Education Relationship with the Community in a Sociological Per Spective

This study aims to describe: the relationship between education and society, the notion of education, the notion of society, and the sociology of education. This research is a qualitative research with descriptive method. The information obtained came from one of the teachers who taught at the research site and the surrounding community. The results of this study are the development of education, community participation in education, and the supporting and inhibiting factors in the relationship between education and the community, namely the development of education in the research area is quite good, the community participates in activities carried out by the school, for example when holding competitions, supporting factors that is, there is a systematic program and planning, the condition of the school organization is quite good and the inhibiting factor is the lack of public understanding of the importance of having a relationship between parents and school, the road to school is quite far. Efforts to overcome these obstacles are to provide information as clearly as possible to parents about what is on the agenda in meetings or meetings between parents and the school.

The Effect of Work Placement and Work Discipline on Employee Morale through Organizational Commitment as an Intervening Variable at the Mercury Hotel Banjarmasin with the SEMPLS-Warppls 7.0 application

This study aims to determine the effect of work placement and work discipline on work morale with organizational commitment as an intervening variable. The population in this study were permanent employees of the Mercury Hotel Banjarmain with a sample of 59 permanent employees, using the quota sampling method. The method of data analysis in this study used SEM with the PLS program 7.0. The results of the study prove that there is an effect of work placement on morale, work discipline on work morale, work placement on organizational commitment, work discipline on organizational commitment, organizational commitment to work morale. There is no influence of work placement on morale through organizational commitment. There is the influence of work discipline on work morale with mediation by organizational commitment.

Exploring Learner Behavior within School Context: A Study of Disciplinary Committees in Selected Secondary Schools of Southern Zambia

This study aimed at establishing how disciplinary committees managed learner behaviour within the school context. The objectives of the study were to: establish how Disciplinary Committees dealt with acts of indiscipline; explore the perceptions of head teachers, deputy head teachers, senior teachers, class teachers and pupils on indiscipline; and identify strategies used by Disciplinary Committees in handling pupil indiscipline in selected secondary schools of Southern, Zambia. Purposive sampling procedure was used to select the head teachers, deputy head teachers, and class teachers, while random sampling procedure was employed to select pupils who participated in the study. The findings of the study revealed that punishment in form of manual work, suspension, and forced transfers were used. However, the penalty depended on the gravity of the case and this was done depending on the case done by the learners. With regard to the perceptions of the pupils and members of the disciplinary committees, it was found that most pupils knew where to report the cases of indiscipline in school.  They also perceived these committees as effective enough in combating pupil indiscipline in school. As regards the strategies used by disciplinary committees to overcome indiscipline in schools, it was found that sensitization of the learners proved to be the most effective way of improving pupil behavior in schools. Furthermore, incorporating guidance and counselling services was yet another important method which the schools employed. Based on the findings, the study recommended inter alia that regular marking of the school attendance register by teachers should be enhanced and students who absent themselves from school without permission from the school should be dealt with so as to serve as deterrent measure to others. Disciplinary committees in schools should also consider having meetings more frequently so that they can discuss new ways and means of fighting Indiscipline.

Improving Students’ Vocabulary through Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) in Great Aceh

Purpose: This study examines the enhancement of vocabulary among third-grade students at one of SMPN (Junior High Schools) in Great Aceh by utilizing the Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) approach. The primary objective of this study is to determine the notable disparity in students’ vocabulary when employing the CLT method.

Methods: The target population consists of all third-grade students at SMPN, class IX-2 serving as the experimental group and class IX-4 as the control group. Fifty-three students were randomly selected to participate, 26 in the experimental and 27 in the control classes. Data was collected through a pre-test and post-test using two comprehension tests and implementing three techniques: experimental teaching, tests, and a questionnaire. The test comprised 25 questions, including 13 multiple-choice and 12 fill-in-the-blank items, while the questionnaire consisted of 10 Likert Scale questions. The data were analyzed using the t-test in the SPSS program and a statistical formula.

Results: The findings showed that the utilization of the CLT method led to an improvement in students’ vocabulary.

Conclusion: The analysis indicated that when comparing the results of the two tests, the difference between the control class (8.22) and the experimental class (51.23) demonstrated a significant enhancement. Furthermore, the t-test analysis revealed that the value of 0.05 (a = 5%) was more significant than the t-result (0.000), confirming the acceptance of the alternative hypothesis (Ha).

Assistance for Broiler Carcas Evaluation and Marketing Management in Gianyar District

Broiler chicken meat is a food ingredient that contains good nutrition for human needs. Low prices, good taste and aroma, soft texture and relatively easy to find in the market make broiler chicken meat an alternative food that is liked by almost everyone. This assistance will carry out counseling regarding any information that needs to be considered in the content of broiler chicken carcass and meat. Furthermore, bookkeeping assistance such as diaries, cash books, production cost calculations, profit or loss calculations are not yet available properly as well as product packaging assistance to make it more hygienic and marketing procedures.

