GERAKAN REFORMASI UNTUK MENGGALI DAN MENGEMBANGKAN NILAI-NILAI MATEMATIKA UNTUK MENGGAPAI KEMBALI NILAI-NILAI LUHUR BANGSA MENUJU STANDAR INTERNASIONAL PENDIDIKAN

By: Dr. Marsigit, M.A.

Reviewed by: Wahyu Sujatmiko (09301244041)

National educational reform can be done at two levels of macro and micro. At the macro level, the national education reform must be able to renew the vision and develop educational paradigm and scrape out the constraints provision of education by maintaining and improving the quality and professionalism and community empowerment towards Indonesia is Indonesia's New open, democratic and united. For an educational practitioners (teachers), reforms education on a macro level for a few things are beyond the reach of his thinking and
ability. However, considering the education of teachers is a critical success, then the teacher can play a role object and subject of educational reform by increasing ability to educate and manage the classroom. But in reality it is not easy to educate because students find that learning is not easy. Still there are gaps that large enough between idealism and practice of educating in the field.

The value of mathematics can be seen from the context of the ontological, epistemological and axiological in limits of intrinsic value, extrinsik and systemic. For a self-learners of mathematics then The lowest value of mathematics is that if only his own use, a higher value if math can be used for public interest. But the highest math scores is if it can be used systemically for the wider interest. But the values mathematics that was developed should be coupled with critical thinking because the math does not others do not is not is the critical thinking itself. The sharpness of mathematics is able dreamy future through a teleological concept that what happens in the future can at least photographed through the present. Nevertheless there are still other values ​​that relation to levels of quality. At first the quality of math scores only appear on the outside, but on the quality of the second and third and so on then the value mathematics is metaphysical. With analog thinking then what happens to disclosure of the value of mathematics can be used also in the disclosure of noble values nation. Bangsadapat virtue achieved return is none other than the method translated and interpreted from the context of the passage of time past, present, and come. This is then known people with hermenitika method.

In the field of education, teachers need to continually evaluate deficiency or advantages of teaching in order to obtain information for improving teaching; if need to learn new techniques are more attractive and effective (Alexander, et al, in Bourne, 1992). For that teachers need to receive encouragement and assistance of the parties mainly related Principal and school inspector, so that they can realize the teaching well: but it is important to the role and functions of Head of School, Supervisors, and Supervisors redefined return to conditions more conducive educational environment for teachers and students to develop themselves. A teacher can reflect the style of teaching good and if the teacher flexible ways of organizing master classes, use of teaching resources, the achievement of teaching according to student ability, development of evaluation systems, handling of individual differences, and achieve a style specific teaching according to need. Required a 'political will' of government to put education back to the essence of 'educate' in accordance with nature 'subject learners' and the nature of 'scientific', so that education is not only seen as something that is 'required' but something that is 'required' by sibelajar, so education is not just look at the subject of students as 'investment' as the subject development but need to be 'developed'.