Culture Wandering Media as a Pedagogical Intervention to Strengthen Cultural Understanding in Learners with Mild Intellectual Disabilities

Abstrak

Culture Wandering is a locally based cultural medium developed visually, narratively, and interactively to help students understand regional cultural material. This study aims to determine the effect of using Culture Wandering learning media on improving the understanding of Yogyakarta culture among students with special needs who have mild intellectual disabilities. The method used in this study was quantitative with a one-group pretest-posttest experimental design. The subjects comprised six students chosen via saturated sampling. Data were gathered through a validated 30-item objective test and subsequently analyzed using descriptive statistics and the Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test. The results showed that the average score went up from 45.83 on the pretest to 93.33 on the posttest. The hypothesis test yielded a significance value of 0.024 (p < 0.05), which means that there was a significant effect of media use on improving cultural understanding. These findings support the notion that culture wandering is an effective, contextual, and inclusive learning medium for students with mild intellectual disabilities.

Kata kunci

• cultural understanding
• media culture wandering
• mild intellectual disability