Comparison of Sekolah Alam’s Concept and the Thought of Ki Hajar Dewantara in The Philosophy of Progressive Humanism

Abstract

The main focus of this research was to compare sekolah alam’s concept and the thoughts of Ki Hajar Dewantara in the philosophy of progressive humanism. The urgency of this research was to find similarity and difference between Sekolah alam’s concept and Ki Hajar Dewantara's thoughts in education. This research was a literature review or Meta analysis research where the data sources used journals and books related to this theme. There was 12 Journal articles accessed via Google Scholar. The sources was analyzed to obtain in-depth views in a qualitative synthetic study. The results of this study showed there was similarities between sekolah alam’s concept and Ki Hajar's thoughts, including education based on fitrah, the concept of humanizes humans, morals, leadership, logic and entrepreneurship, involving the community and family in the education process, democratic and not authoritarian. Meanwhile, the difference that can be taken was sekolah alam’s concept was based on Qur’an, humans as khalifatullah who was subject to the creator, while Ki Hajar's thinking was based on local culture, attention to students with special needs, where the Sekolah Alam's concept provides more recognition for this group and teaching for minority group where Ki Hajar pays more attention than Sekolah Alam