Authors:
Bagus Haryono
and
Ahmad Zuber
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Universitas Sebelas Maret, Surakarta and Indonesia
Keyword(s):
Democratic; Education; Consciousness; Action; Participatory
Abstract:
The purpose of this research is to describe the transformation process awareness, attitude and action of the urban people, especially how they can counter the injustice related to the construction and deconstruction process of the telecommunication tower building. What the democratic efforts conducting by the people against the injustice issue, and how they can generate the critical awareness in order to be actualized in participatory action. Research and development are conducted in the Surakarta city. Data were collected by questionnaire, observation, interview, and focus group discussion. Developmental research is designed by quasi-experiment, implemented the pre-test, treatment and post-test design. The informant consists of 30 people that involved in their act against injustice. The result found that the treatment has a positive impact in the education transformation process, when they can convert the naive to be the critical awareness, ranging from the thinking toward acting le
vel, from idea toward reality, the initiative changes from the top-down toward bottom-up, and the people understanding changes from the passive toward the active actors, and the paradigm changes where the actor seen as the objects to be replaced the subject of research, and any activities changes from repressive to democratic, from passive voice replaced by participatory action. Overall changes demonstrated by the significant people movement started from the establishment, counter-effort, and deconstruction process of the telecommunication tower building.
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