From Dissertation to Publication in Mathematics Teacher Educator

In this editorial, we provide suggestions for authors who are preparing a manuscript for the Mathematics Teacher Educator journal that is based on a dissertation. We recommend that authors begin by examining their findings and identifying a focus that addresses a shared problem of practice for mathematics teacher educators. Authors should become familiar with the journal by reading editorials and related articles published in the journal. Finally, the Writing Tool can serve as a guide for preparing an outline for the manuscript, which can be shared with the editors and colleagues for feedback.

DEFISIENSI COLLABORATIVE GOVERNANCE DALAM PENANGANAN PANDEMI COVID-19 DI INDONESIA

The Covid-19 pandemic is a shared problem so it must also be resolved collectively. In the context of crisis, the role of the government must remain dominant, but also by opening the door to collaborative governance. Therefore it is vital to understand the dynamics of the collaborative governance process in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic which of course is full of challenges and obstacles in the midst of uncertainty. Researchers use the literature study method to track various conditions in an effort to resolve a pandemic that involves inter-sectoral efforts, but researchers find important points that must be corrected so that the handling of the pandemic does not experience deficiencies in collaborative governance. So far, real action is needed in improving the responsiveness of policies, quality of regulations, data management, monitoring systems and coordination among sectors. Keywords: collaborative governance; covid-19; pandemic AbstrakPandemi Covid-19 merupakan persoalan bersama sehingga juga harus diselesaikan secara bersama-sama pula. Dalam konteks krisis pun sebenarnya peran pemerintah harus tetap dominan akan tetapi juga dengan membuka pintu kolaborasi bersama dengan antar sektor (collaborative governance). Oleh karena itu penting untuk mengetahui dinamika proses collaborative governance dalam menangani pandemi Covid-19 yang tentu saja penuh dengan tantangan, kendala dan hambatan di tengah ketidakpastian. Peneliti menggunakan metode studi kepustakaan untuk melacak berbagai kondisi dalam usaha menyelesaikan pandemi yang melibatkan usaha antar sektor akan tetapi peneliti menemukan poin-poin penting yang harus diperbaiki agar penanganan pandemi tidak mengalami defisiensi dalam collaborative governance. Sejauh ini perlu tindakan nyata dalam memperbaiki responsivitas kebijakan, kualitas regulasi, manajemen data, sistem pengawasan dan koordinasi antar sektor. Kata Kunci: collaborative governance; covid-10; pandemi

2 Hyper-Study: On Our Becoming-Students

Drawing insight from a creative and reflective experimentation called Studium (2019–) run by the author and the artist François Deck, this text attempts to define a theoretical conception of “studying” that overcomes the narrow contexts of institutional education or professional research, determined mostly by rules set by the market or the state. Through the proposal of an expanded notion of study, it aims at reclaiming the collective situations of intellectual inquiry in front of a shared problem by which we all “become students.” To sketch the idea of “hyper-study,” the reflection needs to take into consideration several implications of this kind of gestures: (1) the subjective engagement that transforms one’s own form of life (transfiguration); (2) the open, situated, and precarious activity (immediation); and (3) the specific environmental conditions (ecological agency).

A Positive Project Outcome: Lessons from a Non-Dominant Government University-Based Program

This article explores factors contributing to a non-dominant collaboration paradigm in a partnership between a government-based international development agency and a university-based non-governmental organization. Anchored in Wood’s and Gray’s collaborative framework, this article describes how the steeply hierarchical partnership navigated the elements of collaboration – organizational autonomy; shared problem domain; interactive processes; shared rules, norms, and structures; and decision making – to produce non-dominant values and practices deriving from negotiated processes, rules, norms, and structures that produced positive collaboration outcomes. In particular, a history of prior mutually beneficial interactions emerges as a critical precondition for achieving a non-dominant collaboration in this case study’s steeply hierarchical organizational relationship, one in which egalitarianism and equal decision-making regarding the agenda and the goals of the collaboration could have been highly constrained.

Migrant workers trapped between individualism and collectivism: The formation of union-based workplace collectivism

Transnational labour migration challenges collectivism as well as migrant workers’ labour market rights, due to employers’ strategies such as segregating workers, and the migrant workers’ individualistic strategies. This article, arguing that there are no intrinsic impediments to creating (instrumental) collectivist solutions encompassing both migrants and host-country workers, develops a dynamic, conceptual framework of four preconditions – workers’ closeness, feeling of unity, shared problem perception and reference groups – which are necessary for migrant workers to develop collective labour market strategies. The article then utilises the framework in three empirical cases to illustrate how the framework, combined with union strategies, helps explain the different degrees of migrant workers’ labour market inclusion and to help understand why gaps between migrant workers and host-country workers may form.

Self-reliance crowds out group cooperation and increases wealth inequality

Humans establish public goods to provide for shared needs like safety or healthcare. Yet, public goods rely on cooperation which can break down because of free-riding incentives. Previous research extensively investigated how groups solve this free-rider problem but ignored another challenge to public goods provision. Namely, some individuals do not need public goods to solve the problems they share with others. We investigate how such self-reliance influences cooperation by confronting groups in a laboratory experiment with a safety problem that could be solved either cooperatively or individually. We show that self-reliance leads to a decline in cooperation. Moreover, asymmetries in self-reliance undermine social welfare and increase wealth inequality between group members. Less dependent group members often choose to solve the shared problem individually, while more dependent members frequently fail to solve the problem, leaving them increasingly poor. While self-reliance circumvents the free-rider problem, it complicates the governing of the commons.