The National Character Education Paradigm in the Indonesian Language Instructions

摘要

The cultural-based nation character education in the elementary school is aimed at implementing the education in its nature that is developing the human potential of students for their roles in the future. This national character education integratively combines the generic and specific potentials to solve and to face the problems of life. The value-based life-skills education in the elementary school is underlying the behaviour, characteristics, and attitude that is based on the succeed of students' future life. The giving of universal values such as honesty, respect, manners, hardworking, tolerance, and others become the core study for teachers' insights during their friendly interaction with students, for that reason, education in schools are so consciously designed and managed that the instructional process for students evoke the attitude and behaviour learning through the nation character education. Many inhibition factors that are faced by the school in implementing the education, internally in the school or externally especially in understanding and teacher's competence in developing nation character education. It is all because not only a simple thing to change teachers' paradigm in implementing the managing model of conventional learning that been rooted in their teaching attitude. The finding shows that (1) according to the analysis of Indonesian Language SK-KD, the national characters evoke in terms of loving to read, patriotism, respecting others, tolerance, friendship, caring for others, communicative, religious, honesty, discipline, creative, perseverance, confidence, curiosity, bravery, and critical; (2) the character values are not explicitly stated yet in the Lesson Plan for many kinds of elementary schools; (3) in the religion- and multicultural-based schools, the character implementation has been planned and accustomed in the class and school environment; (4) in the religion- and multicultural-based schools, teachers' behaviour in implementing the character values is routinely done, conditioned, and customization. The research was held in four elementary schools in Bandung that were set purposively, by considering the paradigm, the school vision and mission, including the conventional elementary school (Pasirkaliki), religion-based elementary school (Muhammadiyah), potential elementary school (Sukarasa), and Multicultural elementary school (Slamet Riyadi). The research was focused on the analysis of SK-KD, Lesson Plan, and learning observation as well as interviewing the teachers.