Profile of Students Prospective Teacher’s Foundational Critical Attitude of Educational Utopia

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to uncover the construction and profile of the student's fundamental educational utopian critical attitude (SKFUP) at a university. The fundamentalist critical attitude of the educational utopia is an attitude that will build optimism and hope for a complete and ideal educational system in the future. Some aspects of SKIFUP are 1) positive views on God, 2) social connectivity, 3) selfefficacy, 4) critical-reflective thinking, 5) Influencers (hardiness), 6) Endurance (foremost) and 7) creative in problem solving. This research method is a descriptive method with a quantitative approach involving a survey as a strategy of data collection carried out through a questionnaire constructed comprehensively, tested for validity and reliability. The research sample was chosen randomly involving 152 respondents of LPTK (Teacher Training Education Institution) students who came from social-humanities and vocational-science groups. The results showed that 50% of respondents had SKIFUP in the medium category, the remaining 25 were in the low category and 25% were in the highest category. Based on the building aspects of SKIFUP, the creative problem solver aspect is the lowest, and the highest is the positive view of God. There are differences in the SKIFUP profile among students from the social-humanities, scientific community and students from engineering sciences, where students from social-humanities sciences have higher average scores in most aspects of SKIFUP. The conclusion of this study is that teacher and education students need to have SKFUP so that in the future they can become educators and educational personnel who have high enthusiasm and utopia in building a better education system. It is recommended that a number of aspects and indicators that construct SKIFUP obtain appropriate educational treatment, one of which is proposed a model of critical awareness education.