Syaiful, Amin (2019) NATIONALISM, CRITICAL PEDAGOGY, AND SOCIAL ETHICS: PERSPECTIVES OF VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TEACHERS IN INDONESIA. International Journal of Education and Social Science Research, 2 (6). ISSN 2581-5148

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Abstract

The objective of this article is to analyze the basic understanding of Vocational High School teachers about the essence of nationalism and critical pedagogy. The research questions are 1) what is the significance of nationalism for Vocational High School teachers? And 2) how do teachers understand critical pedagogy? This research is of qualitative project executed under phenomenological framework. This research involved 40 Vocational High School teachers from various regions in Central Java. The main results of this research are: 1) nationalism is the students’ social capital in dealing with the working world, especially in resisting the idea and practice of industrial capitalism; 2) critical education functions to raise students' critical awareness in order to be open and analytical towards phenomena in the working world, such as the practice of capitalism which is detrimental and threatening public welfare; 3) the vocational education of Indonesia faces a major task of reducing capitalism in the practice of industrialization in society. Therefore, an understanding of nationalism and criticism must always be encouraged at all times. It is recommended that the Vocational High School curriculum to strengthen the content of nationalism through the addition of citizenship and history subjects, while critical pedagogy can become a vocational learning approach to build students' critical awareness.

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