Character Education in Primary School Students Prepare to Face Challenges of The 21 st Century

摘要

Nowadays, education is no longer to provide information to students, but rather to prepare learners to become active 21st Century critical thinkers. Character supports and enhances their thinking and understanding for it permeates the world in which their live. It also plays a vital role in the construction of meaning. Aim the study is: to know how teaching students through inquiry based learning is becoming more prevalent and that method can enhance good character and study achievement. In the study, used the following methods: descriptive, the classification method, the method of analysis and synthesis, the methods of generalization and specification. Result this study: teaching in the Madania primary school in Indonesia, some lessons in the primary school using inquiry based method facilitates the learners ability of acquiring the new science, high achievement, and can improve students character.