Character Problems of Elementary Students and Parental Engagement in Schools
- DOI
- 10.2991/aicosh-19.2019.46How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- character problems, parental engagement, religiosity, parenting style
- Abstract
Character is one of the important issues in the process of children's education. Education are not only meant to deliver children to be intelligent and competent, but also directed to deliver children to become individuals who have a positive character that makes it a person who plays a role in building human civilization. This paper aims to provide an overview of a number of characters that are important to be learned by children, main problems of children character, the importance of parental engagement in character education and the factors that influence parental engagement . The method used are multi-methods, quantitative and quantitative approach. The respondents of this study were 34 teachers and 346 parents from a number of elementary schools in Yogyakarta. Based on this studies, the results show that five characters are considered important by parents and teachers, namely honest, religious, responsibility, independent, and discipline. According to teachers and parents have been found five main problems of children character. There are poor of discipline, dependence, poor of responsibility, poor of literacy and poor of religiosity. There are three type of Parental Engagement in School, namely proactive type, follower type and ignorant type. The factors that influence parental engagement such as religiosity and parenting style.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - R Rachmy Diana AU - Muhammad Chirzin AU - Khoiruddin Bashori PY - 2019/08 DA - 2019/08 TI - Character Problems of Elementary Students and Parental Engagement in Schools BT - Proceedings of the 1st Annual Internatioal Conference on Social Sciences and Humanities (AICOSH 2019) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 221 EP - 224 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/aicosh-19.2019.46 DO - 10.2991/aicosh-19.2019.46 ID - Diana2019/08 ER -