English Language Education Graduate Program Subject : English Media Development

1. CHARACTER
EDUCATION

2. 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

3. Problems in Education

4. 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

5. The Pillars of Character Education in Indonesia
02
01
Affection, Care, and
Cooperation
Religiosity
Responsibility, Discipline, and
Autonomy
03 Honesty
Comity04
05
Confidence, Creativity, Hard work06
Justice and Leadership07
08 Kindness and Humility
Tolerance, Peacefulness, and
Unity09
Act of the Republic of Indonesia
No.20 Year 2003

6. The Urgency of Character Education
Cognitive
intelligence is not
enough without good
character
Students leave
grassroot culture
and values
The character
declines of the
nation
The needs to solve
conflicts fairly

7. Challenges and Opportunity
Teachers
Competence
The rapid
growth of
Information
Technology
Lack of
community
support
Multiethnics and
multireligions
The
commitment of
all component

8. 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-

9. Strategies of Character Education
Implementation (Aisyah: 2014)
Character
Education
Institution Curricular
Non-
Curricular

10. Strategies of Character Education
Implementation (Aisyah: 2014)
Curriculum
Material/Course
Book Media Activity Classroom
Strategies
Syllabus
Lesson
Plan

11. Environment
Conditioning
Habit
Reinforcement
Role
Model
Moral Values
Implementation
CHARACTER
EDUCATION

12. Parent
Schools
TeachersGovernment
Society
Supporting
Factors

13. 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
https://www.academia.edu/2344305/A_CLOSER_LOOK_AT_CHARACTER_EDUCATION
_IN_INDONESIA_WHAT_EVERY_EDUCATOR_SHOULD_KNOW
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:
dioneg.com/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.