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Analyzing Total Educational Program
Muhammad Syukrianto
A. Introduction
It has long been recognized that education is viewed a primary means for solving social problems. Education provides people with the tools and knowledge
they need to understand and participate in their daily life. It also helps to sustain the human values that contribute to individual and collective well-being. Therefore,
realizing the important of education, from time to time the quality of education should be improved.
Most experts in education believe that one of the ways to improve the quality of education is through curriculum development. As a matter of fact, the
curriculum is the core of education, since it provides rigorous planning and program to reach the objectives of education. Sailor, 1981 defines the Curriculum as a plan
for providing sets of learning opportunities for person to be educated. From this definition, it can be concluded that the core of educational improvement is in the
well programmed of curriculum.
In this short paper, actually, we are going to discuss the total educational program. In writer’s perspective, the total educational program refers to the well
programmed of curriculum. Discussing educational programs, we may have different perspective since in each level of educations we can find the process of
programming. The governments have their own programs in education, nationally and provincially. At school, we are also familiar with school program. In classroom,
a teacher has programs to implement in his or her teaching and learning process. From these different perspectives, hence, the well programmed of curriculum that
we are going to discuss refers to and focus on the discussion of curriculum content.
B. A Perspective
Concerning with the program in curriculum development, I would like to make an analog of a curriculum with a computer. In a computer development, the
core of computer is in the program. Someone who develops the program is called a programmer. The process of a computer development is started from a situational
analysis, to decide the need and the situation on that time. And then, the developers company formulated the goals and objective to decide what types of computer to
develop. After that, they develop programs computer programs as the core of a computer. The programs are then installed and implemented by the users.
The core of curriculum, in this case, is in the program which is called curriculum content. Curriculum is developed started from a situational analysis, goal
formulation and then program building or content building. To understand the process and interrelation between curriculum and program, it can be figured with the
following skillbeck model Print, 1993.
C. Program Building Curriculum Content
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