PENGARUH METODE MORAL REASONING TERHADAP PENANAMAN KARAKTER NASIONALISME SISWA SD DALAM PEMBELAJARAN TEMATIK

This research aims to determine the influence of moral reasoning method on elementary students’ nationalism character development in thematic learning. This is a quasi experiment research with a nonequivalent control group design. The subjects of this research were fifth graders of Ngebel Kasihan State Elementary School. Ngebel Kasihan State Elementary School has two fifth grade classes, class V-A as the control group used a storytelling method, and class V-B as the experiment group used a morel reasoning method. The data collection techniques used were observation and interview. The data analysis used was t-test with a significance level of 0.05. The research results showed that there was a significant difference between nationalism character development using a moral reasoning method and a storytelling method. The difference was seen is all nationalism sub characters which include “Belief in the one and only God” value with the t test result = 0.155, “Just and civilized humanity” value with the t test result = 0.129, “the unity of Indonesia” value with the t test result = 0.405, “Popularism Led by Wisdom of Wisdom in Consultation / Representation” value with the t test result = 0.529, and “Social justice for all the people of Indonesia” value with the t test result = 0.608.