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chemistry learning in this activity. They will help each other and make a very good friendship in society. Community can also build a local autonomy. It is a
freedom to manage a region to be more independent in its own way.
4. Developing the Local Wisdom
In this learning, students are asked to learn Purworejo’s local wisdom that
is integrated in chemistry learning. They are asked to plan what they like to do to develop their region by using local wisdom and relating it to chemistry learning.
This activity is to make them more creative in developing their region based on
chemistry. This is done by writing an article. 5.
Students’ Achievement
Learning is an effort, done by someone to get a new behaviour comprehensively, as the result of self- experience, in interaction with others
Slameto, 2003:22. According to Sudjana 2004:22, students achievement is the abilities owned by students after they get learning experience.
Hattie and Anderman 2013:21 stated that student achievement is the foundation of every aspect of education. It directs all educational improvements
and efforts. It serves as the primary outcome variable in most educational research studies. The activity done by the students will yield a change in them themselves,
including cognitive, affective, and psychomotor aspects. The learning achievement gotten by the students is measure
d according to the students’ behavior before and after learning. One of indicators of change is able to be seen from final mark at
the end of semester.
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Another general definition of students’ achievement is stated by Surya 200 :75, that the students’ achievement is the result of learning behavior change
that discuss knowledge, skill, and attitude after passing the certain process. It is as individual e
xperience result in the interaction with the others. Students’ achievement is the data obtained for the objective of this study. It gives the
information of the improvement in learning.
6. Social Maturity
Social maturity means every effort establishing good relations to the society for making and keeping friends. A person having good friendliness is
considered a socially mature person. Ram Prakash Gupta, 2014: 2. a.
Social maturity is needed for the following reasons: 1
To achieve the socialization of the individual: the more we need help, the higher we have to have social maturity.
2 To decline egocentricity: social maturity is able to reduce the
selfish character and make a care. 3
To develop self- confidence: this includes acceptance of self, emotional security, and freedom from egotism.
4 To develop social feeling: this includes trust, empathy accurately,
perception, and response to the others. 5
Productivity: the ability to work, task orientation, competence, skill for solving, objective problems, etc.
6 To develop social values: this includes ethics, integrity, and
humanistic values.
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The period of adolescence requires proper guidance and conceling by parents and teachers for the teenagers in classroom
environment and also in the society Ahamed and Ghosh, 2012: 9. Social maturity is the process to get
appropriate attitude for personality, inter personality and social adequacy of an individual which are essential in the society.
As related to social maturity, emotional maturity a nd teenagers’
socialization will be discussed first. b.
Emotional maturity for the teenagers is started by controlling the emotion. The indicators of reaching emotional maturity :
1 Teenagers start to control themselves to do not express their
emotion to the people. The teenagers start to consider the effects of what they do, until they find the right way for expressing their
anger. 2
The teenagers start to be able to analyze the situation critically, give the assessment to the negative events, consider whether an
event is right or false, and predict whether it will be good or bad. 3
The teenagers are able to show more stable and calmer condition than before. They are not affected by others easily. They can give
the prediction about what effects that will happen. Poerwanti and Widodo, 2002:114
c. Teenagers’ socialization
Socialization of the teenagers will be seen by their will in joining to certain teenager’s group, based on their interest. The
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teenagers’ success in doing socialization process is mostly affected by the people’s attitudes around them before entering adolescence.
Internalization of value that is done by the parents will make the teenagers to be included in society. While the rigid attitude and wrong
behaviour are from the exclusive parents. Success criterion of the teenagers in socialization can be seen by the teenagers’ activity in
community. Poerwanti and Widodo, 2002: 117-118. d.
Social maturity itself is signed by the teenagers’ control in society. Social maturity is an ability in working that shows participation,
cooperation, shares something compatible to norms, sympathy, empathy, imitates positive attitudes from others, and loves friends like
what Prihaningsih stated in Wulandari 2009:3-4. Social maturity will make the people interact with society. Social maturity of a person can
be seen by the habit and attitude of a person. That attitude shows the person in managing herhimself and participating in the activities to
make himher autonomous like an adult. e.
Some aspects of social maturity according to Doll in Indriana and Windarti, 2008: 3:
1 Self-
help, helping themselves. It means they can manage themselves without people’s help autonomous.
2 Self direction, such as managing time and money; keeping their
goods well.
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3 Locomotion, having the cognitive activities and adding individual
learning experiences. This is an ability to take the activity responsibly.
4 Occupation, using the tools equipments media to help their work.
This aspect is also shown by the increasing of learning process. 5
Social Relation, joining to organization or gathering with friends. This is about public relation.
6 Communication, talking with the people around himher directly or
indirectly well. They can give and receive message from others. Social maturity is a person’s ability to look after his her self and participate
to the society to get independence.
7. Learning Discipline
