Critical Thinking in the Macrostructure of Policies for an English as Foreign Language Teacher Education in Indonesia

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10.2991/978-2-38476-054-1_56How to use a DOI?

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critical thinking; macrostructure; EFL teacher education

Abstract

Previous studies revealed the lack of solid concept of critical thinking in the national policies (National Standards of Higher Education and Indonesian Qualification Framework). The lack of clarity has contributed to the implicit articulation of critical thinking for Pre-Service English Teachers (PSETs) in the English Language Education (ELE) Study Program, National University (pseudonym), Indonesia. This study extends the analysis of critical thinking in the other parts of the macrostructure of ELE study program, which includes an investigation of how critical thinking is articulated in the 2013 curriculum for high-school contexts and the graduate profile of the Teacher Certification Program (PPG = Pendidikan Profesi Guru). Interviews with 6 English Teacher Educators (ETE) who were appointed as leaders to obtain their insights about the enactment of critical thinking in the university. This study also analyses the aspects of evaluation used by the national (BAN-PT) and international accreditation (AUN-QA) bodies to assess Indonesia’s higher education institutions’ compliance with mandated policies. The findings confirmed that critical thinking had been explicitly stated in the 2013 curriculum as a graduate attribute for all levels of Indonesian education. Another key finding is that despite the implicit statement of critical thinking in the ELE study program’s graduate attributes, the national and international accreditation results indicated that ELE study program had supported students’ critical thinking development. These findings highlight that the implicit articulation of critical thinking in the policies is accepted as fulfilling the policy enactment. Thus, this study recommends future studies to investigate the practices of critical thinking in the ELE study program.

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AU  - Siti Muniroh
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/05/18
TI  - Critical Thinking in the Macrostructure of Policies for an English as Foreign Language Teacher Education in Indonesia
BT  - Proceedings of the 20th AsiaTEFL-68th TEFLIN-5th iNELTAL Conference (ASIATEFL 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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