Inclusive Education in Indonesia: Teachers’ Perceptions

In recent years, extensive research has been conducted on the management of inclusive education. Globally, ensuring equal educational opportunity for all continues to be a significant challenge, and inclusive education continues to be a complex issue. In regard to inclusive education, teachers’ perception, to our knowledge, is surprisingly understudied in the Indonesian context. Therefore, this paper aimed to investigate teachers’ perceptions of inclusive education in Indonesia. This study, which enrolled a total of 157 teachers as research subjects, adopted a quantitative approach and collected data via a questionnaire. The collected data were descriptively analysed through descriptive statistics, which was performed using IBM SPSS Statistics Version 25 for Windows, summarising responses of participants to the questionnaire items. The findings indicate that this current study has finally unravelled teachers’ perceptions of inclusive education in Indonesia. They have a positive perception of inclusive education regardless of their demographic backgrounds. The findings also imply that it is crucial to continue and expand teacher education as inclusive education is still in its infancy. Professional development for teachers to improve their knowledge of inclusive education, benefiting all students, is required. Suggestions with recommendations for future research are also discussed.

Empowering Caregivers in the Midst of Climate Change

More than 2.7 million children in the United States are raised in kinship families, with the majority of these caregivers, grandparents. Nationally, 1 in 11 children is raised in a kinship family, among Black children, the ratio is 1 in 5. Many of these families struggle economically, welcoming their young relatives into small, often substandard public housing where nonexistent or inadequate heating and cooling exacerbate attempts to moderate extreme temperatures in crowded apartments. For others, responsibility for the children follows the loss of life or permanent disruption of family composition due to weather events such as hurricanes or tornadoes. Grandparent resilience is reflected in their commitment to the well-being of these children, especially observed throughout COVID-19. This presentation will demonstrate that a Grandparent Empowerment Program is an effective strategy to tap into their strength as advocates for adequate health care, educational opportunity, resources, and a world free from climate disruption.

Aura of the Past: The Rehabilitation of ‘Puhipuhi Mercury Mine’

<p>Through the development of the case site ‘Puhipuhi Mercury Mines’ this design led thesis presents the fusion of ruins with new design, aiming to rehabilitate the site and its history. The delicate nature of the site’s past and its remaining relics present the potential to curate a history. The method of integrating old and new design to reestablish value is explored. Puhipuhi mine has a negative reputation today. Documented memories focus on the mine's industrial downfall and remaining areas of contamination. This has dampened its prospects. The case site has remained dormant since its closure in 1945 (Butcher). With political controversy surrounding the site, and with natural growth dominating the remains, it has become virtually inaccessible. The challenge presented by the characteristics of the site poses the following research question: ‘How can the fusion of old and new architecture add value to a forgotten and contaminated historic site as a means to preserve its history and rehabilitate it for current day use?’ Abandoned elements which lay dormant in our landscape have the opportunity to be valued as iconic elements in New Zealand's history, yet we are hesitant to seek appreciation for the narratives of their past and as a result we are presented with the possibility of historic loss. The site's processing plant presents a need to preserve its architectural heritage and document its history as a means to re mediate the damage of contamination and the devalue that has generated since the closure of the program. Attention is needed to establish it as the beautiful landscape, intriguing remains and educational opportunity that it has the potential to become. Through the establishment of age, historic and use values, new programmes are constructed: a toxicity museum and laboratory.</p>

The School Administration Affecting the Life Skill and Career of Students in the Opportunity Expansion School, Narathiwat Province, Thailand

This study was aimed to study the school administration that influenced the promotion of life skills and career of students of Educational Opportunity Expansion Schools in Narathiwat Province. The samples were 200 teachers who served as heads of four divisions in Educational Opportunity Expansion Schools in Narathiwat Province, chosen through the purposive sampling technique. Research tools were five-scale questionnaires with reliability of 0.952. Statistics used for this research include percentage, mean, standard deviation, and stepwise multiple regression analysis. It was found that administrative performance and the promotion of life skills and career of students were at the high level, both overall and each aspect. School administrators’ administrative performance that affects students’ life skills and career of Educational Opportunity Expansion Schools in Narathiwat Province consisted of three variables; coordination and network building, assessment and evaluation, and development and encouragement. The multiple regression analysis values were 0.803, and the prediction discrepancy value was 0.153, which could predict the promotion of life skills and career of students of Educational Opportunity Expansion Schools in Narathiwat Province as high as possible 64.5 percent.

Aura of the Past: The Rehabilitation of ‘Puhipuhi Mercury Mine’

<p>Through the development of the case site ‘Puhipuhi Mercury Mines’ this design led thesis presents the fusion of ruins with new design, aiming to rehabilitate the site and its history. The delicate nature of the site’s past and its remaining relics present the potential to curate a history. The method of integrating old and new design to reestablish value is explored. Puhipuhi mine has a negative reputation today. Documented memories focus on the mine's industrial downfall and remaining areas of contamination. This has dampened its prospects. The case site has remained dormant since its closure in 1945 (Butcher). With political controversy surrounding the site, and with natural growth dominating the remains, it has become virtually inaccessible. The challenge presented by the characteristics of the site poses the following research question: ‘How can the fusion of old and new architecture add value to a forgotten and contaminated historic site as a means to preserve its history and rehabilitate it for current day use?’ Abandoned elements which lay dormant in our landscape have the opportunity to be valued as iconic elements in New Zealand's history, yet we are hesitant to seek appreciation for the narratives of their past and as a result we are presented with the possibility of historic loss. The site's processing plant presents a need to preserve its architectural heritage and document its history as a means to re mediate the damage of contamination and the devalue that has generated since the closure of the program. Attention is needed to establish it as the beautiful landscape, intriguing remains and educational opportunity that it has the potential to become. Through the establishment of age, historic and use values, new programmes are constructed: a toxicity museum and laboratory.</p>

International Scholarships and Southern Agency: An Ethnography of Alumni, Scholars, and Applicants

International scholarships are an established mode of aid distribution for many donor countries and a life-changing educational opportunity for recipients from the global South. This article draws upon ethnographic field research centred on Dili, Timor-Leste, focussing on case studies of a scholarship applicant, a scholar, and an alumnus. It employs the concept of Southern agency, investigating individual practices shaped by influences that both constrain and enable action, namely local infrastructure, family and kinship groups, literacies, and the colonial legacy. Scholarship places are limited and extremely competitive, while assigning a moral imperative for alumni to learn and return to contribute to local development, often resulting in the re-production of socially normed roles echoing the colonial era. The global upheaval in higher education resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic emphasises the need for alternative interventions in the global South, including greater investment in local higher education institutions, and online learning.