Integration of the ISMUBA Curriculum and Merdeka Belajar Curriculum in Cultivating Character Values

Abstract

The research is motivated by moral decadence among adolescents that is difficult to avoid. Character education is the main mission of education with the implementation of a curriculum based on instilling character values. Muhammadiyah schools implement curriculum integration between ISMUBA and Merdeka Curriculum. This raises responses and interpretations by curriculum implementers. The research aims to find out the Implementation of the Integration of the Ismuba Curriculum and the Merdeka Curriculum in instilling character values, find out the meaning of the curriculum implementer's experience of the implementation of curriculum integration in instilling character values, and find out the curriculum implementer's perspective on the obstacles and challenges faced in implementing curriculum integration in instilling character values. Research with phenomenological qualitative methods was analysed using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) with the ATLAS.ti application. The research was conducted at SD Muhammadiyah Plus Mijen. Data were collected by observation, interview, and documentation.

The results showed that curriculum integration is implemented by implementing the Ismuba Curriculum which has been revised to adjust to the Merdeka Learning Curriculum, for general subjects using the same book guidelines as the Merdeka Curriculum. The meaning of experience for curriculum implementers is that the school has tahsin, tahfidz, dhuha prayer, dhuhur in congregation, lunch together and qoilullah programmes. In addition to these programmes, the school also instills the character values of the Merdeka Curriculum by instilling the values contained in the P5. The obstacles and challenges faced are that elementary school students are initially difficult to control, over time students are easy to control, and teachers communicate with student guardians if students behave excessively, so that students can be monitored at school and at home. Based on the results of research on the integration of the Ismuba curriculum and the independent curriculum in instilling student character values at Muhammadiyah Plus Mijen Elementary School, it can be seen that there is a positive impact on student behaviour, previously students were difficult to control, such as joking with teachers, lack of discipline and bringing in bad influences from outside.