CHARACTER
EDUCATION
Outlines
• Problems in Education
• Character Education
• The Importance of Character Education
• The Urgency of Character Education
• Challenges and Opportunity
• Strategies of Character Education Implementation
• Supporting Factors
• References
Problems in Education
Character Education
Conscious effort to make students understand, care about,
and internalize the values and norms of the social life, in
order to create a better personality –
Basic Education Directorate
Character education is teaching children about basic human
values to raise children to become morally responsible and
self-disciplined citizens –
Berkowitz & Bier, 2007
Character education is efforts to develop good characters on
students to create human with integrity and good
personality
The Pillars of Character Education in Indonesia
Tolerance, Peacefulness, and
09 Unity
08 Kindness and Humility
07 Justice and Leadership
06 Confidence, Creativity, Hard work
Affection, Care, and
05 Cooperation
04 Comity
03 Honesty
Responsibility, Discipline, and
02 Autonomy
01 Religiosity
Act of the Republic of Indonesia
No.20 Year 2003
The Urgency of Character Education
Cognitive
Students leave
intelligence is not
grassroot culture
enough without good
and values
character
The character
The needs to solve
declines of the
conflicts fairly
nation
Challenges and Opportunity
The rapid
Lack of
Teachers growth of
community
Competence Information
support
Technology
The
Multiethnics and
commitment of
multireligions
all component
We must remember that
intelligence is not enough.
Intelligence plus character—
that is the goal of true
education.
-Martin Luther King Jr.,
Speech at Morehouse College 1948-
Strategies of Character Education
Implementation (Aisyah: 2014)
Character
Education
Non-
Institution Curricular
Curricular
Strategies of Character Education
Implementation (Aisyah: 2014)
Curriculum
Lesson
Syllabus
Plan
Material/Course Classroom
Book Media Activity Strategies
Moral Values Environment
Implementation Conditioning
CHARACTER
Role EDUCATION
Model Habit
Reinforcement
Supporting Parent
Factors
Society Schools
Government Teachers
References
Act of the Republic of Indonesia No.20 Year 2003 about National Education System.
Silvia, Arnis. A Closer Look at Character Education In Indonesia: What
Every Educator Should Know. Retrieved from
[Link]
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Berkowitz, Marvin W. & Bier, Melinda C.. 2007. What Works in Character
Education. University of Missouri, St. Louis
Ginanto et al., -. Character Education at Schools in Indonesia. Retrieved from https:
[Link]/education/character-education-at-schools-in-indonesia
Aisyah, A.R. 2014. The Implementation of Character Education Through Contextual
Teaching and Learning at Personality Development Unit in the Sriwijaya University
Palembang. International Journal of Education and Research, 2(10), 203-214.
Pala,Aynur. 2011. The Need for Character Education. International Journal of Social
Sciences and Humanity Studies, 3(2), 24-32.