Exploring Children's Politics in School Setting: Evidence from Private School in Yogyakarta

This study sets out to conceptualize children's politics in official school setting concerning children's role as student and the politics played out in children's school life. More over to demonstrate how childhood policies typically seek to involve children in politics towards the student activity as responsibility and caring. This qualitative research took place in a Private School that include representative student from every grades, teachers, and head master as the subjects. The data was collected by observation, interview, and documentation. Data analysis techniques used in this study are the Miles and Huberman models. The result explain that school activity both inside or outiside classroom do affect children political attitude through interaction to the diversity and variety of school environment. It's give them the opportunity to develop courage, responsibility, trust, caring and sense of social sensitivity that become the political concept for individual to maintain their world.