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CHAPTER III CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
This chapter will present the summary of the final result finding, which is observed and processed by the researcher. The summary is the brief result to the
research question. Moreover, it also becomes the new finding in education which discusses about Character Education.
A. Conclusion
The Character Education is the necessary concept for the students because later on, it can improve the quality of Indonesian young generation, serves all
aspect of students ’ humility to become more civilized and competitive Fachmy et
al, 2015, p.851-852. Character Education which is represented in 2013 Curriculum has been chosen by the government as the alternative way to rise up
the quality in the educational system nowadays. The Character Education which is focused on establishing the characteristic and giving the moral value of students
has been regulated by the government in the whole of 2013 Curriculum education system.
The 2013 Curriculum English Student Textbook Revised Edition 2014 becomes the textbook which has been assessed by this research in its Character
Education. It uses 18 Characteristics Theory in Character Education. The Chapter I up to Chapter VI represents the first semester of learning system in junior High
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focus on Peduli Sosial or Social Care, Kejujuran or Honestly, Love and Peace or Cinta Damai and Kedisiplinan or Discipline. Those four characteristics are
about developing the attitude domain. It means that the Character Education appears strongly in Chapter I - Chapter III. It shows how the material that the
students have learnt can be applied in the society through the pictures and the
illustrations. However, Chapter IV up to Chapter VI focus on Curiousity or Keingintahuan and Creativity or Kreativitas. These three chapters are
categorized as characteristics to develop the students’ skill and knowledge. In this
part, the role of Character Education is decreased and replaced with some activities which make students enlarge their critical thinking. Consequently, based
on these two findings, the character education characteristic still appears strongly in Chapter I
– Chapter III, but in Chapter IV – Chapter VI are only a glimpse, because all of the activities are focused on the developing skill and knowledge, it
is unbalanced. Those activities have been provided in the 2013 Curriculum Textbook, and
it has been arranged by the government in order to help the learning system more systematically. The 2013 Curriculum Syllabus gives the whole data for all
learning system through the core competition, the aims, the material, time allocation are quite complicated but structural, however, the syllabus help the
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B. Recommendations