Based Education Science That Need

Educational institutions have an important role in shaping the character of the nation that controls the generation of science and technology. But the reality of values ​​is not yet fully realized character.

In order to obtain the graduates who are intelligent, creative, productive and responsible it is necessary for the development of education in the field of curriculum, one example is given charge of the science curriculum. More recently, the government reopened the science-based school programs, as a means to establish the characteristics of learners.Science-based school is a school that packed the atmosphere of science in every activity and learning activities in schools, even if necessary the state of the environment around the school is also supported by the infrastructure associated with science and infrastructure nuanced science.

His background is the idea that the middle of an increasingly global world, the mastery of science and technology for a nation will determine the position of the nation among other nations. We see that education in our country has not had a strong concept in the mastery of science and technology. The existence of the factors why the mastery of science and technology is important is because it is closely linked to the sustainability of the people (associated with wise action on global issues such as global warming, genetic engineering).

Another factor is the demands of the labor force in the economic environment that is based on science and technology. We believe that science and technology is very prominent in shaping its development and determine the pattern of human life in the present and the future ahead. Education based on science that is linked with real life will be able to equip learners with life skills and life (life skills) that combines integrative potential of generic and specific in order to solve and overcome the problems of their lives as individuals and also the nation in general.There are some problems that we face so as to make us think that the science-based education is necessary, one of them is that although Indonesian students continuously gained the victory in various science Olympics, but in the aggregate quality of education in Indonesia suffered a serious setback.

It can be seen from various statistics show that Indonesia is still ranked lower compared to other countries such as Japan and Singapore. From the international comparison, the quality of education are also less encouraging. Study Blazely et al, (1997) reported that learning in schools tend to be very theoretical and not related to the environment in which the child resides.

As a result, learners are not able to apply what is learned in school to solve life problems encountered in daily life. Besides this, there are severe challenges we face in the future. On the domestic economic crisis caused the unemployment rate continues to increase, which is estimated to have reached 40 million. Given the economic crisis seems to have not immediately recovered, the unemployment rate also was not immediately able to go down, so that education should play an active role to help tackle unemployment.

From the field of education alone, it is known there are 34.4% of junior high school graduates do not go on to high school. They clearly has the potential to increase the number of unemployment that has been so great. This means, to think about how the education they receive in school can play a role transforming them into productive human.

Need to be prepared, the provision of what needed to be given to students so that they can enter the workforce and become part of nation building. AFTA (Asean Free Trade Area), AFLA (Asean Free Labour Area) and MEA (Asian Economic Community) has made labor more open competition. Consequently our workforce must be able to compete, so that the economic crisis is not getting worse. Indonesian nation must be prepared through education based on science and technology in order to compete with their counterparts from other countries.Although often heralded that education should be balanced between the mastery of science and technology and IMTAK but an understanding of science and technology-based education itself is never clearly defined so that it can be used as a guide for implementation in schools. School-based science is necessary, because the curriculum in use today is the curriculum in 2013.

Where the curriculum in 2013, is a curriculum designed so that learners are actively constructing concepts, laws or principles through the approach of scientific intended to provide insight to learners in recognizing, understanding the various materials using a scientific approach, that information can come from anywhere, anytime Just, do not rely on the information in the direction of the teacher.

Therefore, the condition of school-based learning in science is expected to also encourage the students to find out from various sources through observation in science-based school environment.