Bring Character Education into Classroom

TLDR

Character education seeks to optimize students’ ethical behavior and has consistently produced encouraging outcomes that prepare future leaders. The paper aims to promote character education through an actionable plan involving policy, stakeholders, and contextual analysis to encourage students to embody good values. The study reviews the historical perspective of character education and discusses challenges and controversies in its implementation.

Abstract

<p style="text-align:justify">Character education is a growing discipline with the deliberate attempt to optimize students’ ethical behavior. The outcome of character education has always been encouraging, solidly, and continually preparing the leaders of tomorrow. The promotion of character education should not just a leap service but has an action plan for practice. In order words, education policy should take the lead to actualize moral education. Taken together, parents, teachers, and administrators as stakeholders, should join this camp to encourage students to manifest those good values in their lives. The outline of this paper is that first the definition of character education is provided. Then, the historical perspective of character education is reviewed. Third, the issue of context in character education is disclosed. The challenge and controversy of implementation of character education is also presented. Finally, the implication and further research are discussed.</p>