Implementation of Character Education at Elementary School Level in Sulawesi, Indonesia

摘要

This study aimed to describe the implementation of character education conducted at elementary school in Sulawesi, Indonesia. This study used descriptive qualitative research approach with the use of interview and questionnaire to collect the data. There were headmasters, teachers, and students from eight regions of Sulawesi to participate in the study as the research participants. Four character values were used to be the focus of the present study namely honesty, intelligence, care, and tenacity. Seven stages of character education strategy were used including giving assignment, habituating, training, teaching, guiding, modelling, and conditioning. Results showed that seven out of eight schools had implemented character education along with the seven required strategies, so that the students had been accustomed with the four character values that became the focus of the study. Another result depicted that one school in Central Sulawesi had not been successful in implementing three stages of character education strategy namely habituating, training, and conditioning. Some obstacles found as threats to the successful implementation of character education encompassed students' lacks of confidence in accomplishing individual assignments and of motivation in participating school's agenda in connection with character education.