The Effect of Outdoor Study on the Geography Scientific Paper Writing Ability to Construct Student Character in Senior High School
- DOI
- 10.2991/seadric-17.2017.22How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Character, Outdoor Study, Scientific Paper
- Abstract
Education and character are two important things related to each other. National curriculum includes the characters that need to be understood and implemented the Indonesian students. Teachers can build the students' character by using method that includes structured character activities. Scientific paper is a product that needs to be improved for the sake of implementing National curriculum. Students' characters can be observed from writing scientific paper. Outdoor study method can set out the students' characters through the steps of learning and scientific paper which becomes the final product. Outdoor activities can be conducted on Geography subjects because geographic objects exist in the world. The aim of this paper is to discuss the effect of outdoor study on the geography scientific paper writing ability to build the students' characters in senior high school. The research uses quasi experimental design with two groups, namely experimental class and control class. The analysis data uses independent sample t-test with SPSS 16.0. The research findings show that there is an effect of outdoor study on the geography scientific paper writing ability to build the students' characters with significant value of 0.00. The effect can be seen in the scientific paper results and activities in the outdoor study step of learning such as: class preparation, area selection, group dynamics, equipment management in the field, outdoor work, return in the classroom, and student final report. Characters can be constructed are: honesty, discipline, responsibility, caring, politenes, environmental awareness, cooperative behaviour, responsiveness, and independence.
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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/).
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TY - CONF AU - Andri Estining Sejati AU - La Ode Amaluddin AU - Desi N. Hidayati AU - Sitti Kasmiati PY - 2017/05 DA - 2017/05 TI - The Effect of Outdoor Study on the Geography Scientific Paper Writing Ability to Construct Student Character in Senior High School BT - Proceedings of the 5th SEA-DR (South East Asia Development Research) International Conference 2017 (SEADRIC 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 104 EP - 108 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/seadric-17.2017.22 DO - 10.2991/seadric-17.2017.22 ID - Sejati2017/05 ER -