Building Strong Character through Citizenship Education: Nurturing Responsible and Engaged Students

The strategy of Character education is in rebuilding national identity and mobilizing Z generation the of social environment. These research objectives are to know citizenship education on strengthen student characters and how it works citizenship education learning in strengthening student characters. The research employed a descriptive qualitative method on Huberman and Miles theory (2002) with reduction, display and conclusion. The results show that the characters have performed that indicates the students with citizenship education can be a good effort for learners and the effort depth reflections the moral sequences it must be followed up with real actions so that they become practical and reflective. It takes several times to make all of those habits and the character of human form or person’s behavior. There are some aspects in Educational characters to become a good behavior human beings are in their family and household, educational institutions, and society. The main step must be taken all of the correlation what they are in citizenship education almost finished between the three educational circles. Forming a characteristic and educational character will never succeed in our alive during there are not correlation each other onto harmony and continuity among  educational circles appearing what in this reality whereas forming the characters of quality students are strong influencing in an environment such as family at home, school, and society.