a National Characteristic Program For Growing Student’s Nasionalism Character At Immersion Primary School Ponorogo

Abstract

Abstract Education is an effort to form individuals to grow into responsible, moral, creative, independent, and noble individuals. In forming individuals with noble character, character education is needed to prepare individuals who have character and are ready to face the challenges of the times. The implementation of character education is in line with the character crisis caused by the increasing development of globalization. The impact of the development of globalization has brought students to like some trends in social media that are not in accordance with the development of students' ages. In minimizing the impact of the development of globalization, Immersion Primary School Ponorogo developed a national habituation program to cultivate the character of nationalism as the basis for students' identity to love and respect the nation's culture. The purpose of this study is to describe: (1) the form of inculcating the character of nationalism through a national habituation program; (2) the implication of the national habituation program on the development of the character of nationalism; and (3) the effectiveness of the implementation of the national habituation program in instilling the character of nationalism. This research was designed using a qualitative approach with the type of case study. As a result, at Immersion Primary School Ponorogo: (1) focusing on national habituation on aspects of the character of discipline and love for the homeland with three forms of habituation, namely giving examples, spontaneous activities, and routine activities. Meanwhile, in fostering the character of habituation nationalism, in the form of routine activities and programmed activities; (2) national habituation activities have implications for the growth of students' awareness and responsibility to carry out national habituation without any encouragement from the teacher and the growth of students' self-confidence to take part in various competitions; (3) the implementation of the habituation program has been as expected and there is a match between the implementation of the habituation program and the initial goal.   Keywords: habituation program, national habituation, nationalism character