Democratic Learning in Elementary Schools

This study aimed to investigate democratic learning in elementary schools. It focused on: (1) students’ participation in learning, (2) rights and obligations in learning, (3) empowering students in learning, (4) the interaction between teachers and students, and (5) learning management. This was qualitative research, which employed a case study approach. The data were collected through observations and interviews with school principals, teachers, and students at elementary schools in Yogyakarta. The data were analyzed using the interaction model of Miles and Huberman. The results showed that most of the elementary schools in Yogyakarta have implemented democratic learning, including through different modes of student participation in learning, rights and obligations in learning, empowering students in learning, the interaction between teachers and students, and in learning management. Keywords: democratic learning, student, elementary school

Workshop model pembelajaran demokrasi guru sekolah dasar di Jawa Tengah

The aim of this community service is to provide a democracy learning model workshop for elementary school teachers in Central Java. This activity is to socialize and practice the skills of the democratic learning model at the elementary level. In this activity, 26 elementary school teachers participated by online (Zoom Application). This community service is carried out in the form of a workshop with the first stage in the form of lecturing, questions and answers, and discussions. While the next stage is in the form of practice. Based on the implementation of this community service, it can be concluded that: first, this workshop is able to improve the knowledge and skills of elementary school teachers in Central Java of democracy learning model. This workshop also produced a video product of the steps of the democracy learning model. This workshop was considered success because all participants participated fully.

Perceptions and Beliefs of EFL Students Regarding Classroom Assessment at a Colombian University

The higher education institution, where the present study is conducted, proposes in its school handbook that a formative and democratic learning assessment approach should prevail in all academic activities. In the English as a Foreign Language TeacherEducation Program at this university, eighty percent of students’ grades come from summative testing, and the teachers are the ones who regularly make the decisions regarding any assessment criteria. That is, the formative and democratic componentsare not present in the process. To delve deeper into these aspects, we have inquired students on their perceptions and beliefs concerning classroom assessment and suggestions to improve the process. A small-scale qualitative research study wasconducted with 49 participants. The data collected through questionnaires, focus-group interviews, and narratives allowed us to organize the findings according to three emerging categories: students’ perceptions of assessment as Assessment of Learning (aol), Assessment for Learning (afl), and suggestions for improving the overall language evaluation process. The different concepts provided by the participants go from believing that classroom evaluation constitutes a procedure to elicit rote reproduction to that of perceiving it as an opportunity to enhance students’ formation. Actions for improving assessmentgo from particular procedural aspects to those related to a more general approach.

Memperkuat Islam Moderat Melalui Metode Pembelajaran Demokrasi di Madrasah Ibtidaiyah

This paper aims to promote the implementation of the concept of strengthening moderate Islam through democratic learning in Islamic elementary schools. The ease of internet access and remote communication, as the effect of globalization in the field of technology, can be used to gain any information needed, including the Islamic knowledge that can be freely learned without teachers. A literature study was employed to describe the data related to the internalization of moderate Islam and democratic learning. The findings demonstrate that moderate Islam (tawasuth) is a life principle that upholds justice in social life. The values of moderate Islam can be internalized in the school curriculum as a reinforcement starting from the elementary school level through implementing democratic learning. This application can be carried out through various methods such as discussion, question and answer, group work, and simulation. The implementation of democratic learning encourages communicative relationships between teachers and students, fosters friendship, and enhances the value of ‘ukhuwah’ (good relations). Furthermore, these methods emphasize student-centered learning. This study also illustrates that democratic learning provides a wide array of opportunities for students to creatively and critically express their ideas and thoughts in their own learning styles.

PERAN GURU PROFESIONAL SEBAGAI FASILITATOR DAN KOMUNIKATOR DALAM KEGIATAN BELAJAR MENGAJAR

the role of professional teachers in carrying out activities as educators obligate to have a capability in the learning plan, performing the learning activities, and evaluate learning outcomes. Professional teachers have to own competence, both personal competence, pedagogical competence, and social competence. There are several important roles for a professional teacher that are as a leader, guide, supervisor, counselor, expeditor, motivator, facilitator, and communicator. The role of the teacher as a facilitator to provide great service with the aim of providing convenience to students in teaching and learning activities, to realize teachers as facilitators, teacher needs to provide various learning resources and learning media that are relevant as well as make active learning, innovative, creative and fun. Whereas, the teacher as a communicator in teaching and learning activities that the relationship between the teacher and students is not only "top-down" but a partnership, through the partnership model the teacher will act as a guide and companion in teaching and learning activities so that created a delight and democratic learning atmosphere.

‘Democracy builders’: Conflictivity and democratic learning in the educational and cultural spheres during the late-Francoist and Transition periods

The early 1960s in Spain saw the beginnings of a cycle of protest against the dictatorship of Francisco Franco that would end by rendering its continuity unviable after the dictator’s death in 1975. The process of building democracy was undertaken bidirectionally, both from ‘above’ and from ‘below’, and it involved multiple actors. This article pays special attention to those ‘democratizing agents’ in civil society who acted in the cultural and educational spheres, as teachers, students, protest singers or members of the cultural centres and neighbourhood associations that emerged at that time, especially in rural Andalusia. It argues that through day-to-day micro-conflicts and micro-mobilizations, those actors acquired and transmitted civic–democratic guidelines and values.

Principals’ Perspectives on Pupils’ Social Learning in Swedish School-Age Educare

This article aims to investigate social learning in the Swedish school-age educare (SAEC) from a number of principals’ perspectives. An abductive approach has been adopted to analyse the data from individual interviews with seven principals in school-age educare. The results are understood through an interactionist perspective, with Bronfenbrenner’s (2005) bioecological system theory as a raster, which gives a didactic view on the principals’ governing of the SAEC. Three themes were identified in the principals’ perspectives, which are the core aim of the work in the SAEC, the staff’s approach and pupils’ democratic learning. The results suggest that the perspective of the principals is characterized by having the pupil in focus.