Kurotul Aeni, Ghanis Putra Widhanarto, Tri Astuti
Character education in schools has a very strong relationship with the culture of the school. School culture is an instrument that strongly supports the capacity of education to build the character of students as an effort to achieve national education goals. This study aims to describe and analyze, and compare models of strengthening character education and its achievements through school culture in SDIT BIAS Assalam and SDIT Usamah Tegal city; and supporting factors and obstacles in strengthening character education through school culture. The study was conducted with a naturalistic inquiry approach. Subjects in this study were principals, teachers, students, parents of students at SDIT BIAS Assalam and SDIT Usamah Tegal city. The research subjects were selected using purposive sampling technique. The object of this research is the social situation in the school including the place, actors and activities carried out by the principal, teachers, students, parents of students, and places or spaces in the school. Data were collected using participant observation methods, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The main instrument is the researcher himself. Data validity test is done by triangulation techniques. The data analysis technique used qualitative analysis by adapting the interactive model of Miles & Huberman (2014). © IJSTR 2020.
Faculty of Education, Universitas Negeri Semarang, Indonesia
