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Unesa.ac.id, SURABAYA—Faculty of Language and Arts (FBS), State University of Surabaya (UNESA) in collaboration with The University of York held a 'Workshop for Early Childhood Education Teacher Trainers in Indonesia' at Four Points Hotel Pakuwon, Surabaya on Monday, 21 August 2023.
The event which lasted until Friday, 25 August 2023 was attended by dozens of participants from Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku, Papua, Bali, NTT and Java. A total of 10 participants came from early childhood education and 4 people from English education.
For five days, they received material directly from the project leader, namely Dr. Andrzej Cirocki and Dr. Bimali Indrarathne from The University of York and Prof. Pratiwi Retnaningdyah, M.Hum., M.A., Ph.D., from UNESA.
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In his remarks, Deputy Chancellor IV for Planning, Development, Cooperation, and Information and Communication Technology, Prof. Dr. Siti Nur Azizah, S.H., M.Hum., said this activity was part of the 'Inclusive Development Training for Pre-Service Teachers in Early Childhood Education in Indonesia' project.
The project is a UK-Indonesia international collaboration grant through the Going Global Partnership 2022 and sponsorship of the British Council. He hopes that this workshop will become an active effort by universities in Indonesia to support the country in addressing educational issues globally in this dynamic and ever-changing era. learning, access to education and so on. Hopefully the results of this workshop can provide constructive input for policy makers in Indonesia," hoped Prof. Azizah.
In this activity, the presenters highlighted education, especially the issue of children's learning difficulties or dyslexia. The professor of Halal Business Law revealed that the dyslexia rate in Indonesia has reached 10 percent or around 5 million students.
"Because of that problem, this event was held to formulate a strategy to reduce the number of learning difficulties for children or students. This has something to do with literacy which must be grown from an early age. This problem must be our main concern and UNESA must be at the forefront of this thing," he said.
As project leader, Prof. Pratiwi Retnaningdyah, M.Hum., MA, Ph.D., said that the workshop participants designed and developed materials about learning difficulties in early childhood. The results will be converted into bilingual online course modules; English and Indonesian.
“The online module will be uploaded to the learning platform owned by the Ministry of Education and Culture for free and wide use by teachers and prospective teachers of PAUD, PGSD, and English Language Education,” he said. [*]
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