Clarification of Educational Courage and Testing it

This study aimed to clarify the construct through its conceptualization and analysis based on qualitative study and validity test of heuristic definition in the form of a guide sentence.

The method of content analysis and data analysis with the Colaizzi approach and the Facet Theory approach based on the SSAF of the 3D symmetric rank scaling model were used. The statistical population includes students and graduates of 6 provinces from the three northern, middle, and southern regions of the country, and the sample includes 636 people (n=36), which was conducted through a multi-stage cluster random sampling method.

The results led to the discovery of the true meaning of educational courage, including the five facets: purpose, action domain (covert action and overt action), repetition, and authenticity of the response. According to this heuristic definition, authentic educational courage can be defined as learner-optimal behavior- due to personality capacity- in confronting traumatic educational challenges (Perceived) to achieve a transcendent purpose (mastery learning).

The results of the research showed that authentic educational courage could be considered the best form of moral behavior in education and one of the important indicators of evaluating the quality of learners' performance based on their personality capacity when facing traumatic challenges.