Attitude Towards Economic Subjects Among Form Six Students in Segamat District Secondary Schools

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Najmi Hassan ◽  
◽  
Haslina Hassan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Student Motivation ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

This study aims to see the extent of the attitude of Form 6 students towards the subject of Economics in three secondary schools in the district of Segamat, Johor. The study was conducted using a questionnaire of 50 items with six-dimensional aspects, namely perceptions of economics teachers, concerns about economics, the importance of economics in society, self-concept in economics, fun in economics, and motivation in economics. Questionnaire data were analyzed using Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) version 25.0. The findings of the study showed that the respondents have a positive attitude towards the perception of Economics teachers with a mean score of 3.93 with a standard deviation of 0.59. Similarly, the positive attitude of the respondents towards the importance of Economics in society with the highest mean score of 3.94 with a standard deviation of 0.56. Other aspects of the respondents' attitude showed a moderate attitude, namely students' anxiety towards the subject of Economics with a mean of 2.37, self-concept with the subject of Economics with a mean of 3.42, students' enjoyment with the subject of Economics with a mean of 3.15 and student motivation towards the subject of Economics with a mean of 3.14. The overall findings of the study showed that the respondents showed a moderate attitude towards the subject of Economics, that is, the average overall mean score was 3.32 with a standard deviation of 0.73. Although not showing a negative attitude, but most of the respondents did not show a positive attitude towards the subject of Economics. The lowest aspect of moderation is students' anxiety about the subject of Economics.

scholarly journals Teacher Practice in Teaching the Subject of Maharat Al-Quran Integrated Curriculum Tahfiz

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Sri Andayani Mahdi Yusuf ◽  
Mohd. Aderi Che Noh ◽  
Khadijah Abdul Razak
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Random Sampling ◽  
Integrated Curriculum ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Teacher Practice ◽  
Stratified Random Sampling ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Subject

This study aims to measure the level of teacher practice in teaching the subject of Maharat al-Quran Integrated Curriculum Tahfiz (KBT). A total of 621 teachers were made respondents in this study. This study is in the form of a cross-sectional survey involving teachers from KBT secondary schools throughout Malaysia. While the sampling method of this study uses stratified random sampling method. Data were analyzed using IBM Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software version 25.0 Descriptively to determine the mean value, standard deviation and percentage. The findings of the study show that the level of teacher practice in teaching the subject of Maharat al-Quran KBT is at a high level. In conclusion, this study successfully highlights the uniqueness of the findings that teachers in secondary schools who implement KBT practice well the teaching of tajwid law, manners of the Quran, recitation, knowledge of Qiraat, practice of Qiraat and Rasm Uthmani in the subject of Maharat al-Quran. The science of tajwid is the main teaching emphasized by the teacher to enable students to learn the Quran. The implication is that tahfiz teachers have a role to teach Quranic skills because teachers are the driving force behind a built curriculum. Abstrak Kekurangan pengetahuan terhadap subjek yang diajar akan mengganggu kelancaran proses pengajaran dan pembelajaran (PdP). Kegagalan memahami isi kandungan pelajaran dapat menjejaskan kaedah PdP yang dirancang dan akan memberikan impak negatif kepada pendidikan itu sendiri. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengukur tahap amalan guru dalam pengajaran subjek Maharat al-Quran Kurikulum Bersepadu Tahfiz (KBT). Seramai 621 orang guru dijadikan responden dalam kajian ini. Kajian ini berbentuk tinjauan rentas silang (cross-sectional) yang melibatkan para guru dari sekolah menengah KBT di seluruh Malaysia. Manakala kaedah pensampelan kajian ini menggunakan kaedah pensampelan rawak berstrata (stratified random sampling). Data telah dianalisis menggunakan perisian IBM Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) versi 25.0 secara deksriptif untuk mengetahui nilai min, sisihan piawai dan peratusan. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan bahawa tahap amalan guru dalam pengajaran subjek Maharat al-Quran KBT berada pada tahap tinggi. Kesimpulannya, kajian ini berjaya menonjolkan keunikan dapatan bahawa guru di sekolah menengah yang melaksanakan KBT mengamalkan dengan baik pengajaran hukum tajwid, adab al-Quran, tilawah, ilmu Qiraat, amali Qiraat dan Rasm Uthmani di dalam subjek Maharat al-Quran. Ilmu tajwid merupakan pengajaran utama yang ditekankan oleh guru untuk membolehkan murid mempelajari al-Quran. Implikasinya, Guru Tahfiz mempunyai peranan untuk mengajarkan kemahiran al-Quran kerana guru merupakan penggerak sesebuah kurikulum yang dibina

Explanations without causes and causes without reasons

2010 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 539-562
Author(s):  
Hudson Meadwell
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Causal Structure ◽  
Intentional Action ◽  
Selection Effects ◽  
Rational Agents ◽  
State Variable ◽  
The Social ◽  
Intentional Explanations ◽  
The Subject

Action is a central category in the social sciences. It is also commonplace to assume that the social world has a causal structure. Yet standard ways of specifying causal relations in social science lack explanatory force when the subject matter is intentional action. The present article considers this problem. The metaphysics of action are distinguished from the metaphysics of intentional action, and it is argued that the former forces an implausible unity on the actions of inanimate nature and of rational agents. Agency in the metaphysics of action adds nothing to state-variable causation. Agency in the metaphysics of intentional action, in contrast, is argued to have a different structure, not reducible to state-variable causation. Work on endogenous choice in social science suggests that the concept of agency that is on view in literature on selection effects and social generation implies the metaphysics of intentional action. Recent research in the philosophy of action is considered in order to specify the structure of intentional action and the force of intentional explanations.

