UTILIZATION OF ECO-LITERACY IN SCIENCE LEARNING AS A TEACHING MEDIA IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

This research is motivated by using eco-literacy as a teaching medium for science learning in elementary schools. The type of research used is a qualitative phenomenology approach. This research uses data collection techniques carried out by observation, interviews, documentation and triangulation with data analysis techniques through three channels: Data Reduction, Data Display, verification and conclusions. Research shows that school teachers often use the school environment to carry out outdoor learning processes. Class V students are happy and hope learning can occur at their school using the surrounding natural environment. Utilizing the environment in science learning also does not require costs. Learning patterns that utilize the natural environment also attract more students' attention. This can be seen from the results of observations, interviews, documentation and triangulation; all of the indicators in the research can support the use of the surrounding natural environment as a teaching medium for science learning

UTILIZATION OF ECO-LITERACY IN SCIENCE LEARNING AS A TEACHING MEDIA IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

This research is motivated by using eco-literacy as a teaching medium for science learning in elementary schools. The type of research used is a qualitative phenomenology approach. This research uses data collection techniques carried out by observation, interviews, documentation and triangulation with data analysis techniques through three channels: Data Reduction, Data Display, verification and conclusions. Research shows that school teachers often use the school environment to carry out outdoor learning processes. Class V students are happy and hope learning can occur at their school using the surrounding natural environment. Utilizing the environment in science learning also does not require costs. Learning patterns that utilize the natural environment also attract more students' attention. This can be seen from the results of observations, interviews, documentation and triangulation; all of the indicators in the research can support the use of the surrounding natural environment as a teaching medium for science learning

Originality Versus Non-Originality Problem Seeking

This study describes students’ implementation of originality problem-seeking and non-originality problemseeking in resolving numeracy problems. It used a case study design. The data collection process was started by providing numeracy problems. Further, the data related to originality and non-originality problem-solving in completing numeration issues were garnered through interviews. Our data suggested that the students using non-originality problem-seeking mostly only limited the scope of the problem to the question being asked in the item. Thus, they presented relatively similar problem identification. Meanwhile, two of our participants had originality problem-seeking with different answers, completed with logical rationale. Further, those two participants also used wider scope of a problem than the problem being explicitly stated in the question item. Their problem identification was made based on their experience and analysis results

An Empirical Study to Evaluate the Impact of Ethical Leadership on Organizational Citizenship and Innovative Behavior: Mediated by Psychological Empowerment at the Workplace: none

Purpose:This study aims to identify the impact of ethical leadership on organizational citizenship behavior and innovative behavior Methodology:The self-explanatory questionnaires were distributed to the real-time employees of the services sector (more specifically university employees) in Pakistan. 350 questionnaires were distributed using the convenience sampling technique and 280 returned fully answered. The response rate was 80 percent. Findings:The findings of the study suggest the strong influence of ethical leadership on organizational citizenship behavior, innovative behavior, and psychological empowerment. Psychological empowerment was studied to have a strong impact on organizational citizenship behavior but a mild impact on innovative behavior. Partial mediation was identified between both the mediation paths of the model. i.e., ethical leadership - organizational citizenship (EL → PE → OCB) and ethical leadership – innovative behavior (EL → PE → IB). Conclusion:It is concluded that organizations must develop ethical leadership approach to maximize the organizational citizenship behavior as well as innovative behavior at the workplace. Moreover, it is also suggested that employers must also consider PE as an essential predictor for developing a culture packed with better citizenship and innovative behavior. Practical Implications: The role of leaders in the services sector is significant to enable members to come up with innovative behaviour and behave more organized and well suited to the organizational culture to make sure they have adopted the hot spots of the organizational citizenship behavior standards at the workplace

The Use of Collective Intelligence to Create Efficient Marketing Strategies

There is no doubt that almost all companies recognized the necessity and the significant role of marketing strategies in the development and the progress of any business. However, the challenge still is how to elaborate and create effective marketing strategies? The purpose of this study is to investigate and illustrate how we could create efficient marketing strategies by using the Collective Intelligence approach? Interviews were conducted with marketing department teams; added to participants from other department members and also customers and stakeholders. through three different steps (before, during, and after the use of this approach); in order to provide and discover the feedbacks and results of all participants through the implementation of the Collective Intelligence approach. Following the result; There is a consensus from the participants of this research study confirmed that the use of this new concept of collective intelligence will not only transform the design of the future trajectory of elaboration of marketing strategies but also the future of work

The Impact of Cognitive Style Diversity on Implicit Learning in Teams

Organizations are increasingly looking for ways to reap the benefits of cognitive diversity for problem solving. A major unanswered question concerns the implications of cognitive diversity for longer-term outcomes such as team learning, with its broader effects on organizational learning and productivity. We study how cognitive style diversity in teams-or diversity in the way that team members encode, organize and process information-indirectly influences team learning through collective intelligence, or the general ability of a team to work together across a wide array of tasks. Synthesizing several perspectives, we predict and find that cognitive style diversity has a curvilinear-inverted U-shaped-relationship with collective intelligence. Collective intelligence is further positively related to the rate at which teams learn, and is a mechanism guiding the indirect relationship between cognitive style diversity and team learning. We test the predictions in 98 teams using ten rounds of the minimum-effort tacit coordination game. Overall, this research advances our understanding of the implications of cognitive diversity for organizations and why some teams demonstrate high levels of team learning in dynamic situations while others do not. Keywords: teams; team learning; implicit coordination; collective intelligence; cognitive diversityNational Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant IIS-0963451

Penglibatan pelajar universiti dalam membangunkan kemahiran pemikiran kreatif melalui aktiviti kerja berpasukan

Creative thinking is a compulsory added value within students of Malaysian Higher Education Institutions (MHEIs) in contributing to the innovative national development. The development of an individual who has creative thinking skills must begin as early as pre-school education and continue to be practised at the tertiary level. Almost all MHEIs have focused on the development of creative thinking skill among students in the teaching and learning structure through teamwork. Nonetheless, studies that specifically test the influence of teamwork composition, namely proactive personality and emotional intelligence of team members on the development of students’ creative thinking are rather scarce. Previous studies found that not all teamwork is able to produce great outcome due to the fact that there is no chemistry among team members. Thus, great teams not only have to choose the best members but they also need to have a composition of members that can collectively develop high level of creative thinking skills . Every team member must take part in the creative process that facilitates the development of creative thinking skills. This process encompasses several steps of activities namely identifying problems, finding information, coding and generating ideas and alternatives in problem-solving. The purpose of this study is to test the relationship between individual characteristics in team composition and creative process as well as to the extent of which the creative process can develop students’ creative thinking skills in teamwork. The study sample comprises 250 students from six Malaysian HEIs (40- 50 questionnaires per HEI) with the questionnaires distributed online. The data from 242 respondents were tested using SPSS software (version 22). The findings of the study reveal that there was a positive and significant relationship between the proactive personality and emotional intelligence of the students and the students’ involvement in the creativity process. There was also a positive and significant relationship between the creativity process and the development of creative thinking skills

Creative Corporate Culture and Innovation

We identify creative companies by means of a textual analysis that hinges on the competing values framework. We show that a creative corporate culture is an important driver of innovation, as measured by the number of patents as well as the patents’ importance as captured by patents’ citations and market values. A portfolio of creative companies earns significantly positive annual four-factor alphas. We quantify potential biases that could be induced by the omission of relevant variables by formally examining coefficient movements after inclusion of controls