KULIAH BAHASA INGGRIS PENDIDIKAN MATEMATIKA 1 (13)

“REVITALISASI PENDIDIKAN MATEMATIKA”

By: Dr. Marsigit, MA

Summary by: Primaningtyas Nur Arifah (09313244004)

The research of Dr. Marsigit, MA (1996: 123-132) suggests that teacher’s opinion and attitudes about the practice of mathematics learning is varied. Some of teachers feels has an quite strong point of views about the practice of mathematics teaching, but at the  same time, they forced to realize that the point of views are different or even contradictory  with the point of view of their colleagues or the results of an research.

The development of mathematics education globally, is characterized by a shift of center of education from the educator to student. The research showed that  the student placed as the center of education will provide far-reaching  and different implications than the educators placed as center. 'Transfers of knowledge' of teacher to student has been considered as an unappropriate paradigm to the educational nature. Alternatively, it starts to develop a new paradigm that is 'developing' as an attempt to developing students potential. Thus the teachers role has also changed  from as a server to as a facilitators in the learning process. If development of Indonesia mathematics education refer to the global trend then the problem is how far the teachers are able to change the attitude and outlook 'Mathematics as a science that is taught by a teacher' to 'mathematics is a science that needs to be learned by the students'.

This is not an easy job for mathematics teacher to change their attitude as mentioned above. Alexander in Bourne (1994: 69) mention there are at least 6 (six) factors that influence teacher's teaching style: value, understanding (theory), pragmatism, empirical, context and system (political). Understanding of a theory of educating is not implemented into teaching practice by itself. Value systems (private teacher) and social (community) being unpartable part of political order that will give direction for mathematics education development effort. Empirical studies show that there is an large enough gap for meeting the educational theory with practice educational. Required a 'political will' of the governments to returned education to the nature 'educate' in accordance with nature 'subject learners' and the nature of 'scientific', so that education is not only seen as something the 'required' but something that is 'required' by students, in order to make education not only saw the students as 'investment' development but as subject that needs to be 'developed'.

Revitalization of mathematics education is an effort in the direction where the mathematics education practitioners given the opportunity to conduct self-reflection, for then faced with multi-entry attitude decision based on the in-depth study towards a new paradigm that offered. Recognized that it is not easy to realize education revitalization without awareness and greatness of soul of both the macro and micro-world of our education. Otherwise the mathematics education paradigms will merely remain as an utopia that only up to the rhetoric.

 In order that teachers are able to realize the revitalization of mathematics learning (educational) that fosters students creativity, referring to the recommendation Cockroft Report (1982) as well as the elaboration of Ebbut, S and Straker, A (1995), there are is a suggestion that might be useful for teachers in conducting learning mathematics, through the preparation phase, learning phase, and evaluation phase, as follows:

1. Teaching Preparation Phase
• Planning for mathematics learning environment
• Planning mathematics activities
2. Learning Phase
• Develop the role of teacher
• Set the time to whom and when doing mathematics with / without students
3. Evaluation Phase
• Observing student activities
• Evaluate yourself
• Assess understanding, processes, skills, facts and results
• Assess the results and monitor student progress

KULIAH BAHASA INGGRIS PENDIDIKAN MATEMATIKA 1 (12)

UNIVERSITAS NEGERI YOGYAKARTA

MENUJU PERGURUAN TINGGI BERTARAF INTERNASIONAL (PTBI)

“Yogyakarta State University on the move toward World Class University”
By: Dr. Marsigit, MA

Summary by: Primaningtyas Nur Arifah (09313244004)

There are two thinking approach to understand the meaning of Yogyakarta State University leading international universities, that is a formal approach and substantive approach. Formal Approach positioned UNY in social life among many universities in Indonesia, association among universities in the world, and UNY role especially as a former of LPTK. UNY main task is to print educational expert and develop the educational science and teachership science, in addition to printing noneducational academics and professional.

Perspective of the global era not only penetrated the education field but has been reaching out to all aspects of life. In the midst of euphoria to the international level, UNY faced with two phenomenon that spans the two sides / ends that have not synergistic. First, UNY have an obligation to support government policy to develop the SBI / RSBI schools, and thus UNY must be take some steps towards international universities. Second, UNY faced to the various criteria for ranking world universities, and in fact UNY still far from ranked. In Indonesia, there were only 4 (four) universities are able to rank below 500 universities in the world.

Meanwhile the perception that growing both nationally and globally, is continuously positioned the term "rank" as the only perspective to looking the international universities. Then how should we behave? The deceased Prof. Sugeng Mardiyono, Ph.D., (2008), former Rector of UNY, outlined that leading to international standard universities is not the "internationalization". "In a UNY pioneering effort towards WCU, we must not lose our identity. We must use this potential and set out from culture or our culture ", according to his directions.

So substantively, the stub to international university is the responsibility and the needs of all UNY civitas, at all ranks, institutions, faculty, students and employees. Whatever UNY position is an absolute necessity for the pilot to start doing university level internationally. Scrolling of the team's pre-eminent developer of the programs, then in 2007 WCU Task Force was formed to develop and implement programs WCU at 2008-2012.