The Effectiveness of Self Development Program through Experiential Learning in Improving the Excellence of IPDN Praja Resources

Abstract

This study aims at obtaining a realistic description of the effectiveness of self-development programs through experiential learning in improving the excellence of Praja resources in IPDN Jatinangor. It focuses on self-development program and experiential learning. This study is a field research with a qualitative descriptive method in which it only describes the effectiveness of the experiential method in self-development program to improve the excellence of Praja resources. The study involves 20 Muda Praja, the first level of IPDN’s student, from various existing study programs and two observers. The object of the study is experiential learning with five aspects of personality development: self-confidence, communication, interpersonal relationships, leadership and handling stress. The data were collected through the provision of training or learning, observation, questionnaires and interviews. After being analyzed, the results show that experiential learning is very effective in self-development programs for improving the excellence of Praja resources. It can be assumed that the effectiveness of experiential learning is categorized as high.

Keywords: experiential learning, IPDN Praja, self-development

DOI: 10.7176/JEP/13-21-12

Publication date:June 30^th 2022