THE DIALECTICS OF RELIGIOUS AND CULTURAL LIBERALISM IN THE TRANSCULTURAL ERA

Trans culture is a cross-cultural condition which can develop or survive within the life of a community. Religion and culture as the pillars for unity in the cross-cultural era can potentially develop into liberalism. This study aims to reveal the process of religious and cultural liberalism along with the solutions. It uses a qualitative-analysis method with hermeneutic approach based on the thoughts of the figures of Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) in East Java. To collect the data, the researchers conduct in-depth interviews and data analysis of the works and news on religious and cultural liberalism. The study discovers the dialectic model of religious liberalism by making human rights the main source of law, which is called theological-capitalism. Besides, it finds cultural liberalism in the form of an identity crisis, which is called enculturation-liberalism. To overcome the religious liberalism, we can use clarification techniques and logical-systematic thinking. Meanwhile, the solution to deal with cultural liberalism is through cultural realism and socio-cultural learning. Transkultural adalah kondisi lintas kebudayaan yang dapat berkembang atau bertahan di kehidupan masyarakat. Agama dan budaya sebagai pilar persatuan yang dalam era lintas kebudayaan berpotensi berkembang pada paham liberal. Tujuan penelitian ini mengungkap proses liberalisme agama dan budaya yang disertai solusi dalam menangkalnya. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif-analisis dengan pendekatan hermeneutik berdasarkan pemikiran tokoh Ulama’ NU Jawa Timur. Dalam menggali data, dilakukan interviu mendalam serta analisis data dokumentatif karya dan berita liberalisme agama dan budaya. Hasil penelitian ditemukan model dialektika liberalisme agama dengan menjadikan Hak Asasi Manusia sebagai sumber hukum utama disebut teologis-kapitalistik, sedangkan dialektika liberalisme budaya dalam bentuk krisis identitas disebut enkulturasi-liberalistik. Solusi dalam menaggulangi liberalisme agama dengan menggunakan teknik klarifikasi dan berfikir logis-sistematis. Sedangkan solusi menghadapi liberalisme budaya melalui realisme culture dan socio-culture learning.

Pengembangan Pola Berpikir Sistematis Melalui Pengenalan Pemrograman Visual Pada Peserta didik Tingkat Menengah Atas

Systematic thinking is a process of thinking that should be introduced from early age. While developing such thinking, students will learn how to solve a task by breaking it down to smaller tasks and complete them one by one. There are many activities that can support such thinking. One of them is to program visually. Visual programming is usually featured with drop-down blocks where students are only required to choose which process or logic needed than then put them in the play board. A training of such activity was done in a high school at Bandung, Indonesia with Scratch. Students were first introduced with Scratch, a software that is expected to help them think systematically. For conducting the training itself, several stages were followed. It started with introduction, and then followed by lecture and case-based practice. To engage students with the practice, the case study is COVID-19 where students are expected to deliver relevant information creatively, such as developing a game of social distancing, spray vs virus, etc. Evaluation shows that via this training, students were able to further develop their own systematic thinking via the creation of Scratch projects. Further, they believed that this training is interesting and can help them to study in the high school.

The promotion of learners’ mental activity while studying Russian morphology

The object of the study is the methodology of teaching Russian morphology at secondary school. The subject matter of the research is the teaching potential of morphology for building a system of skills necessary for speech activity and the development of learners’ systematic thinking. The study aims to search for methodological factors that can enhance learners’ mental activity in the process of mastering the morphology of the Russian language. Theoretical research methods (analysis, synthesis, systematisation, generalisation of results) in conjunction with practical research methods (modelling the process of teaching morphology, learning process observation) are employed in the study. The paper examines theoretical sources, practices in teaching morphology at school and suggests ways to reverse negative trends in education. The relevance of the problem is highlighted, in the first place, by the fundamental importance of morphology for learners’ personality development. Secondly, it is emphasised by the fact that modern school-leavers lack the system of morphological skills. Lastly, negative trends in teaching this branch of linguistics as part of the school Russian course persist, which also underlines the relevance of the research. The study focuses on the theoretical aspects of the addressed problem and takes into consideration modern knowledge of psychology, psycholinguistics, linguistics, the methodology of teaching Russian. Additionally, the paper presents methods and techniques of teaching such difficult morphological topics as «The Pronoun», «The Participle», «The Numeral». It is concluded that problem-based learning is effective as its implementation will enable teachers to enhance their students’ mental activity in the process of cognition and optimise the outcomes of teaching Russian morphology at secondary school.

