KURIKULUM MERDEKA DALAM TINJAUAN FILSAFAT PENDIDIKAN

Abstract

The Merdeka Curriculum is a development of the K13 curriculum which focuses on aspects of
developing the potential, talents, and interests of students through digitizing learning with the use
of technology. This curriculum is a starting point for facing the Society 5.0 era which
predominantly uses technology. The Merdeka Curriculum is compiled based on four schools of
educational philosophy, each of which has characteristics that complement each other in
curriculum preparation, only the dominance is different in each curriculum. The development of
an independent curriculum needs to be reviewed in terms of educational philosophy so that the
dominance of this philosophy can be identified so that the output results are identified with the
basis of the curriculum. This research uses a qualitative method with a literature study approach
(library research), primary sources are obtained from scientific literature and secondary sources
are obtained from supporting sources, such as essays, papers, seminar results, and others. The
results of this study are first, the perennialism school of philosophy does not dominate in the
independent curriculum because it is only used as a stronghold of cultural values so as not to
collapse in the modern era. Second, the essentialism school of philosophy dominates in the content
of learning materials. Third, the progressivism school of philosophy fills in the process of student
character building through the Pancasila student profile. Fourth, the constructionism school of
philosophy dominates the whole because of the renewal of the structure and system of school
stakeholders