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Sunday, August 21, 2011

PROSPECTS OF EDUCATION IN THE GLOBALIZATION ERA

Since the first, education is an important vehicle for the community, both as a vehicle for cultural transformation, socialization with surrounding communities, as well as a vehicle for the transformation of science itself. Therefore for the community, education is an essential element whose presence indicates the existence of society itself.
Since ancient times, or about the year 900 BC when education began to be institutionalized in the town of Sparta, education was never directed to himself, but education will always be used as a tool. Here, education can be any device, education as a means of distributing knowledge, character creation tool, tool skills training, a certain ideology planting tool, a tool to increase employment, investment tools, tools to raise awareness to live together, a tool for creating social justice, melanggengakan tool for power, the tools to dominate a particular group and others.
As a tool, education devoted to one or several objectives to be achieved that vision and mission contained therein. There is where the struggle for influence of various forces complete with their ideology, which is not uncommon to sacrifice the process and the social objectives of education itself. In this condition the political and economic forces play an important role. Political strength to impose his authority will continue to struggle for education as an arena of influence, so even with the economy, with its capital strength, business education arena used to make profits as much as possible, so that what is called the commercialization of education.
Commercialization of education that will ultimately make education for some people used to accumulate capital and make profits. In this condition placed education as a commodity that will eventually become expensive items, which can only be reached by certain groups only, whereas in the larger society is not able to enjoy the progress of education because of their economic limitations.
The result is the inequality of education among the people, in short there is inequality of educational services. Education can only be reached by a group who are economically disadvantaged (established) by the structure and the existing social system. While for those who come from economically exploited class that will not be able to reach education. This means, for those who have money and can afford it, then he will get service and maximum quality of education which, while not capable, then he will enjoy a potluck education, even they often are unable to access education at all. Education has long become a collective human effort to maintain its existence and its culture, is now experiencing a shift in orientation, vision, mission and ideology that resulted in a threat to human existence itself.
In this case the nature of education as a strategy for maintaining the existence of human culture and the culture has been knocked out by the economic systems that place more emphasis on capital that has delivered classes in society. All systems and capitalistic economic structure has made it perpetuates the practice of education social class and social injustice. For that we must prevent that education is not to result in making man into eklusivistik educated, elitist because of his position as an educated class.
In this case what is proposed by Brubacher of "education, if not power, power that is at least potentially. Education will give man what he did not have before, education will provide a tool that is always effective protection for their interests ". In addition, education with all its shortcomings and advantages able to create human beings with different positions and his contemporaries.
With regard to the era of globalization that is now increasingly global, this phenomenon is characterized by rapid development of communications and information technology, resulting in an explosion of information in various parts of the world. This development has driven mankind to always be prepared with a variety of possibilities resulting from the strong wave of information. Rapid informatization process in turn make the horizon of life in this world at once increasingly widespread and is increasingly shrinking world. This means that issues of human life become a global problem or at least can not be separated from the influence of events in the other hemisphere, both poilik problem, economically and socially. [1]
Knowingly or not, the rapid development of communications and information technology have led to depletion of the differences in space and time. As we know, that an event that occurred in the mainland United States and Europe can we see in our respective homes on the spot (when the incident took place).
Conditions like this can not be avoided by anyone and anywhere. In this case the "escape" is not the right answer from this condition. Therefore we are required to be able to deal with a variety of preparation conditions and capabilities possessed. Globalization presents opportunities and challenges that are left entirely to the human to react to it. This is where human ability and strategy are at stake, whether it is capable of taking the opportunity for good or did he instead caught and even less of the challenges faced, as do the world of education.
In education, the influence of the wave of globalization which is characterized by a stronger understanding of the free market is also much less pronounced. In this era tradition of mankind to sustain their existence through education gets a serious challenge, because education was for some humans can be used to accumulate capital and make profits as mentioned above. How could the human tradition of the vision of education as a strategy for human existence that has been reproduced for centuries, replaced by a vision that puts education as a commodity, [2] which in turn make education a commodity economies. In this condition a proper education will be expensive items, which not everyone is able to reach them.
As stated above, that globalisalsi presents a number of positive opportunities for life easier, convenient, inexpensive, beautiful and forward; also can present opportunities as well as negative, that is causing unrest, misery and misdirection. Globalisai worked for 24 hours by offering lots of choice and personal freedom. Short said today there has been a flood of options and opportunities flooding. It's up to one's ability to select it. U Thant, former UN Secretary General in the 1970s, said that current resources are no longer restrict the decision, but keputusanlah who created the resource. [3]
In the perspective of education, Could we create and develop an education system that produces graduates who are able to vote without losing the opportunity and identity. Because of the tendency of globalization is a phenomenon that can not be avoided, therefore many of the ideas in the face of globalization that emphasizes the need for global thinking and insightful, but must still adjust decisions and actions with tangible reality in front of him. In this case, as quoted Muchtar Buchori Tirtaraharja Umar and S. L. He Sulo, argues "think globally but act locally". For Indonesia the background that embraces the motto Unity in Diversity, it is not only national but also consider aspects of the local aspect in the regions concerned. [4]
With the rapid development of communications and information technology as a result of the globalization wave, then in fact this is an opportunity for education to develop themselves better and more evenly. At least, with the inventory and development of learning technologies that will further spur endless pembejaran quality-based technology to be improved.
In terms of educational equity, with the rapid development of communications and information technology are least able to provide education in remote areas, for example with a model of distance education. This is an opportunity to further improve quality and equity of education in Indonesia. So expect an increase both in quality and quantity of students who take part in education.
This is where the skills and acumen humans strategies tested Indonesia's education. Therefore we need a new development strategy in the face of this globaliasasi wave.
In addressing the rapidly increasing wave of globalization, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), respond to reaffirm some of the recommendations in October 1994 in Geneva, as stipulated in the UNESCO document, the Integrated Framework of Action on Education for Peace, Human Rights and Democracy , namely: [5]

   
1. Education should develop the ability to recognize and accept the values ​​that exist in the personal diversity, gender, society and culture as well as develop the ability to communicate, share and cooperate with others.
   
2. Education should affirm identity and encourage the convergence of ideas and settlements that fosters peace, brotherhood and solidarity between individuals and society.
   
3. Education should develop the ability to peacefully resolving conflicts without violence. Therefore the education should also promote the development of inner peace and mind of students, thus they are able to build a more robust quality of tolerance, patience, willingness to share and maintain.
   
4. Education should instill a sense soldaritas and similarities in national and international rankings, in the perspective of a balanced and sustainable development.


Fourth UNESCO recommendation is education strategy in the face of rapid globaliasasi wave. However, of equal importance, namely the strategy of internal strengthening of institutions, which include:

   
1. Strengthening of institutions with policies that support. Here the education reforms need to develop a number of macro and micro policies in long-term plans, medium term and short term. [6]
   
2. Structuring management from planning to evaluation
   
3. Development and improvement of the quality of Human Resources, without a superior human resources it will be difficult if not impossible to improve the education that can survive and compete with global developments.
   
4. Ability to adapt to global or international pergaualan, it certainly requires knowledge, insight and ability to communicate globally and language skills.
Ultimately this strategy will depend largely on the strength of the willingness and ability of humans Indonesia to take advantage of educational opportunities available in this globaliasasi era.

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