Character education through living hadits for elementary school : Survey on Madrasah Ibtidaiyah at Malang dan Blitar, East Java, Indonesia

Character education is still the main commitment of the government. The fundamental issue of character education is the unfamiliar procedure and criteria of judgment. On the other hand, Islam is identical with the source of the value of the ordinances and the extent of the judgments very clearly. The study of living Quran and living hadith, reviving al quran and al-hadith in practice level began to be tried to be an effective media in character education. Character education at the elementray level is doctrinization, where elementary children will imitate and get used to what will be exemplified, one of them by making the hadith as its parameter. That is, the basic ethics of what should be instilled in elementary school children in accordance with the guidance of hadith. This survey is conducted to see what practices or hadith practices have been done and have not done elementary school children in two different locations characteristics. Malang is identical with the city of education and have economic progress as Blitar is not yet on the same level as Malang. The results of this survey with different locations of these characteristics will be very helpful to provide an accurate picture of the character of elementary school children and their conformity with the guidance of hadith. Furthermore, it can be used in the follow-up efforts as well as evaluation related character education for the next level