MEMBANGUN KARAKTER PADA ANAK USIA PRASEKOLAH


Bambang Samsul Arifin(1*)

(1) UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung, Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


Preschool children—as we have known—have much potential which could be used as a basis to build up their character, either in family, school, and society. Their potential therefore needs to be nurtured to help them to achieve their potential to the fullest. But daily life nowadays—could bring negative impact on their development. The intensity of meaningful communication in daily conversation between children and their parents—was seen as a major obstacle on this process, which then becoming the main reason behind the unsuccessful learning of moral values, honesty, and manners. This condition then have negative impact on their character—as we have seen today—many children has emotional disturbance, violent, and shows an inappropriate behaviors.

From this phenomenon, a couple effective approaches could be used to design an effective learning good program for their character development—which are knowing the good, reasoning the good, feeling the good, and acting the good. From this approaches point of view—altering their behavior and make good manners as habit were seen as the best approaches available, since altering behavior can be very effective way to develop their character and potential to the fullest. Their character behavior would also be affected by the daily basis learning and natural conditioning to make a good behavior as a habit.

Character development for children in this case are including personal character which is an accumulation of goodness that will drive individuals to do the right thing, have a strong self consciousness on moral values, become a good member of society, ethical, knows which is right and wrong, and act consistently on Golden Rules. Aside from it, nationhood and citizenship characteristic is need to be developed too—where this trait is the accumulation of the personal goodness and set of moral and culture values such as an obedience to the state authority, laws, responsibility, fairness and active participation on public affairs.


Keywords


character, values, manners and good behaviors

Full Text:

PDF

References


Arifin, Bambang S.. (2008). Psikologi Agama. Bandung: Pustaka Setia.

Hendrojuwono, Wisnubrata. 2008. Men-ciptakan Lingkungan Transformasi-onal Demi Membangun Karakter Bangsa. Bandung: IPPI.

Mahfuzh, Jamaluddin M.. (2001). Psikologi Anak dan Remaja Muslim. Jakarta: Pustaka Al-Kautsar.

Megawangi, Ratna. (2008). Pendidikan Ka-rakter pada Anak Usia Dini sebagai Pembangunan Sumber Daya Manusia. Bandung: IPPI.

Wynne, E. A. (1991). Character and Acade-mics in the Elementary School. In J.S. Beninga (Ed). Moral, character, and Civic Education in the Elemantary School. New York: Teacher College Press.




DOI: https://doi.org/10.15575/psy.v1i1.2163

Refbacks

  • There are currently no refbacks.


web
stats

View My Stats

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

slot gacor slot