Problem-solving is one of the skills that is crucial to equip students to face a variety of challenges in the future as well as related to the development of their lifelong literacy skills. One of the potential solutions for promoting students’ problem-solving skills is introducing Computational Thinking. However, in the context of schools in East Kalimantan, both teachers and students have not been familiar with Computational Thinking. Therefore, this current pilot study aimed at introducing Computational Thinking to teachers, especially primary school teachers, by developing a workshop and a module suitable to the local contexts and needs. This study involved 22 primary school teachers from Kutai Kartanegara Regency who had no prior knowledge and experience concerning Computational Thinking. The teachers were trained the basic concepts of CT and how to implement CT in the class especially in relation to literacy aspects. Afterwards, the teachers were assigned to develop a CT-infused lesson and did a self-reflection on the process. The findings from the post-workshop questionnaires indicated that most teachers showed positive attitudes towards CT and implementing CT in their lessons. Furthermore, they also voiced out that they would like to learn further about CT, particularly related to Literacy and the Minimum Competency Assessment (AKM).
Education is a critical area in promoting gender equality to the young generation of this country. The curriculum that promotes gender equality could be represented in a textbook as a teaching material resource commonly used in Indonesia. This study is a critical discourse analysis that examines the gender representation in the English textbook for the third grade of primary school in order to discover whether or not the textbook promotes gender equality. The data were collected from “Grow With English” English book 3 published by Erlangga Publisher. The data in the forms of pictures, words, phrases, and sentences were then analyzed qualitatively by using Fairclough’s three dimensional frameworks and Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics. The findings revealed that: the examined textbook represents genders equally in terms of the quantity in which females and males are portrayed equally in pictorial representation and names of characters. In terms of social roles of job positions, male and female are also portrayed occupying various professional occupations such as doctors, fire fighters, police officers, and so on. However, the portrayals of male and female in domestic roles and activities are still stereotypical in which females are portrayed doing more domestic activities and less active, while males are portrayed doing more active outdoor activities. These results may have the implication that the English teachers for young learners could improvise by providing more understanding about gender equality while using the textbook.
Background: National Education Day, the most important day for education in Indonesia, serves as the chief podium for the minister of education. Analyzing Nadiem Makarim’s speech through the viewpoint of Fairclough, who offers a three-dimensional framework for text and discourse, was the focus of critical discourse analysis. Methodology: This study uses a descriptive qualitative method by conducting a Critical Discourse Analysis approach. The data for this research is a transcript of Nadiem Makarim's speech at the time of National Education Day 2022 and analyzed through data reduction, data display, and drawing the conclusion. Findings: At the micro-level, Nadiem Makarim’s speech employed diction to emphasize the position of the people who would be participating in his speech. The lexical structures used are polysemy, metonymy, synonym, collocation, and a contrasting conjunction. At mezzo-level, the text was a transcript that was published on May 12, 2022, on the websites. At macro-level, the speech was given during the National Education Day ceremony, demonstrates the situational level. The institutional level proved during his tenure gave the speech. The social level demonstrates that both the audiences' and all Indonesians' reactions to Minister’s speech were positive and negative. Conclusion: With his speech, Nadiem Anwar Makarim received special attention from the community because of his role as an important person. The information he conveyed has made the researchers find the macro, mezzo, and micro levels. It is important to know the meaning of the speech so the listeners may have a different perspective in give their opinion. Originality: This research uses the newest National Education Day 2022 speech by Nadiem Makarim and the Critical Discourse Analysis approach to get the micro, mezzo and macro levels.
<em>The present study investigates the kind of sexism reflected in the companion textbook used in Senior High School: the frequency of female and male occurrences, the female and male titles, the graphic depiction of females and men, the masculine pronoun tendency, activities, and social-domestic roles throughout the description phase. It also examines how occupational gender stereotypes are portrayed in textbooks. This analysis was conducted by applying Fairclough's three-dimensional analysis and Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics. Finally, this research indicated that textbooks had a sexist mindset characterized by gender marginalization, gender subordination, gender stereotypes, cultural sexism, and sex-based work segregation. The textbooks were biased toward females by depicting females less frequently than males in pictorial representation (58.48 vs 33.97 percent); the titles Mr. and Mrs. were used inconsistently, and there were 12 instances of masculine pronoun tendency, representation of activities, and social-domestic roles that perpetuate female subordination. The research also found that there were considerably fewer images of women than males in the public domain, suggesting that women in traditional gender roles such as cooking and caring for children were far more prevalent. In terms of occupational gender stereotypes, the survey indicated that male jobs were more prevalent and diversified than female ones. In terms of social duties, men were found to have a greater selection of occupations than females</em>.
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