Students’ Negative Attitude to Physics Influences Low Academic Achievement

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Tavita Q. Lumintac
Keyword(s):  
Academic Achievement ◽  
Science Education ◽  
Standard Deviation ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Moment Coefficient ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Difficult Subject

Physics is perceived as a difficult subject for secondary and tertiary students. A measurement of students’ attitude towards Physics must be obtained in finding ways of enhancing the teaching and learning in the colleges. Thus, this study is conducted to determine the attitude of engineering students towards physics and its relation to their academic achievement. Descriptive research design was employed in the study. Mean, standard deviation and Pearson product- moment coefficient of correlation were utilized in analyzing the data gathered. Results revealed that the students have a negative attitude towards physics subject, and their academic achievement of the subject is found to be fair or low. Further, a significant relationship was established between the students’ attitude toward Physics and their academic achievement. It is concluded that their low level of academic achievement in physics is the result of their negative attitude towards the subject. Hence, students’ negative attitude to physics influences low academic achievement.   Keywords Science Education, Physics, attitude, academic achievement, descriptive  design, Surigao City, Philippines

Guatemalan Ladinization and History

1994 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 527-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard N. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Political Science ◽  
North American ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Science Vocabulary ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject

Recent years have seen a significant increase in the use of history by social scientists. It is less and less common that studies in anthropology, sociology, and political science evaluate variables without attention to their antecedents. There still survive, however, concepts and theories built originally on synchronic assumptions. One of these theories, ladinization, has been the subject of considerable contention.“Ladinization” derives from “Ladino,” a term used in Guatemala and adjacent areas of Mexico, El Salvador, and Honduras to refer to the non-Indian natives of those countries. I am not sure when “ladinization” entered the social science vocabulary, but it may have been with the work of North American anthropologists in the 1930s and 1940s. It described what observers thought of as a process whereby Indians were becoming Ladinos or more Ladino-like. The term was not favored by Guatemalan Ladinos, who generally spoke of “civilizing” the Indians, by which they meant that Indian customs should be discarded in favor of Ladino. In espousing this theme, Guatemalan indigenistas of the “generation of the 20s” often blurred the relation of race to culture; some argued that Indians were capable of being “civilized,” others that such changes could only be secured by introducing Europeans to interbreeding.

scholarly journals Sevil Gusejnova, «Двусмысленная» идентичность: ислам в учебниках «человек и общество» и история Азербайджана / An „Ambiguous” Identity: Islam Within the „Man and Society” Textbooks and the History of Azerbaidzhan

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-29
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Secular Education ◽  
School History ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Symbolic Identity

Ideas about Islam (its versions, origins, social and cultural significance, etc.) have long been present in school history courses, and also in the “Man and Society” course. The “Man and Society” course was launched in the early 1990s in secondary schools in grades 9, 10 and 11 after Azerbaijan had left the USSR. The course maintained it was a certain act of innovation. It was claimed that this course would be new in terms of its content and thus would have little in common with the “Social Science” course launched in the Soviet times. It was quite natural to expect that the religion of the majority of the population, Islam, would in any case be mentioned in the textbooks for the course, which aimed at forming the “correct” citizens. Azerbaijani nationalism referred to Islam as one of the most important foundations of the identity of Azerbaijanis, along with the Azerbaijani language. At the same time, the system of secular education is not aimed at focusing on teaching religious rules, norms and rituals. Rather it is a question of symbolic identity – the declarative description of Azerbaijanis to Islam as one of the most significant bases of their identity. In this context Islam, for the time being, remains only one of the component parts of ethnicity (“our” religion), though a significant one.

scholarly journals The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic: Implications for Teaching Social Studies as Integrated Curriculum

2021 ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Vincent Mensah Minadzi
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Integrated Curriculum ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of the study was to examine the impacts of COVID-19 and its implications for teaching Social Studies as integrated curriculum. This was done through review of a number of articles relating to the COVID-19 pandemic as well as Social Studies as integrated discipline. Historical background and the effects of the pandemic specifically in Ghana have been outlined in the paper. Being integrated curriculum, the author argues that the pandemic offers unique opportunity for Social Studies educators and teachers of the subject to demonstrate their understanding of the concept of integration with respect to the impacts of the pandemic. There is no denying the fact that the pandemic had tremendous impacts on all facets of human life including economic, social, psychological, political, religious, and health. Based on the literature review, it is recommended that educators and teachers in the field of Social Studies should draw connection between the COVID-19 and the Social Science subjects. In so doing, it would promote wholistic understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Implementation of Teacher Social Competence in Improving Student Learning Motivation

