A Brief View on Teaching Philosophy in the Curriculum Implementation in Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI)

Dinn Wahyudin

2017

Abstract

Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI) as one of Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) in Indonesia is having effort to reformulate its curriculum. The formula of redesign of professional education for teachers that was developed by UPI is a response to need for better teacher education. This study focused on philosophy of education in the implementation of curriculum in Study Program at UPI. In curriculum implementation, aspect of philosophy of teaching is very important in the educational institutions. It is applied in the teaching-learning situations, in the conduct of research, and in developing educational policies. Teaching philosophy of individual lecturer is based on the university and faculty vision and mission, concept, beliefs, and attitudes on teaching, and how they put these into the teaching-learning process. This has implications to classroom management, pedagogy, facilitating and evaluating learning, and curriculum development. This study presents some empirical based data from sampling faculty in UPI, namely FIP (Faculty of Educational Sciences). Instruments used were questioners, interview, focused group discussion, and documentation study. Result shows that the implementation of curriculum and individual teaching philosophies of lecturers are strongly influenced and inspired by institutional teaching philosophy and its vision and mission.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Wahyudin D. (2017). A Brief View on Teaching Philosophy in the Curriculum Implementation in Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI).In 1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 1: ICES, ISBN 978-989-758-314-8, pages 115-121. DOI: 10.5220/0007036901150121

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ices17,
author={Dinn Wahyudin},
title={A Brief View on Teaching Philosophy in the Curriculum Implementation in Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI)},
booktitle={1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 1: ICES,},
year={2017},
pages={115-121},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007036901150121},
isbn={978-989-758-314-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - 1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 1: ICES,
TI - A Brief View on Teaching Philosophy in the Curriculum Implementation in Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI)
SN - 978-989-758-314-8
AU - Wahyudin D.
PY - 2017
SP - 115
EP - 121
DO - 10.5220/0007036901150121