Implementing global citizenship education policy: The bargaining process of NGOs in some European Countries

This research looked at the growing space that Global Citizenship Education (GCE) is gaining in educational policy worldwide, and at the role Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) played in GCE agenda setting and policy implementation. Based on a comparative policy analysis carried out in 10 European countries, the political agency of NGOs was explored, underlining opportunities, tensions, and challenges, especially in their contribution to national strategies to integrate GCE into national educational systems.

INSIGHTS INTO THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING PROCESS IN AN INDIAN SUGAR INDUSTRY: A STUDY

‘JUPITER’ sugars India LTD was founded in 1941 in southern India as a private sugar factory. Later it enhanced its production from 1000 TCD to 8500 TCD in the year 1962. It was amalgamating many subunits and multi locational products into its main unit. The company has focused its attention on various projects and substantial resources. Subsequently, they have decided to organize the company into two units one in southern India and one in northern India. Sugar industry is a vital agro industry largely depends on agriculture in India and is extremely accountable for creating a major impact on rural economy in particular and the country's economic status on broad-spectrum. Sugar production has a yield in the Indian subcontinent since ancient times. Then subsequently evolutes around the globe1. Sugarcane is a native of tropical Indian domain and spread over to the vital segments of world. Sugarcane plantation would be carried out twice in every year in India. The majority of the sugar production in India takes at regional sugar mills2. Subsequently in the post independence era India contemplated for overall augmentation of sugar industry3. The Indian sugar industry is independent in its energy needs and further makes additional exportable power through cogeneration. The different byproducts of sugar industry likewise add to the economic development of the nation to advancing various additional industries. Sugarcane has developed as a multi-product crop utilized as an essential raw material for the manufacture of sugar, ethanol, paper, electricity and besides a cogeneration of subsidiary product.

Behind the Online Course

Higher education institutions' success in providing online courses at the beginning of the pandemic depends not only on their infrastructure and organizational units for virtual education but also on diverse teams composed of professors specialized in pedagogy, researchers, and professionals in digital technologies for education. The authors describe their experiences in the bargaining process, tensions, ways to solve controversies, the management of time and resources, pitfalls, problems, correct guess, and hits to create new knowledge-based products for the Colombian National Ministry of Education (MEN in Spanish acronyms) platform's “Colombia Aprende” within a high pressure against time and the reputational risk of failing in the pandemic chaos. Results show that the psychological contract theory explains the capacity to compromise to overcome several difficulties such as an extra load of work, and the knowledge creation theory provides a helpful model to understand how the team innovated.

Communications Patterns in The Traditional Market “Pasar Sari Mulia” Kapuas City

Abstrak: Penelitian ini membahas tentang investigasi pola komunikasi di pasar tradisional “Pasar Sari Mulia” di Kota Kapuas. Masalah utama dalam penelitian ini adalah pola komunikasi yang digunakan di pasar tradisional. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga menemukan tentang bagaimana komunikasi nonverbal pembeli dan penjual di pasar tradisional. Dengan menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dan data dianalisis tentang pengaruh budaya suatu bahasa dan bagaimana bahasa itu sendiri akan membentuk suatu budaya dalam suatu domain. Data diperoleh dari observasi dan menggunakan studi kepustakaan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa bahasa Banjar merupakan bahasa yang umum digunakan di pasar tradisional. Alih kode dan kalimat persuasif biasa digunakan dalam melakukan transaksi. Pembeli dan penjual menggunakan pola komunikasi yang unik dan komunikasi non-verbal terutama dalam menarik, proses tawar-menawar dan ekspresi penutupan perdagangan. Namun bagi penjual, komunikasi yang digunakan cenderung membujuk pembeli untuk segera membeli barangnya. Abstract: This research deals with the investigation of communication patterns in the traditional market “Pasar Sari Mulia” in Kapuas City. The major issues in this research were the communication patterns which were used in the traditional market. Besides, this research also found about how are non-verbal communication of buyer and seller in the traditional market. Using qualitative approach and the data were analyzed about culture influences a language and how language itself will make a culture in a domain. The data were gotten from observation and used library research. The results showed that the Banjarese language was a common language which was used in the traditional market. Code switching and persuasive sentence were commonly used in doing transaction. The buyers and sellers used unique communication patterns and non-verbal communication especially in attracting, bargaining process and closing expression of trading. However, for the sellers, the communication used tends to persuade buyers to immediately buy their goods.

