Foundations Of Thinking Research Articles

The Use of Metacognitive Strategies in Solving Mathematical Problems

The ability to solve mathematical problems is useful not only for the absorption of knowledge, but also for the formation of thinking and attitude in solving the problems. This research was conducted to describe the metacognitive strategies that students undertake when solving mathematical problems. Metacognitive strategy is one of the methods used in problem solving that emphasizes to build the well-structured of thinking, by deciding what to do and where to go in realizing and overcoming obstacles. Data obtained through problem solving by the subject and then analyzed qualitatively. Through the application of metacognitive strategies, a systematic and well-structured problem solving is implemented based on the logical thinking steps, and allows to the right solution. For students, metacognitive strategies are very important to build a strong foundation of thinking and to be applied in various situations and levels of complexity problems.

MEMAHAMI HAMBATAN DOSEN DAN MAHASISWA DALAM PERKULIAHAN ONLINE : FENOMENA ANTISIPASI PENYEBARAN VIRUS COVID-19

The problem that has occurred in lectures since the COVID-19 virus outbreak was the transformation of the class technical system from face-to-face into online class. Communication technology plays a very important role in the communication of lecturers and students in online class. Online class are inseparable from problems in the use of technology and changes in the habits of face-to-face lectures. This study aims to describe the obstacles of lecturers and students in online lectures related to the anticipation of the spread of the COVID-19 virus. This study uses Media Ecology theory as a foundation for thinking. This research is a phenomenological study with a qualitative descriptive approach. Primary data were obtained from the results of indepth interviews with 6 informants who were lecturers and students in Yogyakarta. The results of this study indicate a obstacle model of online class. There are two types of obstacles that are interconnected in the online class process, namely the obstacles during the class and the obstacles outside the class. This study discusses the differences in the meaning of online class between lecturer and student informants. The findings also show 6 similarities in the patterns of barriers from informants. This research shows that communication technology is not value-free.

Character Education in an Acehnese Cultural Saga: Hikayat Prang Sabi

The research sought to understand the value of patriotism in the Hikayat Prang Sabi by using a qualitative approach. Hikayat was referred to narratives (saga) of war rooted in Acehnese cultural tradition, and Prang Sabi in Acehnese language meant ‘Holy War’. As a literary work, Hikayat Prang Sabi embodied the concept of jihad, which was usually sung during the time of war in the Acehnese history: Portuguese in 1511, Dutch in 1873, Japan in 1942, and the Republic of Indonesia in 1976. The source of the data was verses or stanzas of Hikayat Prang Sabi that contained patriotic values. These verses were then treated as the unit of analysis. A hermeneutic approach was employed to analyze the data. The findings show that Hikayat Prang Sabi contains two types of patriotic values: national and religious. National value refers to the sense of nationalism, ethnicity, and humanity. Religious value, on the other hand, displays the value of spirituality, prophecy, and peace. These values indicate the foundation of thinking and doing of the Acehnese people manifested in a literary work, which then can be transferred into the notion of character education.

The marau Hangarau (Māori-medium Technology curriculum): Why there isn't much research but why there should be!

Hangarau is under-researched. Research in this field, from historical case studies to exploration of hangarau practice across a range of educational contexts, is needed. We examine the significant gap by outlining the timelines leading up to the third cycle of curriculum design and implementation of the marau hangarau. The dataset is drawn from a larger project consisting of interviews with tuakana-curriculum designers (Lemon, 2019) and document analysis of material sourced through requests for official information (Ministry of Education, 1999-2003, 1999-2008, 2003-2012, 2007-2009).Hangarau needs to be researched. As a decolonising curriculum, coming from a Māori foundation of thinking and being, it connects future, past and present in a holistic approach to technological practice. Research will inform the next generation of curriculum designers, and strengthen sector understandings of hangarau. This will be reflected in classroom practice, with better uptake and engagement in hangarau–building on our past achievements. How can we plan ahead if we do not know what has been done? We need to value the work done by those who have toiled to develop a new way of learning for our tamariki mokopuna.He marautanga reo Māori tÄ“nei mā ngā kura reo Māori. Nō reira, he tika te whakaputa whakaaro, te rangahau māna ki te reo rangatira. Heoi anō, ko tō mātou hiahia kia tukuna atu tÄ“nei kōrero ki te tokomaha, nā reira te whakamahi i Ä“tahi kupu Māori torutoru noa iho i tÄ“nei wā. Hei tōna wā, ka rere pai te reo rangatira ki konei, ki Aotearoa nei, tae atu ki ngā tōpito o te ao. We incorporate te reo Māori in writing about a Māori language curriculum taught in classrooms through the medium of the Māori language. There is a glossary at the end of the article for those readers who do not speak te reo Māori.

