Developing the Students’ Character through Literacy Activities in A Child-Friendly School Model

Farikah Farikah

doi:10.21093/di.v19i2.1540

Abstract

This case studyaimed at investigating the implementation of literacy activities in developing the students’ character of SD Negeri Secang 1 as one of child-friendly school models in Magelang Regency developed by Lund University, Sweden. This study described the practical guidance on literacy activities of child-friendly schools in developing the students’ character through the literacy programs. Since it was a case study, the writer only focused on one school and the result could not be used to generalize to child friendly schools in Indonesia. Interview and observation were used in collecting the data of this study. The interview was used to gain information on how literacy activities were normally conducted at SD Negeri Secang 1 as a friendly school model and observation was used to see the real implementation of Literacy activities in developing the students’ character. Based on the data analysis, it revealed that through literacy activitiesof a 15-minute reading activity, the students were able to develop their characters. By reading different topics, they could build their knowledge and values based on the topics they read.

Highlights

As Carnevale (1991) states that he development of technology into the daily lives of the society and the internationalization of the economic market place have raised the demand for a literate citizen to the highest levels ever. As it is noted by National Literacy Assessments which state that levels of literacy attainment are not much better for eighth or 12th graders or even adults, which is not surprising, given that beginning literacy is highly predictive of later literacy attainment
A case study method as one of the types of qualitative approach was applied since the writer only focused on one school; SD Negeri Secang 1 as one of child friendly school models in Magelang Regency developed by Lund University, Sweden and the result could not be used to generalize to childfriendly schools in Indonesia
This study described the practical guidance on literacy activities at SD Negeri Secang 1 as a child-friendly school

Summary

Introduction

It is stated that to develop the students’ character, one of the programs is through reading activity during fifteen minutes before the regular lessons start. As one of the models in developing the students’ character, literacy program needs to involve some elements; school, headmaster, teachers, students, and parents. By considering the above statements, this study describes the practical guidance on literacy activities of child-friendly school, and elaborates the role of school heads, teachers, pupils and parents in developing the students’ character through the literacy programs.

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