In a recent conversation with a good friend who has been a teacher for over 20 years I was surprised to hear him speak very openly about the "education industry".
This was a surprise because I had always thought of him as someone who had very high ideals for and about education. He trained as a teacher and earned a master's degree in education and has had a distinguished career in education really means services and increasing in line to become a director.
He has taught at least four continents and is now working in Indonesia, it seems, is much to enjoy their time as part of what he sees as "a really vibrant and growing industry of education in the country." I had always seen as someone who saw education as a great gift of being a teacher and as a vocation and not just making money. But now seems to have a slightly different perception.
He is watching the international spread of curricula and teaching methods and practices, and this is something he calls "the globalization of education." I'm not sure if "globalization" and "education" really work well together for me as a positive expression. There are, in my opinion, some of the concerns and questions about globalization, but I think I understand the essence of what he suggests.
Education has become more international in flavor in Jakarta and other cities throughout Indonesia. The number of international schools seem to be growing at an impressive rate. Recent reports indicate that in 2008 the Ministry of Education licenses to more than 200 new school projects that include international education.
What does this mean in the field? Well, there is concern that there are too many people involved in schools and perhaps the figure of 200 new licenses for the school is a representation of this kind of problem. It is perhaps too easy to license. It is much harder to be able to provide international education.
This does not mean they are not good things happening in international education and in the case of Indonesia. There may be some school projects that are neither established nor well managed, but the truth of the matter is that they are and which no longer fall by the wayside.
What is the most useful is the manner in which greater diversity and spread of education is being developed for Indonesia. This seems very appropriate when we think of the Indonesian motto "Unity in Diversity." All these schools are successfully implementing international standards in all curriculum directed to the same effect of providing quality education and is therefore a unity about them and what they are trying to do.
However, this leaves room for diversity and the diversity of approaches to education. International curricula and curricula are being implemented in Australia and the United Kingdom and other countries with an international approach to education in Indonesia are also represented. I recently heard about a new school is following a Canadian curriculum. While we must recognize that nations can be represented by these curricula, but internationalism is the key to what they are doing.
These international curriculum and often the direction consistent international citizenship, and promote global awareness. This may be what my friend is referring to when he speaks of "the globalization of education." This means that a truly global mind-set is being introduced and promoted through the schools of this kind and this can only be a good thing.
Another very positive development of such schools is to help develop a set of human resources to help education in general. Teachers have to teach in these schools are using a different curriculum and are learning to use different methods to help their students understand.
All this means that Indonesia is becoming a greater choice of what education can do. The national education system has had its critics, but it is the adaptation and the influence of what is happening internationally. This means that the Indonesians are becoming more and more access to better education.
Source: Rachel Davies, Contributor, Jakarta | Thu, 01/22/2009 4:35 PM | Supplement; The writer is an education consultant in Sydney, Australia.
This was a surprise because I had always thought of him as someone who had very high ideals for and about education. He trained as a teacher and earned a master's degree in education and has had a distinguished career in education really means services and increasing in line to become a director.
He has taught at least four continents and is now working in Indonesia, it seems, is much to enjoy their time as part of what he sees as "a really vibrant and growing industry of education in the country." I had always seen as someone who saw education as a great gift of being a teacher and as a vocation and not just making money. But now seems to have a slightly different perception.
He is watching the international spread of curricula and teaching methods and practices, and this is something he calls "the globalization of education." I'm not sure if "globalization" and "education" really work well together for me as a positive expression. There are, in my opinion, some of the concerns and questions about globalization, but I think I understand the essence of what he suggests.
Education has become more international in flavor in Jakarta and other cities throughout Indonesia. The number of international schools seem to be growing at an impressive rate. Recent reports indicate that in 2008 the Ministry of Education licenses to more than 200 new school projects that include international education.
What does this mean in the field? Well, there is concern that there are too many people involved in schools and perhaps the figure of 200 new licenses for the school is a representation of this kind of problem. It is perhaps too easy to license. It is much harder to be able to provide international education.
This does not mean they are not good things happening in international education and in the case of Indonesia. There may be some school projects that are neither established nor well managed, but the truth of the matter is that they are and which no longer fall by the wayside.
What is the most useful is the manner in which greater diversity and spread of education is being developed for Indonesia. This seems very appropriate when we think of the Indonesian motto "Unity in Diversity." All these schools are successfully implementing international standards in all curriculum directed to the same effect of providing quality education and is therefore a unity about them and what they are trying to do.
However, this leaves room for diversity and the diversity of approaches to education. International curricula and curricula are being implemented in Australia and the United Kingdom and other countries with an international approach to education in Indonesia are also represented. I recently heard about a new school is following a Canadian curriculum. While we must recognize that nations can be represented by these curricula, but internationalism is the key to what they are doing.
These international curriculum and often the direction consistent international citizenship, and promote global awareness. This may be what my friend is referring to when he speaks of "the globalization of education." This means that a truly global mind-set is being introduced and promoted through the schools of this kind and this can only be a good thing.
Another very positive development of such schools is to help develop a set of human resources to help education in general. Teachers have to teach in these schools are using a different curriculum and are learning to use different methods to help their students understand.
All this means that Indonesia is becoming a greater choice of what education can do. The national education system has had its critics, but it is the adaptation and the influence of what is happening internationally. This means that the Indonesians are becoming more and more access to better education.
Source: Rachel Davies, Contributor, Jakarta | Thu, 01/22/2009 4:35 PM | Supplement; The writer is an education consultant in Sydney, Australia.
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