13 Dunpath 2009, narrative is created by trying to represent research participants‟
story. The theories are also useful for the researcher in making the close-ended statements in questionnaire.
5. Creativity and Risk-taking
Students are brave to take a risk when they are ready to be creative. According to Sarah cited in Kessler, 2000, p.107, creativity is a risk. Creativity
is a part of human being. Creativity often involves a sense of danger. Creativity makes the students able to take risks to explore, make mistake and wander out of
the box because students need to feel safe. According to Cropley 2001, p.23, “creativity involves departing from the fact, finding new ways, building unusual
relationship, and seeing unexpected solution”.
6. Good Character
The teachers will guide their students to do the right things when they teach about character. Good students with good character are those who always
help and care about the others, and act upon ethical values Elkind and Sweet, 2004. Students with good character will do the right thing because they know
the differences between the bad and right things. Peck 1960 in Knowless and McLean 1992 states that character is the
terms of motivation and goal that engaged a certain action. Character education takes important basic ethical values such as caring, honesty, fairness,
responsibility, and respect for self and others that form the basic criterion of good character Lickona, Schaps, and Lewis, 1997.
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B. Theoretical Framework
This part summarizes the related theories of this research. Those theories will help the researcher to answer the problem formulation as stated in chapter 1:
What kinds of significant learning experiences from SPD class develop students‟ good characters as teacher candidates?
The theories of learning outcomes are taken from Bingham 1999 in Kennedy 2007, p.20. The author states the big points of learning outcomes such
as the aims of the learning outcomes that include student‟s achievement and what the students should know and understand as the result of the learning process.
The researcher takes Krauss and Boss 2013. The theory supports the researcher to find out the significant experiences from the participants. Project-based
learning supports them to build their good character. It is because they do actions through projects that they got.
The researcher employed the theory from Olsen and Kagan cited in Richards and Rodgers 2001, p. 192 that gives brief explanation about cooperative
language learning. The theory supports the researcher to find out participants experiences related to cooperative language learning. Cooperative language
learning teaches them to be cooperative while working with the other. The last theories are from Sarah cited in Kessler, 2000, p.107 about
creativity and risk-taking. The theory helps the researcher to arrange the statements and questions about students‟ deeper understanding of good character
related to creativity and risk-taking. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
