Core Character Research Articles

PRESENTATION OF THE LEARNING MATERIALS DEPICTING CHARACTER EDUCATION VALUES IN THE ELT TEXTBOOK FOR JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS: A CONTENT ANALYSIS

In education, the issue of character education has been considered necessary in developing students’ character. Furthermore, English Language Teaching (ELT) should teach students character education values in the textbook and its materials. This research aimed to investigate the learning materials depicting character education values presented or not in the textbook. The learning materials in this research were analysed, both visual and verbal materials depictions. This research was designed as a content analysis because it described the analysis of character education values found in the textbook. The research results of a content analysis revealed that to analyse the five core character education values covered in the textbook, specifically in semester 2. However, it was not all of them found in each chapter. The textbook only presented the character education values of nationalism, independence, mutual cooperation, and integrity, except religiosity with 15 data in total. The results imply that this research was necessary to provide opportunities to the textbook’s authors, English teachers, and future researchers that it was essential for them to deliver character development to students in the education context.

International comparison of vocational pre-service teachers’ character education in Indonesia and Malaysia

This study examines the commitment of vocational teacher education students at Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) in applying core character values. The global trend in teacher education links education and economic growth, emphasizing students' competence for the job market. However, teachers are also expected to address social and moral cohesion in the younger generation. The research involved 177 third- and fourth-year students at FPTV UTHM Malaysia and an equal number at FT-UNY, utilizing a questionnaire based on core character values. The findings indicate moderate commitment levels (58.75%) among university students. UTHM students scored slightly higher (2.42) than UNY students (2.28). The study shows that character education for vocational teacher education students in both Indonesia and Malaysia has not reached optimal levels, emphasizing the need to investigate more effective character education models for future vocational teachers.

Two Approaches to School Counseling as a Profession: From Boundaries to Core

The literature on school counseling as a profession has emphasized the classic boundaries approach, which perceives the profession's jurisdiction as a product of a power struggle for a distinct uniqueness. This paper aims to provide an alternative approach, in line with current approaches to professions. The author establishes a core-characteristics approach, highlighting the profession's core character as its source of legitimacy, encouraging continuous education and adapting to dynamic contexts. This mixed-methods study investigated the perceptions of school counselors and teachers regarding the status and sources of the counselor's legitimacy. The findings show that school counselors were recognized as influential professionals, and their main source of legitimacy was deemed to be character attributes, more than knowledge and education. Differences in perceptions were found vis-à-vis the profession's multi-specialist contexts. Further examining the core characteristics of the profession may enhance its legitimacy and help it thrive.

The Role of Teachers in Instilling Sedulur Sikep (Samin Tribe) Values in Early Childhood

The role of a teacher is an indispensable aspect of the education world, particularly in fulfilling the national educational process standards. The teacher's role in promoting character education can be tailored to the cultural wisdom of a specific region. With the advancement of technology and changing times, the teacher's role in education may no longer appear as prominent. Consequently, teachers often carry out their duties without emphasizing their role as educators. This research employs a qualitative case study approach using Miles and Huberman's model. The findings of this study indicate that teachers function as guides and supervisors in the growth and development of children. They oversee the thoughts, words, and behaviors of both students and themselves, monitor the assessment results, and work on improving the behaviors, thoughts, and words of both students and teachers. The implementation of Sedulur Sikep character teachings by teachers involves three core character teachings: (a) "Angger-angger pratikel" (ethical behavior): Encouraging honesty in everyday life and teaching students not to harbor jealousy or greed towards their peers. (b) "Angger-angger pangucap" (language usage): Promoting the use of Javanese Krama Inggil when communicating with peers or teachers. (c) "Angger-angger lakonan" (patience and resilience): Advocating a patient, resilient, and composed approach to handling various challenges and issues. This research contributes to the understanding that cultural character plays a significant role in shaping the values and behaviors of individuals.

Exploring Iroquois Culture in Joseph Bruchac’s Peacemaker: A Framework for Ethical Decision-Making Rooted in Core Character Value

Ethical decision-making is deeply intertwined with the foundational cultural values that articulate and embody core character virtues. These values find expression through moral and virtuous principles, shaped by social and cultural constructs, thereby guiding community behaviour. In the realm of environmental ethics, culture significantly influences the placement of the non-human world within various spectra, be it at the pinnacle, bottom, or as equals. Trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, and caring, the core character values, are intrinsically linked to where the non-human world stands in this context. Joseph Bruchac, a revered Native American author, revisits the historical genesis of the Iroquois confederacy, shedding light on the intricate relationship between the human and non-human worlds in his novel, Peacemaker. This paper delves into comprehending the Iroquois culture as a foundation for ethical decision-making, with a specific focus on core character values such as trustworthiness, respect, responsibility, and caring.

