Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Pesantren serves not merely as an educational institution but as a living space demanding simultaneous social, emotional, and spiritual adaptation. This study explores the dynamics of homesickness experienced by students and the role of counseling services in reconstructing their emotional narratives at Al-Amanah Islamic Boarding School in Kudus. Employing a narrative ethnographic approach, the research captures students’ lived experiences of homesickness, their coping strategies, and how counselors facilitate the transformation of emotional meaning. Findings reveal that homesickness narratives evolve from burdensome emotions into sources of spiritual insight, shaped through the mediating interplay of pesantren traditions, religious symbols, and counseling dialogues. Counseling in the pesantren context functions not only as a therapeutic tool but also as a cultural practice that reshapes students’ understanding of distance, closeness, and independence. This study underscores the importance of narrative and culturally grounded counseling approaches in fostering students’ emotional adaptation holistically.
Source: JURNAL PENELITIAN
Author: Moh Anwar Yasfin
Institution: IAIN Kudus
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414842215
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