An analysis of the impact on elementary teachers of an Aid program delivered in Indonesian Papua.

DOI

10.2991/iceri-18.2019.22How to use a DOI?

Keywords

pedagogy, professional learning, y-chart, GPFD, non-GPFD

Abstract

In 2014, an Australian Aid program commenced implementation in Indonesian Papua. The Government Partnership for Development (GPFD) program engaged with teachers, principals and teacher educators from a range of schools and institutions in Indonesian Papua. This professional learning/training program was presented by lecturers and associated staff from an Australian university. The program offered a range of sub-programs in two-week blocks within the Papuan regency. This research has a focus only on the teacher participants. Data were also collected from colleagues of the GPFD teachers who were at the same school yet not as recipients (non-GPFD teachers) of the teacher training program, enabling a comparison. The Y-chart has been used in published research by [1] ensuring any difficulties with language intent were avoided. Native Indonesian speakers (from Papua) were trained as enumerators, further showing that the problems of the local languages were clearly understood by the researchers who were from Central Java and Australia. The study found differences between the GPFD and non-GPFD teachers in many dimensions that were reported. It was noted that the GPFD teachers were frequently having rigorous conversations and exchanges with non-GPFD teachers, leading to positive changes in pedagogical approaches for both groups. There was a singular research question: To what extent did the program make a difference to educators who participated in the teacher training?

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Stefanus Relmasira
AU  - Rose Thrupp
AU  - John Hunt Hunt
PY  - 2019/07
DA  - 2019/07
TI  - An analysis of the impact on elementary teachers of an Aid program delivered in Indonesian Papua.
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Educational Research and Innovation (ICERI 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 379
EP  - 384
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/iceri-18.2019.22
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