Mathematics Learning Model Based on Computational Thinking: Preparing elementary School Students to be Disciplined, Independent, and Dignified

Objective: The research aims to evaluate the feasibility of a computational thinking-based mathematics learning model. Explore strategies for preparing disciplined, independent, and dignified students by applying the developed model in elementary schools.
 
 Theoritical Framework: Computational Thinking (CT) is becoming a fundamental part of the way people think and understand the world. Mathematics offers fruitful opportunities for CT integration. Integrating mathematics with CT, allows students to acquire essential critical thinking and problem olving skills.
 
 Method: The type of research in this article is qualitative evaluative. The research subjects were the principal, math teachers, and students of Klaten Elementary School in Central Java. Data collection methods were observation, interview, and documentation. Data validity with source and method triangulation. Data analysis techniques are flow model and constant comparison.
 
 Results and Conclusions: The results of the research, the CT-based mathematics learning model is feasible based on the assessment of material, design, and language experts, and can improve learning activities and outcomes. Preparing students to be disciplined, independent, and dignified, based on strong religion, core character, lifestyle character, character respect for others. This means that CT-based mathematics learning is feasible to implement in elementary schools and can prepare students to be disciplined, independent, and dignified.
 
 Significance: The research findings have a significant impact on primary schools. The impact is to improve the quality of character, learning process, thinking, and learning achievement. This means that the research results have a broad role in the development of primary school students.

Sustainable Leadership and Hegelian Self-Awareness

The contribution of businesses to sustainability, captured in the concept of the triple bottom line (people, profit, planet), has been given a lot of attention. One line of argument is to make sustainability mandatory via regulation, while another is to create a consciousness for questions of sustainability in the minds of managers, that is, to make managers agents of sustainability. Thus, there is debate about what behaviors, practices, and skills leaders need for positive sustainability. In recent years, scholars have attempted to develop leadership approaches (e.g., sustainable leadership, sustainability leadership) that contribute to the implementation of sustainability and positively influence sustainability practices, filling a perceived gap in the current literature. Here, connections to popular relationship-based approaches such as ethical leadership, transformational leadership, authentic leadership, and responsible leadership are also discussed. In this paper, we debate to what extent a specific leadership type is necessary to successfully lead a company into a sustainable future or whether, regardless of conceptualized behaviors, practices, and skills, it is not the core character and attitude of leaders that is crucial to changing the company culture to achieve the goal of sustainable business. This paper first outlines the existing literature on leadership approaches designed to lead to greater sustainability. It does not claim to be exhaustive but refers to the most prominent research findings. It then critically assesses these and raises questions. In the third section, we propose an alternative view of successful leadership toward positive sustainability.

ETHNIC CONFLICT: AN OVERVIEW OF POST-SOVIET RUSSIA

After the de-centralisation and collapse of the Soviet Union, the aftermath brought chaos, and the major challenge was the manifestation of serious conflict on ethnic lines. The emergence of the Russian Federation was not peaceful, and violence remained a core character in the making of the Russian Federation in the aftermath of Post Soviet Russia. The series of issues brought major ramifications of newly formed states carved out from the large Society federation as an independent entity. The collapse of the Soviet federation created fifteen independent states amidst ethnic tension across the federation. The outcome was chaos, political disintegration and struggle for autonomy in the making of power transition.

A Project Toward Black Life: Teaching Black Studies in the Humanities

By primarily locating the study of Black people through the lens of victimhood and pathology, university research and teaching often reinforce the notion of Blackness as social, cultural, and economic deficit. Centring Black ideas, art, and imagination as critical to a reformulation of the racist logic of Western thought offers a model for engaging the histories of Black peoples in Canada that exceeds a simple anti-racism lens. Invoking the early 19th-century debate about Black education between Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois and drawing on lessons learned through the creation of a Black Canadian Studies Certificate at York University in Toronto, Canada, this article suggests that positioning Black studies within the humanities offers a different set of theoretical paradigms for thinking about human relationships and human possibilities. Understanding Black studies as a project toward, and not against, Black life reveals the critical role Black studies plays both in transforming the core character of universities and the societies in which we live.

