Perubahan Agama Minahasa dan Kekristenan dalam Konstruksi Perjumpaan Simbol Sakral pada Ritual di Watu Pinawetengan

This article aims to explore the conversion of Minahasa and Christianity religion through mutually constructed efforts carried out by the community of ritual practitioners in Watu Pinawetengan. This research focuses on the mutual change between Minahasa religion and Christianity in rituals through the construction of a symbolic encounter by the ritual-playing community at Watu Pinawetengan. For ritual practitioners, Watu Pinawetengan is a sacred place Tou Minahasa (Minahasa man) that is located in North Sulawesi Province, Minahasa Regency. Individuals in a community construct the meaning of each symbol, thus creating a paradigm of religion. Sacred symbols refer to the essence of a belief in religion, so it is crucial in describing the existence of a religion. The data is taken through the use of qualitative methods by conducting observations, interviews, library studies, and documentary studies. The findings of this study show that changes in sacred symbols in rituals have been constructed in Minahasa and Christian discourses, resulting in a mutual change in both religions. Change occurs dialectically and is strengthened by the legitimacy of the ancestral spirit.AbstrakArtikel ini bertujuan untuk menggali perubahan agama Minahasa dan Kristen melalui upaya saling mengonstruksi yang dilakukan oleh komunitas pelaku ritual di Watu Pinawetengan. Fokus penelitian pada perubahan bersama, antara agama Minahasa dan Kristen dalam ritual melalui konstruksi perjumpaan simbol oleh komunitas pelaku ritual di Watu Pinawetengan. Bagi pelaku ritual, Watu Pinawetengan merupakan tempat sakral Tou Minahasa (manusia Minahasa) yang berada di Provinsi Sulawesi Utara, Kabupaten Minahasa. Individu-individu dalam komunitas mengonstruksi makna dari setiap simbol sehingga menciptakan paradigma fundamen tentang agama. Simbol sakral merujuk pada esensi dari suatu kepercayaan dalam agama, sehingga bersifat krusial dalam menggambarkan eksistensi suatu agama. Data diambil melalui penggunaan metode kualitatif dengan melakukan observasi, wawancara, studi pustaka, dan studi dokumenter. Temuan dari studi ini memperlihatkan perubahan simbol sakral dalam ritual telah dikonstruksi dalam diskursus agama Minahasa dan Kristen, sehingga mengakibatkan perubahan bersama pada kedua agama tersebut. Perubahan terjadi secara dialektis dan diperkuat dengan legitimasi roh leluhur.

A call for mutual change and progress: An interview with Aravind Malagatti and Dharani Devi Malagatti

This interview with Dr Aravind Malagatti and Dr Dharani Devi Malagatti, conducted in Mysore, India, in April 2019, was one of several interviews I conducted for my doctoral thesis that examines caste system and Dalit struggles in the context of India. Dr Aravind Malagatti has contributed more than sixty books to Kannada literature, out of which his autobiography, Government Brahmana published in 1994 is considered the first Dalit autobiography in Kannada ( Government Brahmana, 2007). It was translated and published in English in 2007, and Dr Dharani Devi Malagatti is one of the three translators who translated the work. In this interview, Government Brahmana is discussed as a springboard to understand the social, economic, religious, political and legal aspects of caste and its practices in modern India. Dr Aravind Malagatti provides anecdotes to explain the significance of Dalit consciousness, what it entails and who can possess it. His responses are powerful statements calling for mutual change and progress for Dalits and non-Dalits. Dr Dharani Devi Malagatti talks about the challenges of translating the radical aesthetics of Dalit personal narratives as well as the scope and possibilities offered through translation. The interview explores the undertones of patriotism in Dalit identity, and the synthesis of individual and collective consciousness.

Co-creating value with suppliers: a conceptual framework

PurposeThis study aims to put forward a conceptual framework to promote strategies for exploring and exploiting value co-creation with suppliers through dynamic capabilities development.Design/methodology/approachThe conceptual framework was developed by applying deductive logic to blend the theoretical perspectives of value co-creation and dynamic capabilities concerning interaction and innovation.FindingsThe suggested framework emphasized that to co-create value with suppliers, health-care organizations need to integrate innovation abilities with interactional abilities for assimilating mutual processes and resources. The study also points out the crucial role of middle managers to articulate the diverse value perspectives and act as change catalysts.Practical implicationsThis paper provides a roadmap for health-care managers to develop internal bundles of resources and integrate inter-organizational processes in the direction of co-creating value. The approach suggests the use of project pipelines and performance measures as managerial tools for aligning value co-creating initiatives with suppliers.Originality/valueThe study is a pioneering attempt to develop a conceptual framework for co-creating value with suppliers and, consequently, to provide innovative services to patients. The study aligns with previous value co-creation and dynamic capabilities works in terms of interaction and innovation development. However, based on the interrelation of these two dimensions, the study puts forth four interrelated processes (experimenting new possibilities of value creation; articulating value alignment initiatives; implementing mutual benefits; and executing and managing performance improvement) attached by mutual change mechanisms.

