Jurnal Empowerment Volume 7 Nomor 2, September 2018 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 129 AUTONOMY IN THE EARLY CHILDHOOD Elly Chandra DewiSekolah Mutiara Nusantaraellychandradewi032@gmail.com ABSTRACTThis research based on the big pictures of how much children shown theautonomy during school time as well during class time. The population of thechildren in this school are 30 students. Through observation as wellquestionnaire shown that most of the students are in the middle level ofautonomy. Through the observation as well in the data questionnaire shownthat most of the children have their own nanny that helps them to do manythings that actually able to be done by themselves. This nanny’s roles tookgreater impact to the children. Keywords: Autonomy, Early Childhood INTRODUCTIONChildren autonomy especially during the early years is important parts of theirdevelopment. During their early years, children are expected to build their indepenceapart from their need to be help by parents and adults around them. Most of the timethey still need more attention as well attachment from their parents or people aroundthem to give them safety and comfort. However when they join preschool in MutiaraNusantara, they are expected to be able to build certain autonomy to be able to join eachactivities in the classroom and able to socialized with other students.Definition of autonomy for early childhoon is more about how they are able to take careor serve themselves for example, get up again when they fall down, take their own toyswithout asking for help from adults, take and drink by themselves, approaching theirparents or their classmates. (Latifah, 2016). Parents role as well took the importancepart for their level of autonomy. (Effendi, Mursilah, & Mujiono, 2018)Children growth and development of early childhood is always simultant and holistic.The implementation of child’s learning is integrated in a certain manner. The methodsand strategies during teaching for early childhood also really important, because eithersuccess or fail is depend on how the educators apply their strategy. (Gunarso, 2006 :56). Autonomy is take an important role start from beginning of their early childhood tobuild them into a person that have self esteem, confidence and able to cope theirproblems. (Mardiana & Ai, 2014) METHODThe methods and analysis data basedn on quantitative research. This study is using aquantitative approach with inferential statistical analysis. The sampling are 330 Jurnal Empowerment Volume 7 Nomor 2, September 2018 e-ISSN : 2580-7692 p-ISSN : 2252-4738 130 students as a population. With 2 methods which is questionnaire through the teacher aswell with observation of each students. The questionnaire is closed, means that eachteacher need to put on a check list on each answer that related to the students conditionthat they see everyday. After all the data is completed, then continue to the dataanalysis. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION ResultsBased on the questionnaire and the data analysis through observation, the datacollected are : Table 1. Students Autonomy Autonomy KGBHigh 8Middle 15Low 7Total 30 From the data we are able to see that most of the students in the school have middlelevel of autonomy. DiscussionBased on the data given from table 1. is known that most of the students are havemiddle level of autonomy. If we concern of what happened during the observation isclear that most of the student have their own helper that keeps involves in their life.Starts early in the morning until they were sleep at night. Even the parents did notencourage the students to be able to do things by themselves. As example, their nannywill bring their back and put their snack on the snack box, serve them and carried theirwater bottle even some of the student not even holding their own water bottle. Foranother cases, most of the nanny will the students eventhough actually the students areable to hold a spoon and fork. Through the observation is clear that the role of thenanny takes most of the importance task so each student did not get an opportunity tobe able to build their autonomy. There are two factor that build the autonomy in theearly childhood which is internal and external factors. (Heni I, 2011) CONCLUSIONBased on the data and the observation the student in the Mutiara Nusantara School is inthe middle level of autonomy. Through the observation given, each students are havetheir own nanny that always helping them even for little things that actually able to bedone by themselves. 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