8 when they were teaching the children, and having a great determination to be a
competent, compassionate and conscientious teacher. Then, the volunteer tutoring program is well-known as Pengajaran Code.
3. Researcher’s Involvement in Pengajaran Code
I was as a member of the BEM-FKIP Education Department as well as a tutor in the program. When I joined the program, there were many new
experiences I got. Even though in my childhood I had almost similar experiences and backgrounds like the impoverished children, the program still allowed me to
open my eyes widely how to view the children well. There were many perspective transformations in viewing the impoverished group through conducting a self-
critical reflection on my prior assumption. These perspective transformations led me to conduct a research to other tutors. I was really eager to comprehend deeply
how other tutors changed their prior assumption on how to define the children as their students. I was also very enthusiastic to understand such program giving
meaningful impacts on their competent, compassionate and conscientious characters as teachers. I also wanted to know how some tutors, who had same
childhood backgrounds like me and the marginalized children, changed their prior assumptions after joining the program as tutors. Meanwhile, I was also curious for
some tutors who did not have same backgrounds like me.
B. Research Question
This study investigates the lived-experience of five research participants upon joining Pengajaran Code as tutors. The idea of this study is to seek out the
9 research participants’ perspective transformations after joining the program.
Therefore, the research question is more specific as: 1.
To what extent did the involvement of five ELESP students in Pengajaran Code
as tutors lead to some perspective transformations?
C. Problem Limitation
The study investigates some perspective transformations among research participants after joining Pengajaran Code as tutors. The research participants
were five ELESP students namely D, Th, Ta, F and E. They joined the program as tutors since November 2013 until November 2014. In order to investigate each
research participant’s perspective transformations deeply, the researcher limits the study only on the perspective transformations among these five ELESP students
upon joining Pengajaran Code as tutors.
D. Research Objectives
The research question is “to what extent the involvement of five ELESP students in Pengajaran Code as tutors leading to some perspective
transformations”. Therefore, the objective of the study is to find out what kind of perspective transformations, which are undergone by these five ELESP students
upon joining Pengajaran Code as tutors. The researcher also seeks out some explanations from each research participant on how they underwent these
perspective transformations.
