Abstract
The 21st-century skill that guides a person to achieve success in his social life is social skill. This study aims to describe learning that influences the social skills of elementary school students. Social skill indicators include cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self-control. Qualitative research method with a case study approach was employed. The subjects involved the students, teachers, and school principals at Bengawan Solo Nature School. The sampling technique was purposive. The data collection techniques were in-depth interviews, non-participant observation, and document studies. Then, they were analyzed into stages: data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing or verification. The results show that (1) lesson planning must involve students, be guided by the national and school curriculum, and the teacher must also have broad insights to develop learning materials that raise the themes of social environment; (2) learning implementation must have diverse methods, models, media, and the sources of student learning must involve parents and provide diverse activities such as outbound, market day, backpacking, social service, social projects, and counseling; and (3) for learning evaluation, various methods of evaluation and various assessment instruments are used to assess cognitive aspects, affective aspects, and skill aspects comprehensively. It concludes that learning at Bengawan Solo Nature School influences the development of students' social skills.
Highlights
In this 21st century, education is essential to ensure students have the skills to learn, innovate, use technology and information media, work and survive
Life skills are the skills of a person to be willing and brave in facing life's problems appropriately without any pressure and to seek and find solutions to solve the problems in life proactively and creatively [2]
Based on the explanation above, this study aims to describe learning that has an impact on the social skills of elementary school students
Summary
In this 21st century, education is essential to ensure students have the skills to learn, innovate, use technology and information media, work and survive. Social skills are a component of social behavior that is needed by individuals to interact socially to get positive feedback from others and avoid the negative effects [5],[6]. This is as stated by [7] that social skills are behaviors that are oriented to social norms and depend on the social context. Social skills are behaviors that are analyzed from the perspective of social reasoning [8] It means that a person's social behavior that includes observable and unobservable social and emotional skills is assessed based on positive, neutral, or negative responses from the community [9]
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