Circural School: As a Model for Integrating 21st Century Environmental Care Character Education in Elementary Schools

Abstract

Education is the most important factor and priority for all parties. Character education is an attempt to educate children to behave and participate in good social contributions. Therefore, it is necessary to instill character education from an early age, especially at the elementary school level. This situation shows that it is appropriate to improve the character of caring for the environment of students through circural school. The purpose of this study is to describe the integration of environmental care character education through circural school at SDIT Muhammadiyah Al-Kautsar. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. The subjects of this study were 31 grade VI students in the first semester of the 2022/2023 academic year. Data collection techniques through observation, documentation, and interviews to explore the integration of environmentally caring character education through circural schools. The validity of the data used is the source and technical triangulation technique. The data analysis used is ethnographic research, starting from selecting ethnographic projects, asking questions, collecting data, recording data, analyzing data, and writing reports. The results showed that the integration of environmentally caring character education in students through a circural school approach went well. This activity concluded that character building of elementary school-age children can be done through a circural school approach.