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Vol. 2 No. 2 (2022): February
Comparison of Indonesian and Finnish Education Curriculum
23 Feb 2022
Abstract
Purpose: This study aims at describing the planning of the education system that will be adapted that it is necessary to make comparisons in order to improve the quality of the education system and contribute to the government in considering making policies to improve the Indonesian education system.
Methodology: The research design is used case study to compare education system between Indonesia and Finnish and literature review to collect relevant research.
Results: The results of the study indicated that the Indonesian education curriculum is classified as low because it is based on five curriculum components, namely objectives, contents-materials, media, learning strategies, and learning process.
Conclusions: Indonesia’s curriculum lags behind Finland’s; improvements should focus on student progress, comfort, engagement, minimal homework, and independent learning.
Limitations: This study focuses on the five curriculum components in the Indonesian education system generally, so that there is a gap that can be filled by future researches by discussing more deeply along with examples from other countries.
Contributions: This research contributes to curriculum policymakers in the Indonesian education system as a reference for improving the quality of education in Indonesia.
Keywords
Curriculum
Finnish
Indonesia
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Sunarti, V., Hafizah, H., Rusdinal, R., Ananda, A., & Gistituati, N. (2022). Comparison of Indonesian and Finnish Education Curriculum. Journal of Social, Humanity, and Education, 2(2), 141–152. https://doi.org/10.35912/jshe.v2i2.808
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