Liberal Arts

The purposes of present study were to investigate reliability of the personality inventory from International Personality Item Pools (IPIP) (50 items) which was translated into Thai language, to develop the self-regulation of weight control scale, and to analyze the relationships of both variables among undergraduate students. The participants in this study were 342 undergraduate students who were under weight control. A voluntary response sample was used in this study. The IPIP personality inventory and the self-regulation of weight control scale were main measurements. Internal consistency was analyzed by Cronbach’s alpha coefficient. Moreover, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling analysis were used to analyze construct validity and relationships between personality traits and weight control specific self-regulation. The results showed that the IPIP personality inventory and the self-regulation of weight control scale had good internal consistency (α = 0.7...

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Penelitian ini hendak meninjau kembali secara singkat mengenai sejarah perkembangan sastra Indigenous Australia serta mengelaborasi permasalahan dan tantangan yang dihadapi di era kapitalisme lanjut. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan poskolonialisme yang dikaitkan dengan perkembangan globalisasi. Dalam kondisi ini, misi-misi resistensi dalam berbagai karya sastra indigenous Australia menjumpai tantangan arus kapitalisme global, belum lagi ditambah dengan persoalan pelik mengenai sejarah dan identitas pada komunitas Indigenous itu sendiri.

This research aimed to re-observe brief development of Australian Indigenous literature also to elaborate several problems and challenges of late capitalism. This reserach applied postcolonial paradigm related with globalitation development. In this condition, resistance in Australia Indigenpus literature encounters the challenge of global capitalism, moreover with its peculiar problems about Indigenous history and identity.

This research aims to elaborate the journey of Australian Indigenous in Tara June Winch's novel entitled Swallow the Air. This novel is about journey of half-Aboriginal girl through Australia in search of self-realisation and sense of belonging. She encounters the condition of modern Australia which is different from her expectation about traditional land. The encounters result negotiations between herself and Other. Using Carl Thompson's concept of travel writing, this research analyze the pattern of reportation of the world, revelation of self, and represetation of other, also elaborate agenda of Swallow the Air as a travelogue. The analysis uses are close reading and comparative as a research method. This research shows that modern Indigenous' identity and cultural crisis affected the pattern of travelogue. The pattern of reportation of the world and representation of other indicate subject position, between Europe and Aborigin. She portrays both sides as other, also deliver her comment on each group. As a postcolonial travel writing, this novel depicts power relation in contemporary Australia, to deliver ethical challenge to the government about Indigenous reconciliation. Carrying the spirit of cosmopolitan vision, this novel offers negotiation between traditional and modern values. It also conveys the strategy of liberation by directing toward wider identity, national or even global identity. As Indigenous travel writing, mobility in this novel accommodates the creation of wider and further attempt of resistence, by using network among communities or 'homes' as inter-sites of resistance placed under the umbrella of Australian nation. Nevertheless, that resistance attempt is nof fully flawless since it also contains risk of falling to the force of globalisation.

This paper aims to elaborate the phenomena of travel as popular culture in publications; books, movies, television, and social media. As travel becomes an important means to contemporary society, the efforts of documenting and representing travel experience becomes vital and massive. Numerous publications of travel-themed books, movies, television shows, and social media posts indicate that travel has become certain popular theme and style for Indonesians. By focusing the discussion on the concept of travel writing and its usage on popular media, this research indicates that travel books, movies, and television shows produced by the author/director are used to awaken Indonesians awareness toward travel. The 21st century travel writing is mostly influenced by modern sensibility which tends romanticize the travelogues. The widespread of romantic representation in popular media creates a popular myth about the journey and travel destination. Moreover, the social media involvement facilitates the production of myth by engaging the user into the voluntary (re)production of travel discourse and its myth.

Considered as writing back to the Empire, postcolonial writing by young indigenous Australian offers different insight and perspective of their identity. One of postcolonial tendencies is re-define their own experience of space and place in contemporary Australia. Mobility and travel become method on experiencing the ancestor’s land. Many of Australian indigenous writing is about mobility, both physical and non-physical. This paper aims to elaborate mobility and mode of resistance in Tara June Winch’ Swallow the Air as young Australian Indigenous writing.

Swallow the Air portrays journey of a young half-Indigenous descent across Australia. The journey is an attempt to translate past stories of Indigenous knowledge to the modern-day Australia. Instead of encountering the authentic, she finds out the long-lost landscape, tradition, mythology, and community. The travel narrative depicted in this novel is the contestation between the subjective expectation and objective reality. Lingering between fact and fiction, travel writing is a negotiation between the objective reality and subjective representation. By focusing on writer’s representation on the travel narrative, this paper aims to elaborate how mobility becomes mode of resistance.

