Wednesday, 22 May 2013
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Gender understanding is often associated with sex (male or female), whereas gender is different from sex. Etymologically, 'gender' is derived from the English language meaning 'sex' (John M. Echols and Hassan Shadily, 1983: 265). Long process of gender discriminations between men and women happen and they are constructed by social-cultural and religious conditions. Because of its long process, gender is often considered as God’s destiny or cannot biologically changed. Furthermore, the social and cultural constructions, values??, mental, emotions and other factors are used to distinguish men and women. It may be found in such conventions that women are restricted to laugh loudly, to go out at night, or pink color belongs only to women, only women are for domestic work, and women should absolutely obey men.
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Gender Class
Basic Understanding of Gender
What is GENDER? Why do we need to discuss and understand it? The first question came from Ariani Narwastujati, SS, M.Pd., the discussion facilitator to all participants in Understanding of Gender. The discussion was held by Stube HEMAT Yogyakarta on 23 March 2013.
Yohanes, one of the participants tried to highlight the Bible stories, that we must admit that the men were more dominant than women. It can be read on the stories of Abraham and Sarah, David and Bathsheba, or Queen Vashti. They were based on the past traditions. Thus, now the Bible readings must be reconstructed by understanding the story with the equality perspective between men and women. "So, gender can be understood as a concept to give new perspective for men and women equality," he added.
While Trustha reminded that based on the Bible, eventhough women are still culture-marginalized, as they were never mentioned in family geneaology, there were some women playing very important role such as Mary, Rahab, Ruth, Deborah, Mary Magdalene dan Esther. In todays Indonesian context, another participant, Maria told that girls or women in Adonara, Nusa Tenggara Timur, studying to other islands were mocked, because the local people assumed that women did not need to have higher study. Even the local custom treats women to have meal after all men in every banquets.
Gender understanding is often associated with sex (male or female), whereas gender is different from sex. Etymologically, 'gender' is derived from the English language meaning 'sex' (John M. Echols and Hassan Shadily, 1983: 265). Long process of gender discriminations between men and women happen and they are constructed by social-cultural and religious conditions. Because of its long process, gender is often considered as God’s destiny or cannot biologically changed. Furthermore, the social and cultural constructions, values??, mental, emotions and other factors are used to distinguish men and women. It may be found in such conventions that women are restricted to laugh loudly, to go out at night, or pink color belongs only to women, only women are for domestic work, and women should absolutely obey men.
Through gender discussions, participants learned about gender and understand the distinction between men and women based on social construction what exactly causes gender inequality in society. ***
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
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Foreign Language Program (English)
TOEFL TEST? WHO IS SCARED?
Now, the need of English mastery among students and job seekers is a must. Both state and private universities, or companies require English mastery as one of their recruitment or employment requirement. As the proof, students or job seekers should show their TOEFL certificate with 450 as the minimum score.
Observing the students’ need, Stube HEMAT as a service for empowering youth and students, opened a TOEFL class for students. Students could learn and practise their English in this class, that was begun on February 6, 2013 until May 2013. Located in SMK BOPKRI 2, Bintaran, Yogyakarta, this class could be followed by just paying the expences of material copy. Youth, students, fresh graduate as job seekers who needed it, were invited to join this class.
The class activity involved participants in the whole learning process. Beginning from the introduction, TOEFL pre-test that covers the mastery of structure, reading, and listening, students followed it enthusiastically. After several meetings, participants got final test to know how far they had mastered the TOEFL matery. Besides TOEFL matery, participants also learned English through games, role-play dan other simple game technique, like guessing things. Such practices made English easier to learn and to be remembered. Guiding by Kencana Devia Candra, S.S as the TOEFL instructure, the matery became interesting to learn and the class became interesting to be followed.
As the goal of the activity, this program may help students to prepare and to be ready to have certificated-TOEFL test in Language Centre of Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. The expectation may match with the students’ need when they could do the test items and get high score in the TOEFL test. Although some of them still felt unsatisfied with their score, at least, they could assess their ability and knew what they should do for the next preparation to get a satisfying score.
For students had no chance in the last class, please be patient to wait the next class for the next program. Please find out all programs of Stube HEMAT next year. ***
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