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-36
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ybnu Taufan ◽  
Abdurahman Basalamah
Keyword(s):  
Student Motivation ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Teacher Motivation ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Learning Motivation ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Improving Student Learning

The purpose of this study was to examine the social implementation of teachers in increasing student motivation at Madrasah Tsanawiyah Negeri Balang-Balang, Gowa Regency. This research is qualitative because this type of research does not only want to collect data in terms of quality, to gain a deeper understanding. The study uses purposive sampling as well as a purposeful sample. The purpose of the sample is to take the subject based on the existence of that purpose. The sources of data in this study are the Head of Madrasah, Teachers, Student totaling 641 people. The population of this study amounted to 641 people, the authors used 10% of the total population, namely 64 students. Further data collection by observation, interviews. Qualitative data analysis techniques according to Matthew Milles consist of three streams of activities that occur simultaneously, namely: data reduction, data presentation, and verification or drawing conclusions. Results showed that the competence implementation factor encountered by the students' enthusiasm did not understand the teacher's wishes which resulted in their motivation to study being mediocre. Furthermore, the increase in teacher motivation also often carries out remedial and enrichment, because students often miss lessons so that special guidance is needed in this case.

scholarly journals New forms of cyberbullying in social networks (on the example of “death community”)

2020 ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Elena Dmitrievna Mukhanova
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
School Environment ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
School Students ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Social Pedagogues

The subject of this research is the new forms of cyberbullying as a social problem of school environment. The goal consists in conducting a sociological analysis of the new forms of cyberbullying. The survey was conducted on the basis of Google Forms in the social network Vkontakte; it involved students of 8-11 grades, university freshmen, and students of vocational secondary schools of Nizhny Novgorod, total of 300 persons. The second survey “New forms of manifestation of cyberbullying in social networks: on the example of the phenomenon “death community” was carried out in Marc 2018, and involved school students of 5-11 grades, total of 362 persons. The acquired results demonstrate that children who were not able to find solution of their problem most often enter the “death community”. They look for solution among other members of the group, kindred in spirit, and attracted by philosophy of the groups, presented by interesting names, such as “whales swim upwards” and “whale journal”, which describe the romantic side of death, that it is a good or an achievement, rather than something scary or unknown. The scientific novelty lies in studying the problem of cyberbullying in the school environment of Nizhny Novgorod. The obtained results may be used social pedagogues and school psychologists.in formulation of recommendations for parents of “vulnerable” group of students to prevent cyberbullying.

scholarly journals Social representations and information security of children and adolescents: the point of view of teachers (Part 2)

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 19-32
Author(s):  
I.B. Bovina ◽  
N.V. Dvoryanchikov ◽  
S.Yu. Gayamova ◽  
A.V. Milekhin ◽  
S.V. Budykin
Keyword(s):  
Information Security ◽  
Secondary Schools ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Social Representations ◽  
Threat Assessment ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Present Section

The purpose of the presented study is to analyze the social representations about the information security of children and adolescents in groups of teachers. The study is based on the ideas of the social representations theory, in particular, on the connection between social practices and social representations. The object of the study was teachers of secondary schools, the sample was 102 people aged 22 to 65 years, (M = 39.36 years, SD = 11.12 years, 91 women and 11 men). As a matter of the experience of schoolchildren all respondents were divided into three groups: teachers of children, teachers of adolescents, teachers of children and adolescents. The subject of the study was to reveal the specificity of the representations of teachers about the information security of children and adolescents. The supposed to revel the specificity of the representations as a matter of experience with schoolchildren of various ages. To test the assumptions, a questionnaire was developed, it consisted of 6 parts: In the first part, respondents were asked to evaluate this or that type of information, in terms of the threat it poses to the safety of children and adolescents. In the next four parts of the questionnaire, respondents were asked to answer questions of so-called «vignettes» (hypothetical situations), in each case it was necessary to propose a plan of action in the situation. The last part contained socio-demographic issues. As the volume of the article is limited, the present section discusses the results of the threat assessment and two hypothetical situations out of four.

Gender Is Political

2020 ◽  
pp. 275-294
Author(s):  
Pelin Erdal Aytekin
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Social Existence ◽  
Women's Identity ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Ownership Of Land ◽  
Method Approach

Studies on women identity in the context of gender yields significant results, especially when considering the practice of cinema. Mainstream cinema is an essential area of indicators for handling women's identity. Susuz Yaz and Yılanların Öcü films are two important films in which Metin Erksan dealt with the concept of property within his filmography. These two films, which address the concept of property through the ownership of land and water, also represented the social existence of women's identity with the rural lifestyle in particular, making the social structure in which women are perceived as property visible. In this context, the study evaluates the image of the woman in cinema on the concepts of body, property and rights. The method approach shaped its roots from the foundations of sociology, communication and cultural theories. The subject was presented by analyzing it within the perspective of interpretive social science. It was concluded that the debate on whose property the land and water are also raised the discussion of the property of women's identity.

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