TMs Experience Research Articles

Older Women and Political Agency: A Scoping Review of the Literature

Older women’s political agency has not been widely explored in the literature on ageing. In general, this group has been researched from the ageing characteristics perspective—decay, fragility, adaptive processes—or considering those dimensions in which their capacity for agency lessens ageing symptoms. However, the implications and political character of their practices tends to be ignored. This scoping review examines the approaches to older women’s political agency found in the 1975-2020 academic production. We conducted this scoping review according to PRISMA-ScR guidelines and Arksey and O’Malley’s (2005) methodological framework. Sixty-five articles were included in the revision and a full thematic content analysis of the selected corpus was conducted. Qualitative methods were incorporated in 75 % of the examined articles that were conducted in Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom. Diverse approaches to the topic of political agency were identified with community participation, activism, and trajectories of coping and resilience standing out. The relational and collective character of the processes of agency are paramount in the specific strategies that women develop to face vital transitions. Older women’s political agency takes place in a range of social spaces, having a relevant impact at the social-public and the domestic level. A situated characterization of political agency in older women can help guide and redefine public actions, contributing to a greater recognition of these women’s experiences, actions, and contributions.

By blood or by choice?

This article explores the range of the construct “family” in light of the author’s experience of how the death of a congregation-member exposed the strength, persistence and immovability of the construct, “family”. Despite different attempts and approaches to deconstruct and broaden the notion of what family refers to that originated in the 1970s, a traditional notion of what kinship (family) entails remains focused on ties that bind people by blood or by marriage. The article provides a brief overview and evaluation of different attempts at a postmodern understanding of family, but ultimately it is illustrated that there has been little change to the construct of family. The notion of “relational autonomy” from a Trinitarian theological perspective is presented as a more thorough foundation for familial ties that are characterised by a creative tension of both distance and belonging. This theological foundation provides a point of departure for a dynamic understanding of the range of choices related to what constitutes, “family”, which does not cast someone in the stone of the construct of a “family”, even beyond their own death.

Influence of Teacher-Student Relationships on Mathematics Problem-Solving

Literatures revealed that the cognitive and affective components are the factors affecting problem solving. In this article we identified factors considered by the students in learning mathematical problem solving. Using a descriptive phenomenological research we explored the lived experiences of forty-five (45) student’s in solving a mathematics problem. Following the Colaizzi method for data analysis, four themes emerged: emotions and self- efficacy as affective factors, and group learning activity and teacher- student relationship as social factors. Sixty items from these four themes were further explored in using an Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) for a new set of 200 students. These four-factor structures of the student’s experiences in mathematics problem solving explained 66% of the variance in the pattern of relationships among the items. All four-factor structures had high reliabilities (all at or above Cronbach’s α > .904). The study exemplified that teacher- student interaction relationship during learning activities, which is a social factor, provides the highest correlated factor that influences the mathematical performance of the students.

A Member-Driven Society: Celebrating the TMS Experience

A Member-Driven Society: Celebrating the TMS Experience

Strategy to Reduce Stunting Children Through Exploration of Mother’s Experience

AbstrakBalita yang mengalami stunting memiliki tinggi badan yang lebih pendek daripada tinggi badan usia standar hal ini dikarenakan kurangnya asupan gizi dalam waktu yang lama. Perhatian seorang ibu terhadap gizi anaknya sangat penting untuk mengatasi stunting. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memberikan gambaran tentang pengasuhan keluarga pada anak yang mengalami stunting. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah kualitatif. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah wawancara secara mendalam dan melakukan observasi partisipan. Sampel penelitian adalah ibu yang memiliki bayi usia 12-59 bulan. Analisa data dengan mengidentifikasi tema dan topik dari wawancara. Pengelaman ibu dalam mengasih balita dilihat dari lima hal, 1) Tugas keluarga, 2) Lingkungan fisik dan sosial, 3) Komunikasi, 4) Ekonomi dan 5) Stres dan koping. Tenaga kesehatan dapat menggunakan hasil penelitian ini untuk membantu dan membimbing ibu dalam mengasuh anak yang sesuai dengan usia anak untuk mendukung pertumbuhan dan perkembangan anak secara optimal.Kata kunci: pengasuhan, stunting   AbstractStunting on toddler has a shorter height than the standard age due to a lack of nutritional intake in a long time. The mother's attention to the nutrition of her child is needed in overcoming of stunting problem. This study aims to provide an overview of family care for stunting children. The research method was qualitative research. In-depth interviews and participant observation were used as collecting data. The subjects in this study were mothers who had children aged 12-59 months. Data were analyzed by identifying themes and topics from the interviews. Mother's experience in caring for children under five is seen from five issues, 1) Family tasks, 2) Physical and social environment, 3) Communication, 4) Economy, and 5) Stress and coping. Health workers can use this result research  to assist and guide mothers in parenting based on their children’s age to support growth and development optimally.Keywords: parenting, stunting

