Efektivitas Metode Al Miftah untuk Melatih Kemampuan Qawa’id pada Peserta Didik Kelas X Keagamaan Di Madrasah Aliyah

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui faktor penghambat dan pendukung yang berperan terhadap efektivitas Metode Al Miftah dalam melatih Kemampuan Qawa'id pada Siswa Keagamaan Kelas X Madrasah Aliyah Pondok Pesantren Annahdlah Kota Makassar. Kelas X Madrasah Aliyah Pondok Pesantren Annahdlah Makassar Penelitian kualitatif deskriptif kota digunakan dalam penelitian ini. Reduksi data, penyajian data, dan kesimpulan terdiri dari tiga tahap metode analisis data, yang menggunakan data deskriptif. Observasi, wawancara, dan dokumentasi adalah metode pengumpulan data. Menurut temuan penelitian ini, belajar bahasa Arab dengan Metode Al Miftah menyenangkan sekaligus merangsang otak kanan dan kiri. Ada tahapan dalam proses pembelajaran bahasa Arab Metode Al Miftah. Keterbatasan waktu dan kurangnya pengetahuan bahasa Arab siswa menjadi penyebab kesulitan yang dihadapi selama proses pembelajaran bahasa Arab. Isi yang mudah dipahami menjadi tulang punggung proses pembelajaran bahasa Arab ini

Experiences of environmental services workers in a tertiary hospital in Asia during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study

BackgroundThe Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had a significant impact on all walks of life, in particular, environmental services workers in healthcare settings had higher workload, increased stress and greater susceptibility to COVID-19 infections during the pandemic. Despite extensive literature describing the impact of the pandemic on healthcare workers such as doctors and nurses, studies on the lived experiences of environmental services workers in healthcare settings are sparse and none has been conducted in the Asian context. This qualitative study thus aimed to examine the experiences of those who worked for a year of the COVID-19 pandemic.MethodsA purposive sample of environmental services workers was recruited from a major tertiary hospital in Singapore. Semi-structured interviews were conducted in-person, lasting around 30min, and included open-ended questions pertaining to five main domains: work experiences during COVID-19, training and education needs, resource and supplies availability, communication with management and other healthcare staff, and perceived stressors and support. These domains were identified based on team discussions and literature review. The interviews were recorded and transcribed for thematic analysis, as guided by Braun and Clarke.ResultsA total of 12 environmental services workers were interviewed. After the first seven interviews, no new themes emerged but an additional five interviews were done to ensure data saturation. The analysis yielded three main themes and nine subthemes, including (1) practical and health concerns, (2) coping and resilience, and (3) occupational adaptations during the pandemic. Many expressed confidence in the preventive efficacy of proper PPE, infection control practice and COVID-19 vaccination in protecting them against COVID-19 and severe illness. Having prior experience with infectious disease outbreaks and previous training in infection control and prevention appeared to be useful as well for these workers. Despite the various challenges presented by the pandemic, they could still find meaning in their everyday work by positively impacting the wellbeing of patients and other healthcare workers in the hospital.ConclusionBesides uncovering the concerns shared by these workers, we identified helpful coping strategies, resilience factors and certain occupational adaptations, which have implications for future pandemic planning and readiness

Ethnic minority professionals' experiences in Singapore's multicultural workplaces

Studies on inter-ethnic relations at the workplace have largely focused on racism, discrimination and microaggressions against ethnic minority groups. Drawing on findings from semi-structured interviews with 25 ethnic minority citizen professionals in Singapore’s workplaces, this article extends the current literature on inter-ethnic dynamics at workplaces in two main ways. First, by examining the day-to-day experiences of minorities, it lends empirical flesh to the concept of ‘Chinese privilege’, which has mostly been discussed at the conceptual and macro levels of policy and politics. After all, unlike racism, which entails active discrimination, and microaggressions, which involve indirect insults, the manifestations of privilege are much more subtle. Second, this article interrogates the ways in which ethnic minorities negotiate their relationships with their locally born Chinese majority colleagues at the workplace. It argues that a comprehensive approach to analysing ‘ethnic privilege’ should also encompass a study of the everyday dimension of majority-minority relations. This article bears important implications for the improvement of inter-ethnic relations at the workplace, in particular, in informal professional settings and ‘hidden’ encounters where it is often challenging to legislate inclusive policies

Inter-ethnic relations in Malaysia : an intersectional analysis of youth's engagement with ethnicised themes in local films

