Pedagogy of the Not-yet-known: Encountering Street Children in Northern Medan, Indonesia

• Main Author: Esteria Hernauli br. Saragih
• Other Authors: Huei-Hsuan Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xrnms4

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 教育與潛能開發學系 === 106 === Abstract This research started as a study about the street children in Indonesia, specifically in Medan, North Sumatra. As it went along, it turns to emphasize how my encoutnering with them shed a new light on my way of understanding what education should be. As a result the pedagogy of not-yet-known was brought to light. This ethnographic study explores the context within which street children became living and working on the street. In describing their experience on the street, this research paid attention to the activities they engage and the spaces where they hanged out. This study also examined the role that a NGO played, particularly its effort to educate street children. Five street children and their family members agreed to be interviewed. Detailed accounts and explanations of their past and present are explored and recorded in this thesis. The author developed a personal rapport with the street children who form part of this study. Most importantly, reflecting on her encountering with street children, the author proposes pedagogy of the not-yet-known, which place students’ life experience at the center of teaching and learning, and invited educators to go beyond what was already known and open themselves up to emergent difference in the other and in oneself. Keywords: Street children, life process on street, Medan, North Sumatra Indonesia.