ABSTRACT Iksan Maulana, Danang. 2012. Integrating Character Education Into Social Lesson In The Higher Class Of Elementary School. Thesis, Elementary Education Study Program, Post Graduate Program of State University of Surabaya. Advisor...
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Iksan Maulana, Danang. 2012. Integrating Character Education Into Social Lesson In The Higher Class Of Elementary School. Thesis, Elementary Education Study Program, Post Graduate Program of State University of Surabaya. Advisor I : Prof. Dr. Made Pidarta, Advisor II Dr. H. Ketut Prasetya, MS.
Key Words: Character education, Social Lesson in higher class of elementary school.
A concept of integrating character education to social lesson in a higher class of elementary school is need to improve the understanding of elementary school teachers. This research aimed to integrate character education to social lesson in a higher class of elementary school. The specific purposes of this research were; (1) to develop a learning set based on the characters education; (2) to identify the characters which are appropriate to be integrated into social lesson in a higher class of elementary school; (3) to integrate the characters into the lesson plan of social lesson in a higher class of elementary school; and (4) to describe the students’ attitude and characters which are expected.
The design of this research was positivistic development research by examining the concept with the data source. The data source was document. The documents were in the form of book, content standard of social lesson 2006 about standard competence and basic competence. Besides that the document was also in the form of learning set which was character based. The instruments used in this research were observation, interview, and documentation. The learning set was used in the four grades of State Elementary School 8 Karangharjo, Glenmore, Banyuwangi. There were 20 student in this class.
Based on the analysis, the results are: (1) in the beginning, the process of making learning set (syllabus, lesson plan, students’ worksheet, study test result, student’s learning materials) is conducted individually. Besides that, these learning sets only follows the rules without considering the students’ characters, and did not have the value of character education. After implementing a learning set (syllabus, lesson plan, students’ worksheet, study test result, student’s learning materials) which has been consulted to the many class teacher, are adapted with the students’ characters, are integrated with the value of character education, it has a good quality, validity, and were effective to be used, (2) the researcher did not find anything significant in the beginning of the research. After developing the characters value which were integrated into social lesson in a higher class of elementary school. Those lessons were: religious, tolerance, discipline, creative, democratic, curiosity, nationality, achievements, friendship/ communicative, readily, and environment awareness; (3) the researcher did not find anything in the beginning of the research, then the characters were integrated into social lesson in a higher class of elementary school, especially in the fourth grade. In the fourth grade, there are only seven characters which can be integrated. The competence standard of recognizing the natural sources, economical activity, and technological development in the city and province, and basic competence which includes: 2.1 recognizing economical activity which is related to natural resources and another potency in the area. It can be integrated by the teacher when they put the characters value into the indicators to achieve the competence in the appropriate time. The characters in this process are creativity, curiosity, environment awareness. 2.2 understanding the importance of cooperation in increasing society’s prosperity. It can be integrated by the teacher when they put the characters value into the indicators to achieve the competence in the appropriate time. The characters in this process are creativity, curiosity, friendship/ communicative. 2.3 recognizing production technological development, communication, transportation, and the experience using them. It can be integrated by the teacher when they put the characters value into the indicators to achieve the competence in the appropriate time. The characters in this process are discipline creative, curiosity, love reading. 2.4 recognizing social problem in their area. It can be integrated by the teacher when they put the characters value into the indicators to achieve the competence in the appropriate time. The characters in this process are tolerance, friendship/ communicative and environment awareness; (4) in the beginning of the research, students’ attitude or characters cannot be observed well, because there were not an appropriate instrument to measure it. After they were given treatment, their attitudes are characters based in the social lesson of the fourth grade. In general, their attitude gets satisfying result. The value which were meant in this research were tolerance, discipline, creative, curiosity, friendship/ communicative, love reading, and environment awareness.