Jurusan Praktika di SMA

This article will explain the reasons why the “jurusan praktika di SMA” is important program in education system of Indonesia. One of reasons for the failure of the students reaching their achievement may be the lack of acceptance of their parents or teachers to their interest and capability. These are crucial elements for developing student’s intellectual, skill, and personality. Indonesian education system, for example, actually has developed the education institutions named Professional School to meet these need, but some of them had been closed for some reasons. I think, however, these should be opened for giving a chance to student whose special talent. Or, the other way to solve this problem is to change the name of Professional School into Junior High School with some special program whereas the Junior High School can add a program titled “Praktika” beside “IPA and IPS”.

Academic Excellence in Higher Education through Paradigm Shift from Pedagogy to Andragogy

Academic excellence refers to the growth of an individual with regard to his or her academic or intellectual skill. Learners from higher education form the workforce of the nation, and hence would need to be equipped with the skills relevant to the felt needs of the society. However, there exists a large skill gap between what the employers look for in potential employees and the skills which higher education cultivates in the learners. This gap must be bridged, and the roadmap may be through changing the approach to curriculum transaction in higher education. Learners in higher education are adult learners, and learn most effectively when learning is self directed, stems from their own experience and is relevant to their life. Hence, a shift from pedagogy to andragogy might lead to more effective learning outcomes. This paper explores this paradigm shift from pedagogy to andragogy in higher education.

Solving Probability Problems in Natural Language

The ability to solve probability word problems such as those found in introductory discrete mathematics textbooks, is an important cognitive and intellectual skill. In this paper, we develop a two-step end-to-end fully automated approach for solving such questions that is able to automatically provide answers to exercises about probability formulated in natural language.In the first step, a question formulated in natural language is analysed and transformed into a high-level model specified in a declarative language. In the second step, a solution to the high-level model is computed using a probabilistic programming system. On a dataset of 2160 probability problems, our solver is able to correctly answer 97.5% of the questions given a correct model. On the end-to-end evaluation, we are able to answer 12.5% of the questions (or 31.1% if we exclude examples not supported by design).

Noble athlete, savage coach: How racialised representations of Aboriginal athletes impede professional sport coaching opportunities for Aboriginal Australians

Representations of Aboriginal Australian peoples as genetically predisposed to sporting prowess are pervasive and enduring perceptions. This rhetoric belongs to a larger narrative that also describes a peculiarly Aboriginal style of play: full of flair, speed and ‘magic’. Such imagery has informed a common perception that, in many team sports, Aboriginal athletes are biologically more suited to playing positions characterised by pace, trickery and spontaneity, rather than those that utilise leadership acumen and intellectual skill. There has been a great deal of academic research exploring how such essentialised and racialised representations play out for Aboriginal athletes. In this paper, however, we extend that research, examining how racialised representations of Aboriginal athletic ability affect Aboriginal coaches. Premised on interviews with 26 Aboriginal Australian coaches, we argue that representations of Aboriginal athletes as naturally suited to speed and flair, rather than leadership and sporting-intellect, help maintain an environment that limits opportunities for Aboriginal Australians seeking to move into sporting leadership roles, such as coaching. This paper sheds light on the ways in which racialised representations of Aboriginal athletes feed into a settler colonialist narrative that stymies opportunities for aspiring Aboriginal professional coaches, and speculates on the limitations of this approach, in challenging the political hegemony of settler colonialism.

TYPES OF CULTURAL WARS: FORMALIZATION, MEDIA REALITY, AUDIENCE REACTIONS

The article makes a comprehensive attempt to classify the cultural war as a semantic manipulative phenomenon in a new type of information society. The features and causes of development of identity crisis in the context of semantic manipulations of media reality are outlined. The urgency of the research is that a new information age is filled with insidious meanings that offers a system of the same insidious information procedural “performances”. In its turn they are embodied in long held images, forming an entirely new semantic system, and creating a space of permanent action, in which the choice remains for a person of a new information age, who reveals a considerable level of intellectual skill through dialogue or protest, or, on the contrary, acts according to normalized, “dictated”, imposed cult, from which the principles of whole culture are emerging. The result of individual outbreaks of resistance to “information performances” through the collective will of the nation, which seems to be a muscle, which is intensively practiced in the light of the Rusian-Ukrainian war, is justified by the need to preserve the skills of the society to create the nation, or the nation’s identity. One can concede that at the level of nation there is emergence of greatest amount of conflicts associated with the attempt to destroy the cultural core (the nucleus of the nation), which is formed from the norms, standards, values of a certain ethnic group. The main function of such a nucleus is providing for a system of formed cultural codes in order to preserve the nation’s identity. Summing up the results of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that the typology of the cultural war proposed is conditional, but it gives grounds to talk about the symptomatic appearance of semantic disorientation and the identity crisis. In this situation, understanding and differentiation on the basis of own “mental identifier” will become extremely important in order to consolidate the individuals in terms of new conditions.

EVALUASI PROGRAM KECAKAPAN HIDUP BAGI WARGA BINAAN DI LEMBAGA PEMASYARAKATAN ANAK KELAS IIA KUTOARJO

Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui pelaksanaan, keberhasilan dan kendala-kendala program kecakapan hidup bagi warga binaan di Lembaga Pemasyarakatan Anak (LPA) Kelas IIA Kutoarjo. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian evaluasi dengan menggunakan model penelitian CIPP. Pengumpulan data menggunakan metode wawancara, dokumentasi, dan observasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan pelaksanaan program pada aspek konteks menunjukkan kesesuaian antara kebutuhan dan partisipasi warga belajar, pengalaman warga belajar dan kondisi lingkungan dengan kegiatan program. Pada aspek masukan menunjukkan motivasi warga belajar, karakteristik warga belajar, karakteristik narasumber, pendanaan, dan sarana prasarana dalam kategori baik. Aspek proses menunjukkan aktifitas warga belajar, strategi pembelajaran dan hubungan antar pribadi dalam kategori baik. Aspek hasil menunjukkan semua kegiatan keterampilan dapat terlaksana dengan baik. Keberhasilan program keterampilan ditunjukkan oleh perubahan perilaku warga belajar yang meliputi kecakapan tangan, kecakapan hati, kecakapan otak dan kecakapan sehat.Kata kunci: Pelaksanaan program kecakapan hidup, keberhasilan program kecakapan hidup AN EVALUATION OF THE LIFE SKILLS PROGRAM FOR PRISONERS IN CHILDREN’S CORRECTIONAL CENTER IIA KUTOARJOAbstractThis study aims to investigate the implementation, the attainment of the success of the program, and the constraints of the program for the prisoners in Children’s Correctional Center Class IIA Kutoarjo. This was an evaluation study employing the CIPP. The data were collected through interviews, documentation, and observations. The context aspect shows relevance among the learners’ needs and participation, their learning experiences and the environmental condition, and the program activities.The input aspect shows that the learners’ motivation and characteristics, the tutors’ characteristics, the funding, and the infrastructure facilities are good.The process aspect shows that the learners’ activities, the learning strategies, and the interpersonal relationship are good.The product aspect shows that all the skills activities can be well implemented. The success of the skills program is indicated by changes in the learners’ attitudes manifested in the manual skill, spiritual skill, intellectual skill, and health skill are good.Keywords: Implementation of skills program, success of skills program