5 (1) (2022) 70-75
Journal of Curriculum Indonesia
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The Importance of Character Education to Improve the Quality of Education
Annisa Zackyah Hidayat, Masduki Ahmad Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia
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Abstract
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Character education can improve the quality of Education in Indonesia. Indonesia requires human resources in sufficient quantity and quality as the primary support for development. To fulfill these human resources, Education has a significant role.
Character education aims to improve the quality of implementation and educational outcomes in schools that lead to the achievement of the formation of character and noble character of students as a whole. Therefore, the author wants to know how to implement an effective character education in learning to produce quality graduates.
The author uses a literature study research method in writing this article to describe this. A literature study is a type of research that answers existing problems by reviewing the appropriate literature to solve these problems. The literature used is in the form of books, national and international journals, and reviews of relevant mass media. The results obtained using the literature study method show that character education is proven to be able to improve the quality of Education, as evidenced by the increase in the rate of human resources. Because various problems in a country will be able to be overcome if the human resources are good. Without attention to improving the quality of human resources, it will make all aspects of life run poorly.
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Journal of Curriculum Indonesia 5 (1) (2022) INTRODUCTION
Education is a significant field for human life. Education can encourage the improvement of human quality by increasing cognitive, affective, and psychomotor competencies. (Mutiah & Rifa'i Rc, 2014)that Education is a basic need for every individual. Over time, all developments that exist in the world are increasing rapidly and sophisticated, proving that there must be an inculcation of character education to create moral individuals. This has been regulated in Law no. 20 of 2003, concerning the National Education System article 1 paragraph 1, namely, Education is a conscious and planned effort to create a learning atmosphere and learning process so that students actively develop their potential, intelligence, noble character, and skills needed by themselves, society, nation. , and the state (Depdiknas, 2003).
Development of self-potential, intelligence, noble character, and skills needed by himself, society, nation and state. The development of this potential is contained in chapter 2, article 3 of Law no. 20 of 2003,
The current education system unconsciously emphasizes the development of academic intellectual abilities, so that character development becomes something that is often forgotten. Ilyas, and 2016). While the character is an essential aspect in assessing the quality of human resources. A person with high intellectual ability may become useless or even endanger society if his character is low. Therefore, character education should be placed as an essential part of the national education system. Many cases are created because of moral inequalities against individuals, especially in Indonesia, and not infrequently also done by students who are still underage. Currently, there are many problems encountered among students related to various forms of juvenile delinquency, such as: brawls between students, bullying, drinking, to having sex with the opposite sex (free sex). Quoted(Julaiha, 2014)from the Sex Behaviors Survey in five major cities in Indonesia, namely: Jabotabek, Bandung, Yogyakarta, Surabaya, and Bali in May 2011, stated that of the 663 respondents interviewed admitted that 39% of adolescent respondents aged between 15-19 years had had sexual intercourse, and the remaining 61% aged 20-25 years. Based on the facts above, it is clear that many juvenile delinquencies or moral inequalities must be immediately addressed and prevented through Education in schools and learning in class.
(HE Mulyasa, 2016)argues that character education aims to improve the quality of educational processes and outcomes that lead to character and noble character education of learners in a comprehensive, integrated, and balanced manner, by the competency standards of graduates in each academic unit. Through character education, learners are expected to be able to independently improve and use their knowledge, study, and internalize, and personalize character values and noble character so that they are manifested in daily behavior. So it is not only intellectual development that must be developed, but the nature of Shiva must also be developed so that the output produced by an institution or school is intellectually and morally qualified. (Kane et al., 2016) :
1. Customer satisfaction.
2. Identify customers.
3. Continuous improvement
The main thing that a customer pays attention to is the quality of the output produced. This can be a significant consideration for a customer to see the quality of an institution or school.
Therefore, based on the above phenomenon, the authors are interested in researching how to provide Character Education to improve education quality so that the institution's moral and intellectual values are of quality.
METHODS
This research is a qualitative research that is library research. The literature study uses library data collection methods, reading and recording, and processing various research materials used as references in compiling this study. (Suharjito, 2014).
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Using a literature study is first because this research can only be answered by library research. Both library research is one stage in the preliminary analysis, to understand the problem as a whole. The third is to uncover the most superior problem to find research problems(Zed, 2008).
In connection with the above, the data collection carried out in this study was sourced from books, indexed journals, and all electronic documents as well as other sources of data or information by the topic of this research to find out how to implement character education in students to improve school quality.
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
According to Asmani in (Unjunan & Budiartati, 2020), Character education is an effort that is designed and implemented systems to help students understand the values of human behavior related to God Almighty, oneself, fellow human beings, the environment, and nationality. The purpose of character education is to shape every person into a person who has the central values, especially judging from his behavior in everyday life, not on his understanding, therefore. According to(Image, 2012)Character education in schools involves all components (stakeholders), including the parts of Education itself, namely curriculum content, learning and assessment processes, quality of relationships, handling or management of subjects, school management, implementation of activities, empowerment of infrastructure, financing, and the work ethic of all citizens and the school environment, therefore before implementing character education for students, the school must first ensure that educators understand the concept of character education for students. Character education programs must be implemented according to the principles to run effectively and efficiently. Here are the principles of character education according to:(Gunawan, 2012) that is :
a. Character education in schools must be carried out in a sustainable manner (continuity), meaning that the process of developing character values is a long process from the beginning of students entering school until they graduate from school in an academic unit.
b. Character education must be integrated through self-development and the culture of the education unit, meaning that character education is carried out by incorporating it in all subjects.
c. Indeed, character values are taught through processes, knowledge (knowing), doing (doing), and finally getting used to (habit).
d. The educational process is carried out in an active and fun way. The teacher must apply the "tut wuri handayani" principle in every behavior shown.
