Writer : Tundung Memolo
Mr. Nadim's, the Minister of Education Indonesia, the struggle is complete in making
changes in learning in Indonesia. Starting with the elimination of the National
Examination (UN), the 1-page Learning Implementation Lesson Plan, activating teachers,
activating schools, activating organizations, and finally the emergency
curriculum.
If we analyze, it actually starts with a 1-page lesson
plan. After the lesson
plan 1 page, then the bigger one is the driving teacher, and so on until the
emergency curriculum. Even more ideal, it is closed with the abolition of the
National Examination (UN). Because the national exam will actually be
eliminated next year, only because of Covid-19, the national exam will be
eliminated this year.
Apart from the pros and cons, the spirit of the concept of
independent learning is not playing games. A big idea that has been thought
through. Curriculum independence can be interpreted as liberating and making
both teachers and students happy. Because the teacher's burden to teach by
providing a lighter teaching load. This is the true independent curriculum.
The curriculum in plain language is how teachers teach.
Redesigning curricula for the 21st century has been a hot topic among educators
for decades, and it shows no signs of abating as not only is the world-changing
faster than ever, but there are also many challenges to transforming from
theory to practice.
In this context, Nodding (2007) provides a description of how
the curriculum is reorganized around traditional disciplines with a focus on
educational goals to change the world. There are at least 2 things how the
curriculum responds to social change and how students and teachers run the
curriculum.
Please note that the curriculum is not a scripture that
cannot be changed. The curriculum must change according to the conditions of
the times. When COVID 19 has gone global, distance education becomes a
priority, each region has different levels of the impact of the pandemic, and
the barriers to distance learning are what causes the curriculum to adjust.
The importance of curriculum change is not limited to changes
in the simplification of learning materials, but is a reflection of social
change, even more so, the curriculum is able to solve social problems and
change in society. In other words, is the emergency curriculum, which is actually
an independent curriculum, the answer to social change, and furthermore, that
is the answer to solving social problems and changing society.
According to Alfred S. Hartwell (1968) from the University of
Maryland, the curriculum is a reflection of the social environment, therefore
curriculum changes must be based on an understanding of social change.
COVID 19 has provided a social change that is happening at an
extraordinary rate. Therefore the curriculum requires change at a level that is
at least the same as the changes occurring throughout society.
The first point has been answered by itself that the
the emergency curriculum is the answer to social (reality) changes in which the
The impact of COVID 19 has changed all aspects of life. Furthermore, can this
the emergency curriculum that frees teachers and students be able to answer social
dynamics.
As we all know, society has started to ignore the use of
masks, wash hands, and maintain distance. Not as strict as when the pandemic
started. This health protocol should remain an integral part of the emergency
curriculum. Teachers should not be bored with conveying this to students at the
same time as the material presented. Likewise, students are asked to submit
health protocols when they get home.
This health protocol education should be continually echoed.
Therefore, education, which seems trivial, must become an integral part of the
emergency curriculum itself. This is the answer to the second point, that the
emergency curriculum does not only simplify the material load, but there is an
educational element about how teachers campaign for health protocols. Thus, the
curriculum is able to answer social problems in society.
The third point, if the health protocol through educational
programs, the emergency curriculum is continuously delivered, it will
eventually become a culture. Become a good norm that applies to society. People
will be embarrassed if they don't wear masks. People will feel disadvantaged if
they don't wash their hands, and feel uncomfortable if they don't keep their
distance. People who were initially ignorant of health protocols, with an
independent curriculum, became concerned. Here shows that the curriculum can
change society.
This spirit of freedom of learning is what makes the emergency curriculum a truly independent curriculum.
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