Marketing Based Product and Accounting Bookkeeping of Silver Industry in Sukawati Gianyar

Jewelry and silver handicrafts in Indonesia are unique in their carved motifs, including floral or leaf motifs as well as motifs characteristic of empires and kingdoms which have their own philosophical meaning, this indicates the high level of expertise and thoroughness of silver craftsmen in Indonesia. In terms of business management, silversmiths still do not fully implement management principles. Governance starting from making product designs, financial management and the entire HR (employee) work process is carried out by the owner as well as the manager. For this reason, partner assistance is carried out in the hope of helping the preservation of the silver industry in Bali.

Factor Affecting Business Sustainability of MSMEs in Gresik Regency

The study was aims to explain the factors that influence business sustainability of MSMEs using external environment, entrepreneurial characteristics, technological sophistication, and business performance as variables in Gresik regency. The study uses a quantitative approach. The sample on this study was MSMEs perpetrators in Gresik regency. Non-sampling sampling with technical compulsions is used to acquire samples from as many as one hundred respondents. While the technique for data analysis is PLS (Partial Least Square), validity tests, reliability tests, and hypothesis testing are also conducted. According to the findings of the study, the external environment, entrepreneurial characteristics, technological sophistication, and business performance all have a positive impact on the business sustainability of MSMEs in Gresik Regency.

Pedagogical Experiences of Student Teachers and Teacher Educators on Teaching Practice in Selected Colleges of Education in Zambia

The study investigated the perceptions of student teachers and teacher educators on teaching practice in colleges of education and schools in Livingstone District of Zambia. The perceptions referred to the views, claims, beliefs and convictions which trainee teachers and teacher educators held towards teaching practice. The study employed a case study design. A total sample of 26 participants consisting of 16 student teachers and 10 teacher educators was purposively drawn from two government colleges of education and three schools in Livingstone District.  Data were collected through focus group interviews with the student teachers and one-to-one interview with the lecturers and class teachers. Analysis of data was done thematically where emerging themes were presented in a descriptive form. The findings from the study revealed that, though student teachers and teacher educators showed positive perceptions towards teaching practice, student teachers were more appreciative of the benefits of integrating teaching practice in their teaching and learning processes. The study further established that student teachers’ and teacher educators’ perceptions belong to the plethora and constellation of the salient and indispensable components of teacher training such as knowledge, skills, attitudes and educational material. Based on the findings, the study concluded that the positive perceptions of student teachers and teacher educators toward the teaching practice program play a key role in the success of the practicum program. Consequently the study recommended that colleges of education should consider incorporating trainee teachers’ and teacher educators’ perceptions of teaching practice into the training of prospective teachers at colleges of education and in schools where field experiences are conducted. The study established that such an incorporation is the locus within which trainee teachers can further maximize the benefits derived from the teaching practice practicum. This assertion is predicated on the researcher’s claim that only to the extent that theory and practice are yoked together can there be a successfully performative orientation of the training of teachers.

Intensification of Taxation and Increasing Taxpayer Compliance through the Voluntary Disclosure Program

The Indonesian government relies on taxes as the highest state revenue in governance and development, so that taxpayer compliance plays a very important role and is a major requirement that must be worked on by the Directorate General of Taxes (DGT). It is not an easy problem to build taxpayer compliance in our country, it requires thoughts and strategies from the DGT for taxpayers to feel that tax is a voluntary state obligation. One of the DJP programs implemented in 2022 is the Voluntary Disclosure Program (PPS), which is better known as Tax Amnesty Volume II. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of the Voluntary Disclosure Program on state revenues and increasing taxpayer compliance. This research can be used as an evaluation for the DGT for policies that will be made in the future, based on this evaluation the DGT can innovate to meet the target of state revenue from the taxation sector. This research also contributes to educating taxpayers so they can follow the PPS policy, with the hope that state revenue will increase. The data collection method is by interviewing informants, namely people involved in the PPS program. The technique of analyzing descriptive qualitative data is interpretative through focus group discussion. The results of the study prove that tax revenues from the Voluntary Disclosure Program have significantly supported state revenues, so that the PPS objective as an intensification in the field of taxation has been achieved. The participation of taxpayers in PPS even though at high rates, this shows that taxpayers are very compliant with tax regulations because there is legal certainty of protection and a sense of security by following the PPS.

Development of Community Tourism in Na Hang District, Tuyen Quang Province, Vietnam Associated With the Protection of Special- Use Forests

Community-based tourism is currently a popular trend of developing countries, including Vietnam. After the Covid 19 pandemic, most of the travel needs of tourists have changed. From bustling urban areas, tourists want to find remote areas to be close to nature, find inner peace and enjoy a green life. Therefore, community-based tourism in the form of experience, adventure, ecology and healing is being prioritized for development in Tuyen Quang province. This is a province with the largest natural forest cover in Vietnam, in which, Na Hang district has over 21,000 hectares of natural forest in Thanh Tuong, Son Phu, Con Lon and Khau Tinh communes. In order to better manage and protect forests, over the past time, Na Hang Special-use Forest Protection Department has strengthened propaganda, patrolling, controlling and protecting existing forest areas, contributing to preserving the living environment, natural disaster prevention, socio-economic promotion, tourism development. The issue of special-use forest protection associated with community-based tourism development has both created livelihoods for the people here and raised people’s awareness of preserving the landscape environment.