Building Legal Awareness and Democracy: Revitalizing the Role of Citizenship Education for Students of SMAN 7 Kediri City

Abstract

ABSTRACT
Recently, a lot of students have participated in demonstrating against
government policies. Even though, they do not know the detailed contents of the
government policies they are about. In fact, in practicing democracy, it is not
uncommon for them to violate the law by committing acts of anarchy, destroying
public facilities, and other acts of fandalism. The purpose of this research is to
describe qualitatively about the role of Citizenship Education in increasing legal
awareness and awareness of democracy. The method used is descriptive qualitative.
The research was conducted At the SMAN 7 Kediri Kediri City. The research
subjects were school principals, students, Civics teachers and Guidance and
Counseling Teachers. Data were collected using participatory observation methods
and in-depth interviews. Data relating to documents owned by the school were
collected using the library documentation method. The data that has been collected
is analyzed using methods of: 1) data collection, 2) data classification, 3) data
filtering, and 4) drawing conclusions. To improve the accuracy and consistency of
the data, triangulation methods in the form of snowballing were used, prolonged
stay at the research location, and made temporary conclusions until data saturation
was reached. The results showed that, Citizenship Education was able to increase
legal awareness and was able to increase democratic awareness among students of
SMAN 7 Kota Kediri.
Keywords : Education, citizenship, law, democracy, students