Introduction to character education

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Introduction to Character Education

Eureka Education . The government has a national policy for development of the national character year issued 2010-2025 that sehingg the character of citizens mempu to promote and develop, recognize the air in the Community, the Almighty God, just and civilized humane, spirited unity of Indonesia, democracy guided by the spirit of wisdom in consulting representatives and social justice for all people in Indonesia (government of the Republic of Indonesia, 2010: 4).


basically spirit Education code already in the national education law number 20 of 03 contained in the function Education is nationwide. Education character is an attempt to provide educational, character, moral values ​​and ethics of learners to form a civilized nation culture (Saliman, 2014), to form in the hope.
After Muslich (2011) is a character education and character, the aspects of the theory of knowledge (cognitive), feeling (feeling) and action (action) is involved. Thomas Lickona (Muslich 2011) said that without these three aspects, it's not effective is his character formation and its implementation should be systematically and sustainably conducted. With Education character, a child will be emotionally intelligent. Emotional intelligence is the most important determining children to meet in preparing the future. A person with emotional intelligence will be able to succeed in the face all kinds of challenges, including the challenge to be academically successful.

Character education in schools is a necessity to ensure that the next generation can be imparted with basic skills in not only for making lifelong learners (learners throughout life) are able to them to live as one of the main characters in the information age, which is global, but also good as a positive role to work situation, either as individuals, as family members, as citizens and citizens of the world (Zuchdi, et al., 2013) .In addition to character education is an element to help agents, the growth and development of the spirit and the personality of the child, vocational (Nurjaya, 2013).

Lickona (Nurjaya, 2013), character education is not only to teach what is right and what addition formation character inculcate the habit (habituation) over wrong, where the good things so that the learners to familiarize (cognitive) about what is right and wrong, feel able to good value (affective) and usually do (psychomotor). In other words, the formation of good character not only the aspect of should "knowledge of good (morally to know), but also" include comfortable or loving good (moral sense) and good behavior (moral behavior). Education Character emphasis on habit or custom is constantly practiced and performed.

The formation of character through education is compulsory. The character of a person can be established through planting of norms and values ​​through education in schools. because the moral values, customs and culture are universal truth. So that education should not only based on the mastery of the material (although this is important), but should be treated as a priority, is the character formation of the students to have a civilized way of life (Saliman, 2014).

efforts should be made, the character education can empower be done by; (A) the provisions on the integration of learning the characters in all subjects, (b) increasing the capacity of the school as a vehicle for character education through teacher training, (c) the provision of learning efforts related to resource strings students [1945016zuentwickelnderPreisandieBildungseinheit] and (d) in the development of a culture of character (the national policy of national character pembagunan 2010-2015).
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