Pelatihan Membaca Kitab Kuning bagi Penghulu Kementerian Agama Kabupaten Luwu Utara

AbstrakPenghulu adalah pegawai negeri sipil sebagai pegawai pencatat nikah yang diberi tugas, tanggung jawab, wewenang, dan hak secara penuh oleh Menteri Agama atau pejabat yang ditunjuk sesuai dengan peraturan perundang-undangan yang berlaku untuk melakukan pengawasan nikah/rujuk menurut agama Islam dan kegiatan kepenghuluan. Masalah yang akan diselesaikan dalam kegiatan ini adalah (1) Bagaimana teknik penyajian pelatihan baca kitab kuning (2) Bagaimana materi yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan peserta pelatihan baca kitab kuning (3) Bagaimana tindak lanjut atau pendampingan pelatihan baca kitab kuning bagi penghulu kementerian agama di Kabupaten Luwu Utara. Tujuan dalam kegiatan pengabdian ini menjelaskan teknik penyajian pelatihan baca kitab kuning, menyampaikan materi yang sesuai dengan kebutuhan peserta pelatihan baca kitab kuning dan menindaklanjuti atau melakukan pendampingan pelatihan baca kitab kuning bagi penghulu kementerian agama di Kabupaten Luwu Utara. Metode yang dipergunakan dalam pengabdian ini terdiri atas pemaberian materi, praktik dan pendampingan. Hasil dari kegiatan ini yang sudah dilakukan terdapat peningkatan pemahaman peserta dalam pengenalan kata benda, kata kerja dan huruf yang ada dikitab kuning selain itu peserta sudah dapat memahami perubahan baris dan perubahan kata kerja, jumlah fi’liyah, jumlah ismiyah, unsur pelengkap dalam kalimat dan kaidah-kaidah maupun contoh kaidah dalam kitab kuning yang disajikan oleh tim pelaksana kegiatan. Selain terdapat tingkat kepuasan peserta dalam mengikuti kegiatan Pelatihan Membaca Kitab Kuning.Kata Kunci: Kitab Kuning, PenghuluAbstractPenghulu is a civil servant as a marriage registrar who is given full duties, responsibilities, authority, and rights by the Minister of Religion or an appointed official by applicable laws and regulations to carry out marriage supervision/reconciliation according to the Islamic religion and penghulu activities. The problems that will be solved in this activity are (1) How is the presentation technique of reading the yellow book training (2) How is the material according to the needs of the yellow book reading training participants (3) How is the follow-up or assistance for reading the yellow book training for the head of the ministry of religion in the Regency North Luwu. The purpose of this service activity is to explain the technique of presenting the yellow book reading training, deliver materials that are by the needs of the yellow book reading training participants and follow up or provide assistance to the yellow book reading training for the head of the ministry of religion in North Luwu Regency. The method used in this service consists of providing material, practice, and mentoring. The results of this activity that have been carried out have increased participants' understanding in the introduction of nouns, verbs, and letters in the yellow book, besides that participants can understand line changes and verb changes, the number of aliyah, the number of ismiyah, complementary elements in sentences and the rules and examples of rules in the yellow book presented by the activity implementation team. In addition, there is a level of satisfaction of participants in participating in the Yellow Book Reading Training activity.Keywords: Yellow Book, Penghulu.

Lessons On-(the)-Line Blended Learning and Pedagogy of (the) Digitally Oppressed

In this essay, I explore the meanings and implications of blended learning in an era of global pandemic by extending Paulo Freire’s notion of a “pedagogy of the oppressed” into the digital milieu and COVID-19 era of the 21st century. In doing so, I critically meditate on how Freire’s cue is reformulated in the context of online teaching while situating questions about online learning in the context of the Blended Learning Online South Africa (BLOSA) project based at the University of Witwatersrand. I do so as a means for tracking how, in material practice, blended learning operates in the context of knowledge dissemination and postcolonial poverty.

Between Mirrors all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body

Just as any body's cells are constantly dying and regenerating, all the beginnings: a queer autobiography of the body draw its vitality from the teeming traffic of death, the fertile muck of the abject. Such is the suggestion of the title, sourced in Hélène Cixous' work (1991: 41), out of whose spell this life writing marks off its distinctive poetics of the fragment, drawing an ethics of openness from the mining of abjection. To be sure, this is no chronological memoir, building teleologically to a transformation and consolidation of social identity. Quite to the contrary: bold, brave, and disturbingly innovative, this work from Sydney-born Quinn Eades, formerly known as Karina Quinn, performs a body reinventing itself: scarified, 'surgeried', written into and out of, and endlessly reconfigured through the writing. Eades builds their story through a constellation of scenes staging the embodied, yet fractured self, the sujet en procès, the subject-on-trial and -in process (Kristeva 1977) from coruscating scintillation to depressive passivity, through what they call écriture matière -- writing as a material practice. 

