The Importance of Citizenship Education to Build National Character

Abstract

This research aims to find out how important citizenship education is for building national character. Citizenship Education or PKN is education that contains the values of the rights and obligations of citizens so that they become citizens who can think sharply and think critically in life in society and the state. In this research, we explore the importance of citizenship education in building a national spirit for the younger generation in the Millennial era. We analyze the role of citizenship education in shaping civic understanding, attitudes and skills in the younger generation. The research method used in this article is a systematic literature review. The author searches for journals that have been published on Google Scholar which are related to the research title or topic that the researcher has determined, the articles that are searched. limited to 10 articles, then the researcher filtered them to 3 articles that were deemed appropriate and related to the research topic. The research results show that as many as 3 articles from the search results show how important citizenship education is in building national character.