Flexible curricula
Flexible curricula
The headline Kids learn boxing to stop brawling (The Jakarta
Post, Sept. 9, 2000) has really intrigued me as I am interested
in education and, more particularly, in curricula.
Dudi Effendi, a teacher at SMK Grafica Lektur who watched the
bout, said he was hopeful that the program could reduce the
frequency of student brawls.
Such a move is indeed an innovation in the application of
curricula, especially the flexible curricula in which local
content needs to be taken into account. I certainly agree with
this idea considering that Mochtar Buchori suggests that a good
curriculum consists primarily of subjects each of which has an
integrative power (The Post, Aug. 23, 2000).
This idea is supported by Tresna Dermawan who says that it is
necessary to have a national curriculum which is more locally
adaptive, which he termed membumi or down to earth in nature
(Pikiran Rakyat, Aug. 23, 2000). For this reason, education as
power means being competent and strong enough to enable us, the
majority of the people, to decide what kind of world we want and
how to achieve that kind of world (Theodore Brameld, 1977).
Studying the ideas of the experts, I fully support the
inclusion of boxing and other physical activities such as
mountaineering in local curricula. Note that intelligence
includes not only linguistic and mathematical capabilities, but
musical, bodily-kinesthetic and sport's intelligence as well
(Colin Rose & J. Nicholl 1997).
ODO FADLOELI
Cimahi, Bandung
The headline Kids learn boxing to stop brawling (The Jakarta
Post, Sept. 9, 2000) has really intrigued me as I am interested
in education and, more particularly, in curricula.
Dudi Effendi, a teacher at SMK Grafica Lektur who watched the
bout, said he was hopeful that the program could reduce the
frequency of student brawls.
Such a move is indeed an innovation in the application of
curricula, especially the flexible curricula in which local
content needs to be taken into account. I certainly agree with
this idea considering that Mochtar Buchori suggests that a good
curriculum consists primarily of subjects each of which has an
integrative power (The Post, Aug. 23, 2000).
This idea is supported by Tresna Dermawan who says that it is
necessary to have a national curriculum which is more locally
adaptive, which he termed membumi or down to earth in nature
(Pikiran Rakyat, Aug. 23, 2000). For this reason, education as
power means being competent and strong enough to enable us, the
majority of the people, to decide what kind of world we want and
how to achieve that kind of world (Theodore Brameld, 1977).
Studying the ideas of the experts, I fully support the
inclusion of boxing and other physical activities such as
mountaineering in local curricula. Note that intelligence
includes not only linguistic and mathematical capabilities, but
musical, bodily-kinesthetic and sport's intelligence as well
(Colin Rose & J. Nicholl 1997).
ODO FADLOELI
Cimahi, Bandung