Open AccessA Milestone for Liberal Arts Education in Indonesia
Author(s) -
Matthew R. Malcolm,
Juliana Tirza Mangilaleng,
Daniel L. Kim
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of educational research (los angeles. online)/world journal of educational research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2375-9771
pISSN - 2333-5998
DOI - 10.22158/wjer.v8n1p26
Subject(s) - milestone , indonesian , liberal arts education , negotiation , government (linguistics) , political science , the arts , higher education , style (visual arts) , sociology , liberal education , public relations , public administration , pedagogy , law , history , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
This article seeks to draw attention to a milestone in the development of Indonesian higher education, and to offer some evaluation of its significance. This milestone is the government’s new strategy regarding General Education in higher education institutions, which is laid out in an Indonesian-language book published by the department of education, and is presently being enacted across a range of higher education institutions.The approach taken is to offer a critical summary of the book, and then to focus on one instance of the enactment of its principles, as evidenced in two recent studies regarding the perspectives of stakeholders at an Indonesian university.In the light of this, it is suggested that the continued enactment of General Education in Indonesia will likely be accompanied by a painstaking negotiation between utilitarian and non-utilitarian impulses. This contributes to a growing picture of the implementation of liberal arts-style education in Asian settings.