Education in Indonesia [Recurso electrónico] / edited by Daniel Suryadarma, Gavin W. Jones.

Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.

"This book is based mainly on papers given at the Indonesia Update Conference, held at the Australian National University (ANU) in September 2012"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Meeting the education challenge / Daniel Suryadarma and Gavin W. Jones -- Trends in education in Indonesia / Suharti -- Teacher training, school norms and teacher effectiveness in Indonesia / Christopher Bjork -- Integrating Islamic schools into the Indonesian national education system : a case of architecture over implementation? / Robert Kingham and Jemma Parsons -- Early childhood education and development services in Indonesia / Hafid Alatas, Sally Brinkman, Mae Chu Chang, Titie Hadiyati, Djoko Hartono, Amer Hasan, Marilou Hyson, Haeil Jung, Angela Kinnell, Menno Pradhan and Rosfita Roesli -- Where did all the money go? : financing basic education in Indonesia / Samer Al-Samarrai and Pedro Cerdan-Infantes -- An assessment of policies to improve teacher quality and reduce teacher absenteeism / Asep Suryahadi and Prio Sambodho -- Indonesian universities : rapid growth, major challenges / Hal Hill and Thee Kian Wie -- Beating the odds : locally relevant alternatives to world-class universities / Rivandra Royono and Diastika Rahwidiati -- Financing higher education : the viability of a commercial student loan scheme in Indonesia / Bruce Chapman and Daniel Suryadarma -- The transformation and internationalization of higher education : the Malaysian experience / Khong Kim Hoong -- Role of the education and training sector in addressing skill mismatch in Indonesia / Emanuela di Gropello -- Index.

Libro Electrónico

In Indonesia, as elsewhere in Asia, education will inevitably play a key role in the national development experience as the twenty-first century unfolds. Not much international attention is paid to how the education sector is faring in Indonesia, but that is not because nothing is happening. The past decade has seen major changes in the structure of the education system and in the schooling trajectories of Indonesian children and adolescents. The administration of primary and secondary education has been decentralized to the regions. A new paradigm of school-based management has been introduced. Public spending on education has finally reached one-fifth of total government spending, as required by law. But although enrolment rates at all levels continue to increase, the quality of education remains low and has not improved, and the tertiary sector continues to experience problems of autonomy and unsatisfactory performance. This book delves into the major developments in education in Indonesia. Drawing on the expertise of some of the most knowledgeable people in the field, it identifies the challenges facing the sector and offers recommendations on how these challenges could be overcome.

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