PROGRAM KETERAMPILAN VOKASIONAL PADA PENYANDANG DISABILITAS FISIK DI UPT REHABILITASI SOSIAL BINA DAKSA PASURUAN

This research aims to find out how the vocational skills program is in UPT. Social Rehabilitation of Pasuruan Bina Daksa. Vocational skills development is needed for people with disabilities, especially people with physical disabilities in today's increasingly developing era. This research uses a qualitative approach with a descriptive type. Subjects were taken in a purposive manner. The data collection methods used are observation, interview, and documentation. The results showed that vocational skills development activities are very effective for people with physical disabilities as an effort for basic training with practical exercises. There are five Vocational skills development in UPT Social Rehabilitation Bina Daksa Pasuruan (RSBD), namely in the field of skills training, which includes skills: 1) Tailoring, 2) Screen Printing and Design, 3) Embroidery, 4) Electronic Service, 5) Cellphone Service. Which is carried out during the two-year training period guided by instructors and adjusted to the existing curriculum

Indigenous Film Festivals as Eco-Testimonial Encounter: The 2011 Native Film + Video Festival

In struggles for political and cultural recognition many Indigenous groups employ visual media to make their concerns heard. Amongst these various channels for media activism are Indigenous film festivals which, in the words of festival coordinator Amalia Cόrdova, work to convey ‘a sense of solidarity with Indigenous struggles’. Cόrdova’s essay on Indigenous film festivals appears in the collection Film Festivals and Activism (2012). In the introduction to the collection co-editor Leshu Torchin writes about activist festivals as testimonial encounters or fields of witnessing where the films offer testimony and the audiences serve as witnessing publics, ‘viewers [who] take responsibility for what they have seen and become ready to respond’. To better understand how Indigenous film festivals embody these activist imperatives as eco-activism I consider the case of the 2011 Native American Film and Video Festival (NAFVF) with its special eco-themed focus Mother Earth in Crisis. In my analysis of NAFVF I consider both the testimonies of the films and the festival context in which they are placed; by doing so I add to the growing scholarship in ecocinema studies which within the last ten years has become a legitimate and crucial aspect of ecocriticism’s purview – though surprisingly, with little attention devoted to film festivals. Through this analysis, by articulating what I term the oblique testimony, I argue that Indigenous film festivals are often strongly reflective of the environmental concerns and hopes of Native peoples and suggest ecological engagements that place them in the terrain of environmental film festivals. [excerpt

Ellipses : Cultural Reflexivity in Transactional Analysis Supervision

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The Cosmological Liveliness of Terril Calder\u27s The Lodge: Animating Our Relations and Unsettling Our Cinematic Spaces

I first saw Métis artist Terril Calder\u27s 2014 stop-frame feature, The Lodge, an independently made, relatively small- budget film, at its premiere at the ImagineNative Film + Media Arts festival, held annually in Toronto, Canada. The feature-length animation played to a full house at the Light-box Theater downtown. Many were there to attend the five-day festival, which is dedicated to Indigenous media made by and for Indigenous people. Others were there because as members of Toronto\u27s general public they wanted to catch a movie during a night out in the city. Since then The Lodge has shown at various other independent venues. It isn\u27t what you might think of as commercial fare. Its audiences are not huge. However, for those who do view The Lodge, the film presents a creative space to rethink our sense of boundaries in a number of ways: boundaries between human/nonhuman, white/Indigenous, male/female, spectator/film-object. In this essay, I argue that the film is thus an invitation to question the naturalness of hegemonic identity assumptions that demarcate such boundaries. I interviewed Calder (via Skype and subsequent email correspondence) soon after I saw the film, and I situate a close textual analysis of the film within the context of her intent and the burgeoning scholarly dialogue between Indigenous studies and ecocritical studies. The scholarly dialogue, as Joni Adamson and I write in the introduction to our recent anthology, Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to Cosmos (2016), argues for clear sighted understandings of multi-faceted human/more-than-human relationships that exist outside of binaries imposed by Western notions of progress . Similarly, Steven Loft, coeditor of Coded Territories: Tracing Indigenous Pathways in New Media Art, writes of an Indigenous media cosmology that is replete with life and spirit, inclusive of beings, thought, prophecy, and the underlying connectedness of all things and that is not predicated on Western foundations of thought (xvi). Calder extends such Indigenous worldviews of connectedness to cinema and animation in particular

An Interview with Julian Agyeman: Just Sustainability and Ecopedagogy

This interview with Julian Agyeman, a key originator of the concept of just sustainability, engages Agyeman in discussion of how just sustainability evolved, and how its theoretical and practical dimensions relate to the principles of ecopedagogy

Feeling and Healing Eco-social Catastrophe: The Horrific Slipstream of Danis Goulet\u27s Wakening

