Learning Innovation In Batik Gepyok Practicum For Increasing Students’ Learning Autonomy During Cultural Art Teaching At State Vocational High School 7 Of Malang, East Java

ABSTRACT: There is a time when cultural art teachers at Vocational High School (VHS) must condition their student with learning innovation. Specific learning materials are therefore needed for this conditioning, especially those that can increase students’ learning autonomy. This article reviews about teaching process done by cultural art teachers in State Vocational High School 7 of Malang. The objective of this review is to conduct reflection and interpretation about phenomenon of students’ learning autonomy in learning fine arts. After preparing teaching materials for fine art practicum, then Batik Gepyok is intentionally selected as subject-matter that will be observed. Batik Gepyok is a simple type of batik and therefore, the making of this batik is supposed to be easy and allowing students to develop learning innovation. It is expected that learning innovation will enable students to increase learning autonomy in practicum activity. Qualitative descriptive approach is used in this review and data are obtained from participatory observation over teaching process. This kind of observation requires researcher to become participant of creative process in order to get understandings about students’ learning activity. Teaching plan is made based on base competencies available in curriculum (the Revised 2013 Curriculum). The planning involves selecting base competencies from syllabus and then preparing teaching strategy based on selected base competencies. Researcher expects that students can build their autonomy posture and then find their innovative capacity. Data analysis is done using simple comparisonwhere batik works divided into several groups and the differences of student competenciesare tabulated based on their works. Reflection and interpretation are then conducted over students’ works. Result of analysis shows that students are able to observe their own works and their friends’ works. Learning autonomy posture has been owned by students and it is proved by their self-recognition over their learning capacity. Most importantly, students allow their works to be compared with the works of their friends. KEYWORDS: practical work, batik design, learning autonomy, cultural art