The Narrative of Indonesian Cultural Heritage: Peranakan Houses in Pecinan Lasem, Indonesia

A narrative involves the process of telling all experiences related to culture and can form a new understanding of the object of research, so that a narrative affects the way people perceive historical buildings. The article focuses on narrating the historical building in Chinatown Peranakan houses in Chinatown, Lasem, intending to provide an overview of cultural acculturation, as well as the problems that occur in the Peranakan houses. This qualitative study is based on researcher’s experiences and exploratiory literature. Interview has been made and visual documentation has been taken during repeatedly observation start form December 2017 until December 2019. The discussion findings show that the Peranakan houses in Lasem have richness in cultural influence, such as Chinese, Javanese, and European, but unfortunately need serious attention from the owner, the surrounding community as well as the government. The houses are experienced being abandoned, destroyed, used on but suffer from over-decoration and are unfortunate in the event of exploitation. Thus the implementation of preservation and conservation properly should be carried out to avoid the shortage or even loss the identity.

Gender Discrimination, Disability and Legal Reforms: Revisiting the Evidence

This article intends to discuss how gender affects women’s and men’s experience of disability and their basic human rights. It discusses at length about the Feminist Disability Study and its relation with the feminist study to find out a clear conception about the gender disability. This article arduously searches whether the Issues of disability has any linkage with the theory of right and exclusions or it is a kind of cultural interpretation of human variation. Disabled woman suffers double discrimination which is quite different from the experiences of a disabled man. This article intends to critically scan the whole International legal mechanism and the Indian legal system relating to the disability of women and also suggests how to improve the situation. The approach of the article is primarily doctrinal based on an analysis of comparative legal structure, policies, governmental documents, judicial pronouncements, etc. This article advocates in favour of collaborative governance to address the issue of Women’s disability properly.

Aerodynamics Design for Automotive Shape based on Approximate Optimization Algorithm

Since it is difficult to find the optimal solution directly by the traditional CFD optimization method due to its strong dependence on the designer’s experience, an automatic aerodynamic optimization design platform for automotive shape was built based on mesh deformation technology, surrogate model and optimization algorithm in this paper. A parameterized model of an automotive was established. Latin hypercube method was adopted to select sample points. The drag coefficients corresponding to sample points were calculated by CFD simulation, whereby the influence of each parameter on drag coefficient was obtained. By comparing the calculation time, optimization effect and optimization accuracy of 9 combinations of surrogate models and optimization algorithms, the combination of RBF model and NLPQL algorithm was selected as the optimal one which is the most appropriate for the aerodynamic optimization design for automotive shape

Peningkatan Permintaan dan Kenaikan Harga Emas: Analisis Faktor dan Penerokaan Sumber Baharu

Gold is a mineral or natural minerals that are often in high demand among people. It isnot only due to its dense, soft, shiny, malleable and ductile but it also can be asinvestment and become a symbol of wealth to its owner. This article is intended to identifythe factors that influence the gold price fluctuations in the market. In addition, this articleis enable to answer the issue about the price of gold remains high in the market even theprice is constantly fluctuating and to identify efforts that needed to find new sources ofgold so that production can be increased to meet the demands of society. Finally a study on YaPEIM’s experience in gold production are alsodiscussed in this article. To achieve these objectives, the data and informationobtained from the primary data will be analyzed so that the issues that arise can bedealt accordingly. The results of this analysis will be used as a guide to the people,especially who want to have or who have had gold to know the benefits gained whenowning and storing gold for various purposes in the future.

