Komalasari, Kokom
(2012)
The Effect Of Contextual Learning In Civic
Education On Students' Character Development.
The Asia Pacific Journal of Educators and Education (formerly known as Journal of Educators and Education), 27 (1).
pp. 1-17.
ISSN 2289-9057
Abstract
The long, multidimensional crises in Indonesia have been rooted in degraded
national morality. To improve this national moral quality, the country has needed a
revitalisation of civic education's role in "value-based education" and "nation and
character building". Therefore, civic education has developed to include contextual
learning, which is assumed to improve students' character. The problem studied here was
the following: What is the effect of contextual learning in civic education on students'
character development? This study used quantitative and qualitative approaches with "a
dominant-less dominant design". The quantitative approach used surveys, and the
qualitative approach used interviews to gather data. The population of interest was junior
high school students in West Java taught by civic education teachers who had followed
Competence-based Integrated Training. The research sample was determined based on
cluster sampling, proportional, and systematic random sampling techniques, with a final
sample of 1004 junior high school students. This study's findings showed that contextual
learning in civic education had a strong positive relationship with the character
development of the junior high school students. This research finding explained that first,
contextual learning in civic education taught student's life skills, including the principles
of interdependence, differentiation, and self-regulation; second, contextual learning in
civic education encouraged the establishment of democratic learning; third, contextual
learning in civic education includes elements of character development; and fourth,
character education in civic education helped students discover and develop local moral
values.
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