Pendidikan Transformatif Menuju Masyarakat Demokratis
Abstract: The basic argument
that this paper tries to prove is that, education can be counter-productive to
the most important value of humanity if it is run inappropriately. Given that
value can be produced—in this modern time—by telecommunication and information
technology, education cannot turn a blind eye on it. By implication, education
cannot ignore modernity. It is this problem that this paper is concerned with.
The paper is interested in discussing the idea of transformative education by
relating it to many sources and factors of transformation. Modernity is
certainly one of those. The paper—borrowing UNESCO—understands education as
simply the learning to know, the learning to do, to be, and to live together.
Consequently, education is all about adapting oneself to the environment in
which he/she lives. It is in this context that education cannot escape
modernity, for modernity has become the very part of human life and environment.
And it is only through modernity—this paper argues—that education can be
meaningful at least in democratic terms.
Keywords: Education;
transformation; democracy
Penulis: Mundzier Suparta
Kode Jurnal: jpperadabanislamdd130053
