The Interpretation of “Local” Literacy Practices through Ethnography

Ethnography is a practice of inscribing local practice into texts, developed in the context of social anthropology. Local literacy practices often remain hidden, dependent on context and shaped by histories and cultures. Literacy is entwined with how lives are lived. Collaborative ethnography enables an approach that permits researchers to collaboratively develop research questions with participants and, rather than researching on people, researchers work with people as coresearchers. Local literacy practices are situated in homes and communities as well as within everyday contexts such as markets and mosques. Community literacy practices can be collaboratively understood and studied using this approach. Communities experience and practice diverse and multiple literacies, both locally and transnationally, and mapping this diversity is key to an understanding of the fluid and changing nature of literacies. Literacies can be understood as being multilingual, digital, transnational, and multimodal, thus expanding the concept of literacy as lived within communities. Threaded through this analysis is a discussion of power and whose literacy practices are seen as powerful within community contexts. Collaborative ethnography is a powerful methodology to excavate and co-analyze community literacy practices. Other methods that can explore local literacies include visual and sensory ethnography. Power sharing in terms of the design and architecture of the research is important for hearing voices and working equitably. There are many concepts introduced within, including the idea of literacy practices, the link between literacy and identity, the importance of an understanding of multilingualism, and the importance of situating literacy in communities.

Literasi Media Digital Pada Komunitas Pariwisata di Kawasan Danau Toba

Lake Toba region is included in one of the 10 priority tourism destination locations. To answer the challenges of changing world tourism trends that utilize digital technology, several strategies must be carried out. In digitizing the process, it is necessary to involve the local community in formulating regulations, strengthening value chain partnerships between businesses in the tourism sector, increasing motivation and enabling the community through various kinds of assistance and training. Therefore, research is conducted that has the aim to develop the tourism potential of the Lake Toba Region through digitalization with the concept of community empowerment. As the output of this research, a community will be formed in each Lake Toba District, so that based on this community various development policies and strategies can be formulated in overcoming problems and developing the tourism sector in the Lake Toba region. Keywords: Community Based Tourism, Digitalization, Lake Toba, Local community, Literacy

Integrasi Program Sadar Wisata Dalam Membangun Kesadaran Literasi Di Desa Nglanggeran

AbstrakEra disrupsi ini Indonesia tidak hanya mengalami krisis ekonomi, namun juga krisis literasi. Fakta ini didasarkan pada riset Central Connecticut State University 2016, yang mengatakan bahwa literasi Indonesia berada di tingkat kedua terbawah dari 61 negara. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, kegiatan ini bertujuan membangun kesadaran literasi masyarakat melalui keterpaduan program kelompok sadar wisata dan organisasi karangtaruna. Untuk dapat membuat deskripsi, gambaran, atau lukisan secara sistematis, faktual dan akurat mengenai fakta-fakta, sifat-sifat serta hubungan antarfenomena yang di amati, maka peneliti menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Sehingga kegiatan sarasehan dan pendampingan sebagai satu bentuk aktivitas dalam pengumpulan data kepada masyarakat yang kemudian di analisis interaktif sesuai dengan metode deskriptif kualitatif yang kemudian menghasilkan pembentukan (1) Rintisan kemitraan antara kelompok sadar wisata dan generasi muda yang tergabung dalam organisasi karang taruna agar secara langsung terlibat dalam mengembangkan edukasi wisata. (2) Kelompok sadar wisata dalam membangun kesadaran literasi masyarakat bersama dengan Taman Bacaan Masyarakat merupakan kolaborasi yang saling menguatkan. (3) Gerakan masyarakat dalam bentuk tulisan-tulisan penyemangat akan nilai keindahan, kebersihan, ramah, etika yang diletakkan di sudut-sudut jalan serta pengadaan buku informatif tentang geopark Nglenggeran di beberapa omah (homestay) merupakan gagasan yang layak didukung oleh pemerintah setempat. Membangun kesadaran literasi bagi seluruh masyarakat menjadi penting terutama dalam mensikapi berkembangnya desa wisata dengan potensi alam yang begitu mempesona wisatawan. Untuk itulah kolaborasi kelompok sadar wisata dengan program pengembangan yang didukung taman bacaan masyarakat yang memenuhi kebutuhan belajar masyarakat kaitannya dengan gerakan mendukung desa wisataINTEGRATION OF TOURISM AWARENESS PROGRAMS IN BUILDING LITERATION AWARENESS IN NGLANGGERAN VILLAGEAbstractIn this era of disruption, Indonesia is not only experiencing an economic crisis, but also a literacy crisis. This fact is based on a 2016 Central Connecticut State University research, which states that Indonesian literacy is in the second lowest level of 61 countries. Based on this, this activity aims to build awareness of community literacy through integrated tourism awareness group programs and youth organizations. To be able to make a systematic, factual and accurate description, description or painting of the facts, properties and relationships between observed phenomena, the researcher uses a qualitative approach. So that the workshop and mentoring activities as a form of activity in collecting data to the community are then analyzed in accordance with the qualitative descriptive method which then results in the formation of (1) Pioneering partnerships between tourism awareness groups and the young generation who are members of the youth organization to be directly involved in developing tourism education. (2) The tourism awareness group in building community literacy awareness together with Community Reading Gardens is a mutually reinforcing collaboration. (3) Community movements in the form of encouraging writings on the values of beauty, cleanliness, friendliness, ethics placed on street corners and the procurement of informative books about the Nglenggeran geopark in several homestays are ideas that deserve to be supported by the local government. Building literacy awareness for the entire community is important, especially in response to the development of tourist villages with natural potential that fascinates tourists. For this reason, the collaboration of tourism awareness groups with development programs supported by community reading gardens that meet the learning needs of the community in relation to the movement to support tourism villages

