Morpho-Semantic Evidence of Emerging Subjectivity in the Language of the Nahḍah — A Proposal

This article reviews some key concepts of the Arab(ic) Nahḍah with the aim of highlighting the usefulness of a more genuinely linguistic, i.e., grammar- and etymology-oriented approach for a deeper understanding of some basic features of the foundational period of Arab modernity. My contention and starting-point is that the Nahḍah was, among other things, an era in which the Arab subject came to sense its own agency. This is reflected not only in the many phenomena we are used to associate with the Nahḍah — the emergence of the intellectual, of critical journalism, of historicism, sentimentalism, new literary genres, etc. — but also in the morpho-semantics of key Nahḍah terminology. I argue (a) that the self-referential t-morpheme that features in many words signifying important Nahḍah concepts, such as taraqqī, taqaddum, or tamaddun, can and should be seen in the same light, i.e., as an indicator of a new emphasis on the self. Moreover, I argue that both the grammatical form of the new vocabulary (e.g., the -iyyah suffix for abstracts, verbal nouns, the causative patterns of form II and IV) and its “original”, “basic” (root) meanings underline (b) secularisation and the concomitant centrality of the human being, as well as (c) proactivity, energetic verve, and creativity, i.e., the subject’s being a cause of change in time (hence history). Thus, each new conceptual term is a little ‘Nahḍah in a nutshell,’ containing the very essence of Nahḍawi thought and the actual experience of feeling “modern”.

PENGGUNAAN MEDIA PEMBELAJARAN TIGA DIMENSI DALAM MENINGKATKAN PEMAHAMAN KONSEP MATERI JARAK TITIK, GARIS, DAN BIDANG PESERTA DIDIK DI SMK

Based on the phenomenon that we encounter in Mathematics Learning from Primary School to Upper Secondary School or Vocational High School, it is still not satisfactory. Mathematics learning tends to still be at the achievement of curriculum targets or books used as compulsory books. Learning is still dominated by teachers, where learners are more likely to accept the knowledge provided by teachers without the process of processing the existing potential. Learning does not emphasize on the understanding of the material studied and is not associated with the actual experience of the participants. In other words, the learning of mathematics is not meaningful because the learning has not been associated with the scheme that has been possessed by learners. Based on the above phenomenon, research was conducted on the use of three-dimensional learning media in improving the understanding of the concept of point distance, line, and field of XII OTKP-2 students in SMK Negeri 1 Bandung academic year 2021-2022. This research is a classroom action research that aims to improve students' understanding of mathematics learning concepts by using three-dimensional learning media on the material of point distances, lines, and fields in XII OTKP-2 class SMK Negeri 1 Bandung academic year 2021-2022. Each learner can use this three -dimensional learning media in accordance with their interests, and potential. Because the learning media used is the result of the learners themselves, it means that this learning media will be better understood by learners and more interested. ABSTRAKBerdasarkan fenomena yang kita temui dalam Pembelajaran Matematika mulai dari Sekolah Dasar sampai dengan Sekolah Menengah Atas atau Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan masih belum memuaskan. Pembelajaran Matematika cenderung masih pada pencapaian target kurikulum atau buku yang digunakan sebagai buku wajib. Pembelajaran masih didominasi guru, dimana peserta didik lebih cenderung menerima pengetahuan yang diberikan guru tanpa proses pengolahan potensi yang telah ada. Pembelajaran kurang menekankan pada pemahaman akan materi yang dipelajari dan tidak dikaitkan dengan pengalaman nyata peserta didk. Dengan kata lain, pembelajaran matematika belum bermakna karena pembelajaran belum dikaitkan dengan skema yang telah dimiliki oleh peserta didik. Berdasarkan fenomena di atas, dilakukan penelitian tentang penggunaan media pembelajaran tiga dimensi dalam meningkatkan pemahaman konsep materi jarak titik, garis, dan bidang peserta didik kelas XII OTKP-2 SMK Negeri 1 Bandung tahun pelajaran 2021-2022. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian tindakan kelas yang bertujuan untuk meningkatkan pemahaman konsep belajar matematika peserta didik dengan menggunakan media pembelajaran tiga dimensi pada materi jarak titik, garis, dan bidang di kelas XII OTKP-2 SMK Negeri 1 Bandung tahun pelajaran 2021-2022. Setiap peserta didik dapat menggunakan media pembelajaran tiga dimensi ini sesuai dengan minat, dan potensi yang dimilikinya. Karena media pembelajaran yang digunakan adalah hasil dari buatan peserta didik sendiri, artinya media pembelajaran ini akan lebih dipahami oleh peserta didik dan lebih tertarik.

Dealing with stress and intervention models in families with children with autism spectrum disorder

Many academics working in the field of education have written about children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and its variant, specifically Asperger’s Syndrome. This research aims to analyze and assess the studies and psycho-pedagogical actions developed to understand the actual experience of the families around the stress derived from the presence of a child with ASD. To this end, the strategies used by the families to deal with this situation should be assessed. This paper presents a systematic review based on an exhaustive search in key databases involving a total of 16 updated studies, published between 2010 and 2020, and a selection process that looked at results from five perspectives: causes of stress, strategies used by fathers, mothers, and siblings to manage the stress, more frequent intervention models, and the importance of the family–school relationship in coping with the reality and needs of these children.

