MERAWAT RUHANI JEMAAH: STUDI DAKWAH MAJELIS TAKLIM DI DESA PANGEDARAN, KABUPATEN SAROLANGUN, PROVINSI JAMBI

Religious expressions in rural areas is no longer a problem with the diversity it has. The social reality in Pangedaran Village is very concerning, various problems such as the education rate is very low, knowledge support activities are very minimal, even the drugs abuse is common in the village. the social setting accompanies the da'wah activities of the taklim, which demands that the recitation can fill Islamic knowledge and religious experience and the congregation's spiritual care. Thus, it is important to reveal the da'wah activities in the recitation in caring for the congregation's spirituality to pacify the human ego as spiritual beings. The purpose of this study is to explain the rituals, experiences of members in carrying out the routines of the taklim assembly to care for the spirituality of the congregation. Qualitative methods and descriptive analysis were used to complete and obtain relevant research results. Utilizing observation, in-depth interviews and documentation to support the data to answer the main questions of this research. The findings of this study, explained that the activities of the taklim assembly in caring for the congregation's spirituality were carried out by implementing dhikr, eradicating illiteracy, filling in religious knowledge, recitation rituals, reading prayers, it were done consistently.. it provide opportunities for social interaction and support the spiritual care of the congregation with social activities that form social capital so that they enter the gemeinschaft of mind group that has the same drive and motive, namely the spiritual instability of the congregation. Melihat ekspresi keagamaan di pedesaan sudah tidak menjadi persoalan dengan keberagaman yang dimilikinya. Realitas sosial di Desa Pangedaran sangat memprihatinkan, berbagai persoalan seperti angka pendidikan sangat rendah, aktivitas pendukung pengetahuan sangat minim, bahkan maraknya narkoba sudah menjadi rahasia umum di Desa tersebut. Setting sosial demikian mengiringi aktivitas dakwah majelis taklim, yang menuntut pengajian dapat mengisi pengetahuan keislaman dan pengalaman keagamaan dan perawat ruhani jemaah. Dengan demikian penting untuk mengungkap aktivitas dakwah dalam pengajian tersebut dalam merawat ruhani jemaah dapat menentramkan ego manusia sebagai makhluk spiritual dan landasan aritkel ini. Tujuan penelitian ini untuk menjelaskan ritual, pengalaman anggota dalam menjalankan rutinitas majelis taklim untuk merawat kerohanian jemaah. Metode kualitatif dan menganalisis secara deskriptif digunakan untuk menyelesaikan dan memperoleh hasil penelitian yang relevan. Memanfaatkan observasi, wawancara mendalam dan dokumentasi dalam mendukung informasi atau data akurat untuk menjawab pertanyaan utama dari penelitian ini. Hasil dan diskusi pada temuan penelitian ini, menjelaskan bahwa aktivitas majelis taklim dalam merawat ruhani jemaah dilakukan dengan pelaksanaan zikir, pengentasan buta aksara, mengisi pengetahuan keagamaan, ritual-ritual pengajian, pembacaan do’a, amalan-amalan dan selawat dilakukan secara konsisten. Rutinitas jemaah memberi peluang interaksi sosial dan mendukung perawatan ruhani jemaah dengan kegiatan sosial yang membentuk modal sosial sehingga mereka masuk ke dalam kelompok gemeinschaft of mind yang memiliki dorongan dan motif sama, yaitu ketidakstabilan spiritual atau ruhani jemaah.

More Than Content: Training Peer Leaders in Mentoring Leadership

Training peer leaders to mentor students is an essential component of any peer-led team learning training program. This training method article begins by establishing a definition of mentoring and describing its theoretical underpinnings. Piagetian disequilibrium is one component of why mentoring is effective because interpersonal interaction efficiently assists students in learning how to deal with mental discomfort and grow intellectually from it. A four-part theoretical definition of the components of mentoring serves as the theory base for our training curriculum: (1) psychological and emotional support, (2) goal setting and career paths, (3) academic subject knowledge support, and (4) existence of a role model. In translating theory into practice, we train leaders to follow five key tenets as mentors: (1) be a learning coach, not a tutor, (2) create a trusting environment among your team members, (3) assist students in learning how to learn from feedback, (4) assist students in learning time management skills, and (5) meet with students one-on-one periodically to provide personalized academic and social support. The time commitment to training by a peer leader is 35 hours per semester via a combination of pre-semester training, in-semester group training, and in-semester one-on-one training. Practical suggestions on how to train leaders are provided.