This research shows that othering occurs not only to the strange geography, people, and culture, but also inner strangeness to the self; a half European-Wiradjuri descent. Her encounters and dialogs to various landscapes and communities searching for home narrates metaphor of survival. The travel narrative accommodates the mobility, which offers a resistance toward fixation of identity—binary opposition between Indigenous and West. Other than spatial othering, Swallow the Air shows the tendency of temporal differentiation, comparing the past utopian fantasy with modern-day Australia. Melancholia occurs as the central theme of the journey as the failure to fulfill the utopian expectation—the loss of authentic Indigenous land, people, and culture. The mode of resistance offered in this melancholic travel narrative is the effort of preserving what is left—from the authentic utopian fantasy—Indigenous knowledge, inheritance, and memories, both personal and communal.

This paper aims to elaborate the phenomena of travel as popular culture in publications; books, movies, television, and social media. As travel becomes an important means to contemporary society, the efforts of documenting and representing travel experience becomes vital and massive. Numerous publications of travel-themed books, movies, television shows, and social media posts indicate that travel has become certain popular theme and style for Indonesians. By focusing the discussion on the concept of travel writing and its usage on popular media, this research indicates that travel books, movies, and television shows produced by the author/director are used to awaken Indonesians awareness toward travel. The 21 st century travel writing is mostly influenced by modern sensibility which tends romanticize the travelogues. The widespread of romantic representation in popular media creates a popular myth about the journey and travel destination. Moreover, the social media involvement faci...

Karakter merupakan salah satu aspek terpenting dalam karya sastra. Ini adalah sumber dari semua perhatian di mana karakter membawa cerita yang disajikan dalam karya sastra. Karakter adalah apa yang penulis gunakan untuk menyampaikan pesan atau cerita itu sendiri melalui tindakan, dialog, dan karakter mereka sendiri. Tindakan karakter sangat erat kaitannya dengan faktor-faktor yang mendorong karakter tersebut melakukan tindakan tertentu. Dalam Psikoanalisis Freudian, dorongan tindakan atau perilaku manusia dimanifestasikan oleh tiga bagian jiwa manusia; id, ego, dan super ego. Into the Wild adalah film yang diangkat dari kisah nyata Christopher Johnson McCandless. Christopher McCandless adalah karakter unik yang memiliki cara berpikir yang sangat berbeda. Chris cenderung lebih keras daripada yang mungkin dipikirkan seseorang. Dia mulai menyangkal konstruksi sosial dan memutuskan untuk meninggalkan masyarakat dan memulai petualangannya di mana tujuannya adalah Alaska. Motif utama Chri...

It is undeniable that in Indonesia, women leadership has been acknowledged in an inferior level trust of society due to the presence of bold gender stereotype. Indonesian women are considered as unskillful leaders within their own society. Filling with myth, women have predetermined as followers while men have predetermined as leaders. However, this patriarchal stereotype has brought a negative development to enhance quality life of Indonesian women as it has been rated at the lowest level in ASEAN. An interesting case is found in Indonesia as there has been a rise in women leadership among primary school principals in West Java Province in Indonesia. Women leadership of primary school principals is empowered and their ability in case of managing school organization is maximized based on components, such as 1) Model the Way, 2) Inspire a Shared Vision, 3) Challenge the Process, 4) Enable others to act and 5) Encourage the Heart. Thus, this paper will explore challenge and strategy of women leadership of primary school principals in Indonesia. This paper was based on a research by using sampling population in total 263 people consisting of 16 women principals, 231 teachers and 16 school boards who work in primary school under office of Banjar-City, West-Java Province, Indonesia in the academic year 2015. A questionnaire and interview were used to explore the existence and desire state of women leadership and to design an effective strategy of developing women leadership skills.

Sex segregation remains happening in the education realm. In the 21st century, Indonesian women's participation in the public sphere still becomes an issue, especially leadership.  Women are perceived as the second class of society, even obtaining the negative stereotype of incapable leaders, which the myth of leadership belongs to men's world. Like an oxymoron, women are "freely binding," meaning they can be involved in the public sphere. However, they are encountering "glass-ceiling" to be in the top position, especially in rural West Java, where women have been perceived for their physical appearance-minded rather than the capability of leadership. The proposition of women principals in compulsory education in Indonesia is underrepresented compared to men principals with 38.68 percent and 61.32 percent. Women are capable of good leader who has leveraged their subordinates through positive relationships, empowering others, and improving schools. Therefo...

This research is conducted in Santikhiri, a hilltop village on the highest peak in the Doi Mae Salong forest, where climate change increases the intensity and frequency of natural disasters that immensely affect the local children in the mountainous area in Chiang Rai province, northern Thailand. There is only one secondary-level school in this forest landscape educating around 900 schoolchildren from various minority hill-tribe ethnic groups. This paper examines everyday life experiences recentering the village school's role as the producer of safe space for the forest children from climate disasters. School safety is a global framework for recognizing the importance of child-centered efforts in building disaster resilience for the education sector. Parameters and variables used to measure the disaster resilience of schools are adapted from the Climate Resilience Model and School Safety Model by Tong et al. (2012), covering three dimensions: 1) institutional issues, 2) physical...