Development Of Sociological-Based Social Science Teaching Materials to Improve Students’ Humanistic Attitudes and Multicultural Skills in Elementary School in Denpasar City

Abstract

This research was initiated due to the low level of humanistic attitudes and multicultural skills of students in Social Science subjects in the Fifth Grade. This research aims to create a product in the form of sociological-based teaching materials (e-modules). The type of this research is Research and Development (R&D). This research applied the Borg and Gall development model. The Borg and Gall development model has relatively long stages; there are 10 implementation stages. The instrument of this research is questionnaires. The data analysis which was conducted on the developed teaching materials shows that it can be categorized as "excellent". The results of the tests show that there is an effect between the developed sociological-based teaching materials and each dependent variable. Besides, a further test was implemented to determine the simultaneous effect of sociological-based teaching materials on students' humanistic attitudes and multicultural skills. The results of significant treatment by Pillai's Trace, Wilks' Lambda, Hotelling's Trace, and Roy's Largest Root procedures show a significant value was 0.000, where 0.000 < 0.05; according to the criteria, H0 (rejected) and H1 (accepted), the independent variable of sociological-based teaching materials shows an effect on the dependent variables (humanistic attitudes and multicultural skills). The results of this research indicate that sociological-based teaching materials are feasible to be used.