Multiethnic Students Nowadays: How Project-Based Practicum Bridges the Collaboration Gap Among Four Ethnic Pre-Service Biology Teachers

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10.2991/978-2-38476-275-0_11How to use a DOI?

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Biology learning; collaboration skill; multiethnic student; project-based practicum

Abstract

As a country with diverse cultures, Indonesia has many ethnicities that create multiethnic conditions. In an educational context, those conditions could cause a learning gap among the ethnicities involved. Educational development nowadays emphasizes not only the importance of improving various thinking skills but also other factors that are considered to influence learning. Some efforts to improve education by considering ethnicity factors are deemed necessary. We have four different ethnic groups of pre-service biology teachers- Javanese, Malay, Madura, and Flores- where these ethnicities often show low collaboration in course learning. Therefore, this research aims to reveal the potential of project-based practice in a multiethnic class condition. This study also portrays pre-service biology teachers’ reflections on their experiences with project-based practice. We found an interesting result that the project-based practice had the potential to empower collaboration skills and did not show any gap in the results of collaboration among the four different ethnicities involved. Furthermore, the findings of this research can be used as input for teachers in developing forms of practicum to increase the variety of students’ thinking skills and, at the same time, can be carried out in multiethnic classroom conditions.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Paramitha Cahyani
AU  - Aloysius Duran Corebima
AU  - Ermin Ermin
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/07/31
TI  - Multiethnic Students Nowadays: How Project-Based Practicum Bridges the Collaboration Gap Among Four Ethnic Pre-Service Biology Teachers
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematics and Science Education (ICoMSE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 127
EP  - 139
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-275-0_11
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-275-0_11
ID  - Cahyani2024
ER  -