Freedom to Learn in the Novel Panggil Aku Kartini Saja and Cerita Dari Blora by Pramoedya Ananta Toer: Transformation of Character for the 21st Century

Putting the novel as an educational function is essential nowadays, making education a tool so that the novel functions as a source of teaching morals and character effectively through learning. So far, the government does not realize that novels by great writers have moral values sourced from historical facts tested by time and age. Enabling the novel so that moral and character education can move optimally and transformatively in independent learning is the primary goal of this study. The Panggil Aku Kartini Saja 1962 and Cerita Dari Blora 1952 by Pramoedya Ananta Toer are great literary works that contain many characters strengthening through the model of independent learning that can be known through the main character in the novel. This qualitative study was sourced from journals, documents, written sources, and interviews. The data analysis method used content and thematic analysis, while the triangulation method, namely atlas.ti8, was used. The moral theory approach was used in the study to find value education that supports the concept of independent learning through transformative action transformations containing the message of independent learning education through the main character. Freedom to learn in a study that includes character strengthening is independence, prioritizing education, openness, criticalness, responsibility, and courage to defend the truth. This study can be used to reference that the concept of independent learning can be obtained through novels by great writers.