Pengembangan Kurikulum Sekolah Dasar

Education is an effort to prepare students to be able live well in the society,  able to develop and improve the quality of their own lives, and contribute  signifiantly in developing and improving the quality of society and  nation . There are six main problems in the national education system,  (1) decline moral and character of students, (2) equitable distribution of learning opportunities, (3) low internal effiiency of the education system,  (4) institutional status, (5) management of education that is not in line  with the national development, (6) resources are not professional. In this  case, need for social change which gives the direction that education is a basic approach in the change process. Education is life, therefore learning  activities should be able to equip students with life skills (life competency)  that appropriate with the environment and their lives. Keywords: Curriculum Development , Elementary School