Cree/Métis filmmaker Danis Goulet’s science fiction short Wakening (2013) is set in Canada’s near future, yet the film reveals a slipstream of time where viewers are invited to contemplate the horrors of ecosocial crises—future, past, and present. I argue Wakening, as futuristic ecohorror, produces horrific feelings in the moment of its viewing that are inevitably entangled with the past, inviting its audiences to experience the monstrous contexts of Indigenous lives across time. To articulate this temporal dynamism, I overlay two key conceptual understandings: Walter Benjamin’s critiques of Western progress and historicism, and Indigenous notions of a Native slipstream. When brought together in Wakening, which is inspired by the First Nations movement Idle No More, these concepts not only help expose the horror of Indigenous ecosocial crises wrought by colonial and neocolonial occupations but also draw our attention to the timelessness of Indigenous resistance in the face of such ecohorror. Ultimately, there are two significant implications in understanding Wakening as ecohorror of dynamic temporality. First, such a reading continues the important work of revisioning the theoretical and critical boundaries of Western cinema. Goulet’s play with audiences’ familiar expectations of horror’s invitations to the weird challenge us all to recalibrate our sense of generic cinematic representation and its purpose. Relatedly, such readings highlight film’s politics of emotion: its ability to generate “affective alliances” that can potentially help us all re-imagine our temporal and spatial engagements with the world at large

In God’s Land: Cinematic Affect, Animation and the Perceptual Dilemmas of Slow Violence

In this paper, I argue that Indian independent filmmaker Pankaj Rishi Kumar\u27s documentary In God’s Land (2012) blends animation and live-action to illuminate the destructive nuances of postcolonial literary scholar, Rob Nixon\u27s notion of slow violence. In turning to cinema, I also suggest that In God’s Land’s “aesthetic strategies” further eco-film scholarship’s recent interests in animation, which have tended to highlight the mode\u27s feel good affect. I draw attention to In God\u27s Land\u27s hybrid of dark, discordant animation spectacle interspliced in the documentary live-action to articulate the potential of eco-animation outside of this affect. Ultimately, the film not only draws attention to animation’s non-playful affect—its potentials and dilemmas, but I also suggest that reading such a film adds postcolonial understandings of cinema beyond the Western/Japanese center on with eco-animation scholars have so far focused

Social emotional skills (SES) among lecturers in relation students performance

Social emotional skills (SES) of a lecturer are considered to play a vital role towards student performance. Despite of the fact, when it comes to Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET), very little research is found on the importance and implementation of these skills. This research therefore determined the level of TVET lecturers’ SES based on lecturers’ and students’ perspective, their relationship with student performance and difference in the level of SES between lecturers in education faculty and in engineering faculty. A case study method with quantitative approach was employed at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM). A total of 99 lecturers and 373 of final year bachelor degree students from an education and an engineering faculties were involved in this study. They were selected using purposive sampling and total population sampling techniques. Data were collected using two sets of questionnaire, Empathy Quotient (EQ) to measure empathy and Teacher Interpersonal Self-efficacy Scale to measure self-efficacy. Findings showed that lecturers have high level of SES from lecturers’ and students’ perspective. Furthermore, the results of Mann Whitney U Test indicated statistically significant difference the perspective of lecturers and students. However, there was no significant correlation between lecturers’ SES with students’ performance. Nonetheless, lecturers’ self-efficacy for classroom management had statistically significant relationship with students’ performance. Meanwhile, there was also significant difference found in the level of lecturers’ social emotional skills between both faculties. It is concluded that external related reliable feedback is important for lecturers to get to know about their level of SES. SES have a vital role towards students’ performance and that lecturers with professional education background are more effective than lecturers with engineering background. It is hoped that this study could enhance the awareness of TVET institutions in SES as such could help the development of better skill workers in future

Apples and Glaciers: Students Spark Interdisciplinary Research Collaborations

It is an honor to be here. I want to begin by thanking the library for supporting so many of us in our creative and scholarly work. Quite frankly, it would be impossible for me to do my work without these amazing librarians. They deserve the real applause at this event! Robin invited my colleague, Dr. Sarah Principato and me to give these opening remarks. Sarah, however, had to give a research talk at Franklin & Marshall, so she was unsure if she would be back in time. I am happy to see that she has been able to make it back, and is here, lending her support from the audience. Robin wanted us to be this year’s faculty representatives because of two things that mark our research experiences as distinctly tied to being active scholars at Gettysburg College. These two things are: Our research collaborations with students, which includes publishing with them. Our regular use of the library’s Cupola open access repository that allows open access to our publications. [Excerpt

What Elements of a Performance Management Framework Have Been Shown to Promote High Levels of Participation?

Many companies are quickly learning that traditional performance management processes are hindering their growth. In order to begin implementing an effective performance management system, it is important that companies start by instilling a culture that enables this. According to Deloitte’s Human Capital Trends of 2015, only 8 percent of companies surveyed believed that traditional performance management drove business value. Some of the best practices for implementing employee performance appraisals can be found by focusing on the following topics: ● Choosing the appropriate performance appraisal method ● Creating a culture of feedback & coaching ● Preparing for the future - ePerformance appraisals & technology Each topic will discuss a) the importance of the topic at hand; b) how companies can start to develop best practices, and c) organizational case studies of success