YouTube Endorsement and Changes in the Web 2.0's Advertising Industry

The internet provides an alternative for product owners to advertise with new media. Web 2.0 is an advanced phase of Internet technology that allows users to contribute to Internet content, which ultimately makes the Internet interactive. This study provides an overview of how YouTube channel endorsements change the advertising process and patterns of interaction between advertising industry players. This study describes three patterns of interaction that occur in the advertising industry in the context of YouTube channel endorsement. Media Ecology Theory is used as a foundation for thinking, while the research model used is Case Study. Data were obtained through in-depth interviews with five sources who worked in the advertising industry. Three of them work in advertising agencies, and two other sources work as YouTubers, and in a Multi-Channel Network company. The research found how YouTube channel endorsement altered patterns of interaction and production processes in the advertising industry. YouTube channel endorsement also brought new players in the advertising industry, namely Multi-Channel Network.

RECONSTRUCTION NEW PARADIGM FOR MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENDOWMENTS

Waqf is a religious institution in Islam, and is included in the category of community worship which is a means and capital is essential to promote the development of religion. Evidence used as the basis sharia endowments text derives from an understanding of the Qur'an and Sunnah. Then understand and using law endowments not merely textual law or fiqh, but must dare to seek renewal of the school's endowment to be able to prosper the people, because the basic assumption of the law is an institution that aims leads man to live a fair, prosperous and make human happy. The type of research is socio-legal research is explorative, descriptive. With the approach of the law and the case approach, Source data: derived from the primary data, which is data obtained from field practice. The development of waqf law reform must begin with a deeper study of waqf as ijtihad region, as well as the legal principles of waqf is a truth that is used as the foundation of thinking and reason opinion, the reform ideology, law enforcement and implements a waqf.

"It Is What It Is:" Literacy Studies and Phenomenology

This investigation of the tenets of phenomenology is based on work completed using this methodology in educational studies. Specifically, the author writes about the way that phenomenology can be used when completing studies in the field of literacy. The author highlights foundational thinkers, along with major elements of methods and data collection that form the working parts of phenomenology. The author frames this article as a partially reflective account, looking at work that has been completed already, while also attempting to compose a descriptive investigation that other researchers can adopt for their own work in other fields.

What makes a hospitality professional?

Despite the many efforts to propose effective career development solutions and career satisfaction in the hospitality industry, issues of staff retention and rising turnover continue to surface. The need for quality employees who consider hospitality a long-term career is of paramount importance. If employers wish to retain existing talent and also attract new talent, they have to know their employees’ key characteristics. Until now the industry has preferred to recruit using competencies and task proficiency or specific technical expertise and job aptitude. Passion, sensitivity, team-oriented attitude, emotional self-control, and professional ethics have been identified as characteristics of professionalism within the hospitality industry. What remains unknown are the individual qualities that make a hospitality employee ‘professional’.
 To identify the new indicators of what constitutes a hospitality ‘professional’, an extensive review [1] of previous academic research was undertaken in these five areas: the hospitality environment [2, 3]; understanding professionalism [4]; self-efficacy (the power of believing in one’s own capabilities) [5]; career inheritance (career as inherited from one’s family) [6]; and career commitment (the emotional attachment to one’s career) [7]. This resulted in identifying three common characteristics of a hospitality professional:
 
 hospitality self-efficacy;
 hospitality career commitment; and
 hospitality career inheritance.
 
