The Effectiveness of Educational Wall Comics to Foster Social Awareness and Tolerance in Madrasah Ibtidaiyah Students
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https://doi.org/10.54298/tarunateach.v4i2.1164Keywords:
Educational Wall Comics, Social Awareness Characters, Tolerance, character educationAbstract
The low level of social care and tolerance in elementary school students is a challenge in implementing character education during the digital era. This study aims to analyze the effect of using educational wall comic media on improving the character of social care and tolerance of elementary school students. The research method used was a quasi-experiment with a pretest-posttest control group design, involving 86 students from two Madrasah Ibtidaiyah, divided into experimental and control groups. The data collection instrument was a social care and tolerance character questionnaire, analyzed using the N-Gain and ANCOVA tests. The results showed that the experimental group experienced an increase in social care (N-Gain = 0.4192) and tolerance (N-Gain = 0.4778) in the moderate category, while the control group only showed an increase in the low category. The ANCOVA test showed significant results (p < 0.05), which indicated that the improvement in character was due to the treatment in the form of educational wall comics. Wall comic media is effective in shaping students' characters through a contextual and interesting visual-narrative approach.
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