Nilai-Nilai Inti untuk Pendidikan Karakt er

Abstract

The study aims at identifying the values treasured in the society considered necessary to be taught to school children, and finding the priority order of the values.The subjects of the study were the teachers of Islamic Education (PAI), of Civics Education (PKn), and of GuidanceCounseling

(BK). They were selected purposively from four different secondary schools representing the variety of the existing schools in the research area. The methods used for collecting the data were Focused Group Discussion (FGD) and Survey. The main findings of the study among others were the names, as well as the number of the values, were different from those identified by the Government, represented by the Center for Curriculum, in Developing the Education of Culture and Nation Character. The study comes to the following conclusions. First, there were 20 values treasured in the society and were necessary to be taught to school children for character formation. As many as six of the twenty values were similar both in names and descriptions to those identified by the Government as the material for education of culture and nation character. In addition, there were seven values having different names but similar descriptions. Second, the subject of the study had different views about the priority order of the values. They were likely to have similar views on the values placed at the initial and final levels of the order. The values supposed to be at the middle levels were scattered in such a way that none reached higher than 20% at the corresponding levels.