scholarly journals Impact of teachers’ social capital on their professional performance: a narrative inquiry

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Muhammad Rafiq ◽  
Abdul Ghaffar ◽  
Amir Zaman
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Efficient Solution ◽  
Financial Constraints ◽  
Male Subject ◽  
Professional Performance ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Part Time ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of social capital on teachers’ professional performance. The participants were ten male subject specialists from government higher secondary schools of District Malakand, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The method of data collection was one-on-one in person through in-depth interview. Teachers’ narratives showed that teachers who had stronger social capital performed better their others. Performance of the teachers who showed high level of participation and willingness were those with high social capital. They were more interested in curricular and co-curricular activities that enhanced their professional performance. There is a strong bond of good relationship between teachers and students that was an efficient solution to meet the different needs of a classroom collectively as well as individual students, which impacts positively on students’ learning and teachers’ performance. There was no contribution from parents for success of the students. Owing to financial constraints, the parents were more inclined to engage their children for earning and part time job. Moreover, lack of awareness, jobless white collars in their surroundings, labouring and earning livelihood far away from home are the reasons that they take negligible interest in contributing to the success of their children.

scholarly journals The Impact of State Intervention on Social Capital of Fishermen Community in Small Islands

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-259
Author(s):  
Sakaria J Anwar ◽  
Lala M Kolopaking ◽  
Rilus A Kinseng ◽  
Aida Vitayala S. Hubeis
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Small Islands ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Political Capacity ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Research Show

This paper aims to discuss the impact of state intervention on social capital of fishermen community in small islands. The research was conducted in Barrang Lompo Island, Makassar. The data was collected through in-depth interview and limited observation from twelve informants determined by snowball sampling. Questionnaires were also spread to about 40 respondents. The data was then analyzed qualitatively to explain researchs data and facts. The results of the research show that state intervention for the last ten years on small islands communities has impact on various aspects such as the diminishing loyalty and trust among locals to the government. Therefore, the intervention reduce the communitys participation, individually and collectively, in development activities. The situation, in turn, could affect the diminishing political capacity of the locals and government in the implementation of development in the islands. The state intervention, however, strengthened social solidarity, local value practices and the enthusiasm to understand religious values which in turn could tighten the internal bond of a community. This bond can become a potential strength to build communities in small islands.Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mendiskusikan dampak intervensi negara pada kapital sosial komunitas nelayan di pulau-pulau kecil. Penelitian ini dilakukan di Pulau Barrang Lompo, Makassar. Pengumpulan data dilakukan melalui wawancara mendalam dan observasi terbatas dari dua belas informan ditentukan oleh snowball sampling. Kuesioner juga menyebar ke 40 responden. Data tersebut kemudian dianalisis secara kualitatif untuk menjelaskan data penelitian dan fakta. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa intervensi negara selama sepuluh tahun terakhir pada masyarakat pulau-pulau kecil memiliki dampak pada berbagai aspek seperti, mengurangi loyalitas dan kepercayaan di antara penduduk setempat kepada pemerintah. Oleh karena itu, partisipasi mereka, secara individu dan kolektif, dalam kegiatan pembangunan kurang. Ini akan berakibat pada berkurangnya kapasitas politik penduduk setempat dan kapasitas pemerintah dalam pelaksanaan pembangunan pulau. Kendati demikian intervensi negara juga memperkuat solidaritas sosial, praktek nilai lokal dan semangat untuk memahami nilai-nilai agama yang pada gilirannya dapat memperkuat ikatan internal masyarakat. Ikatan ini selanjutnya dapat menjadi kekuatan potensial untuk membangun masyarakat di pulau-pulau kecil.

scholarly journals International Network, Social Capital and the Role of Muhammadiyah During the 2006 Yogyakarta Earthquake

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-292
Author(s):  
Muhammad Zahrul Anam ◽  
Sugito Sugito
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Economic Loss ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Transnational Advocacy ◽  
International Network ◽  
Transnational Advocacy Networks ◽  
Humanitarian Mission ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

