THE URGE TO ASSIMILATE NEW IDEAS  ARE EXPERIENCES EQUIVALENT TO  FALLING IN LOVE

Today, the human problem in social life concerning education is growing more complex; many new ideas emerge as the level of human intellectuality grows. This paper will reveal the current issue of education in Indonesia and discuss ideas from the concept of liberal education. The basic issue of education criticized by liberal education is that education today focuses more on the needs of society than the educational objectives themselves. Education as a tool to transfer science, values, and agents of social change is seen as one alternative solution in the framework of improving people's lives. The education in which values are embodied is one of the efforts offered by genuine liberal education, aimed at giving us the habits, ideas and techniques necessary to continue our own education. Humans have the ability to learn continuously throughout life so that we can prepare ourselves to study and again as long as we are alive.

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Contemporary Principles of Heterodox Political Economy

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2009-12-38-57 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 38-57 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Ph. O’Hara

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Political Economy ◽

Economic Development ◽

Ethnic Discrimination ◽

Mainstream Economics ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

Analytical Review ◽

New Ideas ◽

Historical Specificity ◽

Scientific Results

In this analytical review the author describes the main trends in the modern heterodox political economy as an alternative to mainstream economics. Historical specificity as well as the contradictory and uneven character of economic development are examined in detail. The author also discusses problems of class, gender and ethnic discrimination and their influence on economic growth. It is shown that there are tendencies to convergence of different theoretical perspectives and schools, common themes, topics of research and conceptual apparatus are being formed. The forces of integration and differentiation help establish new ideas and receive interesting scientific results in such fields as development economics, macroeconomics and international economics.

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