The Influence of Women Education Level Toward Community Scientific Literacy Improvement in Seberang Kota Jambi
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- 10.2991/assehr.k.200513.021How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- transformation, women’s education, literacy of science
- Abstract
In the 70s, the Education level of women in Seberang Kota Jambi City were relatively low. Women tended to study only the religious education and did not consider general education as an important subject. This tendency resulted in the low science literacy of women in the community. Recently, the education level of a number of women in this community has improved significantly. This study seeks to describe the effect of the improved education level of several women on scientific literacy of the other women in the society. This study used a qualitative and quantitative approach (mixed method). The information is obtained using interviews to 150 women in the community. It was found that the level education of some women has significantly improved the community scientific literacy. Some factors that may contribute to this improvement are: 1). Confidence factors (Religion), 2) economic progress factors, 3) factors of infrastructure development and 4) information factors. As for science literacy, it is generally dominated by literacy levels at the “moderate” level of 43%, “low” level of 35% and subsequently “high” level of 22%. Based on the literacy tests in the community, it was shown that 58% were in Functional Literacy, 38% in Civic literacy, and 6% in the Cultural Literacy group.
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TY - CONF AU - Maisah Maisah AU - Sukarno Sukarno AU - Ahmad Husein Ritong PY - 2020 DA - 2020/05/15 TI - The Influence of Women Education Level Toward Community Scientific Literacy Improvement in Seberang Kota Jambi BT - Proceedings of the 4th Asian Education Symposium (AES 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 92 EP - 96 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200513.021 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.200513.021 ID - Maisah2020 ER -