CIVIC EDUCATION AS A MEANS BUILDING CHARACTER OF SOCIAL CARE FOR STUDENTS THROUGH CIVIC CHARITY - SERVICE LEARNING Baharudin Sabda Prasojo 1, Dasim Budimansyah 2
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
Abstract
Conventional education which emphasizes learning only on the transfer of information rated no longer appropriate to the needs of students. In fact, students need knowledge and skills that they can use when they work or start their own businesses. Civics Lessons will bring up a practice habituation to be a Good Citizen. Citizenship education is designed as a learning curriculum that aims to develop the potential of individuals to become Indonesian citizens were noble, smart, can participate, and responsible. In achieving the learning objectives of the Citizenship Education requires, strategies for learning and teaching model that could provoke the students to be creative and have a happy life helping others as outlined in the civic activities of charity. The research methodology used the case study. By lifting the implementation of service learning teaching model called civic charity. Civic Charity is a term Citizenship Education Charity. This activity initiated the concept of learning by doing and service learning that has been integrated in the learning Citizenship Education. The concept of this event each class will design, prepare, implement and evaluate social service activities with the objectives of the orphanage. Practicing theories that have been presented in the classroom to life directly in the community. The activities committee consists of students of the class. Financing and operating funds requires students to go to their own (entrepreneurship) without any financial assistance from their parents by way of selling food, beverages and wearable items they have at home. The values embedded namely a sense of clever grateful, work hard to achieve the goal, form the soul of entrepreneurship, the importance of sharing, love to help others, creative, independent, responsibility and social care.
Keywords: Civic Education, Civic Charity, Social Care
