The Importance of Character Values in National Integration Courses

Abstract

This study aims to see the importance of integrated character values in national integration courses as part of a needs analysis for the development of character values-based national integration textbooks. As an independent nation, of course, we must have values as a guide in acting and behaving. Especially for today's young generation, because of the rapid development of technology, information and communication, it is easy for foreign cultures to enter without boundaries and the risk of conflict is even greater. The national integration course is one of the courses that facilitates lecturers in instilling the value of unity and integrity, independence and love for the homeland, but furthermore, textbooks are needed that can be read and guided by students independently. Where when these students read textbooks it will increase the values of the nation's character that should exist in them. Through a questionnaire distributed to 40 students, 85% of the students responded that they expressed the importance of these character values being discussed in detail in a national integration textbook. Thus, the research team tried to further develop the textbook through R&D research methods.

Validating Student’s Green Character Instrument Using Factor and Rasch Model

“…Environmental care character will create positive behavior towards the environment (Asrial et al, 2021;Sukri et al, 2020a), and reduce the negative impact of human behavior on the environment (Palupi & Sawitri, 2018;Sukri et al, 2020b). In addition, concerning for the environment is very important as most of the environmental damage is caused by human behavior (El Faisal et al, 2018;Sukri et al, 2018).…”