GURU DAN PENGEMBANGAN KARAKTER DALAM KONTEKS PENDIDIKAN JASMANI

The Teacher’s Role as a Model in Establishment Character through Sport and Physical Education. Problems of students’ bad character always appear in the field of education. This may result from the fact that education in Indonesia emphasizes intellectual development only, while other aspects, such as personality, affective factors, receive less attention. Schools and teachers actually play an important role and have a responsibility for students' learning both in the cognitive and affective aspects. Inother words, improvement of and emphasis on the cognitive aspect such as skills in reading, language, mathematics, and science aimed at preparing students to enter the global world should be balanced against the improvement of their affective aspect. This means that character building teaching must not be ignored.Keywords: Teacher as model, Establishment characte