Filosofis Kurikulum mata pelajaran Sejarah masa orde lama

Abstract

Policymakers are often unaware of the effects of an important and strategic decision they make in the field of education, especially government policy in making changes to the curriculum. The importance of philosophy in curriculum development is based on his belief that education is a process of developing the potential of learners. The philosophy of curriculum development that is used as a foothold by the government in this case the ministry of education is very influential in determining the direction of the development of aspects related to education curriculum policy. These aspects include: objectives, materials, processes, and evaluations of learning outcomes.In curriculum development, Pancasila as the highest educational philosophy adopted from local and national 
religions and cultures needs to be embedded in the heart for every citizen, including the learners. In the old masses of philosophical and educational practices full of political contents and ideological doctrines, this is due to several things such as formally actually Indonesia only have national education law in 1950. Policy makers are more busy on matters relating with the constitution of the state, they forget that when Indonesian independence should be the main debate precisely at the level of educational philosophy. Therefore, five years after Indonesia’s independence in 1950, then Indonesia has the Law of National Education System.