scholarly journals Learning Innovations in the Implementation of Social Distancing Policies in the Covid-19 Pandemic: University Students’ Perception

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1723-1734
Author(s):  
Candra Wijaya ◽  
Ilwan Mardani ◽  
Muhammad Nasir ◽  
Ishak Ishak ◽  
Ahmad Yani
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Educational Innovation ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Reduction Techniques ◽  
Learning Patterns ◽  
The Government ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The University

This paper aims to analyze student perceptions of social distancing in education in the Covid-19 pandemic in the context of educational innovation. The focus of the discussion in this study is how students perceive social distancing in education in the Covid-19 pandemic and the learning patterns applied during the COVID-19 pandemic at the university in Labuhanbatu Utara. This research uses a qualitative approach with a case study method. The data collection techniques are structured interviews with informants (students and lecturers), observation and document study. Furthermore, the data were analyzed using data reduction techniques, descriptive data presentation and concluding. The results of this study indicate that students' perceptions of social distancing in education are a temporary policy issued by the government to anticipate the spread of the Covid-19 virus. On this basis, educational institutions (especially universities) apply online learning using the WhatsApp Group (WAG) application, and Zoom Meeting. The main purpose of using online media is as an alternative for learning, assignment and assessment of lectures during the Covid-19 pandemic.

scholarly journals Participation, inclusion, and success in emergency remote online teaching and learning

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-136
Author(s):  
Sandra Healy
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Computer Usage ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Online Teaching And Learning ◽  
Learning Patterns ◽  
The University ◽  
Interactional Patterns

Covid-19 affected educational institutions worldwide, and many moved online engaging in Emergency Remote Teaching and Learning (ERTL). It had a particular impact in Japan due to the low levels of computer usage in Japanese educational institutions and a reliance on traditional methods. This study uses semi-structured interviews with five participants to explore their perceptions of the move to online learning in a Japanese university context. Four factors emerged as significant: participants’ experiences prior to entering university; the importance of Social Networking Systems (SNS) in the process of becoming part of the university academic community; changes in spoken interactional patterns; and changes in learning patterns. It was found that the disruption due to ERTL led to fresh ways to learn and promoted an inclusive environment.

scholarly journals Internally Incentivized Interdisciplinarity: Organizational Restructuring of Research and Emerging Tensions

Minerva ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikko Salmela ◽  
Miles MacLeod ◽  
Johan Munck af Rosenschöld
Keyword(s):  
Interdisciplinary Research ◽  
Interdisciplinary Collaboration ◽  
Scientific Output ◽  
Green Technology ◽  
Academic Careers ◽  
Organizational Restructuring ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The University ◽  
Internal Funding

AbstractInterdisciplinarity is widely considered necessary to solving many contemporary problems, and new funding structures and instruments have been created to encourage interdisciplinary research at universities. In this article, we study a small technical university specializing in green technology which implemented a strategy aimed at promoting and developing interdisciplinary collaboration. It did so by reallocating its internal research funds for at least five years to “research platforms” that required researchers from at least two of the three schools within the university to participate. Using data from semi-structured interviews from researchers in three of these platforms, we identify specific tensions that the strategy has generated in this case: (1) in the allocation of platform resources, (2) in the division of labor and disciplinary relations, (3) in choices over scientific output and academic careers. We further show how the particular platform format exacerbates the identified tensions in our case. We suggest that certain features of the current platform policy incentivize shallow interdisciplinary interactions, highlighting potential limits on the value of attempting to push for interdisciplinarity through internal funding.

scholarly journals Perception and Preference for Home-Based Telework in the COVID-19 Era: A Gender-Based Analysis in Hanoi, Vietnam

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3179
Author(s):  
Minh Hieu Nguyen ◽  
Jimmy Armoogum
Keyword(s):  
Gender Inequality ◽  
Sustainable Development Goal ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Home Based ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Using Data

The rapid and widespread of COVID-19 has caused severe multifaceted effects on society but differently in women and men, thereby preventing the achievement of gender equality (the 5th sustainable development goal of the United Nations). This study, using data of 355 teleworkers collected in Hanoi (Vietnam) during the first social distancing period, aims at exploring how (dis)similar factors associated with the perception and the preference for more home-based telework (HBT) for male teleworkers versus female peers are. The findings show that 56% of female teleworkers compared to 45% of male counterparts had a positive perception of HBT within the social distancing period and 63% of women desired to telework more in comparison with 39% of men post-COVID-19. Work-related factors were associated with the male perception while family-related factors influenced the female perception. There is a difference in the effects of the same variables (age and children in the household) on the perception and the preference for HBT for females. For women, HBT would be considered a solution post-COVID-19 to solve the burden existing pre-COVID-19 and increasing in COVID-19. Considering gender inequality is necessary for the government and authorities to lessen the adverse effects of COVID-19 on the lives of citizens, especially female ones, in developing countries.

