The Importance of University Students’ Needs Identification to Support an Effective Communication Process in Teaching and Learning Activity

Teaching is a form of effective communication between lecturer and his/her students allowing optimal transfer of learning. Failing to fulfill this would results in student passive or very submissive learning behavior. Effective instructional communication could be reached by identifying the students’ needs so lecturers can find the most appropriate teaching methods to fulfill the needs. Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness/ Compliance (DISC) (Rosenberg & Silvert, 2013) inventory is a tool that can be used to identify the needs of the students. This preliminary study was keen to identify the needs of Telkom University Engineering Students from all majors in classroom communication. Results obtained through cross-tabulation analysis of DISC data from 6439 convenience samples (2009-2012 fresh students) reveal the basic academic needs: need to see how the content relates to their lives and pursue some interests of their own, and interpersonal/ instructional needs: inclusion and affection. Kegiatan mengajar merupakan salah satu bentuk komunikasi efektif antara dosen dan mahasiswanya sehingga terjadi transfer of learning yang optimal. Jika kebutuhan ini tak terpenuhi maka yang terjadi antara lain adalah perilaku belajar yang pasif/sangat pasrah, kurang gairah mencari informasi lebih lanjut. Komunikasi yang efektif dapat dicapai melalui identifikasi kebutuhan mahasiswa dalam berkomunikasi dengan menggunakan Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness/Compliance (DISC) (Rosenberg & Silvert, 2013) inventory Penelitian ini merupakan survei pendahuluan untuk mengidentifikasi kebutuhan mahasiswa baru Fakultas Teknik Universitas Telkom 2009-2012. Dengan teknik non- probability sampling terutama convenience samples, 6439 data DISC diolah menggunakan analisis tabulasi-silang. Hasil menunjukkan bahwa kebutuhan mahasiswa baru 2009-2012 yang harus dipenuhi yaitu kebutuhan akademik dasar: kebutuhan untuk mengetahui keterkaitan antara pengalaman mereka dan materi pelajaran yang dipelajari; adapun kebutuhan interpersonal atau instruksional yang harus dipenuhi adalah kebutuhan untuk menjadi bagian dari kelompok, serta kebutuhan untuk diterima lingkungan

Inscape 2011

The 2011 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/inscape_magazine_archive/1007/thumbnail.jp

Inscape 2015

The 2015 edition of the Inscape: Literary and Art Magazine.https://scholarworks.moreheadstate.edu/inscape_magazine_archive/1028/thumbnail.jp

What the Fuck is This?: Aesthetic Nature of Being or Ontology in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

“What the Fuck is This?” examines the intersection of phenomenology and poetry arguing for an aesthetic nature of Being and focuses on how we know or experience the world instead of Cartesian absolutes. This subjective knowledge does not compete against objective knowledge but simply recognizes the use that poetic language has for communicating the subjective knowledge from experience of being as it unfolds for us. The major movements of the thesis focus on aesthetic objects, aesthetic intersubjectivity, and the aesthetic self. These are labeled “aesthetic” because a phenomenological methodology reveals a dialectic between that which is unfolding and that which is understanding such that the phenomenon is constructed as a unified and individual being. This construction is not a problem but is simply that which we have access to since we do not have immediate and absolute knowledge of a thing in itself as that would be a unification with said thing. Though this knowledge is not absolute, it is constructed from the unfolding of the thing itself and is therefore partial knowledge that builds to a more complete knowledge of the phenomenon. Whether the thing or being that is unfolding can be considered as an object, a subject, or even consciousness of a self, the aesthetic nature of being allows us to accept construction of being as an inevitable partial truth reflective of the way we exist in the world. This reality is further explained with Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poetry, notes, and letters as they shed light on the ability of poetry and language in general to communicate experiences and the partial truths of being that stem from them