Mindfulness, Burnout, Well-being, Bullying, Engagement, Mobbing, etc. Should We Translate These Terms or Use Them as Such?

Translations have always been a challenge and the end result may depend on a whole series of factors, including linguistic, cultural and personal elements, ranging from the translator’s experience and background to their social and psychological trends during the translation process and their strategy of choice. A systematic study is needed to identify the most efficient strategies to be used by translators and to eliminate any negative influences there might appear. This study aims at shedding some light on the optimum approach regarding the translation from English to Romanian of certain key terms in modern psychology, such as mindfulness, burnout, engagement or mobbing.

We Still Have Mutual Friends

The project We Still Have Mutual Friends is a qualitative interview study into women’s experiences with sexualviolence. Through the interview process, mostly face-to-face recorded interviews, I have evaluated multiplefacets of sexual abuse/marginalization and their consequences on survivors. In total, I interviewed thirty-twowomen about their familial background, their adolescence, and depending on their age, their life experienceswith their sexuality. Some of the facets I have focused on are the disparity between a subject’s definition andtheir experience of sexual assault. I have also evaluated their self-awareness of this disparity, and why they thinkit occurs. I tried as much as I could, to ask questions in an order/way that did not create preferential answering.Because these interviews followed a standard oral history format of open-ended questions with follow-ups basedon the interviewee’s answers, instances of leading answers were possible. Seventeen out of thirty-two womenwere white, with the next largest group being Hispanic, and then Black. With ages ranging from eighteen upto fifty-eight, several generational voices are accounted for. While there were certain trends found within typesof assault, and who it was (trends not entirely new to us), one thing I discovered is a similar background everyperson shared with their family. All the women had at some point experienced some sort of “body policing.” Ihope this project has provided a more holistic view into the world of sexual violence that women face.

Desperately needed in Indonesia: Basic Epilepsy Surgery Centers with Simple but Reliable pre-surgical investigations, based on Semarang’s Experience

Background: Even with optimized anti-epileptic medications, 30% of epilepsy patients will be refractory and this condition leads to cognitive and psychosocial decline, resulting in worse quality of life and higher mortality. With 0,75% prevalence, there are more than 2.0 million epileptic in Indonesia, about 360.000 will be refractory, and half of them are potential candidates for epilepsy surgery (ES). After 17 years since the first ES on July 1999, number of ES increases every year reaching around 50 cases per year. By the end of 2017,  the total number reached 615 and most was temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) cases. Pre-surgical investigations were compared in relation to the seizure free results between the first five-year and the recent twelve-year. Despite the excellent result shown, all of these ES were still performed in Semarang (Diponegoro University), and demographic analysis showed that 80% patients came from Java-Bali area. So that new basic centers capable of performing ES for simple TLE cases are desperately needed to improve treatment for refractory epilepsy cases elsewhere.Material and methods: Until the end of 2017, there were 615 ES cases, including 514 Temporal Lobe Epilepsies (TLEs). Pre-surgical investigations were grouped as Simple (MRI with specific protocol and routine EEG), Difficult (needs long-term ictal EEG, and /or PET CT), and Complex (needs invasive or intracranial/ subdural grid EEG, and or Electrocorticography/ ECoG during the surgery). For the first five year-period, besides seizure semiology, decision to operate were based on MRI and routine EEG (Simple) in 54 out of 56 (96,4%) TLE cases. One patient had long-term ictal EEG and another had subdural grid EEG implanted, both patients showed visually normal MRI. But for the recent twelve-year, Simple TLEs occupy only 234 out of 458 (51%) TLE cases. Long-term ictal EEG were performed in 161 patients (35,2%), PET study in 39 patients (8,5%), subdural grid EEG in 30 patients (6,5%), and ECoG in 61 patients (13,3%).Results: As a new ES center performing only simple TLE cases, our surgical results were Class I: 82%, Class II: 11%, and Class III: 7% (9). As a semi advance ES center (after more than 5 years, and only half were simple ES cases), the Class I or seizure free results were 78,7% for simple TLEs, 73,4% for Difficult TLEs, and 65,2% for Complex TLEs.            Demographic distribution showed that almost 80% of ES patients came from Java-Bali area, and half of them were from Central Java Province with Semarang as its capital. Patients from other parts of the country were scarce, especially from remotely located islands of East Indonesia.Conclusion: For the first five year, -as a basic ES center- we relay most on good MRI besides detailed study on seizure semiology and routine EEG. The Class I or Seizure Free result was best in the Simple TLEs with MRI showing discrete unilateral lesion in the temporal lobe. With 17 years experience, and a structured ES program including those patients needed invasive pre-surgical investigations, Semarang is a semi-advance center capable for research and training. This fact should encourage hospitals with micro-neurosurgical capabilities to initiate a new Basic ES Center by sending their neurologist and neurosurgeon to Semarang, so that ES services may become available to PWEs in all part of Indonesia.

