Higher education institutions (HEIs) largely aim to produce holistic graduates, best in both worlds of academic and non-academic aspects. Although numerous literature has identified and described “holistic education”, it remains an issue if the students actually understand and appreciate the said term. Accordingly, this study seeks to investigate the students’ perception of HEI’s role in producing holistic graduates. Therefore, this paper seeks to answer two research questions, firstly, what are the characteristics of holistic graduates? And secondly, how do students perceive the academic and non-academic programs at the HEIs towards producing holistic graduates? Engaging in mixed approaches of quantitative and qualitative, this study investigates the students’ perception of HEI’s role in producing holistic graduates. An online survey was administered on 357 students of a targeted HEI. The findings reveal that the majority of the students are satisfied with the academic and non-academic programs offered at the HEI, as well as their perceived concept of the “holistic graduate” itself. Hopefully, the paper would shed light on further research in the area of students’ education and higher learning education generally.
Religious is an important protective and preventive factor to help overcome social problems, particularly with regards to addiction relapse. Religion refers to a social institution which includes believers, faith and belief systems, and religious practices. Religious beliefs influence the well-being of individual and positively related to self-esteem and feeling of mastery which, in turn, are associated with psysical and psychological well-being. Religiousity is consistently linked to a positive vertical relationship between God and religion. A cross sectional quantitative research were carried out among 290 former drug users in seven Cure and Care Service Centers (CCSC) to investigate the effects of religiosity well-being on risk of drug relapse. Data were gathered using a survey questionnaire which was adapted from the Spiritual Wellbeing Scale (SWB) and Drug Taking Confidence Questionnaires (DTCQ), and was translated into the Malay language using back translation. Results revealed that there was a negative relationship between Religious Well-being (RWB) and drug relapse, in which the higher the RWB, the lower the risk of drug relapse. Thus, religious well-being approach was recommended. This approach provide an inclusive social work based interventions aimed to enhance the individual’s religious well-being through religious understanding, beliefs, and good practices towards better self-awareness, self-efficacy, resiliency, coping and self-locus control among the former drug users in order to reduce the risk of relapse.
The teaching and learning landscape in higher learning institutions are changing from teachercentered to student-centered learning. However, the students' lack of engagement in classrooms is found to become one of the drawbacks in the implementation of studentcentered learning. Aiming to address the problem of students' lack of engagement, this research is carried out to investigate the impact of two teaching strategies i.e. 'think-pairshare' and 'wait time' on the teaching and learning of undergraduates. The methodology employed in the study is qualitative, engaging in action research design and divided into three stages of study, (i) problem identification (ii) action implementation, and (iii) evaluation. Two cycles of investigation were carried out, involving the implementation of "think-pair-share" in the first cycle, and in the second cycle, "think-pair-share" and "wait-time". The data sources for the evaluation were three-folds, (i) lecturer's observation (ii) reflection by the students and lecturer, and (iii) activity sheets by the students. The data are loaded into the computerassisted qualitative data analysis software of ATLAS.ti version 8 for the purpose of analysis and generating the reports of the analysis. The study revealed that both teaching strategies of "think-pair-share" and "wait-time" have tremendously improved the student engagement in the classes. Additionally, the students' learning experience have enhanced with the implementation of these two teaching strategies. And finally, the lecturer's teaching ability also improved. Hopefully, the findings of the study would contribute to the literature on the subject of student engagement and teaching and learning strategies particularly, and other subjects of the higher education level generally.
The impact of prolonged civil conflict in Aceh has caused lost family and mental disorder to the local community. One of the tragedy occurred during conflict in Aceh was the killing tragedy in Boarding School Babul 'Ala Nurillah, Blang Meurandeh village Beutong Blang Galang Nagan Raya Aceh Province Indonesia on July 23, 1999 and killed more than 50 man when they are in Boarding School ( Dayah) and learn Islamic knowledge.The peace agreement after conflict between Free Aceh Movement and Indonesia Goverment has 16 years ago since August 18, 2005. They are saw their husband killed by army, andmany women became widows and became poor life. The purpose of this study is to know how the traumatic post conflict and misdevelopment about the religious identity. The Method of this study used quantitative and qualitative method, used scale TSI (Trauma Syndrome Inventory) for trauma by Briere with 100 items and MRPI (Muslim Religious-Personality Inventory) for scale religious identity. MRPI has 47 item. The sample in this research 25 Woman and 5 man who directly saw the extrajudicial killing, this sample technique used random assigned sampling.The result showed that the victims there are have traumatized is: high trauma 3, low trauma 3, and middle trauma 24 person . The result of this study is that there is a relationship between trauma and religious identity is low r = -0,312. The correlation beetween trauma and Islamic worldview and spiritual is r = 0.312 (low), trauma with ritual r= 0.543 (medium), trauma with muamalat = 0.157 (very low). This meaning that although the victims feel traumatized but their ritual (hablun min Allah) still good in medium correlation, but the correlation between trauma and Islamic worldview and spiritual is low, and correlation between trauma and mu’amalat (hablun min an-naas) is very low, as well as in religious personality which is divided into Islamic worldview and spiritual, ritual (hablun minallah) and muamalat (hablun min an-naas). After twenty years ago they can to growth with their self and they want to forgotten the tragedy July 23 1999, and want to live in peace. And now they have the commitment to explore and learn Islamic knowledge again after twenty years ago they life without learning the Islamic knowledge in boarding school.
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