STRATEGI PEMBELAJARAN MELALUI KEARIFAN LOKAL UNTUK MASYARAKAT DI KABUPATEN NIAS

Abstract

Public schools in Amandraya of Southern Nias are until now lacks of available teachers although they have helped by local churches. Drawing lesson for elementary students is tought as a media to learn to appreciate their daily lives, yet it still use few local culture contents. On the other side, farmers of Amandraya have little use of their abundant nature to support local agriculture. Through both phenomenon, local-wisdom is used as learning method strategy in two society-service activites where Language of Form is introduced to local teachers at elementary school (first activity), and a practice of making liquid-compost-fertilizer for a small group of local farmers (second activity). Creative experiment method is applied to former activity while direct coaching to the latter. Result of the former activity is teacher’s basic ability to understand student’s drawing through Language of Form, and the latter activity results knowledge and simple practical skill to make fertilizer for those farmers.