STUDENTS’ AND TEACHERS’ VIEWS ON INDONESIAN LEARNING MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT BASED LOCAL WISDOM FOR CLASS X SMAN 3 PALOPO

Abstract

This study aims at describing teachers’ and students’ towards developing Indonesian learning materials based local wisdom in class X SMA Negeri 3 Palopo. This research is a research and development with the stages of research as demonstrated by Borg and Gall & Sugiyono. Material development begins with preliminary studies, preparation of prototypes, expert validation test, testing in schools, and the analysis of the test results. The results of this study in the form of products, namely: (1) the student book, (2) Lesson Plan, and (3) Students’ worksheet. The trial results questionnaire data show that teachers positively responded that the Indonesian learning based local wisdom need to be taught in high schools today. Another positive response from the teacher is that local wisdom is used more and valuable compare to the material which laden general or modernist. Learning local wisdom by raising the phenomenon of social, cultural, religious, and other aspects of life in the local community is a strategic step to introduce to the younger generation. Then, the views of students learning Indonesian judge that local wisdom is very important because it can attract and motivate to earnestly study Indonesian material.