Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Bureaucracy (East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology, Culture) (Hardcover)

Indonesian Education: Teachers, Schools, and Central Authority, the first published study of life inside Indonesian schools, explores the role that classroom teachers' behavior and locates their actions within the broader cultures of education and government in Indonesia. The book focuses on the Indonesian government's recent attempts to delegate increased power to classroom teachers. Given the highly centralized, top-previous education policy. For the first time, teachers were asked to perform as leaders rather than followers in their schools. Interestingly, most educators resisted these opportunities to increase their influence, opting instead to conform to the status quo. Indonesian Education analyzes this lack of action by local actors, and connects the stasis to deeply engrained views about the role of the Indonesian teacher within the schools, the society, and the state