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Critical Book Report
INTRODUCTION
A. Background
Character is the nature or morals that are important to learn for student. In
character according from experts. That’s identity the book that I will critize:
ISBN : -
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SUMMARY
PART I
Lickona (1991: 20-22) says there are 10 reasons why schools form
commitment with all their heart and teach moral values and develop good
character, as follows:
f. The great questions facing both the individual person and the human race
schools.
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Lickona (1991: 53), explain character education as follows:
3. Perspective-taking 3. Empathy
5. Decision-making 5. Self-control
6. Self-knowledge 6. Humality
MORAL ACTION:
1. Competence
2. Will
3. Habit
(trj. 1991: 454-456) there are six important elements that must be done, namely:
(1) moral and academic leadership of the principal, (2) school discipline in setting,
atmosphere towards mutual respect, justice, and cooperation, (6) increase the
importance of morality at the expense of a lot of time to care about human morals.
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3. Parties Participating in Character Education in Schools
Lickona, Schaps, & Lewis (2007: 95-104) in his book entitled The
realize effective character education. The eleven principles are: (1) promoting
building, (4) creating a caring school community, (5) giving students the
opportunity to show behavior that good, (6) has coverage of the curriculum
meaningful, build their character and help them succeed, (7) strive for growing
community that shares responsibility for character education and loyal to the same
basic values, (9) existence division of moral leadership and broad support in
life.
Javanese terms namely among, ngemong, and momong. The way is, we don't
force it, even if it's just lead sometimes it's not necessary. And he says that in
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Dewantara (2004: 70-76) says that the trident system is very supportive
1. In the lives of children there are three places of association that become
the center of education which is very important for him, namely natural-
2. The way education can be carried out at the present time that can enliven,
add to and delight the feeling of living together (society, social), must be
moral and cognitive development, between the intellectual and affective domains.
According to him, "The development of logical and critical thinking, which is the
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2. Moral and cognitive development occurs when children and adults
Kohlberg (1995: 23-28) describes six stages and three levels, namely:
reasoning, choose to learn about moral responses and Kohlbreg recognize six
stages of moral reasoning and there are grouped into three main levels. And the
approach are not used by Kohlberg's theory where both approaches are very
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PART II
implementing, and quality control involving all major units in the stakeholder
National Education (2010: 18) are not included as separate topics, but integrated
into subjects, self-development, and educational unit culture. With this principle
integrated into all subject matter due to integration character education into all
learning as follows:
First, the goals, targets and targets to be achieved must be clear and
concrete.
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Second, character education will be more effective and efficient if done
not only by schools, but also must have cooperation between the school and the
parents of students.
Third, make all teachers aware of the important and responsible role in
students.
students.
According from Zuchdi (2010: 46-50), there are six steps that can be
6. Design activities that can develop study skills and actualize target values.
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D. Scope of Character Education
(2010: 8-9) can be grouped in: (1) spiritual & emotional development; (2)
intellectual development; (3) though body and kinesthetic (physical & kinesthetic
development); and (4) the feeling and intention (effective and creativity
development).
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PART III
Character Education
Character is not something foreign and new. I often hear the word character even say it.
education is an effort that conducted to instill, grow, and develop character values to
December 2012).
the character values instilled and developed in the school are religious,
2. Teacher's roles
efficient learning methods. When teaching teachers can create an atmosphere that
challenging tasks such as making work, project assignments, scientific work, and
others.
3. Students roles
teacher.
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B. The Role of Principals, Teachers, and Students in the Implementation of
Character Education
1. Role of Principal
The teacher as the spearhead of the learning process in the school has
important role in shaping the character of students through the process learning as
3. Student Role
the planting of good character values and actions taken by school residents,
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PART IV
1. Intracuricular activities.
2. Extracurricular activities.
Schools in Purwokerto.
and SMP Negeri 9 Purwokerto based on the results of the study shows that school
residents (principals, teachers, and students) have the same understanding of the
students.
