Mugni Bustari

Brené Brown is vulnerability researcher, storyteller.  She explained that vulnerability related to fear, shame, something that we try to hide and don’t let everyone to see it. However, she said that it is important to let yourself be seen by others, especially in a connection or relationship. She also emphasises that vulnerability can be the source of creativity, love and sense belonging. I think this is a beautiful thought and a new perspective of vulnerability that I have ever known. At the closing of her speech, she mentioned that accepting that you are imperfect make you grateful and enjoy this life. Her explanation widens my understanding that vulnerability also has a positive side in people life, and I am not the one in this big world who have shame or fear. Remembering my old days, when I was an internship teacher. I was asked to teach Physics for grade 12 in a secondary school by a senior teacher because she could not attend the class. I had a free schedule, so I decided to...

Teaching Profession Code of Conduct describes a set of principles related to the professional conduct, personal conduct and professional competence expected of a teacher by their colleagues and the community. In the first section of professional conduct, regarding the relationship with learners, one of the principles is that teachers provide opportunities for all learners to learn. Through the lens of Nodding (2012), the attempts to provide opportunities for all learners by listening to the voiced and unvoiced needs of the students and create caring relationship. The failure to listen can cause suffer for students. Therefore, caring and personal relationship is important to avoid the assumed needs and respond the expressed needs of students. Caring is not about affection and empathy; it also involves the cognitive dimension that can help students find what they love in life as key happiness besides expecting a high score in a standardised test. Then, Victorian teachers are encouraged t...

      These three articles below proposed how schools as communities are very important, and schools are deeply woven into the fabric of society. The pandemic situation changes people perspective that “the old-fashioned school” is not totally failing, and there is no need to wish them away altogether.  Schools as communities are not the only site for teaching and learning, but it helps students to create connectedness and sense of belonging among students. These feelings are important for students because it is an essential element of humanity. The report from The Australian Council for Educational Research shows that there is a correlation between sense belonging and students’ outcome. The report also reveals that sense belonging increases students’ happiness as an individual. Making a connection with others and sense belonging is vital to helping us survive as social creatures because today, we live in the loneliness age that can kill us. Even though digital s...