Development of "Litera-Preneur" in Rumah Kreatif Wadas Kelir South Purwokerto-Banyumas Regency

ABSTRAK Literasi yang menjadi salah satu wacana populer dan digaungkan oleh berbagai pihak dikembangkan oleh sebuah komunitas di Purwokerto bernama RKWK. Selain berfokus pada pengembangan literasi masyarakat, RKWK juga membidik industry kreatif berbasis literasi yang disebut dengan konsep “litera-preneur”. Tulisan ini fokus membahas tentang upaya-upaya yang dilakukan di RKWK dalam mengelola dan menerap-kembangkan konsep “litera-preneur” dalam kehidupan komunitas mereka hingga mampu memberi dampak bagi lini kehidupan kognisi sekaligus kehidupan ekonomi para pelakunya. Kegiatan pengembangan litera-preneur di RKWK dilakukan dengan beberapa poin penting di antaranya meningkatkan kompetensi keilmuan (kognisi) serta pengembangan kreativitas melalui kegiatan-kegaiatan pelatihan dan pendampingan, kegiatan komunitas berfokus pada pengembangan komunitas berbasis kreativitas dan literasi, dan program-program yang dilaksanakan di RKWK dibuat sesuai dengan potensi dan minat para anggotanya. ABSTRACT Literacy, which has become a popular discourse and echoed by various parties, was developed by a community in Purwokerto called RKWK. Apart from focusing on the development of community literacy, RKWK also targets literacy-based creative industries which are called the concept of "literature-preneur". This paper focuses on discussing the efforts made at RKWK in managing and implementing the concept of "literature-preneur" in their community life so that it can have an impact on the line of cognitive life as well as the economic life of the actors. Literature development activities at RKWK are carried out with several important points including increasing scientific competence (cognition) and developing creativity through training and mentoring activities, community activities focused on community development based on creativity and literacy, and programs implemented at RKWK made according to the potential and interests of its members.

PENDAMPINGAN PEMBELAJARAN SERTA UPAYA PENINGKATAN FASILITAS DI DESA KRATON MASA PANDEMI COVID-19

AbstrakTujuan dari artikel ini adalah memberikan pengetahuan dan pemahaman kepada masyarakat tentang pentingnya pendidikan pada situasi saat ini. Kegiatan ini dilakukan oleh Universitas PGRI Wiranegara Pasuruan di desa Kraton Kecamatan Kraton, Kabupaten Pasuruan selama masa pandemi ini. Adapun program kegiatan yang dilaksanakan antara lain (1) Pendampingan pembelajaran, (2) peningkatan fasilitas pendidikan, (3) menumbuhkan minat membaca pada masyarakat (literasi), (4) memberikan pemahaman tentang pentingnya pendidikan di masa kini. Metode yang digunakan program ini adalah (1) memberikan pendampingan pembelajaran secara langsung kepada siswa yang biasanya memanfaatkan balai desa untuk belajar, (2) mengajak langsung kepada siswa untuk berlajar bersama, (3) mengajak masyarakat untuk lebih giat dalam mendukung pendidikan putra-putri mereka untuk bersekolah hingga kuliah, (4) menfasilitasi bahan literasi untuk menambah wawasan dan pemahaman. Dari keempat program tersebut telah terlaksana dengan baik serta memberikan manfaat dan dampat posistif bagi masyarakat desa Kraton.AbstractThe purpose of this article is to provide knowledge and understanding to the public about the importance of education in the current situation carried out by students of the PGRI Wiranegara Pasuruan University in Kraton Village, Kraton District, Pasuruan Regency during this pandemic. The program of activities carried out include (1) learning assistance, (2) improving learning facilities, (3) fostering interest in reading in the community (literacy), (4) providing an understanding of the importance of education in the present. The method used in this program is (1) providing direct learning assistance to students who usually use the village hall to learn, (2) inviting students directly to study together, (3) inviting the community to be more active in supporting their children's education to school to college, (4) facilitating reading material to add insight and understanding. Of the four programs, they have been well implemented and have provided positive benefits and impacts to the Kraton village community.

Family Literacy and Social Justice

The new Common Core State Standards are shifting education in a powerful way. Specifically, they are now tasking university teacher educators, K-12 administrators, and teachers to equip students with lifelong literacy skills. Students must learn skills such as how to develop effective argumentation and analyze and interpret complex texts. While such tasks can be quite daunting for the average monolingual speaker, they are even more challenging for children and families who do not speak English as a first language. This chapter examines the development of an eight-week intergenerational family literacy program: Teaching the Acquisition of Language Through English and Storytelling (T.A.L.E.S.). Through the use of the arts and storytelling, families were able to cultivate their bilingual voices and celebrate their multicultural identities. This chapter explores how such programs may be used as a vehicle for social justice, designed to integrate a community literacy model in which all stakeholders are accountable.