The Impact of Sociable Learning Model to the Children’s Social Citizenship Competencies

Abstract

After a series of developmental studies, the sociable learning model was measured in the implementations processes that collaboratively conducted with several participants from purposely selected kindergarten teachers in Indonesia. The main research aim that is being carried out is disseminating the constructed model in the field operations. The research had been conducted using a mixed-method to gather the possible evidence of the effectiveness of the implementation of the constructed sociable learning model in various purposely chosen samples from several kindergartens in Indonesia, such as Padang, Jakarta, Bandung, and Jogjakarta. The Concurrent Embedded Design was chosen to facilitate more portions of quantitative data analysis than the qualitative counterpart. The research findings indicate the model's effectiveness with only one out of nine samples that repeatedly only reaches below the fair and reasonable rate on developing the children’s making friends and sharing skills. Meanwhile, seven out of nine teachers’ performance in using the sociable learning model marked at an excellent rate. In conclusion, the study is considered useful in developing children's making friends and sharing skills and giving the teacher some convenience in their teaching practice. Keywords—early children’s making friends skills, early children’s sharing skills, sociable learning model