In this previous post, I shared my worries on religious institution camouflaged as educational institution. In this one, I would like to share some quick run through the responses to the surveys we gave. What we found were even more disturbing.
Some of the survey questions were modified to fit the participants as teachers in training. These included a question that asked what the participants think as the most important matter they should be teaching to their future students. In one of the three groups, 20 of 43 participants mentioned religious-related responses that were rather specific to [beep]’s point of view.
Other questions were more specific to creativity, such as what favorite books have they read in relation to creativity. From the same group, 21 of 43 participants mentioned the same book title – which I had never heard of. After googling, the author turned out to be a leader in a very specific [beep] group.
Now, if they were my students, as a lecturer I would be very amazed and probably thought happily that I had succeeded in educating them. But I know if I was to ask my own students to respond to the same question, I am pretty sure that they would mention different titles. Such an overwhelming response could only mean that either these students learn by rote memorization, if not drilling, or they were given only that one reference book and were not exposed to others.
Going back to the question what the participants think as the most important matter they should be teaching to their future students, of the 23 participants who did not mention any religious-related responses, 12 actually mentioned the book title whose author was the leader in a very specific [beep] group.
Education? Try indoctrination.
And to think that these students will one day become teachers of math, science, biology, accounting, social sciences, health, etc. in elementary and secondary schools all over Indonesia. What would become of them? What will become of the world if students are drilled so narrow-mindedly and learned about boxed-in worldviews? Perhaps, Amartya Sen’s worries, as highlighted in this post, was made over a very possible future.
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3 comments:
Alow bu...
Akhirnya saya memutuskan untuk meninggalkan komen saya utnuk menyampaikan pendapat saya setelah diskusi kita beberapa waktu lalu...
Menurut saya..metodenya sudah terlalu vulgar,tapi saya sebenarnya agak kaget karena bisa berhasil dengan sukses...karena in my humble opinion..it isn't work good to me...more over..malah menimbulkan pandangan skeptis saya terhadap mereka..karena ternyata mereka tidak pernah bisa memberikan jawaban yang saya harapkan..dari semua debat dan diskusi yang saya coba ajukan, yang mereka lakukan bukanlah membuat saya berpikir atau menjawab saya..yang mereka lakukan adalah MEYAKINKAN saya (kalau tidak mau dibilang mempengaruhi) saya untuk percaya dengan apa yang mereka katakan...itu agak miss dengan apa yang saya harapkan...
menurut ibu..knapa bisa sukses?karena itu jelas fail ke saya dan teman-teman saya...paling nda ke saya deh..itu uda fail berat..klo dihadapi dengan hati, saya pasti kalah..tapi ketika masuk logika..saya merasa semua yang diungkapkan malah tidak make sense..makanya jadi fail ke saya bu...
sincerely yours..
Raynata
Saya rasa programnya bisa dengan sukses mengindoktrinasi peserta belajar salah satunya karena cara mengajarkan pengetahuannya sepertinya masih bersifat hafalan, disertai dengan informasi mengenai pengetahuan-pengetahuan yang dianggap benar atau salah - seperti cerita worldview dalam posting.
Dari 80an survai yang sudah diolah lebih lanjut, hanya 5 peserta yang merasa penting untuk mengajarkan berpikir (kreatif dan kritis) kepada peserta didik mereka nantinya.
Sistemnya tidak berhasil begitu seseorang (seperti kamu) mulai mencoba berpikir kritis :)
Jawaban yang lebih akademis baru saya temukan di buku Paolo Freire "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" yang sedang saya baca:
"The more students work at storing the deposits [= memorizing learning] entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world." (hlm. 73.)
Lihat juga posting baru ini.
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