Using Moodle in an Information Educational Environment of HEIs under Distance Learning

The article dwells upon the problem of distance learning using the Moodle Learning Management System (LMS). Importantly, the article analyzes the use of LMS or virtual learning environments (VLE) at universities, designed to store learning materials, conduct automatic testing of students’ knowledge, support remote communication, generate information on progress and reports on working with distance learning courses. The most well-known paid systems (according to Google Trends service) include Blackboard Learning System, Edmodo, Glow, Ning, SharePoint LMS. At the same time, the most popular free LMS is Moodle, as evidenced by both the results of Google Trends statistics and the data obtained from the ListEdTech resource. The article determines the features of using this system in the professional training of pedagogy students. It describes the challenges (problems) faced by students when taking distance learning courses, the time frame of students’ work on this learning platform and students’ assessment of the quality of distance learning courses developed in the Moodle system. It shows that the use of this system saves time spent on training, freeing it up for personal life, self-education, hobbies and entertainment. Students with higher academic performance spend more time working in the Moodle system. Indeed, they intend to acquire knowledge, obtain a diploma of higher education and further pursue their professional careers. More than half of the respondents rate distance learning courses positively. In their opinion, such courses are creative, valuable, exciting, effective, clear, innovative, meeting expectations, unconventional, innovative, easy to learn and enjoyable.

The role of organizational and social factors for information security in a nuclear power industry

PurposeThe aim of this study was to explore the organizational and social prerequisites for employees' participative and rule-compliant information security behaviour in Swedish nuclear power production and its related industry. These industries are high-risk activities that must be meticulously secured. Protecting the information security in the related organizations is an essential aspect of this.Design/methodology/approachIndividual in-depth interviews were conducted with 24 employees in two organizations within the nuclear power industry in Sweden.FindingsWe found that prerequisites for employees' participative and rule-compliant information security behaviour could be categorized into structural, social and individual aspects. Structural aspects included well-adapted rules, knowledge support and resources. Social aspects included a supportive organizational culture, collaboration and adequate resources, and individual aspects included individual responsibility.Originality/valueThe qualitative approach of the study provided comprehensive descriptions of the identified preconditions. The results may thus enable organizations to better promote conditions important for information security in a high-risk industry.

Software Tools for Systematic Literature Review in Medicine: A Review and Feature Analysis (Preprint)

BACKGROUND Systematic reviews (SRs) are central to evaluating therapies but have high costs in terms of both time and money. Many software tools exist to assist with SRs, but most tools do not support the full process, and transparency and replicability of SR depends on performing and presenting evidence according to established best practices. OBJECTIVE In order to provide a basis for comparing and selecting between software tools that support SR, we performed a feature-by-feature comparison of SR tools. METHODS We searched for SR tools by reviewing any such tool listed the Systematic Review Toolbox, previous reviews of SR tools, and qualitative Google searching. We included all SR tools that were currently functional, and require no coding and excluded reference managers, desktop applications, and statistical software. The list of features to assess was populated by combining all features assessed in four previous reviews of SR tools; we also added five features (Manual Addition, Screening Automation, Dual Extraction, Living review, Public outputs) that were independently noted as best practices or enhancements of transparency/replicability. Then, two reviewers assigned binary “present/absent” assessments to all SR tools with respect to all features, and a third reviewer adjudicated all disagreements. RESULTS Of 49 SR tools found, 27 were excluded, leaving 22 for assessment. Twenty-eight features were assessed across 6 classes, and the inter-observer agreement was 86.46%. DistillerSR, EPPI-Reviewer Web, and Nested Knowledge support the most features (24/28, 86%), followed by Covidence, SRDB.PRO, SysRev (20/28, 71%). Six tools support fewer than half of all features assessed: SyRF, Data Abstraction Assistant, SWIFT-review, SR-Accelerator, RobotReviewer, and COVID-NMA. Notably, only 9 of 22 tools (41%) support direct search, only four (18%) offer dual extraction, and only 9 (41%) offer living/updatable reviews. CONCLUSIONS DistillerSR, EPPI-Reviewer Web, and Nested Knowledge each offer a high density of SR-focused web-based tools. By transparent comparison and discussion regarding SR tool functionality, the medical community can both choose among existing software offerings and note the areas of growth needed, most notably in the support of living reviews.

