IMPLEMENTATION OF CIVICS LEARNING AS CHARACTER BUILDING FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

Character education is one of the important things in creating a nation's generation in Indonesia. Through character education students are taught to have good attitudes and behavior. Character education aims to revive the character of citizens in accordance with the values of Pancasila, including the values of piety, the values of faith, the values of honesty, the values of caring, to the values of ethics or courtesy. character education for students, because the purpose of Civics is basically to create students to become citizens who are democratic and have character in accordance with the values of Pancasila. Providing education to students in Indonesia with the aim of cultivating attitude and personality values in accordance with the values contained in the Pancasila precepts. Within the scope of National Education, Citizenship Education is used as a forum for realizing the goals of National Education (Suyanto, 2009). Therefore, character education is properly implemented through Civics in shaping the morals of the younger generation. This problem seems to complement existing problems, such as weak law enforcement, widespread corruption, collusion and nepotism. Even today's political ethics among government officials and state administrators are also very disappointing to the people. Breaking promises so as not to ignore the voice of the people is commonplace for state officials, from the central to the regional levels. The task of citizenship education with its new paradigm is to develop democratic education with three main functions, namely developing citizen intelligence, train the skills of citizens and shape the personality of citizens.