Making sense of the corporate philosophy:

We find an increased interest in the concept of employee engagement within the area of organizational and corporate communication. Employee engagement is an umbrella term for a number of cognitive, emotional and physical aspects (Kahn, 1990) of relating positively to one’s work, and research within this area has mostly connected employee engagement to organizational productivity and effectiveness. In this paper, we suggest a new approach to employee engagement by relating it to employee communication and placing it within dialogue theory (Buber, 1970) combined with Bamberg’s (1997) positioning theory. Our case is a strategy meeting on the topic of how a corporate philosophy devised by top management and entitled “Business Kind2Mind” is interpreted by managers and what they view is the best way to implement the philosophy within subsidiaries. Theorizing engagement dialogically enables a shift from instrumental perspectives to a more interpretive approach in which true mutuality entails participants’ views being heard and incorporated in the corporate philosophy, and engagement is not purely about efficiency and outcome. A dialogical approach enables us to conceive of employee communication not as only upwardly or downwardly directed between manager and employee, but as interactional, with mutual change.

«Jeg savner barnet mitt». Møter mellom somaliske mødre og barnehagen

The focus of this article is the establishment and development of trust between Somali mothers and educators in Norwegian kindergartens. Qualitative interviews with five Somali mothers and four educators were conducted, aiming to raise awareness and achieve a relation of trust amongst the educators and mothers with a minority background. Using critical theory as a lens, the study shows a negotiation process between the mothers and the educators, where elements of sharing, adapting and belonging became important. The mothers went through a process of adaption to the Norwegian kindergarten. The article argues that educators should focus more on mutual dialogue rather than informing monologue in their communication with parents and that both sides have to be open to mutual change.

PENGARUH TINGKAT PENDIDIKAN, PERHATIAN ORANG TUA, DAN MINAT BELAJAR SISWA TERHADAP PRESTASI BELAJAR BAHASA INDONESIA SISWA SMK KESEHATAN DI KOTA TANGERANG

<p><strong> </strong></p><p align="center"><strong><em>ABSTRACT</em></strong><em><br /> <br /> </em></p><p align="center"><strong> </strong></p><p><em>This study aims to determine the effect of education level of parents, parental attention, and student interest towards the achievement learning Indonesian of students at SMK Kesehatan in Tangerang. The population in this study were all students of SMK Kesehatan in the city of Tangerang and samples taken amounted to 80 people who are students of class X using cluster sample selection technique of random sampling. The method used is descriptive correlational survey. In the correlation analysis, the main thing being analyzed is the correlation coefficient, which is a number that indicates the degree of relationship between two or more variables that have a causal relationship and engage in change.The dependent variable in this study is the Indonesian learning achievement (Y) and the independent variables are the educational level of parents (X₁), parental (X₂), and the interest of student learning (X₃). According to the framework and research hypothesis, suspected between independent and dependent variables there is causal relationship and mutual change. Therefore, the hypothesis verification analysis techniques using correlational techniques.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: education level of parents, parental attention, student interest, </em></strong><strong><em></em></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong><strong><em>achievement learning Indonesian</em></strong></p><p align="center"><strong> </strong></p><p align="center"><strong>ABSTRAK</strong></p><p> </p><p class="ListParagraph1CxSpFirst">Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui pengaruh tingkat pendidikan, perhatian orang tua, dan minat belajar siswa terhadap prestasi belajar bahasa Indonesia siswa SMK Kesehatan di Kota Tangerang. Populasi dalam penelitian ini adalah seluruh siswa SMK Kesehatan yang ada di Kota Tangerang dan sampel yang diambil berjumlah 80 orang yang merupakan siswa kelas X dengan menggunakan teknik pemilihan sampel<em> cluster random sampling</em>. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah survei deskriptif korelasional. Dalam analisis korelasional, hal utama yang dianalisis adalah koefisien korelasi, yaitu bilangan yang menunjukkan derajat hubungan antara dua variabel atau lebih yang mempunyai hubungan sebab akibat dan saling mengadakan perubahan.Variabel penelitian ini yaitu variabel terikat (<em>dependent variable</em>) adalah prestasi belajar bahasa Indonesia (Y) dan variabel bebas (<em>independent variable</em>) adalah tingkat pendidikan orang tua (X₁), perhatian orang tua (X₂), dan minat belajar siswa (X₃). Menurut kerangka berpikir dan hipotesis penelitian, diduga antara variabel bebas dan terikat tersebut ada hubungan sebab akibat dan saling mengadakan perubahan. Oleh karena itu, teknik analisis pembuktian hipotesis tersebut menggunakan teknik korelasional.</p><p class="ListParagraph1CxSpLast"> </p><p><strong>Kata kunci: tingkat pendidikan orang tua, perhatian orang tua, minat </strong><strong></strong></p><p><strong> </strong><strong>belajar siswa, prestasi belajar bahasa Indonesia</strong></p><p> </p>

Evaluation of Fillers Dispersion Degree in Elastomeric Magnetic Composites

Elastomeric magnetic composites were prepared by incorporation of strontium ferrite into polymer matrices based on natural as well as butadiene rubber. Besides the rubber and ferrite, or the combinations of ferrite and carbon black (in case of natural rubber), the model rubber compounds contained only ingredients which support curing process. The study was dedicated to the observation of fillers dispersion degree in the rubber matrices and investigation of physical-mechanical and magnetic properties of prepared composites. The results indicate that the dispersion degree of ferrite in the rubber matrices is not very high, but it can be positively influenced by the addition of carbon black. Despite of the fact that ferrite exhibits only low reinforcing effect on cross-linked elastomeric materials, physical-mechanical properties can be also positively influenced by the mutual change in combinations of both fillers (ferrite and carbon black). The prepared materials seem to have suitable magnetic and elastic properties.