Integrating Service-Learning Method in Creativepreneurship Course: Changing the Face of Society

Wibowo, Mariana (2019) Integrating Service-Learning Method in Creativepreneurship Course: Changing the Face of Society. In: APRCSL 2019, 21-06-2019 - 21-06-2019, Singapore - Singapore.

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Abstract

Service Learning is an academic pedagogy that connects course in class to the community and back to class, and is always undertaken with a goal of enacting meaningful and helpful contributions to the local, regional, national and global community. There are many variations on definition of service learning, but all share in common this goals. This is refers to understand the role of creative entrepreneurship for the upliftment of our society by using service learning method in a course. Generating employment and diminishing poverty are the biggest challenges for any developing country, such as Indonesia, so creative entrepreneurship indicates opportunities for social development and improves the quality growth of life. Basically, this creativepreneurship course with service-learning method is a result of one�s inventive innovation for small industry in Surabaya, Indonesia to achieving predefined course goals and helps to change the face of society also. This article explains connection between service-learning and creative entrepreneurship which give contributions to the local community (12 small industries in Surabaya) and the students become a socioentrepreneur which build economic for community and empower them to be more successful, while the community become the main source for the student� startup business without put unnecessary burden on the community partner. Both of them gain advantages. This paper also highlights pedagogical approaches that would benefit form a service-learning component, and also discusses the benefits of service-learning for Interior Design Department, Petra Christian University students and 12 community partners. The conclusions from this study shows that by integrating service-learning method to this course have been beneficial to the society, enhance student� civic responsibility, improved students� social skills and its members as well as to the birth new startup and student� entrepreneurs also. This also develop an effectiveness of education and service-learning method, that has relationship between creative design, entrepreneur efforts, changing the face of the society and economic development of a nation.

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