Role of School: Habitus and Policies Towards Character Education

Abstract

The background that underlies this research is the disappearance of the politeness character values of fifth grade elementary school students. The purpose of this study is to find out and prove the habitus theory and the role of the school in the character of politeness of fifth grade elementary school students. The results of this study are categorizing and classifying the school's role towards the character of the fifth grade elementary school students, that the school has three roles: educating, teaching knowledge, and evaluating. Conclusions in this study are on the role of educating, the school has the authority to form character by making policies or regulations made, and the learning process carried out by teachers and principals. Teaching knowledge that has the character of strengthening education in each device and learning process, and evaluating cognitive, psychomotor and affective aspects (attitudes and behaviors) of students by planting politeness character values that are done with habituation and continuous.

Analysis of ICT Literacy Skill of Fifth Grade Elementary School Students in Cirebon Border Area

“…Likewise, with means of communication such as social media, students tended to use it as entertainment with their friends. Indeed, it has become one of the negative impacts of social media for students; if they play it without guidance, they will more often use social media for entertainment than educational means (Amaruddin et al, 2019). Therefore, even though students already had good basic skills in operating ICT devices, the students' ICT literacy level was still at level 1 or still low.…”