The purpose of this study is to provide a description of online social behavior by the members of Kaskus online communities in Surabaya. This includes the process of one person joins the onlinecommunity, the behavior of online social interaction and social capital formed when they interact in online communities. This research uses descriptive quantitative method with non random design. The samp…
The purpose of this study is to provide a description of online social behavior by the members of Kaskus online communities in Surabaya. This includes the process of one person joins the onlinecommunity, the behavior of online social interaction and social capital formed when they interact in online communities. This research uses descriptive quantitative method with non random design. The samp…
This aetcle considers a central dilemma associated with scool communities, the tension between the need for shared values that are constitutive enough to serve as the basis for community and the premises of liberat insclusiveness. The author evaluates 3 condidates for school-community values-comprehensive doctrines, caring, and democracy-and concludes that, if avalue is aconstitutive one, then …
This article challenges vague and underconceptualized notions of teacher professional community prevalent in both the theoretical and policy-oriented reform literatures. The findings from a close examination of two school's teacher profesional communities suggest that current models obscure significant differences in beliefs an practices. Whereas one scholl's professional community emphasizes t…
This article presents an analysis of the potential for a school improvement process to foster profesional community in three rural midle schools through the processes of organizational learning. The findings of this 2-year qualitative case study demonstrate the tensions school must negotiate between bureaucracy and profesional community and suggest that four organizational factors influence the…