PERAN PENDIDIKAN PRA-SEKOLAH DAN TENAGA PENDIDIK PENDIDIKAN DASAR DALAM PEMBANGUNAN KARAKTER SISWA
Abstrak: Globalization brings
forth huge changes in the workplace. Profession and work specification become
more delicate than ever. Education is responsible in providing qualified human
resources to answer those challenges. One of the most important parts of
education is character education. Character determines the future of a person,
society and nation. A nation fails to pass it core values will most likely to
perish. This makes character education the most important responsibility of
elementary education in our nation. This paper also examines the role of
pre-school education in determining student’s achievement in elementary school
and current pre-schools condition in our nation. The findings suggest that
first, teacher education, teacher knowledge, skill, competence and integrity
positively affect effective learning process including character education and
graduate quality. Second, in this nation the participation level to attend
pre-school which have positive effect on student’s achievement in elementary
school is still very low. The main reasons are because most people didn’t aware
yet that pre-school is important and the fee needed to access pre-school is
still too high for some people. We need to educate our teachers in order to
understand the importance of character education and be able to accomplish it.
Strategic plan is also vital to ensure the education development. We also need
to socialize pre-school to the society in order to encourage them to bring
their children to participate in pre-school education.
Penulis: Ela Nurlaela
Kode Jurnal: jppaudsddd162260
