Pembentukan Pendidikan Karakter Mahasiswa Melalui Pendidikan Kewarganegaraan Berbasis Teologi Kristen

Abstract

Abstract : Colleges have a very important role in forming student’s character with the aim of preparing students as the younger generation to enter the world of work, the community environment, and the future to have the character of Indonesian citizens based on Christian theology. There are many problems that arise every day in Indonesia which cause moral degradation of the younger generation. Sometimes, not all colleges pay attention to students’ character education with the assumption that character education is the duty and responsibility of parents, colleges have no interest in forming character, and there are limited methods in build the character. For this reason, how to produce effective character formation for Christian students, one of the implementations of character education is through Citizenship Education while remaining based on theology. This type of research is qualitative research with a descriptive approach to literature study. The results of this research are that the formation of student character plays a very important role as an effort to prepare Christian students to live as citizens and achieve a good future. Through citizenship education based on Christian theology, it can help forming students’ character.