Research Paper
Year: 2019 | Month: May | Volume: 6 | Issue: 5 | Pages: 327-332
Entrepreneurship Learning Based on Literacy Skill Conservation
Ihat Hatimah1, Yeti Mulyati2, Kuswara3
1Department of Community Education Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
2Department of Indonesian Language Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
3Center for Development of Early Childhood Education and Community Education of West Java
Corresponding Author: Ihat Hatimah
ABSTRACT
Basic literacy comprising reading, writing, and arithmetic skills that have been possessed by one illiterate must be maintained and improved so that relapsing does not take place. In other sides, the learning of literacy for adults’ learners must be meaningful, giving economical and living values enabling the learners to improve their living standards through entrepreneurship education oriented to culture and local potential. These two combinations are the bases for the choice of education model in this study and is called entrepreneurship education based on literacy program. By combining these two aspects in its implementation, the learners are expected to be able to maintain and improve their possessed literacy and their entrepreneurship ability based on culture and local potential. This study employed descriptive analytical method. Involving 100 learners from three groups of Community Learning Centers in Pantura area, including Community Learning Center of Family Indramayu Regency, Community Learning Center of Bina Kreatif Bahari of Cirebon Regency, and Community Learning Center of Bima Sakti of Subang Regency as the source of data, this study revealed that entrepreneurship education based on literacy program could improve the ability of learners in reading, writing, and arithmetic.
Key words: Entrepreneurship , literacy conservation, local potential
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