Socio-cultural Development of Female Education: Kartini Context for Female Art Students

Abstract

: This study is aimed at finding the positive movement of feminism by Kartini in influencing the socio-cultural development for female art students in their art creation, and analyzing its development in education today compared to those in Kartini’s era. The socio-cultural development in education is assumed to influence the female education throughout Kartini’s movement and belief. Currently, the existing phenomena in which millennial generation is very active in responding the updated information technology, influences the female art students in doing any movement for their art creation. As they are no longer trapped inside the domestic paradigm in education as being found in Kartini’s era, the progressive development of emancipation can be seen from any art creation and other art behaviors carried out by female art students. This is a qualitative research and uses descriptive method by doing the observation and in-depth interview to collect data. The results of this study reveal that there is an active movement by the female art students in responding Kartini’s emancipation throughout their art creation and behavior, and current education has shown the socio-cultural development for millennial generation, particularly for female art students to exist.