Learning Communication Strategy Based on Contextual Teaching and Learning to Increase Awareness of Student Learning in South Sulawesi

Contextual Teaching and Learning (CTL) based learning communication is a child's learning process that is implemented to help educators connect learning material and real world situations. The research problem is how learning communication strategies based on CTL in improving children's ability to apply learning outcomes in everyday life. This method is a constructivism learning system that builds one's own understanding actively, creatively and productively based on knowledge and learning experiences. The research method is interpretive through a case study approach. Research intensively focuses on one particular object that is studied as a case. The focus of the case study is the process of communicating the learning of teachers and students of the MDIA Potere Elementary School in Makassar City, located on the coast of Makassar City in South Sulawesi Province. This case study was collected from various direct sources in real life from the cases investigated. The results of the study found and categorized learning communication strategies based on CTL encouraging the creation of five forms of learning, namely: relating, experiencing, applying, applying, cooperating, and transferring knowledge. Learning communication strategies tend to increase student awareness in coastal areas showing a low tendency in terms of relating, applying, and cooperating