Enhancing humanism values through higher education

Abstract

Higher Education as a center of knowledge must be educating society how to face changing of era properly. But now, curriculum policy in form of Indonesia National Qualification Framework (INQF) was making university to become a factory of printing qualified workers. To face society 5.0, university should be able to maintain humanism values for their student. The aim of this paper is explaining the implementation of Higher Education's Curriculum in Indonesia, by presenting a study of Higher Education Curriculum Implementation Oriented on Indonesian National Qualification Framework (INQF) for History Education Department from lecturer's perspective. A case study was carried out to History Education Department of Satya Wacana Christian University. Evolved from an analysis toward lecturer's response that was collected through an in-depth interview from four lecturer, observation on lecturing session and literature review method, it indicated some result. It argued that in the implementation of university curriculum needs a curriculum contextualization in order to adapt values and character with local wisdom. This study carried out a conclusion that in the curriculum implementation of a University's History Education Department, values and character building, especially humanism value is the most important thing to make the agent of change for the society to deal with society 5.0.