Cross-Cultural Counseling as an Effective and Efficient Approach for Students

Abstract

This research aims to produce an effective and efficient, participatory, creative, and fun learning process. The learning strategy is also a plan that contains a series of activities designed to achieve certain educational goals and as a starting point or point of view towards the learning process. The term approach refers to the view on occurrence of a process which is still very general in nature. Therefore, the strategies, approaches and learning methods used can be sources or depend on certain approaches. Two approaches are often used to learning, namely the teacher-centered approach and the student-centered approach. This study used a descriptive qualitative approach, taking primary and secondary data sources by interviewing, observing, documenting, the analyzing and testing the data with transferability, dependability, and confirmability.  The result of this study indicate that learning with a cross-cultural counseling approach is very effective and efficient for the success of students in learning process because there is no difference between them and what happens is mutual understanding of culture, mutual assistance, tolerance, and understanding of each other’s interests.