LOCAL CULTURE AND MORALITY ATTACHMENT TO TPACK FRAMEWORK OF PRE-SERVICE ENGLISH TEACHERS WITHIN THE CHALENGE OF THE 21ST CENTURY SKILLS
ABSTRACT: In 2045, Indonesia
is determined to have a golden generation in order to improve the nation's competitiveness.
However, in reality the condition of teenagers today is very alarming. The data
show about 93 out of 100 elementary school students have already consumed
pornography; about 21 out of 100 young women have abortions; some 135 teenagers
become victims of violence every day; 5 out of 100 adolescents contract
sexually transmitted diseases; 63 out of 100 teens have sex before marriage.
School teachers should take active roles in minimizing such unhappy figure and
prepare the golden generation. This article proposes local culture and local
moral to complete the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK+)
within the challenge of the 21st century skills. The objectives are to provide
pre-service English Teachers at Universitas PGRI Semarang and pre-service
English teachers in general with the ability to develop English course content
in the students’ cultural context as well as local characters and to equip the
pre-service teachers with the 21st century skills. The subjects were 345
pre-service English Teachers who took the TEFL, Teaching Media, and ESP Courses
during the academic year of 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. The data were collected
through observation, teaching practice, and self-evaluation. The results show
84.92% of the students were included under the category of “good” and “very
good” in pedagogical skills, 77.38 % in pedagogical content knowledge, and
87.53 % in cultural and local wisdom context in content development, but only
51.58% in technological knowledge. For improving technological knowledge of the
pre-service students, there should be more training on the use of technology
before and during the process of teaching and learning of pre-service English
teachers.
KEYWORDS: ethnopedagogy;
technological pedagogical content knowledge; pre-service English teachers; 21st
century skill
Author: Akmal
Journal Code: jppendidikangg170005
