Tidak semua lulusan Sekolah Menengah Atas [SMA] melanjutkan pendidikannya ke jenjang yang lebih tinggi. Kebijakan pendidikan berbasis luas [broad based education] diimplementasikan dalam bentuk program life skills yang antara lain dikembangkan di SMA. Hal ini dimaksudkan agar tamatan SMA yang tidak melanjutkan pendidikannya memiliki bekal keterampilan dasar untuk bekal kehidupan dan/atau bekerj…
Sejalan dengan otonomi pendidikan, partisipasi masyarakat sebagai kekuatan kontrol dalam pelaksanaan akan kualitas pendidikan di madrasah menjadi sangat penting. Apalagi, saat ini konsep manajemen berbasis madrasah mulai diterapkan. Karena itu, keberadaan komite madrasah yang berperan sebagai mitra madrasah yang menyalurkan partisipasi masyarakat [semacam lembaga legislatif] menjadi kebutuhan y…
Globalization era has been identified by the acceleration in technology communication development. Everyone is overwhelmed with the bulk of information and therefore need to know how to deal with it. Library as an information center has big responsibility to loterate its users with such a confusing information resources. In this article, the author offers his perspectives on the role of librari…
Penelitian ini bersifat evaluatif tentang potensi guru fisika SMA dalam melaksanakan kebijakan pendidikan di Indonesia dan data kajian bersifat deskriptif. Data dikumpulkan dengan teknik observasi, wawancara, dan dokumenter.Teknik analisis data untuk memperoleh hasil kajian digunakan teknik analisis dskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa; (a) rata-rata SMA masih kekurangan guru fisika SM…
Pada umumnya sekolah di Indonesia mengalami sejumlah masalah dalam meningkatkan mutu dan hasil pembelajaran untuk mencapai tujuan nasional. Mutu dan jumlah pendidik serta tenaga kependidikan yang belum seperti diharapkan, sarana dan prasarana pembelajaran yang kurang, disamping jumlah dana yang belum mencukupi, merupakan contoh masalah yang dihadapi oleh sekolah. Akan tetapi diyakini bahwa prak…
National education system should be developed towards the integration of formal and non formal systems which enable the society to have better access and greater and more flexible chance to get education. Such integration of national education system will produce lifelong learning and learning society. Based on such a view, local autonomy in implementing society besed primary education is the m…
It is necessary for Islamic institutions to have the power of changing themselves to be able to take part in determining the ideal and success of national education. Precisely, today, Islamic educational system is perceived weak and powerless in the dynamic of social changes have been occurring in the society. Even, this situation, it is frequently assumed as the burden of national education. W…
This article affers critical, humanist, populist education in a context of educational dynamics in Indonesia. Education, in the globalization era, like is being tasted to give a dilematics answer, that is, between legalimizing and eventuating the existing social system and structure, or having critical roles in making social change and transformation into an equitable world. The both dilemmatic…
The expenditure of madrasah as national education subsystem has various consequences which are not simple, mainly on the pattern of education that must use one measurement, Departement of National Education Affaairs. The impact of it to madrasah is the appearing of abstacles and anomalies. It seems fifteen years since the application of national educational system law year 1989, the government …
There are three important factors influencing the succes of educatinon, namely the variable or components of : (1) hardware, software, and (3) brainware. Hardware component includes learning room for learning, practicing tools, laboratory, and library. Then, software component occupies learning system, teaching program, and school management. Brain-ware, furthermore, consists of teachers, princ…