This article aims to investigate the impact of the international network and social capital on the effectiveness of Muhammadiyah’s emergency response in the 2006 Bantul earthquake. Despite paying more attention to religious and spiritual issues, Muhammadiyah, an Islamic-based social movement, plays a significant role in humanitarian issues. The 2006 earthquake in Bantul devastated public amenities, claimed thousands of people, and caused economic loss. The local government and private sectors of Bantul could not cope with the disaster. The most disaster-affected districts in Bantul Regency were Pundong, Bambanglipuro, and Jetis. Then, Muhammadiyah made an immediate emergency response to help those affected districts. In collaboration with overseas counterparts, Muhammadiyah collected humanitarian assistance. Muhammadiyah might not complete its humanitarian mission without the support of existing local Muhammadiyah in those districts. In other words, Muhammadiyah’s social capital is influential for humanitarian missions. This paper utilized two concepts to elaborate on the effectiveness of Muhammadiyah’s emergency response, namely transnational advocacy networks (TANs) and social capital. Then, this article argues that the higher level of TANs and social capital Muhammadiyah has, the more emergency response it can complete effectively. This paper discovered that three districts had different levels of TANs and social capital. In Pundong, the level of leverage politics (TANs) was higher than social capital. However, both Bambanglipuro and Jetis had a high level of social capital, whereas their leverage politics were low.

“Healing Alone?”: Social Capital, Racial Diversity and Health Care Inequality in the American States

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (6) ◽  
pp. 1059-1087 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Health Care Access ◽  
Racial Diversity ◽  
Care Access ◽  
American States ◽  
The Social ◽  
High Level ◽  
Domain I ◽  
The Impact

There is an influential tradition in political science that social capital, defined as mutual trust and civic engagement, is linked to better substantive outcomes for citizens in democracies. Recently, scholars who link social capital to race and inequality have challenged this favorable picture of social capital. This study draws from the scholarly discussion on how social capital affects inequality in diverse societies. Focusing on the health care domain, I use a new dynamic measure of social capital to evaluate the “social capital thesis” and “racial diversity thesis” of inequality. Moreover, I explore how these two political forces are intertwined with each other in shaping the unequal health care access across American states. Key empirical findings confirm that social capital and racial diversity are counterbalancing forces shaping health care inequality. Despite it reduces health care inequality, the impact of social capital is tempered with high level of racial diversity.

Technical Terms Translation: Translation Techniques and Quality of Automotive Terms in the Yamaha Nmax Owner’s Manual

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pradipta Dhaifan Hindami
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Foreign Languages ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Translation Techniques ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Technical Terms

<p>In Indonesia, many types of motorcycle are produced and marketed. Most of them are made by foreign manufacturers. The manual books which are printed in foreign languages such as English may cause some problems for the motorcycle owners and users in the country. One of the problems is the translation of the technical terms in the manual books. It is thus challenging to analyze the translation techniques applied in the translation of the automotive technical terms in <em>Yamaha Nmax Owner’s Manual</em>, and the impact of translation techniques on the accuracy, acceptability and readability. <em>Yamaha Nmax </em>is one of the motorcycles with high sales rate in the country. The methods of data collection consist of content analysis and in-depth interview with the raters and respondents. The results show that there are 8 techniques used to translate the technical terms and the use of the techniques result in a translation which is in general accurate, acceptable, and readable. The technique which produces translations with high level of accuracy, acceptability and readability is established equivalent. Meanwhile, generalization tends to produce translations with low level of accuracy, while borrowing produces translations with low level of acceptability and readability.</p>

scholarly journals Educational Outcomes of Middle School in the Context of International Research

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
K.N. Polivanova
Keyword(s):  
Educational System ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Real Life ◽  
International Programs ◽  
School Life ◽  
Russian School ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

The article describes the three main international programs assessing the quality of educational outcomes – PISA, TIMSS, and PIRLS. Results of the Russian students in comparison with international average and states-leaders results show the gap especially on scales concerning the students’ ability to apply the school knowledge to real life situations. The unique configuration of Russian students’ results in different studies is identified and described. High level of results in primary school (PIRLS) and low level in medium school indicate that the gap is localized exactly at the second stage of education. Further analysis demonstrates that the Russian results are unique and reflect the commitment of the Russian educational system to the principles of academic orientation (high level of substantive results and low ability to apply them in my life). The psychological and pedagogical aspects of school life are presented and analyzed as follows: personal relationships of teachers and students, disciplinary climate, forms of pupils’ encouragement to learning. It is shown that these indicators in Russia are strongly positive for students’ responses, and often negative for teachers. It is argued that the impact of these indicators has an important potential of development of the Russian educational system. Authors believe that the described peculiarities reflect the real discrepancies in Russian school and can be a resource for the development of the Russian school.

