Membangun Kerangka Filosofis Pendidikan Yang Berbasis Pada Problem Sosial Sembodo Ardi Widodo Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Sunan Kalijaga YOGYAKARTA

This article is intended to provide philosophical insight of the importance of theeducational concept based on social problems. Social problems like poverty,unemployment, moral deterioration, corruption, social violence, and others arise becausethere is malfunction of education or education institutions in Indonesia in solving thoseproblems. Recently the developing character education must be accompanied by the spiritof progressivism and reconstructive education philosophy. In the west, both of thephilosophical ideologies are designed to create progress and social integrity. Educationcurriculum is consciously directed to deal with the gap and the social life problem, both inrelations between the community and the natural environment and the relationshipbetween societies in politics, economic, and socio-cultural. If the concept of education inIndonesia is not built and directed to deal with social life in which taking part in solvingthe recent social problem widely, the education will only produce graduates who do notcare for various social problems faced by the community and the country. Furthermore,the development of science, technology, and information in the globalization era not onlygive the advantage and efficiency but also have a negative impact on people's behaviorindividually or in groups, and all of them must be anticipated and coped by education