Curriculum Renewal and Quality Assurance of English
Teaching in
Joko
Nurkamto
In
its broadest sense, curriculum is all the relevant decision making processes
exist in some concrete form and can be observed and described, such as policy
documents, syllabuses, teacher-training programs, teaching materials and
resources, and teaching and learning actions. A curriculum can be considered
the heart of the educational enterprise because it consists of educational
program offered to the participants. It has been the curriculum which has
received the most attention in educational design, implementation, and
evaluation. The quality of education has partly been seen as central to
educational reform. When new educational goals are sought because the old ones
are felt to have been irrelevant, specification of new educational programs has
been the typically favored solution.
The
degree to which educational goals and programs are appropriate depends a great
deal on their relevance to the needs of society to develop; therefore,
curriculum renewal has been conducted three times in the last 25 years,
resulting in three curricula: The 1975, The 1984, and
the 1994. Most probably, next year a new English Curriculum (Competence-Based
Curriculum) will be launched. The question is whether the renewal of
curriculum, especially English language curriculum can be the quality assurance
of the teaching of English in
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Nurkamto, J. (2003,
October). Curriculum renewal and quality assurance of English teaching in
Indonesia. Paper presented at the 51st TEFLIN International
Conference,
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