Implementation Of Character Education In Elementary School Students
- DOI
- 10.2991/aisteel-17.2017.102How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- character education; elementary school
- Abstract
Many of the issues evolving in education regarding student behavior tends to be negative. To overcome these negative behaviors that need to be developed character early on. This study aims to determine the implementation of character education in elementary school, the role of principals and teachers in fostering the student's character, and factors that affect the implementation of character education in schools. This study used descriptive qualitative research. Subject of the study consisted of principals, teachers, and students of Hamas Integrated Islamic Elementary School. Object of the study is implementation of character education in the classroom and in the school environment. Research data were collected through observation, interviews and document analysis. The research data were analyzed using data reduction, data presentation and conclusion. The results showed that the implementation of character education is executed in learning and teaching, exemplary by teacher, habituation, and extracurricular. The role of the principal is to make policy in developing the character of students, and teachers lead students to the values of good character. Factors that affect the implementation of character education are supporting factors and inhibiting factors. Supporting factors are school policies and parental support. Inhibiting factor are the lack of infrastructure, lack of conducive learning environment, and extracurricular not going well.
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- © 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Jenny Lilawati PY - 2017/10 DA - 2017/10 TI - Implementation Of Character Education In Elementary School Students BT - Proceedings of the 2nd Annual International Seminar on Transformative Education and Educational Leadership (AISTEEL 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 476 EP - 479 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aisteel-17.2017.102 DO - 10.2991/aisteel-17.2017.102 ID - Lilawati2017/10 ER -