Knowledge and Perceptions of Elementary School Teacher Education Students on Educational Philosophy

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Introduction
Education is a very vital thing in human life. Educational philosophy is a philosophy that sees education as a process to humanize students. Thus, humans are able to continue to develop and be able to actualize themselves in society in their lives with all their potential. Curiosity is a human characteristic. Human curiosity has been able to develop knowledge. To reveal the reality in human life, science becomes very important. Through science, what so far has not been revealed. Science makes humans able to communicate with other humans and increase human dignity.
The educational process is a developmental process that has a purpose.
The development process naturally aims to reach maturity. Developing to a level of maturity and maturity is the most natural human potential. Human natural and social preconditions make it possible to achieve this development based on existing potential.
Pre-conditions for achieving this development include: security, food, health, and climate, which are human needs. Philosophy is based on the ability to think, or reason or human logic. The real truth that is sought is something that can be reached by the human mind. Philosophy is related to the activity of thinking. Philosophy gives results to a comprehensive and holistic picture of thought. Philosophical thought is speculative. Philosophical activities include: thinking and contemplating something deeply, without having to make direct contact with the object being thought of. Therefore, the study of the philosophy of Education is very important to do. This study seeks to reveal students' knowledge and perceptions of educational philosophy.
Auguste Rodin is one of the famous sculptors who made the statue of  (Bakker & Zubair, 1990). This shows that in thinking, when humans think about their progress, humans show their human aspects. This progress shows that in the process of thinking humans always try to introspect, improve and develop themselves for progress. Same thing with Education. Education does not only accept what is, but there must be improvement efforts through in-depth thinking processes to make progress.
By understanding philosophy well, humans will be able to develop the sciences that are studied consistently. Philosophy studies the nature of things in a systematic, integrated, comprehensive, and universal manner. The results can be a guide and direction for the development of other sciences. There are several theories that become references in supporting the realization of optimal education so that the philosophy of education can be carried out properly, namely: The theory of science or Epistemology; Ethics or theory of value; and theories about reality or reality and metaphysics; and problems identified in the three disciplines discussed in the philosophy of Education (Arifin, 1996).
Philosophy comes from the words Philos, philore (love) and sophos or sophia (virtue, goodness, truth). Science that studies the nature of things, God, humans, and nature. Philosophy means thinking reflectively in order to get answers to basic and universal questions. The answers are compiled systematically, then tested critically and openly to obtain the real truth. Answers to problems are usually never completed and never perfect.
Education comes from the word "didik", by giving it the prefix "pe" and the suffix "kan", meaning "perbuatan" (things, ways and so on). This educational terminology originally comes from the Greek, namely "pedagogie", which means guidance given to children. This terminology is then translated into English with "education" which means development or guidance. In Arabic this terminology is often translated as "Tarbiyah" which means Education (Ramayulis, 2002).
According to Imam Bernadib, philosophy of education is an educational science based on philosophy, or philosophy that is applied in the business of thinking and solving educational problems (Bernadib, 1994). gives birth to a philosophy of education. John Dewey argued that philosophy is a general theory of education. Philosophy of education must at least be able to answer the basic questions in education (Tiat, 1968). Philosophy is not the result of research or experimentation, right or wrong cannot be tested with facts.
Philosophy is the result of thinking in the process of which there are classifications and there are pros and cons. There is an opinion that says that philosophy is a science, while another opinion says that philosophy is not related to science (Sidigazalba, 1992). Although the truths presented by religion may be similar to the truths achieved by philosophy, there are still religions that cannot be equated with philosophy. This difference is due to different ways. On the one hand, religion uses belief, on the other hand, philosophy is based on research that uses human potential, and believes in it as the only measuring instrument for truth, namely human reason (Praja, 1997). However, it is not absolute that philosophy cannot study religion to find its truth. Responding to the problem of truth in philosophy and religious truth in general is interpreted on the one hand as religion using the means of belief, on the other hand philosophy is based on research that uses human potential. If the truth is discussed using the same tools as the human mind and there are differences whose descriptions cannot be reconciled, basically what is being sought can be said to be not the truth. The truth no matter how its form still contains meaning (truth). The form of truth with

Method
This study uses quantitative methods with descriptive research type. The number of respondents in this study was 174 students, consisting of 17.2 percent male and 82.8 percent female. there is no significant difference regarding school origin. So that it can be said that there is no tendency from one of the characteristics of the regional category that affects the knowledge and perceptions of elementary school teacher education students regarding educational philosophy.   Data were collected using structured interview guidelines, namely questionnaires. After the data is collected, it is classified according to the topic being studied. After that, the data were analyzed and concluded.

Result and Discussion
This study shows that each elementary school teacher education student's knowledge of educational philosophy is not singular. This means that students' understanding of educational philosophy is very complex.  philosophy is also understood as a science that studies specifically educational policies, human resources, curriculum and learning theory and other aspects of education with a percentage of 31.6 percent. Finally, 6.9 percent of students think that educational philosophy is a science that applies structuralist critical methods.   Contemporary society has believed in the existence of education, ranging from its general nature to its specific nature. This is further strengthened by developing measurement methods and analytical methods, which can be trusted to produce valid data. This is usually referred to as "What is there can be lived because it can be measured" (Barnadib, 1987).
The workings and results of philosophy can be used in solving problems in human life. Education is one of the most important aspects of human life because with education, it raises human dignity. Education requires philosophy, because educational problems are not only related to the implementation of education, which is only limited to human experience. However, in education there are problems that are complex, deeper, and broader, which are not only limited to experience and factual facts, and do not allow science to reach them.

Conclusion
This study concludes that students consider educational philosophy to be very important. The biggest source of knowledge for each Elementary School Teacher Education student about educational philosophy is social media at 60.9 percent. Most elementary school teacher education students consider the philosophy of education because it can provide a complete understanding of science and be able to use the knowledge they have with a percentage of 82.9 percent.
Knowledge which is the product of thinking activities is a benchmark for the enlightenment of civilization in which humans find themselves and live life more perfectly. Humans develop various tools to improve the quality of their lives by applying the knowledge they have acquired. It is the process of discovery and application that has produced the axes and stones of ancient times until today's digital era. Humans can not be separated from the reach of his mind that characterizes human nature. Science develops from curiosity which is a characteristic of humans. Science is a special human effort to uncover and uncover reality, in order to enable humans to interact, communicate and socialize with fellow human beings and to increase human dignity. Therefore, the philosophy of Education is very important to be taught to PGSD students who will become educators. For this reason, it is necessary to develop an innovative and creative educational philosophy of education model.