This research aims to understand the result of mathematical learning of Class IV student in elementary school. (1) Discovering the influence of the Contextual Approach to the student’s motivation. (2) Discovering whether the Contextual Approach can increase student’s motivation by equalizing the denominator for the class IV students. The Research uses descriptive method by using inferential statistical analysis technique. “Descriptive method is a method that focuses to solving current and actual issues. Inferential statistical technique is a statistical method to analyses sample data and creating general inference for the population.” (Nisfiannoor, 2009:4). The approach used by the research is the quantitative approach. Quantitative approach is a research approach that uses statistical technique to test hypotheses and research instrument to be used to uncover data in a certain measurement scale, to be able to create a generalized statement for the whole population. (Sudjana and Ibrahim, 2004:8). There are several conclusions to be inferred from the result of the research. From the cyclical analysis, the improvement of the learning capacity was successfully implemented in the cycle I, cycle II, or even cycle III. Cycle I experienced an increase in average class scores from 42 to 72. Cycle II also experienced increasing from 72 to 81. While Cycle III experienced increasing from 81 to 83. The increases in scores are due to the improvement in the teacher’s teaching method by implementing contextual approach. The approach ultimately increases the students’ enjoyment of the learning, leading to an increase in the motivation for learning, therefore increasing the result of the learning itself. If the learning result improves, the quality of the education in the school also improves.

As a social media, WhatsApp is a messenger application that allows us to send files, messages, pictures, videos and online chatting as if Blackberry Messenger, but WhatsApp is more popular in iPhone users. WhatsApp first release is on iPhone by Apple, and in its development, now it’s available in Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, and also Symbian version. It’s also the most downloaded application in the world these days, especially for smartphone users. To operate WhatsApp, it needs no credit like text messaging, because it only needs internet data ( EDGE/3G ) or wifi. WhatsApp user’s contact can be automatically detected on our smartphone devices, if our phone contacts are also using WhatsApp Messenger. The purpose of this writing paper is to give instant comprehension about using WhatsApp media on baby’s growth and development activities which babysitted on child day care. True, baby is inseparable from how their childhood educational proceed in the family. Every parents are given mandate to take care the birth and first steps of human lives. Through parent’s hand, every helpless little babies are gently loved with warmth, given nutritions, and also breastfeeding, etc. In the other side, for the sake of decent living and survival, young mothers have a limited time so that they need to put their babies in the child day care. Several notable ideas in this writing can be referral to many parties. Especially about the importance of WhatsApp as a media for child day care supervision. WhatsApp is used to create and establish communication between parents and the day care. Parents usually left their babies from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. daily. This day care is truly an answer to parent’s limited time for taking care of their children. In this writing, the writer situated the WhatsApp Messenger as an effective means with hope that it is capable to bridge the communication between day care and parents so that lessons taught to the babies in the day care can be shared to their parents, so children can continue the lessons at home. Also through WhatsApp media, teachers and parents can share plenty information about children, either in education, health, as well in parenting.

This article is written to understand the Gender Based Family Financial Literacy Management. The recurring problem in the family finance is overspending and minimum income; therefore there is a need for a financial planning in the family. Most family did make some family financial planning. However this kind of planning is not sufficient, because there are always unpredictable expenses in every month. Therefore, to overcome those problems, to plan the family expenses are not enough, there must also be some familial budget planning. One of the skills a mother has to have is a financial skill to properly manage family finance. By applying the proper financial management, the family can reap maximum benefit from their assets. The mother had to possess the financial management know – how in managing family finances. As a conclusion, familial financial management education has a positive correlation with financial literacy by making and recording family monthly expenses so as to be able to better plan their family financial budget. A mother has to had a home-grown financial literacy.

The third wave has put the information technology era. Communication and transportation occupy important role in people migration from one place to another. This occurred to students of Pattani Thailand who migrated to Indonesia to study in UIN SGD in Bandung. They encountered problems to communicate across cultures and adapt to a new environment. This study will focus intercultural communication competence of Pattani students. To deal with the subject, the study used a qualitative approach, data collected through interviews by a non-participant observation and document analysis. The theory used intercultural communication of Gudykuns, data analysis model of Miles and Huberman that relies on data analysis. The study concluded that Pattani students did not have enough culture cognition; see themselves as exclusive group; insufficient interaction with surrounding community; closed attitudes; verbal communication behavior; and less active in interpersonal relationship.

Problem statement: The research on juvenile delinquency with the theme “The Handling of Juvenile Delinquency Through the Arrangement of Senior Secondary School ( SMA ) Islamic Education Curriculum”, aimed at formulating the Lesson Plan ( Rencana Pelaksanaan Pembelajaran /RPP ) which is one of learning tools of the materials for handling juvenile delinquency in SMA, that is implemented through the integration of 6 subjects ( Civics, Social Science, Indonesian Language, Sports, Health and Arts Education, Sciences Education and Mathematics) in the schools encountered South Jakarta of DKI Jakarta province. The special targets intended to achieve are 1) Identifying the factors supporting the societies’ involvement in actively taking a role in the process of formulating the sets of SMA curriculum development, 2) Improving, empowering, and developing the schools’ attention by involving the societies’ roles in the formulation of sets of curriculum for SMA in handling the juvenile delinquency through the six subjects in the schools. The plan of the research will be directed to the formulating of program, formula, and implementation of curriculum sets in the form of Lesson Plan ( RPP ) for grade I in the first year and grade II, III for the second year through the integration of six subjects with the Islamic education, especially in the schools encountered the province of DKI Jakarta. Approach: The design of this research is descriptive, in which descriptive research is a method that is used to find the knowledge widely as possible from the research object at a particular time. The technique of Data Collection and Analysis is done by using data collection technique in the form of library research and field study Results: The program of handling the juvenile delinquency in SMA, through the integration of 6 subjects, having competence that is by understanding the verses of Al Qur’an, it improves and changes the students’ attitudes, creating the respectful and well mannered as the model and having tight solidarity/brotherhood and tolerant. By understanding the Al Qur’an verses the deviant behaviors will be prevented. Conclusion: The juvenile delinquency will not be worse if there is serious involvement from students families, societies, as well as the closest people in anticipating the worse juvenile delinquency, because the societies’ awareness in developing the young generation is strongly needed, and hopefully there is related and continuing participation in building the adults’/students’ identities to the better future, in order to create the generation for nation continuity who have morality and noble characteristics.

