Characters and Moral Education Throughpopular Culture Events

Piping Rahadianto, Novi Anoegrajekti, Siti Gomo Attas

Abstract


Learning and character and moral aspect is the dominant role in a real live context that committed with ethical decision and value. Student will get their value in character and moral when they choose what they want to do as a good decision without influenced a negative decision impact with the social environment. More over there is a liaison between the modern aspects with the character education. In this area we know that modern aspect can be related with the character education. With all the modern aspect influence liked technology, art, culture, civilization. Character education developed with the influenced from the popular culture. Popular culture is a contested term that is defined by several ways of the civilization. In general, however, most definitions include within the term popular culture the whole spectrum of activities involving mass consumption. The research was designed to gather data on students’ views and perception on character education and moral applied as popular theme on speaking activity at the event namely English Class Performance (ECP). On that events the materials concerning several aspects such as the theme and the awareness concerning the character and moral education as well as specific activities based on popular culture materials. Participants were 60 in number, 20 males and 40 females. More aspect such as Character Education Promotes Core Ethical Values as the Basis of Good Character, "Character" must be Comprehensively Defined to Include Thinking, Feeling and Behaviour, To Develop Character, Students Need Opportunities for Moral Action, Character Education Requires Moral Leadership from Both Staff and Students, The School Must Recruit Parents and Community Members as Full Partners in the Character-building Effort are the reliable aspect in speaking activity through character and moral education related with popular culture in Indonesia. Results from this program does not directly alter the character and moral education for the students, but it is expected to give a positive and varied colour in an atmosphere of speaking activity through popular culture.

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learning;character education;moral

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24176/pibsi.v43i1.213

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