 A hospitality professional has high levels of hospitality self-efficacy, which means having the confidence to achieve a particular task or an outcome; in this case, a successful hospitality career. A committed hospitality professional self-directs their career path by taking charge of their career goals to improve their skills, career prospects and achieve promotions. Such an individual is also willing to learn and treats challenges as obstacles to be overcome, rather than as threats. Hospitality becomes an inherited part of their life and their career identity. This requires having the ability to thrive on the very nature of the industry, which is dynamic, exciting and ever-changing. The hospitality career inheritance is such a significant part of their life for hospitality professionals that it represents their ability to identify with hospitality beyond their working lives. This, in turn, is likely to compensate them for certain conditions of the job such as working long hours, but also to contribute to increased levels of hospitality career commitment. In times of increased changes in organisations, related to diversified workforce, globalisation and technological advancements, having a career is likely to have a positive influence on hospitality professionals who can exercise the most control over this part of their professional lives. In an industry known for its high staff turnover, a committed hospitality professional is an asset to both an organisation and the industry as a whole.
 Knowledge of the key characteristics of a hospitality professional has implications for human resource management in the hospitality industry. Diversity of roles, being challenged and using their skills is what drives and motivates career-driven hospitality professionals to perform and develop an emotional attachment to their career. This requires, from the managers, a genuine understanding of the nature of hospitality, and what hospitality means to each professional. Together, the three professional characteristics are also considered a strong predictor of a person’s desire to contribute to the successful performance of a hospitality business. Therefore, to meet the identified shortage of hospitality managers, the industry needs to attract hospitality professionals who are committed, emotionally attached to hospitality, and who exhibit high levels of self-confidence.
 The research review on which this article was based can be read here: https://doi.org/10.1386/hosp.9.2.215_1
 Corresponding author
 Maria Gebbels can be contacted at: m.m.gebbels@greenwich.ac.uk
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A racial re-framing of Modernity and the Jews

Goldberg presents a nicely argued examination that demonstrates how sociology’s foundational thinkers used the experience of Jews to make sense of the transition from traditional to modern societies. While major European theorists were either negative or ambivalent about the Jewish community, US scholars were more likely to see Jews as pointing the way toward a more modern, diverse America. The US story, however, is more complex, and Goldberg’s analysis would benefit from a deeper, more careful discussion of race and racialization. Jews’ eventual incorporation in the United States required a careful process of de-racialization that culminated in their revaluation as white. But this process was never complete. The periodic resurfacing of race-inflected, anti-Jewish acts testifies to this. If Jews, who have been admitted to whiteness, are still subject to periodic racialization and stigmatization, this strongly suggests that their experience in the United States may represent the limits of full incorporation. If so, there is little hope for other racial outsiders to ever be fully accepted into the US mainstream.

In Search of a Dérive: for Alternative Media Narratives of Management and Organization

Many recent publications hold a dark view of contemporary business administration and its context. Th e current state of capitalism and corporate management is described as zombie (Harman, 2009), ghostly (Roy, 2014) or, in the most benign appraisal, sick but not dying (Tomlinson, 2010). At the same time, business schools, textbooks and popular management books remain wedded to a re-ductive view of social interactions, drawing inspiration as well as authority from a century of socioeconomic triumph as well as from the rigid defi nitions of management relations as handed down by the founding fi gures of the discipline. Drawing inspiration from Walter Benjamin's (1969) refi g-uring of Charles Baudelaire's fl âneur, we revisit the haunted spaces of popular management books, using the situationist method of derive to invoke the ghosts of foundational thinkers for inspiration and, possibly, exorcism. Th e aim of this excursion is to propose strategies for communication about some old ideas of management which still can be regarded as vital, even though the contemporary forms may have become morbid (Fleming, 2017).

