Intrinsic Goodness: Facilitating Character Development

Literature like novels can contain many moral teachings, including how a human being develops into a better person because of certain events experienced during the plot development. The present study focuses on the character development of Piscine Molitor Patel in Yan Martell's The Life of Pi as he had to survive the Pacific Ocean for 227 days on a lifeboat with a hungry tiger. By employing close reading, it is revealed that Piscine Molitor Patel was revealed as a curious, smart, competitive, empathetic, obedient, loving, and humble character. These characterizations were revealed directly through the author's description and indirectly through thought, speech, and action. From these character revelations, it can be concluded that the development of Pi’s curious, smart, competitive, empathetic, obedient, loving, and humble character had help Pi survive the Pacific Ocean and continued living as a better person. By employing Freud’s psychoanalysis, Pi’s characterizations were then classified as reflections of his id, ego, and superego. The present study concludes that Pi’s characterizations reflect the development of the balance between his id, ego, and superego, which allowed him to survive the shipwreck and grow into a better person.

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Pengembangan Lembar Kerja Siswa (LKS) Berbasis Karakter melalui Pendekatan Saintifik pada Materi Fluida Statik untuk Sekolah Menengah Atas

Edu-Sains: Jurnal Pendidikan Matematika dan Ilmu Pengetahuan Alam ◽

10.22437/jmpmipa.v4i2.2533 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Husna Mayasari ◽

Syamsurizal Syamsurizal ◽

Maison Maison

Keyword(s):

Character Development ◽

Practical Work ◽

Scientific Approach ◽

Teachers And Students ◽

Research Procedure ◽

Development Of Students

The purpose of this study is to create students’ worksheet based on characters through scientific approach of statistical fluid material, to examine the feasibility of worksheet according for experts, teachers and students, to investigate the effectiveness of the development of students' character and skills of the students in doing practical work after using worksheet. This research uses design R & D with model Dick and Carey. The research procedure includes four stages, which is analizing, designing, creating, and evaluating stage. The feasibility of worksheet was examined using a questionaire. Based on the result questionaire validity tested by the experts, the worksheet was declared to be valid and it is apliable to be used and tested,, whereas the response of the teachers and students about the worksheet, it stated that the worksheet categorized as a very good one. Meanwhile the data of character development and students skill on doing practical work that gained from the observation sheet. Analysis of the character development shows that the character of the students are in the category began to evolve become as a habit (culture of the students), while the influence of worksheet to the students’ skill on doing practical are in good criteria.

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Moral Self-Identity and Character Development

The Oxford Handbook of Moral Development ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190676049.013.40 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 683-707

Author(s):

Daniel Lapsley ◽

Timothy S. Reilly ◽

Darcia F. Narvaez

Keyword(s):

Social Cognitive ◽

Character Development ◽

Cognitive Theory ◽

Character Strengths ◽

Historical Context ◽

Moral Self ◽

Life Span Development ◽

Self Identity ◽

Moral Personality ◽

Moral Stage

Moral development is a kind of sociopersonality development that has as its aim the disposition to virtue. The developmental grounding of moral personality is in the first months of life and includes neurobiological foundations, the mutual responsive orientation, and dialogic socialization of the moral self. The authors argue that moral self-identity offers integrative possibilities for understanding the life span development of moral personality and for understanding the dispositional and motivational bases of moral behavior, and that social cognitive theory has resources for understanding how the moral self and conscience of infancy is canalized into individual and cultural differences in the schedule and priority of character strengths that are the targets of socialization. Moral self-identity and character are placed in the historical context of the moral stage theory paradigm.

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