Youth Empowerment Model based on Group Dynamics

Abstract

The youth is the successor to the struggle of the nation’s founder who should be actors of society development in the rural as well as the urban. Youth is the national asset who determined the direction of the nation’s progress. For the country’s development, it was necessary to empower the youth to improve their self-capacity through group dynamics based learning. The research objective particularly was to obtain a clear description about the efforts in building the youth capacity through group dynamics based learning in improving the social entrepreneurship competence. This article identified 1) the conceptual model of youth empowerment based on group dynamics in improving social entrepreneurship competence, 2) the procedures of youth empowerment based on group dynamics in improving social entrepreneurship competence. This research applied study case method with qualitative approach. The technique of collecting data was through interview, observation, literature study, and documentation study. This research consisted of five participants. The result showed that the conceptual model of the youth empowerment was organized with managerial approach and the procedures were started from the formulating the objectives, identifying the needs and characters of learning community, selecting the interesting teaching material, determining the topic, developing the teaching material, organizing the exciting topic, assessing the learning outcomes, and considering some aspects; the group quantity, the leader and leadership, communication network, status, role and group assignment. Keywords—youth; group dynamics; competence; social