Academic Report Writing Development Learning Management of Social Constructivist to Promote Self-Esteem for Under Graduate Students

Abstract

The purpose of this article aimed to study the development of learning management in the context of academic report writing. The social constructivist theory is used as a theoretical framework to promote the self-esteem of undergraduate students. The research was qualitative methods and used the action research model with 4 cycles. These 4 steps included 1) plan
2) action 3) observe 4) reflect, purposive sampling. The research participants were 27 undergraduate
students and correct data 4 Loops. The results were analyzed using content analysis and triangulation.

The results showed that the learning management using social constructivist theory that promoted self-esteem of undergraduate students. There were developments in each step of learning management as follows: 1) the problem-finding stage with challenges that encouraged students to reflect on self-concept and to encourage students to search for problems or topics that they are interested in writing an academic report, 2) to create rules for solving problems that encouraged acceptance of what people in society or others real-self made all learners driven by self-guiding (self-direction), 3) collaborative step to communicate meaning to create knowledge that encouraged learners to jointly analyzed self-training guidelines to achieve what they hoped for ideal self, 4) the level reflects the results of the practice as the owner of the process, promoted an exchange platform by acquired knowledge from the opinions and suggestions of others on their own works. In the last portion, learners summarized their ideas about self-concept.