Awareness Education by Paulo Freire in the Novel Laskar Pelangi and Negeri 5 Menara

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10.2991/978-2-38476-038-1_10How to use a DOI?

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Education; Naive Awareness; Magical Awareness; Critical Awareness

Abstract

This research is based on the ongoing issues with education in Indonesia. These problems have inspired Indonesian novelists to address the issue of education in their works. The novels are: (1) Laskar Pelangi, and (2) Negeri 5 Menara. This type of research is descriptive qualitative research. Research information is present in the two novels as words, sentences, and paragraphs with educational value. Data analysis methods include text analysis, literature analysis, data presentation, data reduction, data organization, data interpretation, and research findings conclusions. The findings of the data analysis demonstrate that education, in essence, has no bounds because the standard of living keeps rising. The issue with education is not just imparting knowledge, but also teaching students how to interact with and converse with the circumstances of the time. The discussion is based on awareness education developed by Paulo Freire. According to Freire, this form of education is based on human awareness, which has three different aspects: naive consciousness which sees humans as the root cause of problems, magic consciousness in the form of public awareness that is unable to see the link between one factor and another, critical consciousness (critical consciousness), namely awareness that sees the system as a source of problems. To achieve all of this awareness, students need a critical education grounded in social realities rather than a “banking style” education, which will only produce robots with no understanding of the social realities they must contend with. Education that can engage in critical reflection on the “dominant ideology” that currently governs society, confront unfair systems, and consider alternate systems in the hope of bringing about social change and the creation of a just society.

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