The Role of Parents, Teachers, and Society in Children's Character Education
The Role of Parents, Teachers, and Society in Children's Character Education. Character Education is one of the important things that must be realized collectively. We need to know together, in the plan to educate the nation's life, there need to be children who are not only smart and capable in their knowledge but also have good character and are polite in their daily lives.
This is also
agreed upon and has been realized by the community that a person's character and
attitude are much more valued in the community than someone who is only smart
but has a bad attitude.
This is evidenced
by the large number of job recruitment that not only list the requirements for
having to write down the 'last education' but also list personal criteria that
must be owned
From applicants such as 'responsible', 'highly dedicated', 'disciplined', and so on
The Importance
of Children's Character Education
this is where Character Education is very important to be taught and understood to
children from an early age. Moreover, character education, which is closely
related to moral education, has the aim of shaping and training individual
characters to be even better. This certainly must take time to be done.
It takes the role
of many parties who accompany children's growth and development in delivering
children to become individuals who have a much better character.
So who are the
parties who must then have the awareness that he has a responsibility in
training this character education?
Understanding
Character Education According to Some Experts
1. According to T. Ramli, the definition of
character education is education that prioritizes the essence and meaning of
morals and morals so that it will be able to form a good student person.
- According to John W. Santrock, character
education is education that is carried out with a direct approach to
students to instill moral values and teach students about moral knowledge
to prevent prohibited behavior.
- Rahardjo argues that character
education is a holistic educational process that connects the moral
dimension with the social realm in the lives of students as a foundation
for the formation of a quality generation that can live
independently and has the principle of a truth that can be accounted for.
- Kertajaya Gives an understanding that
character in education is a characteristic possessed by a person individually.
The cirri are rooted in personality so that they can encourage
how a person acts, behaves, and responds to things.
From the
understanding of several experts above, character
education needs to be applied to develop the basic potential of individuals,
especially in terms of attitudes, morals, or behavior to become better.
The Role of Parents
Parents are the
first school for their children. Obviously, they inevitably have to be figures
for children because they are the closest people to children since they were
born in the world.
Therefore parents need to model and teach good things to their children. Parents must
nurture and provide proper upbringing while educating the child from an early
age.
There is no fixed
benchmark on how to educate a child. Every parent must have their own way of
educating their children. But what parents should pay attention to is that the
way of educating must remain in the corridors that are good and correct.
For example, not
comparing one's own child with others is a form of appreciation to make the
child comfortable. Keep in mind that each child must have their own advantages
and disadvantages. As parents, they must look carefully at the potential and
minuses that children have so that later parents can instill good
character in children.
The Role of
Teachers/Schools
The school is the
second place for children to spend their childhood for almost 12 years.
Therefore, the school and its environment also contribute to shaping the
character of each child.
Schools should
also stop instilling that children are proud of only children who have
ranked in the classroom or won many awards. Every once in a while, it may be
necessary to give appreciation to children who are disciplined, and honest or if
necessary hold activities that help cultivate good character for children at
school.
The teacher, as a
substitute for parents in school, also became the main pioneer in supervising
the course of the child's character education. In addition to providing basic
educational materials such as science or mathematics, teachers must also be
smart in inserting understanding and instilling good character in children in
teaching and learning activities.
The school also
felt the need to provide understanding and training on character education for
children to teachers and all staff in the school to be able to integrate
character education into the culture of the school.
It is also
necessary to coordinate and meet with parents to help monitor the character of
children at school and at home so that both parties can identify
and define the character elements they want to emphasize.
The Role of
Society
Finally, last but
not least, the community must also be active and aware of how important
character education is and how much cultural influence there is in society in
shaping the character of a child.
Society must
better understand that a simple act in front of a child can make children
model what they do. So that the community is expected to be able to form an
environment that is also conducive to overseeing children's character
education.
Although people
should not interfere too much in the affairs of parents educating children,
such as scolding other people's children or comparing one child to another, society can help in exemplifying good behavior.
Thus it can
be concluded that character education does play an important role in everyday
life. The provision of character education from an early age is also an effort
to overcome the roots of moral-social problems in society so that there are no
seeds of corruptors, thieves, or fraudsters.
Ultimately,
character education in children from an early age is a shared responsibility.
By forming individuals who respect and respect each other, are polite and
virtuous, it is hoped that this nation can lead this nation to become a
resilient nation where the people have a noble character, morality, tolerance,
and cooperation.