scholarly journals Literacy Culture Development through Class Library at SDIT Salsabila 2 Klaseman Ngaglik Sleman

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-203
Author(s):  
Ahmad Safi'i
Keyword(s):  
Life Skills ◽  
Human Life ◽  
School Library ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Class Library ◽  
Reduction Techniques ◽  
The Government ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Culture Development

Life skills are proven to be able to improve human civilization.  Improving literacy culture is one way to develop human life skills.  The National Literacy Movement/ Gerakan Literasi Nasional (GLN) initiated by the government is an effort to realize it.  SDIT Salsabila 2 Klaseman has a Class Literacy Movement/ Gerakan Literasi Kelas (GLK) program.  The limited space available is not a reason to discourage GLK.  This type of research was case study field research.  The institution studied was SDIT Salsabila 2 Klaseman.  The subjects consisted teachers, principals, students and parents.  Data was obtained by observation, interviews and documentation steps.  Analysis was performed by using data reduction techniques, data display, triangulation, and conclusion drawing/verification.  The data showed that the main purpose of GLK was to intensify the culture of school literacy, library revitalization, and maintain the stability of school library functions.  The technical implementation is by creating a class library in each class, fostering a sense of belonging to the class library, supplying books from the school library to the class library, providing educational playgrounds in the area of the class library, giving rewards for students who are diligent in reading, achievements are informed in public, and explore the student guardian support. The problems that arise are the lack of teacher exemplariness, lack of consistency, supply of books from school libraries is still small, and the system of re-education has not been orderly.

scholarly journals The Role of Trust in Student Perceptions of University Sexual Assault Policies and Services

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 39-53
Author(s):  
Olga Marques ◽  
Amanda Couture-Carron ◽  
Tyler Frederick ◽  
Hannah Scott
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
University Campus ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Student Trust ◽  
The Government ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
The University ◽  
Do So

Many post-secondary institutions are developing policies and programs aimed at improving responses to sexual assault experienced by students. In some areas, such as Ontario, Canada, the government has mandated post-secondary institutions to do so. However significant these initiatives, they are predicated on the assumption that students trust, and want to engage with, the university following sexual violence. This study explores students’ perceptions of sexual assault policies and services on one mid-size university campus focusing specifically on how trust factors into reporting sexual victimization and using services. Findings show that students believe that sexual assault policies and programs exist, but this does not meanstudents are willing to use such resources or that they even trust that their university has students’ needs and interests at the fore. This paper discusses policy and programmatic considerations for building student trust in their post-secondary institutions to encourage student use of campus support.

Incongruent Impressions: Teacher, Parent, and Student Perceptions of Two Black Boys’ School Experiences

2021 ◽  
pp. 074355842110621
Author(s):  
Yasmin C. O. Cole-Lewis ◽  
Elan C. Hope ◽  
Faheemah N. Mustafaa ◽  
Robert J. Jagers
Keyword(s):  
Middle School ◽  
Student Perceptions ◽  
School Experiences ◽  
Black Boys ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Teachers Perceptions ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Embedded Case Study ◽  
Academic And Social Experiences ◽  
Academic Interests

For many Black boys, poor academic performance and high rates of school discipline are often related to biases in how they are perceived and treated at school. These biases oftentimes misalign with how Black boys view themselves and how family members perceive them at home. Few studies examine how different stakeholders’ perceptions of Black boys manifest and shape the middle school experience. The current study employed an embedded case study design, using data from eight semi-structured interviews to explore incongruence among student, teacher, and parent perceptions of two middle school Black boys’ academic and social experiences. Findings showed greater congruence between the boys’ experiences and their parents’ perceptions of them compared to their teachers’ perceptions of them. Of note were teachers’ inaccurate reports of the boys’ career aspirations and academic interests and abilities. Implications of these patterns and their impact on Black boys’ experiences in school are discussed.

scholarly journals Tembang Macapat: Kritik Sosial Sedulur Sikep terhadap Ekspansi Industri Semen di Pegunungan Kendeng

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 70-79
Author(s):  
Ery Iriyanto
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Social Criticism ◽  
Research Data ◽  
Cement Industry ◽  
Reduction Techniques ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Earth Day ◽  
Using Data

