The objectives of the research are to know and describe: 1) the planning and
implementation of character education; 2) the output of the character education
implementation; and 3) the supporting and inhibiting factors of the character
education implementation at SD Negeri Soropadan No. 108 Surakarta and SD
Muhammadiyah 16 Karangasem Surakarta.
The type of the research is a qualitative research. The design of the researh
is a case study. The research was undertaken at SD Negeri Soropadan No. 108
Surakarta and SD Muhammadiyah 16 Karangasem Surakarta. The data analysis
is done using interactive model consists of three main components, namely data
reduction, data display, and verification.
The research concludes that: 1) the character education planning were done
by identifying the characters values developed from schools’ visions and
missions. The implementation were done in the form of extra curriculer and intracurriculer
activities; 2) the output of the character education implementation were
the developed and understandable of the characters’ values as a result of
characters’ values internalization; and 3) the supporting factors in the character
education implementation were the high committment of the schools’
stakeholders to actualize the schools’ visions, namely creating good conduct
human being. The inhibiting factors of the character education implementation
mostly come from psychological aspects of the actor