Intensity and Pattern of Use of the Instagram Social Media Among 196 Junior High School Students at Cilangkap, East Jakarta

This research was conducted to determine the intensity and patterns of Instagram usage among the students of 196 Junior High School in Cilangkap, East Jakarta. The subjects in this study, the 7th and 8th grade students, were chose based on purposive techniques. The theory used in this research as the foundation of thinking is the Theory of Media Literacy and concepts thats relevant to this research. This qualitative approach uses descriptive qualitative methods. The analysis technique in this study is the qualitative data analysis technique from Hubermas by making a reduction and categorization of the results of the data collected through non-participant observation and in-depth interviews with the research subjects. The categorized data is then displayed in narrative form. The results of this study describe the intensity and patterns of Instagram uses among junior high school students in 7 th and 8 th grade as the "now generation" or generation Z. Keywords: Intensity, usage pattern, Instagram DOI : 10.7176/NMMC/82-03 Publication date : August 31 st 2019

The Potential for Community and Complementary Currencies (CCs) to Enhance Human Aspects of Economic Exchange

This article explores the potential for Community and Complementary Currency (CC) use to enhance human aspects of economic exchange. As far back as Aristotle, social thinkers have expressed concern that the pursuit of profit for its own sake leads to the dehumanization of those participating in economic relations, a concern which was echoed in the work of foundational thinkers in the modern Social Sciences, for example Karl Marx and Max Weber. This article probes the scope of CC use to alleviate such dehumanization, situated within this broader social context of contemporary global Capitalism. Beginning with a review of the types of CCs, this paper considers the objectives and goals of CCs worldwide. Indeed, there is room for optimism that CCs may ease negative aspects of traditional financial exchange by serving those on the fringes of and/or excluded from formal economies, and without necessarily competing with public or private traditional banking institutions. The paper concludes with reflections on the key aspects of CCs aiding their successful implementation and sustainable use. Although this paper is conceptual in nature, it offers a meta-analysis from many case studies of CCs, and suggests that CCs can be an effective tool for lessening some of the harmful impacts of the dominant economic relations found in today’s globalized world.

Diagnostic Concepts of the Unconscious as a Foundation of Romanticist Identity: Maine de Biran’s Psycho-Physiological and Psycho-Pathological Self-Investigations

ABSTRACT The foundations of psychoanalysis in the German idealist concepts of the reflexive human self have been the subject of detailed investigations devoted to the intertwined processes of introspection, consciousness, and the unconscious. Much less consideration has been given to the contemporary French spiritualist philosopher Maine de Biran (1766–1824), whose physiologically-oriented philosophical psychology was (partially) known in its essence by some of the founding thinkers of psycho-analysis. According to Biran’s explicitly anti-Cartesian notion of individual identity, consciousness is constitutively generated through voluntary corporeal effort—by the resistance implied in the act of (ap)perception. Biran’s shift from an empiricist and sensualist outward perception to a spiritualist introspection (sens intime) marks the turn from Enlightenment to Romanticism. In his chef d’oeuvre, the Essai sur les fondements de la psychologie (1811–ca. 1813), he distinguishes four concentrically layered, heterogeneous spheres or systems of consciousness. At its core is the instinctively motivated système affectif (shared by both animals and humans), followed by the système sensitif that is still subordinated to affections, albeit interconnected with consciousness. The système perceptif involves the tactile and visual senses of attention, while the outer système réflexif of communication via cultural signage is critically interconnected with terminology-based experimental sciences. Departing from Biran’s crucial transformation of Leibniz’s term “petites perceptions” (1704/1714) to “impressions affectives” (1807), this article examines the functioning of the affective unconscious, as analyzed in Biran’s diary, his first treatise (1799-1802), and a speech on obscure perception (1807), delivered during sessions of the Société Médicale de Bergerac.

Intensity and Pattern of Use of the Instagram Social Media Among 196 Junior High School Students at Cilangkap, East Jakarta

This research was conducted to determine the intensity and patterns of Instagram usage among the students of 196 Junior High School in Cilangkap, East Jakarta. The subjects in this study, the 7th and 8th grade students, were chose based on purposive techniques. The theory used in this research as the foundation of thinking is the Theory of Media Literacy and concepts thats relevant to this research. This qualitative approach uses descriptive qualitative methods. The analysis technique in this study is the qualitative data analysis technique from Hubermas by making a reduction and categorization of the results of the data collected through non-participant observation and in-depth interviews with the research subjects. The categorized data is then displayed in narrative form. The results of this study describe the intensity and patterns of Instagram uses among junior high school students in 7 th and 8 th grade as the now or generation Z. Keywords: Intensity, usage pattern, Instagram DOI : 10.7176/NMMC/82-03 Publication date : August 31 st 2019

