Understanding Students, Assignments, Roles & Functions
Are you a college student? But do you know what the real
understanding of students is? Well, although many know about students, or even
themselves a student, the nature of the students themselves is rarely
understood. In fact, it contains certain meanings that everyone must know.
The importance of knowing the true nature of students is
certainly not just for knowledge. But it is also used so that everyone,
especially students, deepen their roles. Thus, the impact of course their
duties as a student can be done well, so that the objectives can be achieved.
Then what is the true nature of students? Check out the
following review about the understanding of students and their roles and
functions!
student understanding
Understanding of Students According to Experts
There are some experts who interpret students specifically.
The real definition of a student is:
1. According to the KBBI
According to the large Indonesian dictionary, students are
interpreted as college students or in Indonesian education structures that
occupy the highest level of education unit among other levels.
2. According to Knopfemacher [In Suwono, 1978]
Meanwhile, according to Knopfemancher, students are
interpreted as the candidates who are involved in an institution of higher
education, who are expected to become intellectual candidates.
3. According to
Sarwono [1978]
And according to
Sarwono, a student is every person who is officially registered to take lessons
in a tertiary institution with an age limit of around 18-30 years. Students are
a group in the community that obtains status because they have ties with
universities.
In addition,
students also become a candidate for intellectuals and young scholars in a
layer of society that is often a requirement with various predicate in the
community itself.
Thus, the
understanding of students if concluded is a person or student who is enrolled
in a college or the highest school level, with a certain age limit that is
expected to be an intellectual candidate.
Characteristics
of Students According to Kartono
With the
understanding of the students above, it can be concluded that a person is said
to be a student if he has the following characteristics:
Have the ability
and opportunity to be able to study in higher education, so that they can be
classified into the intellectual class.
Because they have
the opportunity, students are expected to one day be able to act as a skilled
leader, both at various levels, both in society and in the world of work later.
Students are
expected to be a dynamic driving force in a process of modernization for social
life.
And students are
expected to enter the workforce and become a qualified and professional
workforce.
Student Mandatory
Assignments
student
assignment
If you have
become a student, surely you have gone through various tests and passed the
passing grade of your average rival.
Congratulations
!!
But do not forget
when you have a student status, of course you must take part in the
implementation of the tri dharma of higher education which is the main task of
students. The following explanation:
1. Doing Education
The noble task
that must be done by a student is to carry out educational activities.
Education here is a student who asks the campus to provide teaching with
maximum facilities in the process of learning and teaching activities.
From the
educational process carried out, it is hoped that superior student seeds will
emerge. Because the education system within the scope of lectures is very good,
then one day when graduating students must become nation fighters for more
advanced Indonesia.
2. Carry out Research
The second task
for students is to do research. Students have a burden that is fairly medium
hard, because this time students are required to be able to find solutions to a
problem. The goal is to create new solutions to problems in society.
Students'
research results are required in a professional and scientific way, not the
result of brutally copying the work of others and not the results of premature
research.
Students are
required to be able to take advantage of this research in a learning process in
order to get a change that will change Indonesia to become more advanced and
foremost.
3. Community
Service
The last
assignment of students is to do community service. In the world of students
when it is their mid or final semester, surely the campus will create a
community service program.
Community service
programs can be carried out with a variety of positive activities. In this
activity students must be able to socialize directly with the community.
The nature of the
social creature must be demonstrated by real contributions. As we know that
students are the mouthpiece of the people, agents of change and others.
Therefore students are required to know the portion of their duties in serving
the community. In order to create a civil society.
Student Roles and
Functions
In addition to
the student assignments above, students also have special roles and functions
that are grouped into 5 types, with the following reviews:
1. Students as
Social Control
By having a
higher education research (on Dergizi Journal) than other levels, students have intellectual abilities and
social sensitivity, which are expected to be able to control the social life of
the community. By being able to provide advice, solutions, and criticism of
various problems facing society or the nation.
In addition, the
role of students as social control also occurs when something goes wrong or odd
in people's lives. Thus, students are expected to be able to convey if there is
bureaucratic rot that is considered prevalent.
Furthermore, if a
student is indifferent or does not care about the environment, then there will
be no better hope in the life of the nation and state later.
That is because a
student is appropriate to be able to foster a spirit of social care, so he must
care about the various realms of social elements.
Where concern as
a student is not only manifested in the form of demonstrations and take to the
streets, but through brilliant thinking, moral and material assistance, and
constructive discussions.
2. Students as
Agents of Change
As high-level
students who act as agents of change, students are not only like heroes who
come from a country that initiates change, but also as actors or objects in
making big changes and make leaders who have no competence feel hot and
anxious.
That is because,
with so much injustice and ignorance committed by the leaders of this nation,
students must be able to think actively in order to restore and change the
situation to its original form. Where the change in question is a change for
the better, but still does not eliminate his true identity.
If we as
students, let us create again the reformers and founding fathers in the souls
of the students so as not to be swallowed up by the hedonism of the times.
3. Students as
Iron Stock
Said to be an
iron stock, the role of students is as the next generation of the nation, which
is expected to have the skills, abilities, and noble character, so that they
can become candidates for leaders who are ready to use. Because it is a
reserve, assets, and hopes of the nation in the future.
In addition,
students are not only intellectuals who sit and listen to lecturers on the
lecture bench, but they must also be able to enrich knowledge even better, for
that in terms of professionalism or society.
Because, the role
of students as iron stock is as a candidate for national leaders who have a
bright future, so that they will be able to replace existing generations. Thus,
students are not only sufficient with specific knowledge, but also need to have
other soft skills such as leadership, ability to position themselves, and high
sensitivity.
4. Students as
Moral Force
Students are
students who are at the highest level of education, so they are required or
even required to have good moral values. In addition, the intellectual level of
a student will certainly be aligned at the level of morality in various aspects
of his life.
As a student must
have a basic reference in attitude and behavior. The basic references are
behavior, words, how to dress, how to behave, and so forth related to polite
morals. All these references must be owned by students in order to create good
morals, not bad morals.
This is where
students are required to be responsible for their intellectual power in moral
strength in society.
5. Students as
Guardian of Value
Students as
Guardian of Value means students act as guardians of values in society. Then
what kind of values should be maintained by a student?
Students are said
to be academics if they are able to maintain the values of society and can
think scientifically. Students are required to uphold justice, honesty,
integrity, mutual cooperation, empathy, and the qualities needed in other
social lives.
In addition, a
student is also required to be able to think with knowledge about the values
they maintain. In fact, in this case, students must also play a role as
carriers, deliverers, and disseminators of knowledge and values they have
learned in college.
There is still
one more value that meets the criteria as a value that must be maintained by
students, these values are the values of scientific truth. Students must be
able to search for various truths based on scientific character which are
sourced from the sciences they have acquired and then must be applied and
guarded in the community.
But it must be
remembered, the student is still a human being created by God, so that all
scientific thought must be subject to God's provisions.
Thus an
explanation of the understanding of students complete with the characteristics,
assignments and roles. Of course you now know what the obligations and rights
of a student must be carried out. As the next generation of influential nations
in the future, reach the knowledge as deep as possible so that lectures are not
in vain.