Start Date
6-6-2013 11:05 AM
End Date
6-6-2013 12:15 PM
Description
Community Service Learning Program (CSLP) is one of curricular programs that aims at developing the students’ characters as a whole person (character education). Character education in Sanata Dharma University focuses on developing the three aspect of human character, i.e., competence, conscience, and compassion. In CSLP, the process of character education is carried out in two aspects: professional competence and personality development. In CSLP, professional competence is developed through learning how to implement their professional knowledge in the contextual situation in a selected community. Whereas the personality education is meant to develop the students’ sensitivity and cares for others To achieve this goal CSLP is carried out in a 28-days-live-in program to give the students working-in-a team opportunity to intensively interact with the community, as well as the team members, as a part of the character building process. They have to cooperate and work together to analyze either the real social problems or potentials, and then they have to carry out recovery or development programs. Therefore, this program also aims at developing students’ critical thinking in comprehensively analyzing the problems and potentials, and interdisciplinary proposing the solution in recovery and development programs. CSLP is conducted in USD twice a year since 1990, in the period of June-August and December-February. The community is selected based on specific needs to which the students can give their service. In the current time, starting in 2011, as a response to the impacts of mount Merapi eruption in October 2010 to the community, CSLP is conducted in Cangkringan villages, one of the worst areas of Mount Merapi eruption 2010 in which thousands of people live in shelters since they have lost their houses. Doing this program, students will work for those people proposing a variety of post-eruption recovery programs, especially in forty villages at the Mount Merapi slope in Cangkringan, Sleman Regency. Within the paradigm of sustainable development, the Center for Community Service Learning Program of Sanata Dharma University together with the communities develop the recovery and community development programs in these forty villages into a Roadmap of The Community Service to be implemented in five years.
Recommended Citation
Aji, G. P., Wijayanti, L. W., & Kurniawati, L. (2013, June). Community service learning: Recovery and community empowerment of the post merapi eruption. Paper presented at the 4th Asia-Pacific Regional Conference on Service-Learning: Service-Learning as a Bridge from Local to Global: Connected world, Connected future, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, China.
Included in
Community service learning : recovery and community empowerment of the post merapi eruption
Community Service Learning Program (CSLP) is one of curricular programs that aims at developing the students’ characters as a whole person (character education). Character education in Sanata Dharma University focuses on developing the three aspect of human character, i.e., competence, conscience, and compassion. In CSLP, the process of character education is carried out in two aspects: professional competence and personality development. In CSLP, professional competence is developed through learning how to implement their professional knowledge in the contextual situation in a selected community. Whereas the personality education is meant to develop the students’ sensitivity and cares for others To achieve this goal CSLP is carried out in a 28-days-live-in program to give the students working-in-a team opportunity to intensively interact with the community, as well as the team members, as a part of the character building process. They have to cooperate and work together to analyze either the real social problems or potentials, and then they have to carry out recovery or development programs. Therefore, this program also aims at developing students’ critical thinking in comprehensively analyzing the problems and potentials, and interdisciplinary proposing the solution in recovery and development programs. CSLP is conducted in USD twice a year since 1990, in the period of June-August and December-February. The community is selected based on specific needs to which the students can give their service. In the current time, starting in 2011, as a response to the impacts of mount Merapi eruption in October 2010 to the community, CSLP is conducted in Cangkringan villages, one of the worst areas of Mount Merapi eruption 2010 in which thousands of people live in shelters since they have lost their houses. Doing this program, students will work for those people proposing a variety of post-eruption recovery programs, especially in forty villages at the Mount Merapi slope in Cangkringan, Sleman Regency. Within the paradigm of sustainable development, the Center for Community Service Learning Program of Sanata Dharma University together with the communities develop the recovery and community development programs in these forty villages into a Roadmap of The Community Service to be implemented in five years.