Models of Self-Regulated Learning in the Context of New Higher Education Standards Implementation

Self-regulated learning (SRL) is viewed as an important aspect of student academic performance and achievement. Over the past decades, the concept of SRL has been heavily researched, with many educational psychologists proposing theoretical models and setting up studies to test the theories and provide pragmatic information about SRL. The aim of this review was to analyze different models of SRL. To achieve this goal, three models of SRL developed by Zimmerman, Pintrich and Efklides were presented. All of the models had empirical evidence supporting the validity of some of their main aspects. As developing their models, both Pintrich and Zimmerman, and partly Efklides; drew on the same background theory and their models reflected Bandura’s 1986 Social Cognitive Theory, underlining social foundations of thinking and behavior. The terminology also varied from one model to another, but all the authors assumed SRL to proceed from a preparatory or preliminary phase, through actual performance or task completion phase, to an appraisal or adaptation one.

Reflecting on Theory-Building: A Call for Empirical, Interpretive, and Confrontive Theory in Public and Environmental Affairs

Despite the relevance of social theory to matters of public concern as diverse as social justice and the environment, the importance of standards for evaluating theoretical projects and new efforts in theory formation are more crucial than ever. In response to this need, we draw from the works of Bernstein and other foundational thinkers in the social science literature to identify three criteria to assess the usefulness of social theories to scholars and practitioners in the public sphere. We assess the relevance of these perspectives in a case study dealing with higher education in environmental science and studies (ESS), making the argument that ESS, with its increasing interest in policy and administration and growing relevance to broad matters of public wellbeing, has much to gain from adopting theoretical perspectives pioneered in public affairs. We conclude our analysis with a brief commentary on the importance of challenging theoretical assumptions at the scale of the individual practitioner in addition to that of the discipline, and with comments to the relevance of the evaluative approach we identify for a broad range of fields that straddle the academe and the public sphere.

Review of Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics, edited by Eugene Heath and Byron Kaldis

Review of Wealth, Commerce, and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics, edited by Eugene Heath and Byron Kaldis

