This study aims to analyze the opportunities and challenges of Merdeka Belajar as a national education program for high school teachers nationally. Teachers’ problem in implementing Merdeka Belajar (Freedom of Learning) curriculum lacks understanding of the procedures. This happened because there was no structural explanation regarding the differences between the curriculum they had been running so far and Merdeka Belajar curriculum. Many problems arise when implementing the curriculum that the education they have been running has made students dependent. In this context, this study questions how high school sociology teachers’ opportunities and challenges in facing Merdeka Belajar curriculum in the fourth industrial revolution (industry 4.0)? This study aims to identify problems and strategies for teachers in facing the new paradigm of Merdeka Belajar. This study’s analysis is based on theories such as those from Neill, Rogers, Freire, Boal, Giroux, and Knowles to critically analyze the pedagogical paradigm of national education that teachers have used. This study uses Knowles’s theory of andragogy to explore the notion of Merdeka Belajar. This study’s qualitative research method includes observation of the teacher-student relationship and interviews with several high school teachers in Karanganyar, Central Java. Besides, document studies related to Merdeka Belajar program are also used to understand the policy context. This study found that teachers did not realize that they had been using a pedagogical paradigm (education for children) for high school-level children who had grown up. When they switched to Merdeka Belajar curriculum, they also did not know that the paradigm they should be using is andragogy (education for adults). In this situation, they improvised as best they could to implement Merdeka Belajar. The teachers only carry out orders from the school. However, the school is still trying to understand how it works based on structural orders without clarity. Students’ dependence on teachers has become the cause of teachers’ difficulty to move out of the pedagogical paradigm into andragogy. In this situation, the teachers tried to do their best to implement Merdeka Belajar program during the Covid-19 pandemic. Teachers and schools must also face all infrastructural barriers and socioeconomic conditions with limited online learning access.

<span lang="EN-US">The development of the COVID-19 situation in Indonesia affected particularly education sector in Indonesia significantly when learning loss occurs. The majority of students forced to attend online learning during the pandemic era are Generation Z (Gen Z). Gen Z is viewed as a digital natives group that can adapt quickly to online learning, but independent online learning situations make Gen Z vulnerable to experiencing learning loss. It will be interesting to find out the process of controlling learning loss done by Gen Z as digital natives. This research used a qualitative method with a phenomenological approach. The main informant consisted of 32 students selected purposively with the criteria of those born in 2000-2008. Few in-depth interviews were conducted offline and the majority of them are conducted online. The finding of research shows particularly that the experience of Zillennial generation group (cohort) with online learning before the pandemic (Because-motives) and during the pandemic can equip them to control learning loss they feel conscious (In-order-to-motive). </span><span lang="EN-US">Another finding leads to the creation of three Gen Z <em>Typication</em>s in online learning during the pandemic time including inconsistent, proactive, learning independence, and desperation <em>Typication</em>. Generation Z group exists as one generation consciously experiencing loss of learning during pandemic incidence. </span>

This article is the result of field research in several schools in Surakarta City. The focus of the research that has been carried out in this study is to answer the formulation of the problem (1) Analyzing the distance learning practice of sociology teachers in senior high schools in the city of Surakarta during the Covid-19 pandemic era and (2) Identifying the role of teachers, schools and students in implementing learning distance in the perspective of Anthony Giddens Process. By using a qualitative method that requires in-depth data acquisition, then using a case study approach, the data obtained shows that despite the constraints and limitations in the learning process at home, distance learning is an alternative in meeting the educational needs of students during the Covid-19 pandemic. . Teachers, students and schools interact in a space to reach a negotiation in the form of a distance learning agreement that is carried out online, both in terms of delivery, media, and evaluation of the online distance learning process.

Penelitian bertujuan untuk mendiskripsikan peran komite sekolah dalam upaya peningkatan mutu pendidikan di SMP Negeri 1 Surakarta. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif, dengan teknik pengumpulan data wawancara mendalam. Analisis data dilakukan dengan menggunakan teknik analisis data kualitatif model Miles & Huberman. Hasil penelitian menunjukan bahwa disfungsi tugas komite sekolah sebagai penindaklanjut aspirasi masyarakat tidak mempengaruhi turunnya mutu pendidikan di SMP Negeri 1 Surakarta. Hal ini karena perangkat pendidikan SMP Negeri 1 Surakarta sebagai sebuah sistem sosial bersifat otopoietik yang dapat memperbaharui ketidakberfungsian pada salah satu atau beberapa subsistem pendidikan. Partisipasi diperluas dalam berbagai aspek baik sarana, prasarana, maupun kerajasama dengan stake holderThe role of school committees in improving the quality of education: Studies at SMP Negeri 1 SurakartaThis study aims to reveal the role of the school committee in efforts to improve the quality of education in SMP Negeri 1 Surakarta. The research method used is descriptive qualitative, with data collection techniques by interview. Data analysis was performed using the Milles & Huberman analysis technique model. The conclusion of this study is the dysfunction in the school committee's duties as a follow-up role for community aspirations does not affect the decline in the quality of education at Surakarta 1 Public Junior High School. This is because the educational apparatus of Surakarta 1 Public Junior High School as a social system is autopoietic which can renew the malfunctioning in one or several of its subsystems. Participation is expanded in various aspects, including facilities, infrastructure, and cooperation with stakeholders

Terdapat tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengetahui berbagai konstruksi stigma mahasiswa terhadap seseorang yang bipolar. Metode penelitian yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yaitu dengan menggunakan metode penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan studi kasus. Hasil yang dapat dilihat dari proses konstruksi stigma mahasiswa terhadap seseorang yang bipolar yaitu terdapat beberapa stigma yang muncul akibat konstruksi mahasiswa terhadap seseorang yang bipolar. Pertama, konstruksi stigma yang menganggap bahwa seseorang yang bipolar pasti merupakan seseorang yang mudah marah, emosian, dan memiki karakter yang menggebu gebu. Kedua, Konstruksi stigma yang menganggap bahwa seseorang yang bipolar merupakan seseorang yang berbeda. Ketiga, Konstruksi stigma mahasiswa yang menganggap bahwa seseorang yang bipolar merupakan seseorang yang suka membahayakan dirinya sendiri. Keempat, Konstruksi stigma yang menganggap bahwa seseorang yang bipolar merupakan seseorang yang egois. Kelima, Adanya konstruksi stigma yang diberikan oleh mahasiswa yaitu menganggap bahwa seseorang yang bipolar merupakan seseorang yang hebat. Konstruksi stigma mahasiswa terhadap seseorang yang bipolar tidak bisa lepas dari peran media massa sebagai salah satu pusat informasi mengenai bipolar.Kata-kata Kunci: Konstruksi; Stigma; Mahasiswa; Bipolar; Media Massa