Building Character Values Through Global Education in Social Studies Learning in Elementary Schools

This article aims to describe the importance of the concept of global education for elementary school students and describe how to develop character values through the integration of global education in social studies learning in elementary schools. Currently, the character education of students is still lacking and requires serious handling.This research is a qualitative research with a phenomenological approach, the data is collected through the documentation of the teacher's lesson plans and with an open survey technique. The analysis of the research data was carried out by inductive analysis. The inductive approach aims to contribute to the understanding of the meaning of complex data by developing summary topics or categories from the raw data ("data reduction"). These approaches can be seen in many qualitative data analyzes . The results of this study were (1) that 87% of primary school teachers stated the importance of integrating global education to develop character values, (2) character value development was carried out through the integration of global education that was adapted to the topic of discussion based on the themes in the syllabus.This research has implications for the development of student character values by integrating global education into social science learning