Authors:
Syaiful Amin, M. Burhan Rubai Wijaya, Ratieh Widhiastuti, Sri Endah Wahyuningsih, Edi Subkhan and Ganda
Febri Kurniawan
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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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