In the Shadows of the Dao: Laozi, the Sage, and the Daodejing by Thomas Michael

Reviewed by: In the Shadows of the Dao: Laozi, the Sage, and the Daodejing by Thomas Michael Robin R. Wang (bio) In the Shadows of the Dao: Laozi, the Sage, and the Daodejing. By Thomas Michael. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2015. Pp. xx + 311. Hardcover $90.00, isbn 978-1-4384-5897-7. The Daodejing is a fascinating text that has captivated scholarly minds and the popular imagination for centuries. Is it a manual for self-cultivation and government, a work of philosophy providing a metaphysical account of reality, or a treatise for deep mystical insight? Is it perhaps an ethical masterpiece intended for the ruling class, with concrete strategic suggestions aimed at remedying the moral and political turmoil surrounding Warring States China? Or is it a way of life characterized by simplicity, calmness, and freedom from the tyranny of desire? In a comprehensive and refined study, Thomas Michael sheds new light on the Daodejing in his effort to read it apart from Western Sinology's inheritance of Wang Bi's Confucian commentarial tradition. Michael's synthetic reading discovers weaving through the text a hidden core treasure of yangsheng 養生 ("the nurture of life"), a specific regimen coupling breath circulation with techniques of bodily movement. In other words, the Daodejing is all about yangsheng. It exhibits the distilled knowledge of ancient yangsheng masters that was transmitted through the generations of their yangsheng disciples. Its central content concerns the possibility of transforming the physical body in the production of a Sage, a person who is one with the Dao. Michael attributes these teachings to a movement that he calls "early Daoism" (p. 12). This defined term sets up a frame of reference separate from the more standard distinction between "philosophical" (daojia) and "religious" (daojiao) Daoism. He rightly points out that there was no single monolithic tradition that can be designated as Daoism in early China; rather, [End Page 654] there were multiple groups and lineages that demand to be attended to much more closely. Following the introduction in chapter 1, chapter 2 conducts a penetrating discussion of modern scholarship on Daoism. It displays the stark differences between modern English-and French-language scholarship on the subject. Michael then compares these traditions to their modern Chinese counterpart, and this is one of many striking features of the book. He engages some of the most influential modern Chinese scholars of Daoism, including Xu Dishan 许地山, Fu Qinjia 傅勤家, Qing Xitai 卿希泰, Ren Jiyu 任繼愈, and Hu Fushen 胡孚琛. This is an impressive and valuable analysis of how modern Chinese scholars have differently constructed their own understandings of early Daoism, and Michael's integrative method sets a powerful model for future cross-cultural studies. Chapter 3 examines various readings of the Daodejing. Michael supports the daojia/daojiao split that has served as the primary interpretive approach to it, but he decisively revises our understanding of its historical construction. Modern scholars misconceive it to refer simply to a philosophical versus a religious reading, thereby reducing the rich history of its many diverse readings into a neat either/or container. Against this, Michael demonstrates that daojia refers to a Confucian reading of the Wang Bi commentary, while daojiao refers to a Daoist reading of the Heshang Gong commentary, and he documents the origins of this split in the court debates of the late Tang and early Song. Chapter 4 attends to the Dao itself as separately conceived by Laozi and Confucius. Michael begins by exploring the range of its ancient meanings primarily from the Shijing 詩經, and shows how these two foundational thinkers advanced their conceptions of it in fundamentally opposite directions. For Confucius, the Dao concerns the perfect society, whereas for Laozi it concerns the cosmos as a whole. Michael goes on to show how each thinker then developed different paths of cultivation, the former centered on moral and the latter on physical cultivation, and this sets the stage for his ensuing explorations of the Daodejing. Chapter 5 is the critical pivot of Michael's entire study. Here he explores the hiddenness of early Daoism as a mountainous tradition of yangsheng masters and disciples from whence the Daodejing was born. He argues that these teachings remained hidden until they...

KAJIAN TRANSFORMASI VISUAL DESAIN KARAKTER BULBASAUR PADA GAME POKEMON GO GENERASI I

Game Pokemon Go is one form of representation of the culture medium which presents a simulated world by building signs in it through the storyline, gameplay, environments, and characters the game, so it becomes a digital culture. Pokemon character design, in this case is Bulbasaur, capable of causing factors curious and addicted to the players as a result of the application of methods manga- matrix, color theory, and techniques of morphological forced connections through visual transformation of character design. This study is a qualitative research based on the application of the principle of manga-matrix includes internal and external factors on the character, the analysis of similarities or relationships between theories related to visual elements and interpretation of the meaning of the characters, as well as a mix of theories on character designs reflecting the ideology of Satoshi Tajiri in terms implementation of Japanese culture. The identification results of data analysis visual transformation of the character designs Bulbasaur has much in common with the presence of additional elements on the diversity of character visualization Bulbasaur. Variety Bulbasaur form the foundation for thinking and the creation of the character as a media introduction of visual transformation of a game character design.

Leadership of the Department of Epidemiology of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Its First Century.

This commentary reviews the contributions of each of the 7 Chairs of the Department of Epidemiology from the Department's inception in 1919 to the advent of the Centennial Celebration of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2016. The founding Chair, Wade Hampton Frost (1919–1938), was among the handful of foundational thinkers in the discipline of epidemiology. Kenneth Maxcy (1938–1954) and Philip Sartwell (1954–1970) oversaw the Department through the epidemiologic transition from a preponderance of morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases to a preponderance of noncommunicable diseases. Abraham Lilienfeld (1970–1975) and Leon Gordis (1975–1993) were perhaps best known for their mastery of teaching, influencing generations of both medical and public health students. Jonathan Samet (1994–2008) oversaw a major curriculum revision and expanded the Department significantly, and David Celentano (2008–) is working to rebalance the practice of epidemiology with the etiological foundations of epidemiology. All Chairs were a product of their times, and their research focus and portfolios influenced the direction of the Department. Future generations of Johns Hopkins students will be influenced directly or indirectly by the heritage of these Chairs' actions and those of their faculty.