Being Moved to the Outer Edge – Experiences of Working with Newly Arrived Students in a Newly Diverse School

The purpose of the study is to examine and analyse teachers’ and their principal’s experiences of receiving a group of newly arrived students at a newly diverse school, in order to highlight how this impacts professional practice and what is important to take into account when receiving and teaching newly arrived students. The study is based on experiences from a research-and development program, with additional data gathered from semi-structured interviews with eight teachers and a principal at a rural school. The theoretical point of departure is Wenger’s (1998) theory on communities of practice and legitimate peripheral participation. The results show that the teachers were not prepared for the sudden change in the practice, and that the teachers’ were frustrated with being limited as professionals. The change wasn’t merely a change in student demographics but a significant change in the community or practice. Analytically, we understand this as being moved to the outer edge, from being central participants in the practice. The result shows that such a change requires focus on preparations and structures for reflection and support, so that teachers are able to again become competent actors and develop their teaching, in relation to newly arrived students. https://doi.org/10.26803/ijlter.18.7.6

KEPUASAN MAHASISWA KPI IAIN SURAKARTA DALAM PEMILIHAN KONSENTRASI PROGRAM STUDI

This research aims to measure the satisfaction of KPI’ students of IAIN Surakarta in selecting Department concentration through the influence of motives and satisfaction in selecting Department concentration. Using quantitative descriptive method, subjects of this research were 2014 KPI’ students. Data collection were taken by observation, questionnaire, and documentation. For variables, it leads to independent variable about the motive of the 2014 KPI’ students in choosing concentration, and dependent variable related to the level of student satisfaction. Based on result of analysis, cognitive needs are aspects of the needs variable affect the level of student satisfaction in choosing KPI’s Department concentration. Related to this, cognitive aspects are basic needs in the process of student’s knowledge and experience that affect the satisfaction level of selecting concentration, because it deals with efforts to understand the academic and potential factors of students in developing interests and talents in the field of communication.

Poster Presentation: Undergraduate EFL Student’s Experience

This article briefly reports student’s experience on the use of Poster Presentation in an Indonesian EFL classroom. Its focus is to share the activities, to recognize student’s perspectives framing it and identify the benefit of Poster Presentation. Participants included a class of thirty-five, 1st-year English Education department in one of universities in Tasikmalaya, west java Indonesia; 23 females and 12 males. The findings revealed that most of the students demonstrated positive vibe and were satisfied toward using Poster Presentation activities; enjoying group poster preparation, stimulating good personal presentation, fostering student’s activeness and creativity and they reported a desire to engage in similar practices in the future.

Makna Bimbingan Belajar bagi Orangtua Siswa di Indralaya Kabupaten Ogan Ilir

This study aims to explain the meaning of tutoring center for parents in Indralaya, Ogan Ilir Regency, using qualitative descriptive research, based on transcendental phenomenology theory by Edmund Husserl who reviewed and revealed the meaning of consciousness, purpose, and intersubjectivity of the parents’s experience who involving their children in the tutoring center in Indralaya, Ogan Ilir Regency, and the linkage between the meaning of consciousness, pupose and intersubjectivity of the experience itself, where the data obtained through interviewing 18 (eightteen) parents who involving their children in tutoring center, 4 (four) tutoring staff and 3 (three) students who joining tutoring center in Indralaya, Ogan Ilir Regency. This research result shows that awareness of parents to involve their children in the tutoring center because parents see the will of their children and realize the competition which is increasing from time to time, as for the purpose of the parents because their children need more to mastery the material and strong desire to pass the next level of education, then the meaning of (intersubjectivity) experience of involving children in the tutoring center as a supporter of formal education as well as education costs. The relation between consciousness, purpose and intersubjectivity (experience) lies in a sequential process that starts from the parents’s awareness, after that there are purpose that appears, then the intersubjectivity process in the form of parents’s experience, so that the meaning of tutoring center for parents is as supporter of formal education and as a high-cost education/ expensive.Â

