The Contents of the Pancasila Student Profile in the Reading Material of the Ministry of Education and Culture's National Literacy Movement

Abstract

Character education is interpreted as education that can promote noble values, morals, character, and manners. Character education is currently being developed following the Ministry of Education and Culture strategic plan for 2020 -2024 in the form of the Pancasila Student Profile. The purpose of this study is to describe the values of the Pancasila Student Profile contained in the national literacy movement reading materials for youth published by the Ministry of Education and Culture. The data source in this study was reading material for the national literacy movement published by the Ministry of Education and Culture in the form of digital short story texts on the website gln.kemdikbud.go.id. This study used the descriptive qualitative method. The data in this study are words, phrases, or sentences in the reading materials of the national literacy movement published by the Ministry of Education and Culture, which contain the contents/forms of the Pancasila Student Profile. The data were collected by observing and notetaking and analyzed using the equivalent referential method with the determinant element sorting technique. The validity of the data used theory triangulation. The results show that the reading materials for the national literacy movement contain the characters or values of the Pancasila Student Profile, namely: 1) faith, fear of God Almighty, and noble character, 2) global diversity, 3) mutual cooperation, 4) independence, 5) critical reasoning, and 6) creative. Among the six elements of the Pancasila Profile, the most dominant value of the Pancasila Student Profile is 'creative.'