Petojo Enclek Traditional Market Building: Application of Technology Systems as Substantiation of Improving the Quality of Life and Landscape Transformation in Batavia

Traditional markets are places and means of meeting sellers and buyers and are marked by direct buyer-seller transactions and usually there is a bargaining process. This research is a study of environmental changes and Petojo Enclek Market in the 20th - 21st Century. The purpose of this research is to see changes in Petojo Enclek Market based on archives, ancient maps, ancient photos, history, technology used in buildings, and market conditions in the past. recently. In this study using qualitative methods, the stages of this research include data collection, data processing, data analysis and data interpretation. The theory used in this study is the Core-Periphery by John Friedman and Weaver, where the Core-Periphery relationship can occur due to the expansion (development) of markets and other infrastructure. This research, it can be seen that there are significant changes in the Petojo Enclek Market building and its surroundings.

A New Two-Stage Bargaining Game Approach for Intra- and Inter-WBAN Management

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is an amalgamation of smart devices to operate the wireless body area network (WBAN) by using networking technologies. To reduce the burden on WBANs, they link to the mobile edge computing (MEC), on which captured medical data can be stored and analyzed. In this paper, we design a new control scheme to effectively share the limited computation and communication resources in the MEC-assisted WBAN (M-W) platform. Based on the bargaining game theory, our proposed scheme explores the mutual benefits of intra- and inter-WBAN interactions. To dynamically adapt the current system conditions, we shape each WBAN’s aspirations to reach a reciprocal consensus for different application services. Utilizing two control factors, we provide a unifying framework for the study of intra- and inter-WBAN bargaining problems to share the limited system resource. Based on the feasibility and real-time effectiveness, the main novelty of the proposed scheme is the ability to achieve a relevant tradeoff between efficiency and fairness through the interactive bargaining process. At last, the experimental results show that the proposed scheme achieves substantial performance improvements to the comparison schemes.

Potret Strategi Going Concern UMKM Pandai Besi Celurit Bermotif Madura

This study aims to provide an overview of the unique going concern strategy of Tokang pandhih Jokotole (read: SMEs blacksmith) which produces patterned sickles so that these MSMEs are able to survive and even have been traversed by several generations. This study used a configurative ideographic studies case study approach to analyze the data. The conclusion of this study is that Haji Masduri implements a strategy to maintain product quality to maintain customer trust. The development of a business into a business that has a business license with the “Jokotole” brand is a government facility that is accepted by Haji Masduri. In business operational management, Haji Masduri carries out a specialization strategy for production work, a gratuity system (profit sharing) based on the selling price of patterned sickle workers, and "utilizing the network" owned to obtain quality raw materials without leaving the house (place of business). The strategy for maintaining cash flow carried out by Haji Masduri is the production system for orders and a 50% down payment. The impact of the maintained product quality, Haji Masduri can apply a strategy to determine the selling price without the bargaining process of ordering a patterned sickle.Keywords: Business Strategy; Going Concern; SMEs; Cultural Products. AbstrakPenelitian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan gambaran keunikan strategi going concern pandai besi tokang pandhih Jokotole yang memproduksi celurit bermotif sehingga UMKM ini mampu bertahan bahkan sudah dijalan oleh beberapa generasi. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan studi kasus configurative ideographic studies untuk menganalisis data. Simpulan penelitian ini adalah Haji Masduri menerapkan strategi menjaga kualitas produk untuk menjaga kepercayaan pelanggan. Pengembangan usaha menjadi usaha yang memiliki ijin usaha dengan brand “Jokotole” adalah fasilitas Pemerintah yang diterima Haji Masduri. Setelah memiliki ijin usaha, Haji Masduri dapat mengakses lebih banyak fasilitas dari Pemerintah. Dalam manajemen operasional bisnis Haji Masduri menjalankan strategi spesialisasi kerja bagian produksi, sistem upah persenan (bagi hasil) berdasarkan harga jual pada tenaga kerja celurit bermotif, dan “memanfaatkan jaringan” yang dimiliki untuk memperoleh bahan baku ayng berkualitas tanpa meninggalkan rumah (tempat usaha). Strategi menjaga cash flow yang dilakukan oleh Haji Masduri adalah dengan sistem produksi pesanan dan uang muka 50%. Dampak dari kualitas produk yang terjaga, Haji Masduri dapat menerapkan strategi penentuan harga jual tanpa proses tawar menawar dari pemesan celurit bermotif. Kata Kunci: Strategi Bisnis; Going Concern; UMKM; Produk Budaya.

