Educational Management Based on Community Needs: A New Paradigm of Education Management in Indonesia

Abstract

Community-based education management is a professional and needs-based education management, because it is based on need so as to provide an opportunity for everyone in the community to enrich science and technology through lifelong learning. Management education based on the needs of the community, then the community decides goals, objectives, financing, curriculum, test standards, teachers and classification, student requirements and so on. Community-based education emphasizes the importance of understanding the needs of society and ways of solving problems by the community by using the potential that exists in society. In Indonesia, the management of education still finds challenges high enough, this is because one of them is the management of education both directly and indirectly still involves several ministries, so that in the management there is a mutual authority, confusion of management, to the sharing of responsibilities that are full of sectoral ego. Not to mention the problem of educators who do not go over, until the management of education is still using a very rigid old method that impact on the ineffective and efficient management of education at the school level. This can only be overcome if the management of education can be done professionally in accordance with the principles and key elements of community-based education, so that the main goal of the implementation of community-based education can be achieved.

Keywords: education management, community-based needs, new paradigm, Indonesia.