónica Roldán
Keyword(s):  
Religious Experience ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Immigrant Communities ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
The World ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Popular Religiosity

The present study on the religious experience of the Peruvian community in Rome belongs to the area of studies on immigration, multiculturalism, and religion in Italy. In this article, I analyze the devotion of the Peruvian community in Rome to “the Lord of Miracles”. This pious tradition, which venerates the image of Christ crucified—painted by an Angolan slave—began in 1651 in Lima, during the Viceroyalty of Peru. Today, the sacred image is venerated in countries all over the world that host Peruvian immigrant communities that have set up branches of the Confraternity of the Lord of Miracles. I examine, in particular, the cult of el Señor de los Milagros in Rome in terms of Peruvian popular religiosity and national identity experienced within a transnational context. This essay serves two purposes: The first is to analyze the significance that this religious experience acquires in a foreign environment while maintaining links with its country of origin and its cultural traditions in a multilocal environment. The second aim is to examine the integration of the Peruvian community into Italian society, beginning with religious practice, in this case Roman Catholicism. This kind of religiosity seems not only to favor the encounter between the two cultures but also to render Italian Roman Catholicism multicultural.

Developing the multicultural school library: Vahl Primary School, Oslo

2004 ◽  
Vol 105 (9/10) ◽  
pp. 337-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Vaagan ◽  
Gry Enger
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
School Library ◽  
Multicultural School
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