Civic Teacher Education for 21st Century Citizenship: An Indonesian case
Udin S.Winataputra

Universitas Terbuka (Indonesia Open University)

Abstract

The ultimate goals of the Indonesian national development (2005-2025) to achieve the strong national characters, national competivenes, highly valued behavior, and morality in accordance with the values inherently contained within the Pancasila are urgently needed their reengeneering . It basically includes a set of central values: believing in the Almighty One God, acting in highly valued behaviors, being tolerant, applying cooperativeness, being patriotic, being dynamic, and having scienctific and technological awareness. It is for those goals that nation and character building must be revisited and reactualised. It is believed that such development will finally touch the whole aspects of national awareness. It is believed that: (1) characters are strongly geared to upholding the nation Indonesia; (2) characters are believed to be the ultimate destiny as well as energy for the future generation; and (3) characters need to be developed, nurtured, and managed meaningfully for Indonesian nation to become the stronger united nation as civilised Indonesian community. This article explore and discuss how Pancasila and Civic Education manage to facilitate the proces of character building process in order for future Indonesian generation to earn good education and be ready to face future’s challenges of the 21st Century era. In doing so, a transformative pedagogical visions need to be reconsidered for its application in Civic and Pancasila Education for strengthenening the process of national actualization movement of Pancasila.

Keywords: nation and character building, the values of Pancasila, character education, transformative pedagogy.

Topic: Teacher of Civic Education and National Bulding