Macapat song is an ancestral heritage that contains life guidance for the Javanese. Each lyric or cakepan of the Macapat song has a deep meaning. However, for Sedulur Sikep Sukolilo Pati, the macapat song was used as a social criticism of the plan to build a cement factory in the Kendeng Utara mountains. Cakepan macapat song is adapted to the social criticism that is to be conveyed through the song. This research uses literary criticism studies (expressive criticism) with a descriptive analysis approach. The research data is in the form of cakepan tembang macapat. Sources of research data, namely Sedulur Sikep figures and social media. Methods of data collection using observation, interviews, and documentation. Data analysis using data reduction techniques, data presentation, and data verification. The results showed that the social criticism used by Sedulur Sikep through the macapat song consisted of five Pangkur songs and one Dhandhanggula song. The social criticisms include, 1) farmers land planted with cement factories, 2) justice must be upheld, 3) casualties caused by miners, 4) the government torments farmers, 5) the earth begins to prosecute nature destroyers, 6) commemoration of earth day is useless. Keywords: macapat song, social criticism, Sedulur Sikep, cement industry, Kendeng mountains.

scholarly journals Health collapse in Manaus: the burden of not adhering to non-pharmacological measures to reduce the transmission of Covid-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (131) ◽  
pp. 1126-1139
Author(s):  
Ivana Cristina de Holanda Cunha Barreto ◽  
Raimundo Valter Costa Filho ◽  
Ronaldo Fernandes Ramos ◽  
Luciana Gonzaga de Oliveira ◽  
Natália Regina Alves Vaz Martins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Social Isolation ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Judicial Decision ◽  
Social Distancing ◽  
Exponential Increase ◽  
Mass Immunization ◽  
The Government ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Demand For Health

ABSTRACT This article aims to compare the evolution of Covid-19 in Manaus and Fortaleza, two epicenters of the pandemic in 2020, analyzing legal measures by local governments and levels of social isolation. An algorithm was defined to calculate the Homestay Index (HSI), using data from the Google Mobility Report. We analyzed the decree’s timeline, the HSI evolution, the Covid-19 incidence and the number of deaths from March/2020 to January/2021. The population of Fortaleza was exposed to more consistent measures of social distancing than that of Manaus. Longer homestay was observed from March to May 2020 and Fortaleza achieved higher and more lasting levels. As of June 2020, the HSI fell, notably in Manaus, reaching levels below zero in late December. As an aggravating factor, the government decreed broad isolation in Manaus on December 23, 2020, but after protests it was repealed on December 26, 2020. A judicial decision determined the complete closure in Manaus on January 2nd 2021, but it was too late: the SUS collapsed with an exponential increase in deaths. In Fortaleza, the demand for health services was high, but under control. We consider that only the strict application of non-pharmacological measures and mass immunization can prevent further deaths.

scholarly journals Changes of Learning Communication Models in New Normal Adaptation: From Classroom Learning to Distance Learning Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 309-318
Author(s):  
Joko S. Dwi Raharjo ◽  
Dony Hendartho ◽  
Endang Susanti ◽  
Retno Ekasari
Keyword(s):  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Communication Model ◽  
New Normal ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Learning Patterns ◽  
Communication Models ◽  
Policy Work ◽  
The Government ◽  
Home And School ◽  
Depth Interviews

Covid-19 pandemic has a significant impact on various aspects of life, both individually, organizationally and nationally. The decision of various countries in the world to do a "lockdown" in order to limit the transmission of the plague has an impact on continuity of economic wheels to education. Educational institutions began to close because of scarcity of students and difficulties in covering operational costs so that many teachers and management were laid off. For educational institutions that still survive must play a strategy to stay afloat and maintain their students able to learn, with the policy ‘Work from Home’ and ‘School from Home’. The pandemic to this day is not over yet and it is predicted that it will last long until the antivirus is found. However, in anticipation of bankruptcy, the government adopted adaptation of new habits (New Normal), habits that emphasize the implementation of health protocols in every activity. To carry out health protocols, educational institutions change the learning patterns from learning in classrooms to online learning. This has an impact on lecturers with demands to adapt quickly to existing changes. This study tries to analyze and examine the ability of lecturers to adapt learning communication models from classroom-based learning to online-based learning. With hope that this research will become a reference for the developed communication model and its application in adaptation of new habits (New Normal). The study was conducted by examining the results of previous study and in-depth interviews with lecturers to get a diverse picture so that generic conclusions can be drawn.

Sense-making process in school innovation: A case study at Vietnam National University, Hanoi – International School

2017 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lien Do
Keyword(s):  
Educational Innovation ◽  
International School ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Preparatory Program ◽  
Self Study ◽  
National University ◽  
Complicated Pattern

Implementing an innovation at school is never a straightforward process. Rather, the actual execution of changes in any educational institutions from original ideas to practice is a complicated pattern which may lead to unexpected outcomes. In order to understand such complexity in the educational innovation, in this study, the teachers’ sense-making process at both individual and organizational levels is used as the main conceptual framework. Drawing on data from semi-structured interviews, this article reports on an exploratory study into the perceptions and implementation of a new online learning system for assisting students’ self study in the English Preparatory Program at Vietnam National University, Hanoi – International School (VNU-IS).

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