Detecting Teacher Difficulties in Implementing the Local Curriculum Developed by the Local Government

• Authors: Samsul Hadi , Dedek Andrian

Abstracts

EN

The purpose of this study was to detect teacher difficulties in implementing the local curriculum developed by provinces. This type of research is qualitative research type phenomenology. Data collected through focus group discussion (FGD) involves 16 participants consisting of senior high school teachers in the Riau Province of Indonesia. Data were analyzed using the qualitative approach proposed by Creswell. Results show that teachers have difficulties in understanding local culture lessons, teachers have difficulty implementing the local curriculum, the means/equipment is inadequate, teachers have difficulty in assessing affective and psychomotor domains and teachers have difficulty in marketing products from practice learning.

Keywords

EN

teachers’ difficulties; local curriculum; senior high school

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 53
• Pages: 250-260

Dates

published

2018

Contributors

author

Samsul Hadi

• Yogyakarta States University

author

Dedek Andrian

• Riau Islamic University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2018.53.3.21

Biblioteka Nauki

1969298