Life Skills Potential Mapping of School Students in Rural and Urban Area

DOI

10.2991/icset-17.2017.57How to use a DOI?

Keywords

life skills, personal skills, social skills, rural schools, urban schools

Abstract

Education in rural area become a strategic issue in Indonesia's national development. The learning and occupational curriculum that orient towards life skills education is considered as appropriate for rural schools. The curriculum implementation requires precondition of potential student mapping. This study is intended to examine the differences in student's life skills potential in the rural and urban area for the curriculum effectiveness. With a survey method that involved Junior High School students in the rural and urban areas of Trenggalek and Ngawi regencies, East Java is known have life skills potential that include personal skills and social skills aspects that are different significantly. Of the nine aspects measured, in rural students, there are three aspects, namely independence, leadership, and co-operation with average score higher than urban students. While in the urban students there is no outstanding average score for all measured aspects.

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© 2017, 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  - Nurul Ulfatin
AU  - Amat Mukhadis
PY  - 2017/09
DA  - 2017/09
TI  - Life Skills Potential Mapping of School Students in Rural and Urban Area
BT  - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference for Science Educators and Teachers (ICSET 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 346
EP  - 352
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icset-17.2017.57
ID  - Ulfatin2017/09
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