Handling Troubled Students at School with Death Education Program

Abstract

This study discusses the solution that is not widely applied to settle troubled students in Indonesia. Generally, the resolving applied is based on the cognitive aspect. The spiritual element is less accustomed to and less cultivated. Suggestion method, physical punishment method, and lecture method are widely used to help heal and enlighten troubled students. However, one religious school in Kebumen, Indonesia, still applies a different approach and strategy from the other schools and Madrasah (Islamic schools). Madrasah Aliyah Plus Nururohmah implements cognitive to enrich and cultivate the death education program. As a media which changes the misbehaving students to be good, and have mature behavior and mindset. This type of research is field research (Field Research), research conducted systematically by lifting the data in the field, researchers directly come to the field to obtain the necessary data. The approach used is an ethnomethodological approach. Several stages were conducted, including demonstration of death, muhasabah graveyard, and going to some funerals, in which there was counseling in-between. Those stages aim to help fix, enrich, enlighten, and lead the misbehaving students to have good and positive attitudes.