Sinergi STEAM dan Etnopedagogik dalam Pengembangan Wawasan Akademik dan Budaya Mahasiswa
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His community service program aims to enhance students’ academic and cultural insights through the integration of the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) approach and ethnopedagogy at the Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Universitas Gadjah Mada. The program responds to the growing need for innovative, contextual, and transdisciplinary learning models that meaningfully connect academic knowledge with local cultural values in higher education. By positioning culture as a living source of knowledge, this initiative seeks to strengthen students’ intellectual competencies while fostering cultural awareness and social responsibility. A qualitative participatory approach was employed, involving undergraduate students as active participants and local cultural communities as collaborative partners. The program was implemented over one academic semester through a series of community-based learning activities. Data were collected using semi-structured interviews, reflective questionnaires, and systematic field observations. The collected data were analyzed using thematic analysis to identify recurring patterns related to academic development, cultural understanding, creativity, and student engagement. The findings indicate that the integration of STEAM and ethnopedagogy effectively enhanced students’ ability to link theoretical concepts with authentic cultural practices. Students demonstrated improved critical thinking, interdisciplinary reasoning, and creative problem-solving skills, as reflected in the production of culture-based academic outputs such as digital cultural documentation, multimedia ethnographic projects, and virtual cultural exhibitions. Moreover, sustained engagement with ethnopedagogical practices contributed to the internalization of local values, the strengthening of cultural identity, and increased awareness of the social role of higher education. Interaction with cultural communities also promoted reflective learning and reinforced students’ commitment to cultural preservation and community empowerment.Overall, this community service program demonstrates that the synergy between STEAM and ethnopedagogy constitutes an effective and relevant framework for enriching academic and cultural competencies in higher education. The model offers both theoretical and practical contributions and holds strong potential for sustainable implementation and replication in other faculties and higher education institutions with comparable cultural contexts
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