Summary: | Morality is an asset in self development process. When morality has
contained in self, a person would responsible all his or her activities to himself or
herself, to other people, and above all, to the god almighty. Morality has become a
universal problem, both in developed or traditional society, since morality
damages in a person would disturb another�s peace. If there are so many people in
society who has damaged morality, the society could be shocked.
Method used in this research is historical method which used to describe the
background of Emile Durkheim�s thought on morality education. Description
method was used to descriptively explain the Morality Education of Emile
Durkheim based on systemized data sources. Hermeneutical method was used to
derive the essential meaning of Emile Durkheim�s thought in her era.
The results shows that morality education for children could change their
behavior, thus, when they grow older, they�ll become a responsible adult and has
respect to the others and capable to meet the challenges of the world that rapidly
changing. The increase of moral consideration in children which designed through
school education could improve the formation of children personality. With the
formation of morality consideration, the child would behave in accordance with
his or her way of morality thought. Three elements which suggested by Durkheim
to become a person with morality are discipline, group attachment, and autonomy.
Each individual should have these three elements to be a morality personality.
And morality act, in essential, is a central focus in morality world which form a
responsible, discipline personality, as well as a good person in society who avoids
bad behavior and act in accordance with given morality thought.
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