By Dr. Karomani, M.Si and
Hery Yufrizal, Ph.D., M.A*
Abstract
National education aims at developing potentials of educatees to become human devoted to god almighty, having good morale, healthy, skillful, creative, self-dependence and democratic and responsible citizen. In order to reach the decent educational objectives, the education should be supported by academic paradigms relevant to the objectives.
What happen in the reality shows that academic paradigms, particularly in social sciences is basically still dominated by positivist paradigm which reject or at least place metaphysics and theology as something archaic and primitive.
The academic paradigm of humanity and social sciences in our education world has been dominated by positivist perspective which has caused negative implication toward moral hazard and national disaster beside that of stagnancy in the science itself.
Key word: national education, academic paradigm, humanity and social sciences, positivism
