Alternative schooling for disadvantaged young people in Indonesia

Ila Rosmilawati, Carol Reid, David Wright

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Abstract

In Indonesia, poverty forces students to pursue alternative pathways to an education. These students have dropped out of mainstream schooling for several reasons. They include lack of financial resources, distance to school and having to work to support their family. However, the provision of alternative education opportunities has meant they are now returning to re-engage with education. This creates a challenge for the Indonesian government: to accommodate a diverse group of non-traditional learners in the context of international pressure to increase education levels. For Indonesian disadvantaged youth, the choice is often not between an alternative or mainstream school, but between an alternative school or no school. Using Mezirow’s (Mezirow and Associates, 2000) theory of transformative learning, this chapter draws on the experience of students from two public alternative schools in Indonesia to problematize the challenges and tensions that individual students face and how they work against mainstream assumptions to transform their opportunities.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInternational Perspectives on Alternative Education: Policy and Practice
EditorsMartin Mills, Gillean McCluskey
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherUCL Institute of Education Press
Pages86-103
Number of pages18
ISBN (Electronic)9781858568829
ISBN (Print)9781858567822
Publication statusPublished - 2018

Keywords

  • youth with social disabilities
  • alternative education
  • Indonesia

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