The Implementation of Character Education in Madogiwa No Totto-chan Novel

Abstract

Character Education is a system that instills character values in students, which contains components of knowledge, individual awareness, determination, and the willingness and action to carry out values, both towards God Almighty, self, fellow human beings, environment or, nation. A novel is a literary work that can be a media to deliver educational values. Madogiwa No Totto-chan showed the right education method in educating children especially in giving the value of character education, because the messages that have been delivered by the author, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, through the novel are derived from the problems that exist in society, which the problem we had in most schools. This study aims to describe (1) character education values in Madogiwa novel No Totto-chan (2) The process of education and the application of educational values in Tomoe School in Madogiwa No Totto-chan novel. This study uses a qualitative descriptive approach as a research procedure that produces descriptive data in the form of words. Understanding the meaning as a whole is done to interpret and categorize the data contained in Madogiwa No Totto-chan novels, which are then analyzed based on their categorization. So that from the results of the analysis and understanding of the meaning we can found educational values that can increase the knowledge of the readers. The results of this study indicate that the values of character education contained in Madogiwa No Totto-chan's novel consist of personality values, which include (1) the courage to live, (2) independence, (3) responsibility, (4) Empathy, (5) humble and (6) creative. As well as social values which include (1) respect, (2) help, (3) courtesy, (4) togetherness in life, (5) mutual respect, (6) simplicity of life, (7) forgiveness and (8 ) good personality. The author’s way of describing the process of study and the application of educational values in Tomoe School in Madogiwa No Totto chan novel are: (1) curriculum, (2) ratio of the teachers and students (3) inclusive education, (4) school rules, and (5) open and independent education method