Buletin Psikologi
Vol 29, No 1 (2021)

Overcoming Challenges of Education Sector in Indonesia Through Positive Psychology

Jamalul Muttaqin (Master of Islamic Educational Psychology, Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga)



Article Info

Publish Date
28 Jun 2021

Abstract

Challenges of education sector in Indonesia are complex. Literature on Indonesia education has shown these challenges relate to learners, educators, and administrators. We often see, in certain places such as remote areas, poor management of education system from the quality of to human resources. Consequently, this poor education quality led to student’s low motivation and eventually creating the image of education in Indonesia as appeared dreary. This article aims to discuss positive psychology to contextualize challenges of Indonesia’s education. I argue that positive psychology offers insights of overcoming education challenges that might lead to a more joyful educational process. The study is a literature-based research through critical and comprehensive analysis of the phenomenon of education in Indonesia. This research emphasizes that positive psychology works have a very influential space to help achieving welfare of those involve in the education sector. The result offers few recommendations through finding new methods or models of learning that are pleasing that attempt to motivate students to apply positive psychology to improve their quality of life.

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Journal Info

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buletinpsikologi

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Subject

Religion Humanities Neuroscience Public Health Social Sciences

Description

Buletin Psikologi focuses on contextualizing psychological concepts or phenomena within the socio-cultural setting of Indonesia through the use of non-empirical study, such as, literature review, systematic review, scoping review, and meta-analysis. It accepts articles that are based on the thorough ...