1. Role of Principal
character in SMP Negeri 8 Purwokerto is done with the principle as the following:
(1) instilling character values must begin with oneself the principal itself, (2) the
planting of character values must be based on the religious values and philosophy
of the Pancasila, and (3) provide examples of exemplary and honesty in the
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There are some very dominant roles that are shown by principals in
motivators, (2) exemplary examples, (3) protectors, (4) activists, (5) activity
2. Teacher's Role
and behavior to students. The attitudes and behavior of teachers in both state
junior high schools have a positive influence on the process of forming character
behavior are reflected in his role, namely: (1) the role of the teacher as an
educator, (2) the role of the teacher as a lover, and (3) the role of the teacher as a
caregiver.
The teacher must move to empower the community towards a good and
perfect quality of life in all aspects of life, especially knowledge, morality, social,
(Thomas Lickona, 2012: 112) says the teacher has the power to instill values and
students, helping them succeed at school, build their confidence, and make them
understand what is moral by looking at the way their teachers treat them with
good ethics.
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2) Teachers can become models, namely ethical people who show high
respect and responsibility, both inside and outside the classroom. Teachers can
also give examples in matters relating to morals and their reasons, namely by
motivation, and providing corrective feedback when there are students who hurt
School 9 Purwokerto.
Motherland) which includes 18 character values, namely: (1) religious values, (2)
democratic, (3) honest, (4) responsibility, (5) discipline, (6) caring for the
environment, (7) caring for the social, (8) hard work, (9) being independent, (10)
loving the country, (11) the spirit of nationalism, (12) curiosity, (13) reading, ( 14)
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include: planting religious values, honesty, discipline, tolerance, creative,
schools are in terms of actualizing the process model character education in the
prominent ones applied only cover 12 character values which include the values
applied to the formation of character schools that are characterized, even though
implicitly they already exist, such as the application of the values of curiosity,
The following is more clear about the differences and similarities in the
b. Learning Aspects
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from experts. And the concept of how well educators teaching of character
education at schools. Besides that, this chapter has the advantage that there are
many opinions from experts, so that when there is a task can help as references.
of Character Education
students in carrying out character education. And how to implement it into the 18
observations. And know more detailed material about the results of observation.
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So, this book explains in detail and clearly because it is reinforced by the
1. This book explains in detail what character education is, explaining the
teachers and students. Besides this book also discusses the implementation
2. This book also teaches us about moral theories from the opinions of
experts that make the readers understand more about morals and character.
several schools.
C. The relationship between the contents of the book and the field of science.
1. This book also deals with the field of sports science because it is included
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teachers, and students as well. And then, in chapter 1 explains the superiorities of
the theory from the experts, so that the readers understands it. While in chapter 2
2. In this book there are still sentences that are difficult to understand so that
3. In this book there is also a typing error, such as (ujud) should be (wujud)
in Indonesian.
C. The relationship between the contents of the book and the field of science.
This book also deals with the field of sports science because it is
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CHAPTER V
ANALYSIS RESULTS
According to the author, the topics raised in this book are very
because in this day and age many don't care about morals and character anymore.
This book can also encourage the curiosity of the readers to understand more
about character and look for reasons why that character must be learned. The
material presented is also actual which is in accordance with the current state of
education. Opinions from selected experts also strengthened the contents of the
book. The sentences in this book are also easy to understand, making it easier for
readers to understand the contents of the book. and some typing errors. This book
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CHAPTER VI
A. Conclusions
From the above description it can be concluded that this book explains
what the characters and morals, policies and strategies of the government about
character education, the roles of school principals teachers and students in the
education in schools. So that this book is very useful for anyone who reads either
a school leader, teacher, student, or ordinary people. The benefits after we read
this book are enormous because we can implement characters in our daily lives.,
B. Recommendation
The author suggests that in printing this book, the writer should be more
researched in typing words and sentences that are easily understood by the reader.
And there is no repetition of material in each chapter. In addition, the writer can
also add interesting images in accordance with the contents of the book in order to
attract the interest of readers from all walks of life. Maybe the writer can also add
about ISBN.
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