CLASSROOM RESEARCH: the Idea of Teachers as Researchers

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mendiskusikan ide tentang guru yang juga berperanan sebagai peneliti. Pemikiran ini timbul dari kenyataan bahwa pihak yang dominan melakukan penelitian tentang hal-hal yang berkaitan dengan proses belajar mengajar adalah peneliti bukan guru yang terlibat langsung dalam proses belajar mengajar. Hal ini akan menimbulkan beberapa permasalahan. Sementara itu pihak guru sendiri belum tentu menyambut baik ide tentang guru sebagai peneliti dengan alasan kesibukan mengajar untuk menutupi alasan sebenarnya yang tidak terucapkan. Sebenarnya banyak manfaat yang bisa dipetik baik oleh guru sendiri maupun oleh pembelajar kalau penelitian tentang kegiatan/materi belajar mengajar dilakukan oleh guru kelas yang bersangkutan

PERJUANGAN EKSISTENSIAL DUA TOKOH PEREMPUAN JAWA DALAM NOVEL ENTROK KARYA OKKY MADASARI

ABSTRAK Tujuan penulisan makalah ini adalah untuk mengkaji perjuangan eksistensial tokoh Ibu dan anak perempuan dalam novel Entrok karya Okky Madasari. Metode penelitian kontekstual yang digunakan didukung oleh prinsip-prinsip eksistensialisme yang dibawa ke ranah eksistensi perempuan Jawa. Dalam kerangka analisis feminisme, lecut balik eksistensial juga menjadi salah satu faktor pendukung analisis. Hasil kajian menunjukkan bahwa perempuan-perempuan Jawa yang memperjuangkan bentuk eksistensi yang dianggap berbeda oleh patriarki harus menghadapi serangkaian lecut balik yang membawa kehancuran eksistensi. KataKunci:perjuangan eksistensial, eksistensi perempuan Jawa, feminisme, lecut balik eksistensial ABSTRACT The aim of writing this paper is to analyze the existential struggles of a mother and a daughter in Okky Madasari’s novel entitled Entrok. The contextual method of analysis is used which is supported by the concepts of existentialism brought into the sphere of Javanese women existence. Within the feminism frame of analysis, existential backlash also becomes one of the factors supporting the analysis. The result of the analysis indicates that the Javanese women who fight for the existential forms considered different by the patriarchy have to face a series of existential backlashes leading to the existential downfall. Key Words:existential struggles, Javanese women existence, feminism, existential backlashe

The Housewife’s Resistance as Portrayed in Somerset Maugham’s Short Story Entitled `The Colonel’s Lady`

The focus of this paper is to analyze the domination and resistance in the domestic area as portrayed in Maugham‟s The Colonel’s Lady. The special aims are to analyze the factors that trigger the wife‟s resistance, the kind of resistance carried out by the wife, and the impacts of the wife‟s resistance on the husband. The analysis is supported by the concept of power by Foucault, the concepts of resistance and how to face domination by Vinthagen and Johanson, Husu, Butler et al., Cohen and Taylor, and Woolf. The qualitative method is used in the contextual analysis focusing on the character, conflict, and setting. The result shows that the wife subtly resists the constricting patriarchal atmosphere in the household by constructing a private area in which she actualizes herself in the world of poetry. Her great success enables her to enter a new and different zone where she is the star. This makes the husband feel uncomfortable and even insulted but he cannot do anything because his wife still shows her respect to him and she does nothing unlawful against him

The Embodiment of the Black Feminist Spirit In Iola Leroy, the Female Mulatto Protagonist, in Frances Harpers `Iola Leroy`

The aim of this paper is to analyze how the female protagonist in Harpers novel entitled Iola Leroy, although a mulatto, embodies the spirit of black feminism. To carry out the analysis, feminist literary criticism is used as the frame of analysis linked with gynocriticism. Several concepts concerning black feminism including empowerment, solidarity and sisterhood are used to support the frame of analysis. The result shows that the female mulatto protagonist, who does not know that she has black blood, all of a sudden experiences real slavery. This harsh turning point on her previously comfortable life leads to her new insight about slavery, about her race, and about her personal existence as a woman. The last point results not only in the emergence of the spirit of black feminism but also in the application of this spirit to other blacks, especially the black women. The convergence of thought and action makes the female mulatto protagonist turns out from the victim of slavery into the agent of change for the black race

The Stunted Identity of Emily Grierson in A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner

AbstractThe purpose of writing this paper is to analyze the problem concerning the oppression of the female character’s identity in Faulkner’s short story entitled A Rose for Emily. The focuses are on the triggering factors of the stunted identity, the efforts to develop personal identity, and the impacts of the undeveloped personal identity. The concept of identity, James Marcia’s concept of identity statuses, and the stereotypes of the women in the nineteenth century are used as analysis tools. The result shows that if identity which should be fluid and able to develop freely is oppressed and stunted many times, the female character will be stuck in the status of “identity foreclosure”. The outcome will be unpredictable and even horrifying. The conclusion that can be drawn is that women are vulnerable to identity crisis because they are often not given chances to develop their identity freely. As a result there is a tendency for those women to do things considered perverse by the society.Keywords: identity, identity statuses, identity foreclosur

THE INFLUENCE OF THREE MEN IN EDNA PONTELLIER’S LIFE IN THE AWAKENING BY KATE CHOPIN: A Psychoanalytic Study

This paper focuses on the life of Edna Pontellier, the female main character in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. The purpose is to analyse the influence of the three men in Edna Pontellier’s life. The analysis is done using the concept of id, ego, and superego from Freudian psychoanalysis. The result shows that the first man in Edna Pontellier’s life, Mr. Pontellier/her husband, serves as the superego that always directs Edna’s ego. The second man, Robert Lebrun, is her lover who encourages her to win back her ego which makes her able to begin resisting the superego’s demands. The third man, Alcee Arobin, is the woman-seducer who arouses and fullfils her id in the form of sexual desires which has been repressed so far. However, the psychological conflicts that she has to endure lead to her decision to end her own life in her own way. Key words: id, ego, superego, Freudian psychoanalysis