After-End: Black Freedoms and The Live Moment

This article was created based on a talk given by Canisia Lubrin with the Black Canadian Studies Association (BCSA) for their 2022 conference, “Black Solidarities, Thought and the Quest for Black Freedom.” It engages with the theme of Black solidarities, thought, and the quest for Black freedom, in the interest of recognizing the complexities of its range. In this era of new forms of Black dispersement, the author offers this as a care work in the core character of Blackness. It is a wish for a kind of respite from the ontological over-determinism that bares down on us from all directions, from the restlessness that forms the tenor of our being in this world.

Development of a character qualities test for medical students in Korea using polytomous item response theory and factor analysis: a preliminary scale development study

This study aimed to develop a test scale to measure the character qualities of medical students as a follow-up study on the 8 core character qualities revealed in a previous report. In total, 160 preliminary items were developed to measure 8 core character qualities. Twenty questions were assigned to each quality, and a questionnaire survey was conducted among 856 students in 5 medical schools in Korea. Using the partial credit model, polytomous item response theory analysis was carried out to analyze the goodness-of-fit, followed by exploratory factor analysis. Finally, confirmatory factor and reliability analyses were conducted with the final selected items. The preliminary items for the 8 core character qualities were administered to the participants. Data from 767 students were included in the final analysis. Of the 160 preliminary items, 25 were removed by classical test theory analysis and 17 more by polytomous item response theory assessment. A total of 118 items and sub-factors were selected for exploratory factor analysis. Finally, 79 items were selected, and the validity and reliability were confirmed through confirmatory factor analysis and intra-item relevance analysis. The character qualities test scale developed through this study can be used to measure the character qualities corresponding to the educational goals and visions of individual medical schools in Korea. Furthermore, this measurement tool can serve as primary data for developing character qualities tools tailored to each medical school’s vision and educational goals.

Research on the Conception of Auditory Creation of Film and Television Directors

In the process of film and television director's creation, a very important work is audio-visual conversion, but there are few relevant materials about the director's auditory creation idea. For novice film and television directors, auditory design is abstract at the beginning, and they cannot grasp what is the key point. Film and television director is the core character in film and television creation,who is also the responsible person in film and television work quality control. The quality of a work of art is closely related to the script. From the aspect of film and television creation, the level of audio-visual creation, the skill of visual creation and the ability of director artistic creation are closely and directly related. Under normal circumstances, the director will do two things strictly during the creation of film and television works. First, the film and television structure should be reasonably planned. Second, the hierarchical composition of film and television creation elements should be strictly controlled. The process of film and television creation means to choose the structure of film and television works, and strive to be real in the process of selection, from a small shot to the whole film, so as to form an organic whole. When selecting materials, film and television directors also need to make special treatment on the basis of film and television creation effects, and make use of different elements to form different film and television levels and film and television structures, so as to provide conditions for achieving the expected artistic effects.

Penalties for Going Against Type: How Sexism Shapes Voters’ Perceptions of Candidate Character

Although women are increasingly represented in elected office, little is known about how a female candidate's gender influences voter approval when her messaging emphasizes her strong leadership ability—a character trait generally regarded as masculine. Drawing from theories of social cognition and gender stereotypes, we examine in this article how citizens react to male and female politicians who emphasize particular character traits. After synthesizing relevant literature, we report on a study conducted to see whether women lose public support for emphasizing their leadership ability—thus “going against type.” In a survey of more than 800 American adults, we found that respondents penalized a fictional woman running for Congress when her messaging to voters emphasized the core character trait of leadership, as opposed to compassion (a trait traditionally associated with women) or no character trait at all. In contrast, respondents viewed a fictional man more favorably when his messaging to voters went against type by highlighting compassion than when he emphasized leadership. These findings suggest that female candidates have fewer options than men do when selecting which personal characteristics to present in their messaging to gain the approval of the voting public. This result underscores the need for policies and programs that promote female leadership in all walks of life, thereby leading the public to associate leadership skill with both genders equally.