The development of information and communication technology has led to many changes, including in the field of education which is established the concept of e-learning. By using e-learning, learning is become more effective and efficient. Information and communication technology is also used in schools, it is possible to produce the concept of e-pesantren. Through the use of ICT, religion teachers and students at the school could be preaching, teaching and learning with greater ease, and the teaching models e-pesantren is also very useful, both for students and teachers (religion teacher), even for the managers of pesantren, of which is increasing prestige and institutional accountability. E-pesantren allows creating a system of distance education and virtual school / boarding. The integration of information and communication technology in education in schools is to improve the quality of education in schools and ease of propagation.

This research study is aimed at: (1) developing multimedia of English vocabulary instruction in yearfive of the elementary school, (2) revealing the quality of the developed instructional multimedia viewed from the aspects of content, instruction, appearance, and programming, (3) revealing the aspect of attraction of the developed instructional multimedia, and (4) revealing the learning mastery of the students after using the developed multimedia. This study was developmental research. The research validators included one expert in English education and one expert in instructional multimedia. The research subjects consisted of three students for the one-to-one try-out and twenty students for the large group try-out. The instruments employed in this study were a questionnaire, observation guide, and pre-test and post-test. The data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics. The findings of the study are: (1) the development of English vocabulary instructional multimedia in year-five of the elementary school proceeded in six steps, namely, analyzing, designing, producing, validating, revising, and trying-out; (2) the quality of the developed instructional multimedia viewed from the aspect of content, instructional, appearance, and programming is good. The score range of 1 to 5, the content aspect shows a mean score of 3.75, the instructional aspect shows a mean score of 3.71, the appearance aspect shows a mean score of 3.87, and the aspect of programming shows a mean score of 3.75; (3) the aspect of attractiveness shows that the developed instructional multimedia was very interesting: in the one-to-one tryout, of the three students observed, two students indicated that the product attraction was very interesting, and one student indicated that the product attraction was interesting; in the large group try-out, of the twenty students observed, twelve students indicated that the product was very interesting, and eight students indicated that the product was interesting; and (4) learning by using instructional multimedia has good impact on students’ mastery learning: in the large group try-out, out of twenty students, nineteen students (95%) have accomplished mastery learning in the English vocabulary instruction.

Humas dalam organisasi pemerintah merupakan bagian yang menyatu dalam mendukung keberhasilan implementasi dalam rangka pemerintahan yang baik dan pelayanan ekselen terhadap komunitas yang dibawahi pemerintah. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada Pusat Informasi Keagamaan dan Humas Kementrian Agama. Berdasarkan struktur organisasi Kementrian Agama, Pinmas di bawah sekretaris jenderal dan berada pada lavel eselon II. Lembaga ini bertugas menyebarkan informasi kepada publik mengenai Kementrian Agama. Metode kuantitatif digunakan untuk menjelaskan pengaruh posisi Humas dan penggunaan ragam komunikasi terhadap efektifitas Humas. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa pengaruh afektifitas Humas pada posisi 53.3%, yang termasuk dalam kategori pengaruh yang moderat. Uji hipotesis menunjukkan bahwa pengaruh penggunaan ragam komunikasi Humas pada efektifitas Humas adalah 71.4%, yang tergolong dalam pengaruh yang tinggi. Implikasinya adalah terdapat pengaruh yang kuat pada posisi Humas dan penggunaan ragaman komunikasi terhadap efektifitas komunikasinya.

Media literacy tells about how media has its functions in society. Media literacy movements have been designed to streamline the control of the audience as television viewers in the message exchange process. Media literacy movement underlines the efforts to protect the audience from the harmful effect of media messages. Women became the most potential ones since they have their most significant role, as a mother. Through the media literacy movement, the harmful content of media for the children can be addressed in a critical, smart and wise attitudes without having to dismiss or isolate thems from the era of information and globalization of the world.

Penelitian ini berkontribusi terhadap analisis 'official discourses' tentang dakwah dan 'lived religion' dikalangan gerakan-gerakan Islamis kontemporer. Penelitian ini mengkaji bagaimana dakwah gerakan Tarbiyah telah ditransformasikan oleh perubahan dinamika-dinamika keagamaan, sosial, ekonomi dan politik Indonesia sejak tahun 1980-an. Secara khusus, penelitian ini menguji aspek official discourse dan lived experiences terkait hubungan-hubungan dan ketegangan-ketegangan antara leaders dan members gerakan Tarbiyah. Berdasarkan penelitian etnografi di Jakarta, saya berpendapat bahwa walaupun persepsi gerakan Tarbiyah saat ini sering didominasi oleh agenda dakwah publik yang diasosiasikan dengan PKS, pengalaman yang nyata dari anggota dan mentor [perempuan] Liqo secara umum terus menekankan pada pengaruh dakwah terhadap kehidupan pribadi mereka.