Toxicology and environmental risk analysis

Risk-based decision-making increasingly has global dimensions, extending from the international management of chemical risks to the sustainable development of our planet. Environmental risk analysis is firmly based on toxicological sciences with input from other public health disciplines. Increasing understanding of how the human genotype and phenotype affects absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of xenobiotics (compounds foreign to a living organism), is providing insight into answers to the oldest human question about disease: ‘Why me?’ The risk paradigm components of hazard assessment, dose–analysis, exposure assessment, risk characterization, risk management, and risk communication, and the toxicological concepts on which they are based, have proven durable in approaching increasingly complex environmental hazards. Newer approaches to managing risk, such as the precautionary principle, and newer challenges, such as nanotechnology and genetically modified organisms, necessitate further systematic thinking on how best to protect human health and the environment.

What Does Calvin’s Engagement with Acts Teach Us about God’s Providence?

Calvin’s commentarial engagement with Acts makes an important contribution to understanding providence. This is, I argue, the case with respect to the important distinction between divine determination and divine permission. In this article, I unfold how the language of divine determination refers to what is true of God in a substantial sense. God’s determination reflects what God is in se. The language of permission, however, pertains only to evil. Such an inquiry advances systematic thinking on providence, encouraging recognition of how determination and permission have different referents. ‘Determination’ refers to what is of God, ‘permission’ to what is evil. The article also contributes to Calvin scholarship by showing how Calvin’s encounter with Acts generates a more expansive account of providential themes than one finds in the Institutes.

Rational Reflection in the Post-epidemic Era: Institutional Advantages and Improvement of Governance Efficiency

Currently, the national epidemic prevention and control is still facing the challenges of secondary risk stacking, coordinated optimization of multi-party governance resources, and effective conversion of normal and abnormal conditions. Therefore, systematic thinking should be established in the normalized precision prevention and control and local emergency response, prevention and control should be implemented in accordance with the law, and source governance should be strengthened so as to overcome the risk challenges and improve governance efficiency.

Conceptual Technologies of Application of Coaching Technology in Public Administration

The article reveals the concept of coaching as an innovative technology of public administration. The technology is based on a democratic leadership style, formed by systematic thinking and a somewhat organized technique of questions, which ultimately focuses on the prospect of positive change and optimization of production relations, based on cooperation and feedback. The global goal of coaching in public administration is defined, which provides constant updating of skills of managerial competence and successful leadership through the formation of worldview, adoption of holistic attitudes, a certain culture of communication and interaction, motivation. The effectiveness of the use of coaching technology in public administration is substantiated. The main further prospects of work on the research are determined. Develop scales of indicators for evaluating the effectiveness of coaching technology in public administration.

asociación entre el grupo de profesionales de la salud con pensamiento sistémico y el logro de objetivos estratégicos

La articulación de la atención médica con los objetivos estratégicos en instituciones de salud requiere del pensamiento sistémico. El objetivo de esta investigación es determinar la influencia del pensamiento sistémico en el logro de objetivos estratégicos, el método empleado es cuasiexperimental y el estudio tuvo lugar en el Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (imss), Campeche, en donde se analizó la intervención con la metodología del pensamiento sistémico en el proceso de atención médica de diabetes mellitus tipo 2 (DM2) y el logro de objetivos estratégicos (control metabólico). Entre los resultados obtenidos se observó que los profesionales de la salud con pensamiento sistémico se asocian con el control metabólico de los pacientes con DM2. Por lo tanto, la organización de salud comprende el funcionamiento como un sistema que integra el pensamiento creativo, el estratégico y el control de líneas de acción. AbstractThe structural link of medical care with strategic objectives in healthcare institutes require systematic thinking. This research aims to determine the influence systematic thinking has in achieving strategic objectives. A quasi-experimental method was used, and research was performed in the Mexican Social Security Institute (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social – IMSS) in Campeche, where systematic thinking methodology intervened with the process of medical attention of Type 2 diabetes mellitus and the achievement of strategic objectives (metabolic control). Among the results obtained we observed that health professionals which present systematic thinking are associated to the metabolic control of patients with DM2. Consequently, the health organization comprehends its functionality as a system that integrates creative, strategic thinking and the control of strategic lines of action.