How to Build Political Knowledge in School? A Pedagogical Effort through Civic Education Beti Indah Sari; Wibowo Heru Prasetiyo
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia; Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta
Abstract
Building political literacy within formal education has become urgent for the democratization process in Indonesia. Socialization of democratic values is the mission of civic education, both at the international level and in Indonesia itself. It has given civic education a central position to create smart and good young citizens in case to developing democratic citizens. This urgency became the foundation in this research to find alternative learning model for institutionalization process of demograpic values, especially in improving the students political literacy. This research describes the learning process of civic education teachers in SMAN Mojoagung, Jombang, East Java using quasi-experimental method. The population of the study were students of SMAN Mojoagung in the academic year 2015/2016, while the sample were class XI SMAN Mojoagung students, collected using purposive sampling technique. The selection of students at the high school level was based on the idea that they have rights as voters when there is an election. The right reflects the praxis of political participation which is the output of democratic education. The output can be obtained if the input in the form of political knowledge has been successfully transferred to the students. The instrument used in collecting the data was an objective test, while the data was analyzed using the test of data gain normality that was normalized (N-Gain). The results of this research showed that 1) there is a significant difference of political knowledge between students who used comic as their media and those who did not use comic media, 2) there is effect of using comic as their media can increase the political knowledge of the students.
Keywords: civic learning, comic media, learning media, political knowledge
Topic: The Role of Citizens in Strengthening Democratic Citizenship and Human Rights