Development of the Religious Character of the Nation through Learning Religious Songs: Teachers’ Perception and Challenges

Songs as learning media provide an aesthetic experience for students and can also teach character. Academics in many countries pay little attention to this issue because songs are mostly used to memorize foreign language vocabulary. This study investigates teachers’ perceptions of using songs to build students’ character. This study focuses on exploring teachers’ perceptions of the development of religious character as a core character in the curriculum in Indonesia through songs. The case study design was employed by involving 45 elementary school teachers spread over several districts in West Java province. This research was carried out in several stages; First, by preparing questionnaires distributed online; Second, by following up the answers to the questionnaire by conducting in-depth interviews; Third, by analyzing the data in an inductive-thematic manner in relation to learning problems, psychological and social issues arose. The research resulted in themes related to teachers’ perceptions of developing students’ religious character through religious songs. Four themes were explored in-depth related to teacher appreciation for songs, the benefits of religious songs, teacher challenges, and instructional design. It can be drawn that the song function was not only limited to developing a cognitive domain that functioned to remember and collect facts and data but could also be a means of developing students’ characters, especially religious characters. From the teacher’s perspective, religious songs were able to develop students’ religiosity dimension, including students’ beliefs, worship, appreciation, knowledge, and morals. Hence, this study contributes to the importance of developing songs related to religious themes to develop national character.

Implementasi Ajaran Tri Kaya Parisudha dalam Pendidikan Karakter pada Generasi Metaverse

The development of the world towards the Metaverse greatly affects human life. In addition to having a positive impact, negative impacts are also unavoidable. The ease of accessing information through the internet is also very influential in lifestyle, especially for the younger generation. One way to fortify oneself from negative influences is to find in the Vedic scriptures, about character. This teaching is called Tri Kaya Parisudha or three core characters, namely: thinking well (manacika), saying good (wacika), and doing good (kayika). The character values developed for each core character are different. The core character includes the good values of positive thinking, religious character, and belief in the law of causality, the core character says good, includes values, tells the truth, while the good core character includes the values of compassion, honesty, caring for the environment, and discipline. The teaching of character education is carried out in an integrated manner in learning. By knowing, ensuring, and implementing the Tri Kaya Parisudha, young people can be wiser in everyday life.

PENDIDIKAN KARAKTER DALAM PERSPEKTIF AGAMA BUDDHA

Character education in Indonesia is continuously echoed especially in the midst of the current digital era. Every religion will certainly form a good and moral character for its people, and Buddhism is no exception. This research tries to review this. Character education in Buddhism is closely related to the Ariya Aṭṭhaṅgika Magga/Noble Eightfold Path, where there is a core character that is intended as a Buddhist. Character education in Buddhism is emphasized on the mind. First it starts with controlling the mind, then proceeds with the speech and actions of the body. Mind control is done the first time not without reason. This is inseparable because the mind is the forerunner of all actions. So the good or bad character that appears in a person, must start from his mind. In Buddhism there are three roots of evil, namely hatred (dosa), greed (lobha), and delusion (moha), which have the potential to give rise to bad characters. Therefore, the development of giving (dana), maintaining morality (sila), and developing the mind (bhavana) needs to be increased to eradicate the three roots of evil. Character education in Buddhism should be taught repeatedly so that it becomes a good habit and can be passed on to the next generation. Not killing, not stealing, not committing immorality, not lying, not getting drunk or taking drugs, spreading love, and sympathy are some of the behaviors that emerge from Buddhist character education.

