Study of Learning Strategy Integration of Science and Religion on the Development of Student Character

Abstract

The purpose of education in Indonesia is to form a complete Indonesian man. It entirely means that human development requires a balance between the cognitive, affective, psychomotor, and religious domains. Religion cannot be separated from the development of one's personality, because in essence man in the world is to live and worship God. Learning science is basically a digging, review, disclosure, understanding on research symptoms, structures, and functions of nature around which then brought into the classroom as learning activities with scientific rules that are commonly developed. This activity is not an independent activity, but it is a scientific activity associated with the belief in the greatness of the creator for the development of student character. Position of student character development is very important before the scientific education is done.This research was conducted for 1 semester by using sample of 49 students who took course of plant ecology. The purpose of this research is to understand the development of student character by studying nature based on Islamic religion. The research method was analyzed by RapRiCons with modification, and with multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) which was then followed by Monte Carlo analysis. The results showed that learning strategies by integrating religion and science showed a positive increase in student character.