This dissertation is a sociological study of young people’s attitudes towards inter-ethnic relations in Malaysia based on their interpretations of ethnicised themes featured in local films. While sociological approaches to studying films have largely examined the ideological meanings of social life encoded in films, there remains a substantial gap in empirical analyses of the ways in which active audiences decode these meanings. Such a deficit is an epistemological lacuna that stands in the way of interrogating how films are understood from the audiences’ perspectives. Adopting an intersectional framework, this research examines how Malaysian undergraduates engage with selected local films in relation to the broader socio-cultural and socio-political contexts of their everyday lives. Despite the burgeoning corpus of literature on intersectionality as a concept, theory and methodology, little has been written on how different social identities intersect in the context of everyday lives in multi-ethnic Southeast Asian countries like Malaysia. Proceeding from theory to practice, my research fills this gap by conducting an empirical investigation of media consumption that utilises films as sites where notions of ethnicity are negotiated in relation to the day-to-day lived experience of a culturally diverse audience. Drawing on findings from a wide-scale ethnographic research in Malaysia, including compulsory film screening sessions, in-depth individual interviews and focus group discussions with a total of 96 Malaysian undergraduates from two universities in the greater Kuala Lumpur region, the research interrogates the ways in which socially constructed categories of differences like ethnicity, religion, class and gender are interweaved in the respondents’ narratives. Situated within the current context of state-sponsored Islamisation in Malaysia, it seeks to address how the undergraduates negotiate the structural impacts of Islamisation on their lived multi-ethnic experience. Overall, the findings reveal that foregrounding the narratives of a multi-ethnic audience not only serves as important sources for uncovering their complex lived experience, but highlights how intersectional subjectivities are reconstructed through interactions among social subjects. By treating meaning-making as a social process, the analysis illustrates how young people actively contest and negotiate the meanings of ethnicity and inter-ethnic relations in Malaysia. The dissertation argues that while the state rhetoric of Islamisation informs the undergraduates’ articulations of ethnicised narratives to a certain extent, it is important not to adopt a homogenising view of the impacts of Islamisation on multi-ethnicity in Malaysia. This is because a comprehensive understanding of Islamisation in the country requires not just an examination of top-down, state-led initiatives, nor of bottom-up societal pressures, but of the dialectical relations of both macro and micro processes.Doctor of Philosoph

Intersectional identities : influences of religion, race, and gender on the intimate relationships of single Singaporean Malay-Muslim women

Studies on rising singlehood in Asia have largely focused on the economic dimension. This article widens that lens by examining how religious beliefs influence single Singaporean women’s views toward marriage. Applying the intersectional paradigm expands our understanding of how religion maintains or challenges cultural norms as well as gendered and racial meanings. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 27 unmarried Malay-Muslim Singaporean women, it argues that instead of conceptualizing religion as a barrier that hinders the formation of intimate relationships, we can better understand its role in terms of how single Malay-Muslim women appropriate it to negotiate cultural constraints that limit their ability to tie the knot. The research bears important implications on how cultural and religious forces affect marriage patterns in multicultural and multireligious societies

Traditional Malay medicine in Singapore : a gramscian perspective

Studies of Singapore’s brand of technocratic authoritarianism have generally focused on the political sphere. This article examines the social aspect of authoritarian hegemony by focusing on Singapore’s traditional Malay medicine (TMM) sector, which comprises a range of practitioners from shops offering herbal remedies to individuals specialising in Malay massage to spiritual healers. The transition in TMM’s position from the centre of the Malay community’s healing system to the periphery of the formal healthcare system parallels the process of authoritarian modernisation in Singapore. Applying a Gramscian analysis to this transition highlights the interplay between consensus and coercion in driving such social change. Using data gathered from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with current TMM practitioners and a survey of its users, this article further shows that far from being a set of static practices, TMM is dynamic and adaptable. Practitioners, who market their products along quasi biomedical lines, and consumers, who deconstruct their notion of the ‘healthy body’ by utilising traditional medicine to complement the biomedical, demonstrate this adaptability

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Singapore National Identity in 2015, Malay Sources

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Medical students’ attitudes towards careers in primary care in Singapore

Background: Singapore needs more family doctors to care for its ageing population and their chronic conditions. While there is a shifting of care from acute care settings to more community care, this has not been reflected in the primary care training in local medical schools. Furthermore, no research has explored how different aspects of the medical school curricula in Singapore influence students’ perceptions of careers in General Practice and Family Medicine- a gap that is filled by this study. Methods: Six focus groups involving 54 students from all three medical schools in Singapore were conducted. Discussions focused on their primary care experience, their professional and career aspirations, and perceptions towards the opportunities and challenges of primary care careers. Qualitative content analysis was used to interpret the data. Results: The respondents shared eight key concerns of pursuing primary care careers including limited professional opportunities, emphasis on lifestyle benefits rather than professional characteristics, need for business acumen, conflicts created by business in clinical care, mundane case mix, lack of continuity of care, limited consultation time, and specialists’ negative attitudes towards family doctors. The positive views articulated included the opportunities for entrepreneurialism and a portfolio career, breadth of clinical problems presented, and an improved future for primary care. Conclusions: Improving students’ perceptions of careers in primary care in Singapore would benefit from a concerted effort from multiple stakeholders; medical schools, healthcare providers, professional and regulatory bodies, and government.National Medical Research Council (NMRC)Published versionThis study was supported by National Medical Research Council (NMRC) Health Services Research Grant (HSRG-MS17Jun 002)

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