The role of school culture in the formation of student character in SMPN 4 Kaubun Kabupaten Kutai Timur

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10.2991/icedutech-17.2018.17How to use a DOI?

Keywords

School Culture; Character; Introduction;

Abstract

This study aims to determine the role of school culture applied in SMPN 4 Kaubun, the success of school culture to build the character of students, and the supporting and inhibiting factors in the implementation of school culture. The study focuses on three school cultures, which are religious, discipline, and reading interests. This study was conducted qualitatively to describe the information from informants in SMPN 4 Kaubun comprehensively, holistically, integratively, and deeply. Data collection was done by observation, interviews, and documentation used as supporting data in analyzing the character of students. The subjects of this study consisted of the headmaster as key informant, and teachers as supporting informants. The process of data analysis was conducted through several stages, which are data collection, data reduction, data presentation and verification or conclusion. Descriptive analysis was used to analyze data critically and synthetically. The results of this study show that there were several habituation activities applied in the school, including religious culture, discipline, and reading interest which have an important role in the student character building. The supporting factors in the implementation of school culture were the togetherness and kinship among school members and the participation of stakeholders in its implementation. While the inhibiting factors were weather conditions, poor road access, environment, and family that background student character.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Johansyah Johansyah
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TI  - The role of school culture in the formation of student character in SMPN 4 Kaubun Kabupaten Kutai Timur
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