A large portion of professional counseling education in East and Southeast Asia has adopted conceptualizations, competency frameworks, and certification logics that are drawn from the West. These paradigms have made professionalization and international recognition easier, but they have also led to limited interaction with local cultural epistemologies, curriculum overlap across educational levels, and epistemic reliance. To tackle these issues, the study examines how the GLOBE framework—a deimperializing, glocal curriculum architecture—was developed as a result of the Outcome-Based Education (OBE) reform in an Indonesian counselor education program that offers undergraduate, graduate, master's, and doctoral degrees. Utilizing a multi-stakeholder methodology for curriculum evaluation and iterative epistemic validation across national, regional, and global spheres, GLOBE was created to tackle the indistinct differentiation of outcomes, unclear professional identities, and unexamined dependence on Western knowledge paradigms. Grounded in Asia as a methodological generative epistemic approach, GLOBE encompasses five interconnected principles: cultural grounding, localizing global ethics, open dialogical pedagogy, balanced epistemic reflexivity, and engaged collaborative research praxis. This paper aims to provide GLOBE with a praxis-derived framework for operationalizing Asia as a method within professional education, rather than presenting a uniform paradigm. By reconceptualizing curriculum development as a locus of epistemic agency, GLOBE shifts counselor education in Indonesia from mere curriculum acceptance to epistemic contribution, offering a transferable framework for deimperializing professional education throughout Asian contexts.

Authors:
Nanang Gunawan, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Yuyun Sriwahyuni, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Darcy Hagg Granello, Ohio State University, United States
Muhammad Asyraf Bin Che Amat, Universiti Putra Malaysia, Malaysia

About the Presenter(s)
Nanang E. Gunawan, Ph.D., is a faculty member in Guidance and Counseling at Yogyakarta State University. His interests include mental health literacy and clinical supervision, with current research on supervision as mental health infrastructure.

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