The Implementation of Character Education in Madrasah

Abstract

This paper aims to describe the strengthening of character education in madrasas. Character education is an essential theme in efforts to overcome social problems that often plague this nation. Character education is an alternative solution considered the most appropriate and must be applied in everyday life, including in madrasas. Madrasahs are seen as an influential place in efforts to form a child's positive personality after the family. Strengthening character education is a process of forming, transmitting, transforming and developing students' abilities to think, behave, and behave according to Pancasila values. Character education in madrasas has the function of selecting and sorting Indonesian culture and foreign cultures that are more civilized and respectable. As a manifestation of the National Movement for Mental Revolution (GNRM), namely changing patterns of thinking (mindset), attitude, and better behavior, religious, nationalist, independent, mutual cooperation and high integrity we must instill it through strengthening character education, especially in madrasas so that all students know, understand, and apply to all aspects of life whenever and wherever they are. All of this can be realized if all stakeholders are involved in overseeing, running, supervising and evaluating all of these processes so that it becomes a positive culture in madrasas.