Not Seeing Is Believing: Ritual Practice and Architecture at Chalcolithic Çadır Höyük in Anatolia

Chalcolithic religious practice at the site of Çadır Höyük (central Anatolia) included the insertion of ritual deposits into the architectural fabric of the settlement, “consecrating” spaces or imbuing them with symbolic properties. These deposits are recognizable in the archaeological record by their consistent use of ritually-charged material, such as ochre, copper, human and animal bone, and certain kinds of ceramics. During the 800-year period considered in this paper, the material practice of making these ritual deposits remained remarkably consistent. However, the types of spaces where the deposits are made change as shifting social organization reforms the divisions between private and public space.

Photography’s Materialities

There is little dispute that photography is a material practice, and that the photograph itself is ineluctably material. And yet “matter,” “material,” and “materiality” have proven to be remarkably elusive terms of inquiry, frequently producing studies that are disparate in scope, sharing seemingly little common ground. Although the wide methodological range of materialist study can be dizzying, it is this book’s contention that that multiplicity is also the field’s greatest asset, keeping materialist inquiry enduringly vibrant—provided that varying methods are in close enough proximity to converse. Photography’s Materialities orchestrates one such conversation. Juxtaposing the insights of theorists like Lacan, Benjamin, and Latour beside close studies of crime, spirit, and composite photography, among others, this collection aims for a productive synergy, one capacious enough to span transatlantic spaces over the long nineteenth century.

Wood: Embedded Responsiveness

Architecture provides the material context in which everyday life unfolds. As a material practice, architecture is constantly in flux, responding dynamically to changes in the surrounding environment. The emergence of New Materialism, stemming from Modernist ideas, marks a shift in architecture from a discourse of symbolism and metaphors, towards one of performance and material behaviour. This thesis studies material performance in the context of wood architecture. Wood is a heterogeneous material with unique performative capacities as a result of its biological makeup. This heterogeneity is often viewed as a disadvantage when compared to more uniform materials that behave more predictably. However, when reconsidered, the unique qualities of wood can be used to inform design. This thesis investigates these qualities with a focus on the material’s responsiveness to moisture. In doing so, it attempts to unravel the potential of wood in the advancement of a new wood architecture.

Wood: Embedded Responsiveness

Architecture provides the material context in which everyday life unfolds. As a material practice, architecture is constantly in flux, responding dynamically to changes in the surrounding environment. The emergence of New Materialism, stemming from Modernist ideas, marks a shift in architecture from a discourse of symbolism and metaphors, towards one of performance and material behaviour. This thesis studies material performance in the context of wood architecture. Wood is a heterogeneous material with unique performative capacities as a result of its biological makeup. This heterogeneity is often viewed as a disadvantage when compared to more uniform materials that behave more predictably. However, when reconsidered, the unique qualities of wood can be used to inform design. This thesis investigates these qualities with a focus on the material’s responsiveness to moisture. In doing so, it attempts to unravel the potential of wood in the advancement of a new wood architecture.

Place – The final frontier: Exploring the outer reaches of collaborative agency using the Japanese concept of Ba

Scholars within the field of Leadership-as-Practice (LAP) address the way that individuals ‘transcend their own immediate embeddedness’ to achieve volitional coherence known as collaborative agency. The process of collaborative agency is described as inseparable from LAP, yet it remains a nascent field of enquiry requiring additional empirical research. This article presents an investigation of collaborative agency through an abductive case study using video ethnography and interviews. To interpret our results, we turn to the Japanese ideogram for ‘place’, known as ‘Ba’. Rather than a physical reality, Ba is considered an existential space in which leadership groups weave together to create and ripen collaborative agency. Ba guides us to look across and around a group and its socio-material practice. We find that collaborative agency is trans-subjective in nature and sits on a spectrum on which we identify the outer reaches, from one end where Ba is woven through to the other end, called Collapse. We suggest that the place of leadership is within the warp and weft of collaborative agency, including but not limited to a special place woven in Ba where collaborative agency is high and where the group reports they are able to transcend their individualism.