Commemorating National Education Day with a Renewed Spirit, UIN Jakarta Participates in Mindful, Meaningful, and Joyful Learning through Deep Learning
Jakarta, UIN News Online – National Education Day, commemorated every May 2nd, serves as an important reminder of the constitutional mandate to enlighten the nation. In this spirit, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta reaffirms its strategic role in strengthening national education through the development of deep learning approaches.
As part of Indonesia's educational transformation, UIN Jakarta is actively developing and implementing Deep Learning (Pembelajaran Mendalam/PM), an approach rooted in the principle of dignity that emphasizes the creation of a mindful, meaningful, and joyful learning atmosphere through integrated and holistic cultivation of thought, emotion, sense, and physical engagement. This approach places students as the central subjects in the learning process, actively involved in self-regulation. The concept of dignity fosters mutual respect between teachers and students, among students, and between students and the knowledge they acquire.
Three core principles form the foundation of the learning environment in PM: mindful, meaningful, and joyful. Learning is not merely a formal activity within the classroom but a synchronization of mind, feeling, and action, as taught by Ki Hajar Dewantara through the among system, based on the values of asah (sharpening intellect), asih (nurturing affection), and asuh (providing guidance). PM optimizes a learning framework as a systematic guide to build an educational ecosystem that supports learning—comprising pedagogical practices, learning environments, learning partnerships, and the use of digital tools.
In line with this spirit, the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education promotes educational transformation under the slogan, “Universal Participation to Realize Quality Education for All.” This message underscores that education is not solely the responsibility of schools. All parties involved with students—parents, communities, and the media—have great potential to contribute toward creating quality education.
Effective education requires synergy from what is known as the Four Centers of Education—family, school, community, and media. The family, as the closest environment and where children spend most of their time, must actively contribute to a conducive learning atmosphere. Schools, as formal institutions, function as spaces where students gain knowledge and social values. Communities need to support learning through healthy, collaborative environments. Meanwhile, the media—especially in the digital era—has become a primary space where students access information and interact, thus it must be guided to serve as an educational tool, rather than the opposite.
In the implementation of deep learning, the spirit of collaborative inquiry becomes the core of the learning process. Students are engaged in designing learning strategies and assessments to achieve their goals. Nur Luthfi Rizqa Herianingtyas, M.Pd., lecturer at FITK UIN Jakarta and a member of the Deep Learning Development Team (TPPM) at the Ministry of Education, highlights that students go through three stages of learning experiences to reach the level of deep learning: understanding (students construct knowledge to deeply grasp concepts or materials from various sources and contexts), application (students apply knowledge contextually through relational knowledge and extended abstract thinking, enabling them to connect ideas, make decisions, and solve problems using critical and creative thinking), and reflection (students evaluate and interpret both the process and results of their practical actions, involving self-regulation and reflective thinking as the ability to independently manage their learning processes).
In this context, the role of teachers goes beyond being mere content deliverers or conduits of transmission-based learning. Teachers serve as activators—sparking students’ learning processes to actively construct deep understanding; as culture builders—creating a learning environment that supports student learning and providing them the space to design their own strategies; and as collaborators—actively responding to each stage of the student learning process.
A growth mindset becomes a crucial key for teachers in optimizing this approach. “Teachers who are willing to learn, grow, and embrace change will be the main drivers of dignified learning. Even the smallest changes are steps toward progress,” she emphasized.
With the spirit of National Education Day, UIN Jakarta continues to advance as a pioneer of quality education, shaping a globally competitive future.
(M. Hanif Al-Fatih / Zaenal M. / Noeni Indah S. / Photo: Muhammad Yahya)