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: Fikri Hermawan

Reform in education is non-negotiable demands. Since Indonesia has entered a period of reform in all areas of life, as a result of economic crises in the past are very severe. Thats makes the moral values ​​in the political, legal, social, economic decline very sharply in a period of more than three decades. Indonesia so that the nation needs to reexamine the paradigm of development. Education can provide a foundation for the development of the glorious values ​​of the reforms in legal, political, economic, cultural and others.

At the macro level, the picture of the education system in Indonesia still shows characteristics of a rigid centralism, with a very strong dominance of bureaucracy, so that at every level of educational stagnation. Creativity or improvisation towards innovation is very difficult for national education system because they tend to obey the government. While the micro, educational practices in Indonesia is still relying on the teacher's role as a spearhead of the government in implementing policies education. But teachers are not given free space to develop creativity in teaching.

Indonesia is now the nation is faced with the fact that the period of globalization requires an increase in the quality of all components of the nation in various spheres of life. Similarly with education, there should be development of the Indonesian people in order to put themselves into the social world. The development of education globally, is characterized by a shift in the center of education. Teachers who first serves as a transfer of knowledge and then turned into a facilitator in the learning process as an effort to develop students potential. Schools also need to be developed, not only as a place to obtain the knowledge but also serves as a place of much use for the development personality of students. So the paradigm of schooling in the present and the future is that the school is a laboratory for students to develop themselve.

Mathematical meaning can be seen from the context of the ontological, epistemological and axiological within the limits of intrinsic value, extrinsic and systemic. From the ontological is try to find understanding by the roots and the deepest foundation of mathematical reality. Ontological approach is a reflection to capture the reality of mathematics as a reality has been found. In the consciousness of himself then people who think math is the one closest to the reality of mathematics, trying to reflect the reality of mathematics and then implicitly present it as a knowledge that is useful in association with others and can explicitly formulated in the form of formal to obtain the approriate theme.

From the epistemological side is trying to find out the definition of mathematics. At the moment we are trying to find a definition mathematics then we'll get infinite regres of the definition contained. Such mathematical knowledge can not be further simplified and can not be explained using other expression. Therefore, the epistemological approach should be developed so that we can know the position of mathematics in scientific contexts. One way is to use an analog language.

In terms of axiological is studying the philosophical essence of the value of mathematics. According to Hartman, the value is a phenomenon or concept, the value of something is determined by the extent to which the phenomenon or concept to the meaning or significance. According to him, value of mathematics at least contain the four dimensions, that is: mathematics have value because of its meaning, mathematics has value because of its uniqueness, have value because the aim of mathematics and mathematics have value because of its function. Each dimension value of mathematics is always associated with the nature of intrinsic value, extrinsic and systemic.

If someone is good at math just for himself the knowledge of mathematics that has intrinsic, if he could apply mathematics to the life of the mathematical knowledge is extrinsic, and if he can develop mathematics in the mathematics community association mathematical knowledge is systemic.