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Indonesian Education History      This book, written by Prof.Dr.S.Nasution, MA, explains past events about the phenomenon of educational development that contributes to the cultural development of humanity from time to time. In colonial times, the Netherlands provided various schools for Indonesians to meet the needs of various levels of society. Education for Indonesian children was initially limited to low education, but later developed vertically so that Indonesian children, through secondary education, could achieve higher education, even through difficult roads. But not all children can continue their studies, only children who go to school are oriented west only.      In this book only schools that were founded by the Dutch were discussed. Besides that, what was discussed was only limited to the period 1892 to 1920. Because of this period a complete education system was formed, which enabled Indonesian children to learn from low to highest leve...

FOSTERING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS THROUGH ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING Susana Widyastuti    The urgency for developing students’ critical thinking (CT) abilities has left English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teachers trying hard to integrate CT into their teaching practices. This study highlights the role of language as a way of thinking, judging and assessing. It seeks to investigate how the elements of CT are displayed in students’ essay so as to reveal the development of their CT skills. The data are in the form of essay written by the fourth semester Indonesian students taking essay writing course. The analysis is based on Stapleton’s   criteria of CT (2001), i.e. claims, kinds  of  reasoning,  the  extent  of   evidence,  recognition  of  opposing  arguments  and  refutation,  and  fallacies. The results show that there are many weak arguments in the essays due to the insufficiency of...

  Handbook on Overcoming Learning Disorders          This book was written by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a federal agency that supports worldwide research on the brain, psychiatric disorders and mental health, and scientists who present the results of their clinical research on the brain and all the disorders that accompany it. This book shows how to deal with disorders of the brain that cause us to experience delays or learning disorders that can lead to failure and low self-esteem in one's life.         Learning disorders are retardation that affects a person's ability to interpret what they see and hear and the inability of various information coming from various parts of their brain. These difficulties appear when they do learning activities such as reading, writing, or counting. But not all difficulties in learning are called learning disorders (Learning Diosder). Learning di...