The Phenomena of Life Skill Education of a Coastal Community: An Empirical Study of Education from The Aspect of Community’s Productivity

Abstract

As part of a nation, a coastal community has the potential and characteristics to develop for future success. Most studies explain that the poverty of a coastal community is due to several factors, including economic and socio-cultural factors where lifestyle is based on their mental capacity. Despite such a condition, they have positive expectations through programmed and sustainable efforts by focusing on non-formal education through the optimization of life skill education. This qualitative research is intended to map life skills for the coastal community to develop and describe their responses to the development of life skills or productive skills. Further, data collection techniques consisted of observation, interview, and documentation. The Source of data came from the coastal community and local government of Gorontalo Regency and theoretical sources, i.e., literature relevant to the study. The results suggested that life skill education required by the coastal community was dominantly related to vocational skills as their potential can build up such skills. The community also had a great response to the skill education through the intervention of non-formal education activities. The majority of them stated that acquiring life skills is an urgent need to meet. The local source potential as materials used for developing life skills for the community is sufficiently available. Next, the identification of the community’s response to the development of life skills has not been conducted much by other studies in the context of the behavior and life of a coastal community.

Received: 27 August 2022 / Accepted: 25 October 2022 / Published: 5 November 2022