In line with Gunawan's opinion, according to (Latifah et al., 2014), Character education cannot be formed suddenly for students. It requires consistency in delivering characteristic learning so that students know theoretically, appreciate the value effectively until finally accurate recognition. Therefore character education must be instilled in students as early as possible, starting from early childhood education to tertiary Education, it's just that a different method is needed that must be adapted to the needs of each student by the principles of learning according to (E. (Enco) Mulyasa & Mukhlis., 2007) namely (a) Identification of needs, (b) Identification of competencies, (c) Preparation of learning programs.
At the first level of Education, namely early childhood education, unique methods or methods are needed according to their needs. As Mulyasa said, to instill character education in early childhood by giving reinforcement in the form of praise and rewards in research. (Amini & Mariyati, 2021) can improve 93.2% of children's character, especially in responsible behavior. There is a Learning Model that can improve early childhood character education in research (Iswantiningtyas, Veny and Wulansari, 2019) through BCCT (Beyond Centers and Circle Time) and can also use methods such as research conducted by (Firoh, 2015)through fairy tales with light stories and telling fairy tales that spread kindness and replace some classic stories such as the story of Aladin rubbing the teapot so that his request is granted replaced with a natural aspect if you want his bid to be given you must pray and be accompanied by effort. Instill small things in children from an early age such as learning to be responsible through the habit of tidying up
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teaching children to get used to petrifying friends or other living things, such as feeding animals, watering plants because of the aspect of character values in early childhood according to Conscience in(Khaironi, 2017) are (1) Honesty, (2) Discipline, (3) Tolerance and (4) Independence.
Knowing that character education according to Kartadinata (supranoto, 2015), Education is a lifelong education, as a process towards a perfect human being. Therefore, character education requires exemplary and touch from an early age to adulthood. Character education must be an integrated part of generational Education. Education is a human issue that must be approached from human development itself. According to the explanation regarding character education previously mentioned that we know that character education must run continuously and have high consistency in its application, not only instilled by early childhood, character education must be strengthened with higher Education, there are several ways that can be developed for character learning in high school students such as through extracurricular activities of love for the homeland such as traditional music but do not deny that it does not develop in developing modern music as well, do not forget to also set religious activities doing tadarus before starting guided learning by OSIS, developing a social care character by donating some money to friends who are affected by disasters and emphasizing the character of responsibility, if caught cheating and other nasty things students will be penalized around the class while saying "sorry I got caught being cranky, please don't follow me. " To form a nationalist character, namely to apply discipline during the flag ceremony don't also forget to develop religious activities to do tadarus before starting learning guided by the Student Council, develop a social care character by donating some money to friends who are affected by disasters and emphasizing the character of responsibility, if caught cheating and other bad things students will be penalized around class, while saying "I'm sorry I caught gasping, please don't follow me." To form a nationalist character, namely to apply discipline during the flag ceremony, don't forget to also develop religious activities to do tadarus before starting learning guided by the Student Council, develop a social care character by donating some money to friends who are affected by disasters and emphasizing the character of responsibility, if caught cheating and other bad things students will be penalized around class, while saying "I'm sorry I caught gasping, please don't follow me." To form a nationalist character, namely to apply discipline during the flag ceremony while saying, "I'm sorry I caught function, please don't follow me." To form a nationalist character, namely to apply discipline during the flag ceremony while saying,
"I'm sorry I caught function, please don't follow me." To form a nationalist character, namely, to apply discipline during the flag ceremony(supranoto, 2015), is done by the school in order to maintain the quality of graduates who can be satisfied with customers and shape the school culture.
(Sallis, 2014)explained that quality and good school must have: 1) high moral/character values; 2) excellent exam results; 3) support from parents, the business world, and the local community; 4) abundant resources; 5) implementation of the latest technology; 6) strong leadership and have a purpose (vision); 7) care and concern for students; 8) balanced and relevant curriculum. Therefore, character education is very important to improve the quality of Education because the character will be the main assessment that will be seen by the outside community because good character quality can also improve the quality of human resources that can affect the life of the Indonesian nation in the future. The reality is that improving quality is not an easy thing for serious and real efforts are needed from all parties, starting from the central and local governments, school principals, teachers, students, parents, the community, and the business and industrial world to create quality graduates because of students. Students who study in Indonesia must have three dimensions, namely attitudes, knowledge, and skills that must be possessed holistically by students. This means that it does not say that graduates are qualified if they only have aspects of knowledge and skills but do not have a good attitude or vice versa the community as well as the business and industry world to create quality graduates because students studying in Indonesia must have three dimensions, namely attitudes, knowledge, and skills that students must possess holistically. This means that it does not say that graduates are qualified if they only have aspects of knowledge and skills but do not have a good attitude or vice versa the community as well as the business and industry world to create quality graduates because students studying in Indonesia must have three dimensions, namely attitudes,
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knowledge, and skills that students must possess holistically. This means that it does not say that graduates are qualified if they only have aspects of knowledge and skills but do not have a good attitude or vice versa(Fadhil et al., 2017)
CONCLUSION
Character education is proven to be able to improve the quality of Education, as evidenced by the increase in the quality of human resources. Because various problems in a country will be able to be overcome if the human resources have good quality. To create a good character, it requires consistency of character planting as early as possible, requires patience to go through the process of knowing,
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