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An Analysis on Characters Education in the Curriculum 2013 English Textbook of the Eighth Grade of Junior High School Published by Ministry of National Education
The research was intended to describe characters education which
presented in English textbook proposed by Curriculum 2013 of education
Ministry of Indonesia. The study was chosen by the following considerations.
They are to indicate kinds of Character Education has been compiled in English
textbook Curriculum 2013 of Junior High School for Eighth grade and to
elaborate the Character Education represented in the English textbook Curriculum
2013 of Junior High School on the Eighth grade. The research purpose is to know
the character of education that appear in textbook.
This study was descriptive qualitative approach using content analysis
because, at first, the researcher evaluated textbook and drew the concept in the
end. The data used in this study were in the forms of all in the textbook. In this
research, the researcher describe the characters in textbooks using the 18
characters theory written by Kemendiknas (Ministry of National Education) and
used quantitative data to facilitate descriptions in explaining each character of
education. The researcher use triangulation by expert to validate the accuracy of
the researcher.The primary instruments of the research were the researcher and the
data sheet was also employed as the second instrument. Some steps were
undertaken during the data collection: reading the texts carefully, understanding
specific parts related to the research focus intensively, marking certain parts
related to the research focus, making a description of the data accompany by a
coding process and inserting the data into the table.
The findings of this research showed that twelve (12) characters were
found in the textbook, those are (Honesty,Discipline, Hard Work, Creativity,
Independence, Curiosity, Achievement Appreciation, Love of Peace, Social
Awareness,
Reading
Interest,
Responsibility,andFriendliness/Communicative).Independence character is the
most dominant character in textbook with the amount of nineteen (19) data or
percentage of 21,1%. And there are two (2) characters Curiosity and Love of
Peace with the same percentage of 1,2% or just one (1) data.While six (6)
characters are not in the textbook (Religious, Tolerance, Democracy, Nationalism,
Patriotism, and the lastEnvironment Awareness). As a result, the researcher
wishes that the characters education will instill the attitudes they have learned
from textbook.
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