Research and Development in the Elementary School on Makassarese Language Learning Materials based on Character Building Concept
Elementary school students are an asset of the Indonesian nation that very valuable to be maintained and developed with a positive character values that come from the family, school, society and nation. Character building for the youth generation is now a matter of urgency and decisive for the future of the nation toward Golden Generation in 2045. In this period, the generation who are now on early childhood education, primary education, secondary education, and higher education will enter productive age that determines the strategic role of this nation. Especially for elementary school age, they were aged 6-14 years old now, will be aged 39-47 years old in the year of 2045 and this means that they will enter the glorious period of their development. In order to develop this golden generation, it is necessary to reform the education sector which plays an important role to set up and direct the superior human resources and productive then mastery and develop science, technology and art are needed in this globalization era. One of the way to do that the integration of the characters values into Makassarese language learning materials. This learning materials is expected to provide supplies to students in Makassarese language skills on the one side and the character building on the other side. Furthermore, this study aimed to develop Makassarese language learning materials in elementary school that integrates the characters values. This research was conducted in Makassar city with 14 sub-district as the population and 4 sub-disctrict as the sample. Then the researchers determined 4 school from 4 districts from urban and sub-urban area as research location. The steps of research and development by Borg and Gall and collaborated with the research phase by Brown were refers to produce Makassarese language textbooks based on character building concept. Result of this research produce 8 themes that extracted from 18 character values (character building concept) by Ministry of Education and Culture as follows: Heroism, Historical Place, Citizenship, Family, Motivation, Fine Arts, Religious and Public Place.