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Anti-Corruption Education As An Effort To Form Students With Character Humanist And Law-Compliant, Jagad Aditya Dewantara, Yudi Hermawan, Dadang Yunus, Wibowo Heru Prasetiyo, Efriani Efriani, Fitria Arifiyanti, T Heru Nurgiansah

Jurnal Civics: Media Kajian Kewarganegaraan

Anti-corruption education has a role in solving the problem of corruption. We can see from the increasing number of corruption cases that display on various social media. This phenomenon must prevent and eradicate the country's economy, country's economy, national values and state ideology. This article examines anti-corruption education as character building that emphasizes free will, individual behaviour through student potential. This study conducted using qualitative methods and literature study with the object of analysis from various references to books, articles and other media. The approach to this research uses normative-empirical methods as the basis for analyzing primary and secondary data. …

News Media Literacy Challenges And Opportunities For Australian School Students And Teachers In The Age Of Platforms, Jocelyn Nettlefold, Kathleen Williams

Journal of Media Literacy Education

News media literacy competencies and motivation in teachers are critical to media education initiatives. This article draws on a survey of 97 primary and secondary school teachers conducted as part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and University of Tasmania’s national Media Literacy Project in 2018. The data reveals challenges in the implementation of media literacy in classrooms, highlighting a generational divide linked to Australians’ rising consumption of news from digital sources and social media platforms. While teachers overwhelmingly say critical thinking about media is very important for students, nearly a quarter of these teachers are not engaging with news stories …

How Teaching Virtues Became A Movement. A Book Review Of The Rise Of Character Education In Britain: Heroes, Dragons, And The Myths Of Character, Judith L. Pace

Democracy and Education

How did character education become so popular? What does its curriculum look like? And what is its educational impact? Lee Jerome and Ben Kisby answer these and other questions in a bold and brilliant book. Focusing on the character education movement in Britain, they dissect its theoretical foundation, explain its ascendancy, analyze its curricula, and examine its results. The authors construct a compelling argument that character education clashes with education for democracy.

Character education claims to be a panacea for improving individual children’s life chances as well as an array of societal problems. But with its deeply flawed ideology, curricula, …