Liberal democracy and globalized capitalism in Africa: Perspective from Heidegger

This paper sets out to defend a set of mutually inclusive theses. First, it argues that liberal democracy’s sojourn in Africa is not political but economic. Secondly, that there is nothing natural about capitalism, rather capitalism was forcefully globalized in order to create the false impression that man is by nature motivated by self-interest or profit. But this paper demonstrates the historicity of capitalism. Finally, the paper employs Martin Heidegger’s ontological analysis to show that liberal democracy is just the political manifestation of what he calls “the nihilism of Western metaphysical thinking”, a thinking that is expansionist, dominating and ultimately “enframing”; (controlling). Using the expository, historical, analytic and critical methods, the essay demonstrates that the liberal democratic march in Africa is to provide the enabling conditions for capitalist exploitation. Thus, it argues that without the political ground- clearing capacity of liberal democracy, the economic domination and control by capitalism in Africa would be very difficult. In conclusion, the paper draws from the actual experience of liberal democracy and the thrust of capitalism in Africa to demonstrate their ontological ambivalence.

An Alternative to the Proof Paradigm for Ground-Level Rationality

In Chapter 5, the author uses the clues from previous chapters to begin the construction of a theory of epistemic rationality in which mistake-correcting reasoning is the paradigm for reasoning. On his account, cognitive models are composed of scenarios, which are themselves sets of propositions that have expectations for experience. Models are tested not by propositions describing experience but by experiences themselves because scenarios holistically generate expectations for experience which the agent’s actual experience can either satisfy or fail to satisfy. On the author’s theory, only scenarios with full or partial necessitation hypotheses can earn rational confidence. He identifies two main conceptual frameworks, the ordinary object framework and the person framework, both of which are causal frameworks. The imagination plays a crucial role in rationality in the author’s theory. He ends with informal statements of two principles of epistemic rationality, of which the formal versions are stated in Appendix A.

A Brain Listening to Itself

The ubiquitous presence of ambiguous voices in Beckett’s work remains an enduring mystery. The narrative work is no exception, to the point that Beckett’s fiction after Murphy (1938) can be read as, to quote The Unnamable (1953), “entirely a matter of voices; no other metaphor is appropriate” (319). Given the alien qualities of these voices, their intrusive independent agency, and their sometimes tormenting phenomenology, two frameworks of interpretation have so far prevailed. On the one hand, there are narratologists such as Brian Richardson (2006) who have proposed an “unnatural” reading of these voices, by arguing that these alien, multiple, sourceless voices cannot be traced back or ascribed to any actual experience within the human domain; that they cannot be “naturalized” (Culler 1975; 2018; see also Fludernik 1996) by the reader. On the other hand, there is a long-standing “pathological” framework, which sees voices in Beckett’s work as a fictional rendering of a wide range of experiences associated with mental illnesses, mostly of auditory-verbal hallucinations (AVHs) typical of schizophrenia. This chapter suggests that an alternative, natural, and non-pathological experience is the target of Beckett’s fictional cognitive models having voices as core modeling elements. By drawing on contemporary cognitive research on inner speech (roughly speaking, the activity of silently talking to, with and within oneself), it is advocated that voices in Beckett’s models target the working of inner speech, only defamiliarized or, as we shall see, “detuned” as a modeling alteration to explore its functioning within human cognition.

Online Consumer Satisfaction During COVID-19: Perspective of a Developing Country

A conceptual model based on the antecedents and consequences of online consumer satisfaction has been proposed and empirically proved in this study. Data were collected during Smart Lockdown of COVID-19 from 800 respondents to observe the difference between perceived and actual, and direct and indirect e-stores. Confirmatory factor analysis was used to observe the validity of the data set. The structural equation modeling technique was used to test the hypotheses. The findings indicated that consumers feel more satisfied when they shop through direct e-store than indirect e-store, whereas their perception and actual experience are different. Implications have also been added to the study.

Airbnb Hospitality: Exploring Users and Non-Users’ Perceptions and Intentions

Although the use of Airbnb services is growing, research relating to its value, risk, satisfaction, and repurchase intentions involving the millennial generation is scarce. This study investigates actual experience of social, utilitarian and hedonic values, risks, satisfaction, and repurchase intentions of Airbnb millennial consumers. It further assesses perceptions of similar values, risks, and what it would take to generate satisfaction and repurchase intention amid Airbnb non-consumers. PLS Path Modelling is used to test the hypothesised relationships and compare Airbnb consumers and non-consumers. A conceptual model proposing five hypotheses is tested using a dataset of 206 responses representing consumers and non-consumers from New Zealand. The results of the two groups are compared to assess differences in the relationships specified in the proposed conceptual model. The findings have theoretical, managerial, and social implications as it expands the literature by comparing consumers/non-consumers relating to sharing economy and identifies factors that lead to satisfaction and repurchase intentions linked to the millennials, hence generating managerial implications. The findings also suggest social, utilitarian, and hedonic values that have implications for the millennial generation.

Going cold turkey!: An autoethnographic exploration of digital disengagement

As the dust of society-wide digitalisation settles, the search for meaningful technological encounters is becoming more urgent. While the Nordic countries embrace digitalisation, recent concerns regarding technology overuse have been gaining increased attention. This tendency is exemplified in practices of limiting digital use, called digital disengagement – an apparent paradox in Nordic societies where digital is the dominant paradigm. In this article, we explore the emergence of disconnection-centred devices called “dumbphones”, which cater to individuals wishing to escape hyperconnected lifestyles. Drawing on a new materialist perspective, we present a content analysis of dumbphones’ advertising material, followed by a collaborative autoethnographic study in which we replace our smartphones with dumbphones. We critically weigh the promises of the dumbphones against the actual experience of digital disengagement in Sweden. Our findings illustrate a struggle with digital technologies, even despite their absence, due to emerging workarounds and societal expectations of use.