Memories of Resistance: Rhizomatic Education, the Matrix, and Rondo

Memories of Resistance: Rhizomatic Education, the Matrix, and Rondo Benjamin Levy (bio) Remembering becomes particularly important for those who hold socially dominated identities, those for whom memory and complete recitations of pasts are often rare—as they are stripped by those who stand within dominant positions. Just as important as remembering itself is how we string together our memories, how we prioritize information. It is with this that we must be doubly cautious as our relationships with technology grow deeper, as realities we create outside of digital space and those created within grow closer and closer. There is potential to use technology as a catalyst for engaging more deeply with our memories, but just as there is potential for this, there is potential for technology to entrench harm. The combined use of new media, particularly the internet, and rhizomatic educational structures can allow for the creation, and perpetuation, of memories of resistance that can be engaged to highlight the life, brilliance, and complexity of Black communities in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and, taking a broader lens, peoples whose pasts have been violently destroyed by white supremacist structures of power. Rhizomes and The Matrix: Exploring Afrofutures As described by Kodwo Eshun, a Ghanaian-British author and filmmaker, Afrofuturism is a movement of art, literature, theory, and more that centers Black people, people of the African diaspora, and layers the past and present— violence, joy, and all knowledge/experience—in order to critically imagine futures through the use of technologies. [1] Rhizomes as memories of resistance provide a powerful framework through which one can unpack Afrofuturist thought. Within rhizomatic educational frames, as provided by Shujaa and Gregoriou, one intentionally layers the past into the present in order to construct more complete realities to establish the conditions necessary for memories of resistance. The Oracle in The Matrix takes this and demonstrates the way in which something, someone, that exists within conditions of oppression can bring about the destruction of the system through the engagement of rhizomatic education in technological contexts. The Oracle: Engaging Rhizomatic Education and the Present Future [2] Core to the efficacy of this examination of memory generation in the context of media is the movement of analysis between spaces of traditional “social reality,” as provided by the work of Morrison and Shujaa, and digital spaces—as to blur the lines between the two is to emphasize their inextricable nature. The realm of media offers a layered representation of these processes through the analysis of The Matrix and the role of the Oracle therein, grounding the theory discussed above. Within this there are several things to unpack: (1) the representation and construction of the Oracle [End Page 25] as a Black woman, (2) the role of the Oracle in engaging education in order to challenge what is perceived as factual or “real,” and (3) the potential of the Oracle in creating memories of resistance. A core character in the Matrix franchise, the Oracle is a program, core to the function of the Matrix itself, that has the power of foresight. [3] In the first Matrix film, the Oracle is portrayed by Gloria Foster, an older Black woman. [4] Although this may have simply been in line with concerted efforts made in the 1980s and `90s to increase non-white representation in media, and in all facets of US life for that matter, the impact of a Black woman fulfilling the role of a character so transformational in the franchise, regardless of the intent of her assuming the role, is felt. However, the importance of her representation can only be understood in its entirety when one has a grasp on the function of the Oracle within the Matrix. First introduced after Morpheus instructs Neo to visit her, the Oracle makes clear her power of foresight by consistently asking Neo questions that force him to reckon with the formation of reality, even in a space as small as the kitchen they are in: “Would you still have broken the vase if I hadn’t said anything? Do you think you are the one?” [5] Through this, one can understand the purpose of the Oracle— to force Neo and Morpheus to question the very nature...

The effect of impurities on stacking fault energy and dislocation properties in γ-TiAl

The dislocation properties of γ-TiAl are systematically investigated under the effect of impurities with semi-discrete variational Peierls-Nabarro (SDVPN) model. The impurities prefer to locating at the first layer below the stacking fault plane along 1/2<112‾] which is attributed to the local effect between stacking fault and impurities by local energy scheme analysis. The dislocation dissociation width of γ-TiAl is 1.58 Å, which shows a compact core character and is well consistent with that by atomic simulation and experimental observation. Negligible changes occur in the dislocation dissociation width as C or O is doped, while the dislocation does not even dissociate with N or H addition. The Peierls stress is reduced and the dislocation mobility is improved by N, H, and O, while C takes an opposite effect. The improved dislocation mobility with H is consistent with the enhanced dislocation mobility by H in experiments, while the improved dislocation mobility with O in calculation excludes the dislocation pinning effect of oxygen in solution.

Հայկ Նահապետի կերպարը Հովհաննես Վանանդեցու ստեղծագործություններում/The Image of Hayk Nahapet in the Works of Hovhannes Vanandetsi

The purpose of this article is to reflect on the general character traits of Hayk Nahapet in the works of Hovhannes Vanandetsi. Our task is to highlight characteristics of the ancestor founder of the Armenian people in Vanandetsi's individual works, to show, apart from studying the historiographical sources, that, unlike the works of the old period, the psychological drama of the characters is emphasized in the author's writings, according to the characteristics of the literature of the new period, with Hayk Nahapet as the core character. Reference was also made to the fact that although Vanandetsi made the events of the pagan period the subject of his poems, nevertheless, as a Christian author, he constantly emphasizes the belief of the ancestors of the Armenian people, the monotheism.

The Effectiveness of The Sufistic Core Character Learning Model in Increasing Student Religiosity and Character

The Effectiveness of The Sufistic Core Character Learning Model in Increasing Student Religiosity and Character