‘This is My Fault, but Now I Know Online Game Addiction Is Not Good for Me’: School Dropped Out Students’ Narrative

Abstract

School dropped-out students have attracted educators and policy makers. A number of studies have investigated factors and number of the dropped out students. However, albeit of these studies, dropped out students' voice was reported. Thus, this paper is aimed at portraying dropped out student' voice. Their reason for dropping out and their wishes were sought. Of 114 respondents, three respondents were voluntarily recruited for an interview. The findings revealed they unintentionally opted for dropping out but situation led them to do so. Online game addiction was realized as a means for skipping their school matters. Not only this narrative provides different perspective on seeing the dropped out students but it also endows with new insights for policy makers in treating risky dropped out students. Educational implication and for further required research are also sought and discussed.

The Barriers of Using Video Games as a Media for Teaching and Learning Purposes: A Case Study in Indonesia

“…Even though there are research and cast study to attempts using video game as learning media such as shown by Ng, (2019); Pane et al, (2017); Sijabat & Grahita, (2022); Tamtama et al, (2020), negative sentiment still prevalent in Indonesia. Research by Aisyah et al, (2021) blame online video games as the main reason why students drop out their education. Another research by Muslem et al, (2018) mention that albeit teacher agree that ICT support the learning process but refuse to remove the role 'teacher' because of using ICT is considered less important that how the teacher teach the student.…”