Similarity: CONSTRUCTION OF DEMOCRACY EDUCATION AS STRENGTHENING OF CITIZENS OF CHARACTER

Maryanto, Maryanto and Khoiriyah, Nor (2017) Similarity: CONSTRUCTION OF DEMOCRACY EDUCATION AS STRENGTHENING OF CITIZENS OF CHARACTER. Prosiding ICONS 2017 “CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT IN THE 21 CENTURY EDUCATION”. pp. 277-281. ISSN 978-602-61512-1-6

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Abstract

Indonesia is one of the democratic countries. The values of democracy in Indonesia are derived from the values that come from the social and cultural life in society itself. Therefore, the Indonesian applies the ideology of Pancasila democracy, where Pancasila (five principles) is an ideology that guides the life of Indonesian society. Based on this matter, democracy education is needed as a strategy of socializing the values of democracy to the community, especially for the young generation. It is executed to prepare citizens to behave and act democratically, so that will form the character of citizenship that reflects the personality of the people of Indonesia against the norms, rights, and obligations as citizens. The construction of democracy education as the strengthening of citizenship character has two concepts to be discussed in this article. First, development of intellectual ability for cognitive citizenship skills. Second, the development of citizenship participation skills

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