Children, Substance Abuse and the Role of Social Work

The study determined children’s experiences of and views on substance abuse, and the role of social work practice. It adopted a quantitative approach using a descriptive survey design. Data were collected using structured questionnaires with a total of 100 randomly selected students from the Tshwaragano Junior Secondary School in Botswana. The data were coded and quantitatively analysed using SPSS. A research permit and permission to enter the school were obtained from the Institutional Review Board of the University of Botswana, and the Ministry of Education and Skills Development. Furthermore, parental or guardian informed consent was obtained before the data collection. The findings reveal that various illegal substances widely used by students manifested in psychosocial issues. Moreover, it was also affirmed that despite government programme interventions designed to end substance use in schools, the situation remained unabated. This paper recommends that social workers contribute to this area in order to play a greater role in advocating for their clientele to receive the most effective interventions so that they can fight substance abuse. The paper concludes that generating reliable empirical data will increase awareness on the subject with the aim of making schools a conducive and better environment for students.

Human Rights, Right of asylum, Refugees. Migrant’s Dignity as a Common good

The road toward the foundation of a necessary inter-ethnic civilization imposes us to build the meeting among each men’s experiences. In this regard it is important, in our opinion, to refer to the concept of “migrant”, particularly as “reserve of sense.” The idea of “migrant” really can open, in terms of meta-cultural, new change of sense. Through the philosophy of Waldenfels we can imagine the migrant as being of border in the proposition of a pathos looking for answer, that is lent again to the dimension of the threshold of attention in a redefinition of a new type of intra-culturalism from the distinction between the “need” and “demand”. The need of the different experiences of the migrant hides unexpressed question on our existential condition. As Dal Lago wrote, “the immigration more than every other phenomenon, is able of to reveal the nature of the society so-called of reception. When we speak about immigrants, we talk about ourselves in relationship to the immigrants”. Now is the time of passage from inter-culture to “intra-culture” as dialogue between cultures in the space of the meeting.Keywords: Migrants, Common good, Dignity, Inter-culturalism, Intra-culturalism, Peace.

On the Shifting Gender of the State in Africa: Reflections from Uganda’s Experience

As opposed to the past where there was near total exclusion of women and their issues, women are now relatively speaking increasingly engaged in state matters, and the public agenda is more open to including gender and women’s rights issues in some way. Basing this reflection on Uganda’s experience, this article explores the major strides made in terms of women’s engagement with the state and policy-making, which have largely made a mark on the basic legitimation battle or on the ability to create a possibility for a gender-inclusive state arena. In the same vein, the reflective analysis presented in this article alerts us to the inherent pitfalls in the tokenistic shifting of the gender of the state, and the critical need for current ways of feminist interrogation and activism to move beyond basic legitimation to a more inventive and transformative posture in order to set redistributive struggles in motion again.

IMPROVING TRADITIONAL MARKET CUSTOMER LOYALTY (REVISIT CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR MODEL USING CONSUMER EXPERIENCE)

The main purpose of this study is to explore any dimension from traditional market consumer’s experiences that could affect their behaviour. The variables included in this study are experience quality, perceived value, visitor’s satisfaction, and customer loyalty. This study divided into two phases: exploring any indicators that construct the experience quality of traditional market’s customer using Exploratory Factor Analysis, and analysing the relationship between the variables on the model. In the first phase, the data was collected by doing a Focus Discussion Group that consist of six to nine traditional market’s customers. The data for the second phase was collected by questionnaire on 250 traditional market’s customer. This study found there are seven indicators that could construct the experience quality of traditional market’s customer, however the experience quality is found to have no significant effect toward customer loyalty. In addition perceived value and visitor’s satisfaction is proved to have significant effect toward customer loyalty, thus these two variables could fully mediate the relationship between experience quality and customer loyalty.