The Teacher Uprising, 2010–2021

When Chicago teachers went on strike in 2012, they highlighted an emergent militance among teachers in the United States. Led by the Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (CORE), the Chicago Teacher Union (CTU) in the 2010s sought to use the collective bargaining process not only to fight for better salaries and working conditions, but also to dramatically improve the lives of their students through racial justice initiatives and more services such as school nurses and social workers. Other big city unions, some in dialogue with the CTU through the United Caucus of Rank-and-File Educators (UCORE), embarked on similar campaigns. Elsewhere, teachers staged state-wide walkouts. In February 2018, teachers in all of West Virginia’s fifty-five counties went on strike to protest stagnant pay and escalating healthcare costs. Their efforts, which forced a Republican legislature to substantially increase education spending, inspired similar red-state walkouts in the months that followed. Strikes in Oklahoma and Arizona also won major funding hikes, for example. Then, in early 2019, militant teachers walked out in Los Angeles, Oakland, and Denver, and in the fall, the CTU was on strike again, this time with even broader demands than in 2012. Another year of militance might have occurred in 2020, but the global COVID-19 pandemic forced school districts and unions to focus on the immediate public health crisis. Unions pivoted to demanding that districts maintain protocols to ensure teachers, students, and their families were kept safe from the virus.

The Building and Breaking of Peace

The Building and Breaking of Peace considers the role of corporate firms in building peaceful societies. Examining the corporate motives for peacebuilding and then the implications of these activities for preventing violence and conflict resolution creates a holistic picture of the peace and conflict process. The book examines variation in corporate engagement as a product of corporate culture and shifts in government capacity, as well as threats to the ability to conduct business. Corporations engage in peacebuilding when there is a gap in the state’s capacity to enforce laws creating the demand for engagement but when there is stability that enables firms to supply peacebuilding. The book then considers the implications of corporate engagement for preventing and ending violence. Building on the rational choice theory of civil war and drawing from business research, The Building and Breaking of Peace examines the role of corporate firms in building peaceful societies. While firms are uniquely situated in their ability to raise the cost of violence, an active private sector acts as an additional veto player in the bargaining process, making it significantly harder to reach an agreement. The findings suggest that corporations help to prevent violence but not resolve it. These arguments are tested on original cross-national data of peacebuilding efforts by firms in Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa from 2000 to 2018 and in-depth case analyses of corporate actions and outcomes in Colombia, Northern Ireland, and Tunisia.

The Building and Breaking of Peace

This chapter explores the role businesses play in creating peaceful societies. It builds on the rational choice theory of civil war onset and termination and draws from business research to understand the role private firms play in preventing civil wars. Firms are uniquely situated in their ability to raise the cost of violence, and proactive firms can significantly increase a country’s peace years. At the same time, an active private sector can make it significantly harder to reach an agreement for states with active conflict, as they act as an additional veto player in the bargaining process. This chapter tests these arguments on original cross-national data. The findings emphasize the need for political scientists to examine further the role of the private sector in many of the topics they study and generate a more complete picture of conflict and its resolution.