Bodies in Confinement: Negotiating Queer, Gender Nonconforming, and Transwomen’s Gender and Sexuality behind Bars

The criminal punishment system plays a critical role in the production of race, gender, and sexuality in the United States. The regulation of marginalized women’s bodies—transwomen, butches, and lesbians—in confinement reproduces cis-heteronormativity. Echoing the paternalistic claims of protection that have inspired “bathroom bills,” gender-segregated prison facilities have notoriously condemned transwomen prisoners to men’s prisons for the “safety” of women’s prisons, constructing cisgender women as “at risk” of sexual assault and transgender women as “risky”, overlooking the reality of transwomen as the most at risk of experience sexual violence in prisons. Prisons use legal and medical constructions of gender that pathologize transgender identity in order to legitimize health concerns; for example, the mutilation of the body in an effort to remove unwanted genitalia as evidence to warrant a diagnosis of gender identity disorder, or later gender dysphoria. This construction of transgender identity as a medical condition that warrants treatment forces prisoners to pathologize their gender identity in order to access adequate gender-affirming care. By exploring the writings of queer and trans prisoners, we can glean how heteronormativity structures gender and sexuality behind bars and discover how trans prisoners work to assemble knowledge, support, and resources toward survival.

University Freshman Mentoring Effectiveness and Scale Enhancement

Graduate unemployment has worsened following the global crisis caused by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and has created increased pressures on universities to enhance their graduates’ employability. Past studies have indicated that mentoring programs can positively impact student soft skills development and employability. While undergraduate mentoring programs have mushroomed, research on undergraduate mentoring has not kept pace. This study used a mixed methods approach to examine the effectiveness of a public university’s initiative in mentoring new undergraduates. Using the College Student Mentoring Scale (CSMS), this study found that the university’s undergraduate mentoring initiative is moderately effective. The CSMS assessed four mentoring dimensions, namely academic subject knowledge support, degree and career support, psychological and emotional support as well as role modelling. The results of this study highlighted the mentoring functions that are considered as least effective so that informed and targeted efforts can be undertaken to enhance university freshman mentoring. Findings from this study suggest that a new dimension namely mentor-mentee compatibility, competencies and expectations could be added to the College Student Mentoring Scale (CSMS) to enhance concept operationalization. A limitation of this study is that it is based on mentees’ perspectives only. Future research could include the perspectives of mentors as well. Keywords: Graduate employability, Mentoring effectiveness, Mentoring scale, University education, University freshman

Water Runoff and Catchment Improvement by Nature-Based Solution (NBS) Promotion in Private Household Gardens: An Agent-Based Model

Nature-based solutions (NBS) such as rainwater gardens and permeable paving can be deployed as an alternative to conventional urban gardens to improve cities’ resilience against increasing rainfall. This study describes the application of an agent-based model (ABM) to assess the role of private gardens toward the enhancement of water management by households. The ABM simulates the process of switching from “gray” (i.e., paved) to green gardens, taking into account the effect of “soft” (garden networks and gardening workshops) and “hard” (monetary) incentives. The ABM is supported by a water balance model to consider the effect of rainfall on soil water retention. Four different cities in Europe were analyzed: Szeged (Hungary), Alcalá de Henares (Spain), Metropolitan city of Milan (Italy), and Çankaya Municipality (Turkey). The results demonstrate that greening private gardens can generate impact on water run-off and catchment in cities in the order of 5–10%, reaching picks up to 20% in certain cases. While the proposed model is not devoid of limitations, the results provide useful insights in the ways different instruments (e.g., municipal subsidies and knowledge support) could assist with the greening of private gardens for NBS promotion to respond to cities’ water management challenges.