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TEACHING PHILOSOPHY OF SELECTED TEACHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS IN INDONESIA

Dinn Wahyudin, Ahman, Doddy Rusmono, Yulia Rahmawati


Abstract— The Philosophy of Education leads to an understanding of the philosophical issues in the educational institutions. It shall be 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’s concepts, beliefs, attitudes on teaching, and how they put these elements into the teaching-learning process. Has this implications to classroom management, pedagogy, facilitating and evaluating learning, and curriculum development? This study presents some empirical based data from selected Teacher Educations Institutions (TEIs) in Indonesia concerning with teaching philosophy that are implemented and maintained at university level, faculty level, and department level. This study utilized the descriptive method of research because in descriptive method of research information is collected without changing the environment/setting of study. Instruments to collect data were questionnaires, interviews, focus group discussion, and documentation study. Result shows that individual teaching philosophies of lecturers are strongly influenced and inspired by institutional teaching philosophy which is obviously translated in daily teaching activities in campus environment