The Impact of Sound-Field Amplification in Mainstream Cross-Cultural Classrooms: Part 2 Teacher and Child Opinions

2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Massie ◽  
Harvey Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Perceptions ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Sound Field ◽  
Field Amplification ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Children’S Views ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Sound Field Amplification

This article presents teachers' and children's views of the effectiveness of sound-field amplification intervention. The rating scale, Teacher Opinions re Performance in Classrooms (TOPIC) provided information on teacher perceptions regarding changes in student performance in unamplified ‘OFF’ and amplified ‘ON’ listening conditions. The teachers observed improvement in attention, communication strategies and classroom behaviour when the amplification systems were operating. The answers from questionnaires indicated a high level of satisfaction from both teachers and students following use of the systems. Less vocal strain was identified by the teachers to be a major benefit. The children reported that they could hear better, clearer or louder.

scholarly journals Strengthening of social cohesion as a mechanism for improving quality of life

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-38
Author(s):  
Gulshat Rashitovna Fatkullina ◽  
Aibulat Galimyanovich Karimov
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Capital ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Socioeconomic Development ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Analysis Of Results ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact

This article is dedicated to sociological analysis and sociological conceptualization of the phenomenon of social cohesion, analysis of the impact of social cohesion upon economic growth and quality of life of the population. The authors examine the evaluation criteria of social cohesion, which served as the foundation for analysis of results of different sociological surveys conducted in the Russian Federation over the recent years, for the determining the relevant degree of social cohesion in the Russian society. The article also raises the question of social cohesion as an important vector of social policy. In conclusion, the authors come to an opinion that social cohesion of population should be used along with the economic mechanisms for improving quality of life. The need for social cohesion of population becomes more relevant in the current context due to several reasons. Firstly, enhancement of the role of social capital in socioeconomic development of the country, which becomes the major resource of modernization processes in the conditions of globalization. Secondly, systemic outlook upon the problem demonstrates that social cohesion is an essential factor for retaining sustainability of socioeconomic development of territorial systems. It is evident, that the humanity is going to face a range of global challenges, such as climate change, depletion of natural resources, etc. In this case, only the countries with strong and developed social capital, high level of social cohesion would be more sustainable and capable to withstand global threats.

scholarly journals The Importance of Rural Social Productive Space to Increase the Social Capital of Agribusiness Community in Agropolitan Area

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-83
Author(s):  
Deden Syarifudin ◽  
Riza Fathoni Ishak
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Functional Space ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
Sports Clubs ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Meeting ◽  
The Impact

Agropolitan area is a concept of functional space based on agricultural production, which requires a specific population density as a capital for the productivity of the rural regions with the support of urban utilities and social infrastructure/social space. Weak social capital makes the agropolitan area grow slowly. This is the impact of unplanned productive social space as a vehicle for social capital’s growth implemented in regional plans. However, social interactions occur if the social infrastructure is well articulated in creating spatial productivity, production, and multiphase inheritance for the sustainability of agribusiness activities. This study aims to identify the importance of social productive space in the form of social infrastructure to increase the social capital in agropolitan area. The method used is a case study to observe social processes that occur from time to time, supported by in-depth interview. The results indicate a typology of social capital that is not formed instantly, but contains a long history over time due to the repetition of interaction between communities in social spaces that are not technically constructed and unplanned in the agropolitan area spatial planning. This productive space is a place to build social closeness through repetition of interaction, sharing, knowledge transfer, equalization of perceptions involving residents, and collaboration between individuals and groups. The productive space in the form of social infrastructure consists of mosques, sports fields, markets, community meeting rooms (bale), business group rooms, and farmer groups. Therefore, the plan document must consider the functioning of social space and adaptive social space based on IT connections (cafes, sports clubs, open spaces, bale, and mosque grounds) into agropolitan spatial planning.

Economic Significance of Social Capital

2011 ◽  
pp. 46-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Polishchuk ◽  
R. Menyashev
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Common Good ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Formal Institutions ◽  
Transmission Channels ◽  
Economic Significance ◽  
Bonding And Bridging ◽  
The Impact

The paper deals with economics of social capital which is defined as the capacity of society for collective action in pursuit of common good. Particular attention is paid to the interaction between social capital and formal institutions, and the impact of social capital on government efficiency. Structure of social capital and the dichotomy between its bonding and bridging forms are analyzed. Social capital measurement, its economic payoff, and transmission channels between social capital and economic outcomes are discussed. In the concluding section of the paper we summarize the results of our analysis of the role of social capital in economic conditions and welfare of Russian cities.

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