THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION , SPORT AND HEALTH LEARNING THROUGH SPORTS GAME IN BUILDING PRIMARY STUDENTS ’ CHARACTERS

This research aimed to investigate the implementation of physical education, sport, and health learning through sports game in building primary students’ characters. The method employed in this research is qualitative descriptive. The subjects of this research were five graders and physical education teachers at SDN 1 Awirarangan, SDN 2 Awirarangan, SDN 1 Karangtawang, and SDN 2 Karangtawang, Kuningan, West Java. The data was taken interactively and continuously. The main instruments of this research were observation, interview, and documentations. The data were analyzed in accordance with the frameworks proposed by Miles and Huberman which were data collection, data reduction, data presentation, drawing conclusion and verification. The result showed that learning physical education through sports game is a media that can be used to build students’ characters. Through sports game, someone could gain self-control and work together very well. Values like responsible, honest, brave, cooperative, confident, tolerant, mutual respect, religious, polite, wisely accept victory and defeat could be gained through the implementation of a sports game. To sum up, the implementation of physical education through sports game is an alternative media to build primary students’ characters.


INTRODUCTION
Lately, characters education started to gain serious attention from Indonesia government.Efforts have been done by the government to build the national characters.One of its realizations is by holding events in which the activities could help the government in shaping, developing, and attuning Indonesian citizen with national characters.Issues related to the importance of characters education started after mass media posted articles about the degradation of young generation's moral and ethics.Moral crisis in the society could be identified by the followings: 1) untrustworthy; 2) irresponsibility; 3) not visionary; 4) indiscipline; 5) uncooperative; 6) injustice; and 7) indifference (Ginanjar, 2008).
Characters education is needed to overcome the problem related to Indonesian cultural values that start to decrease.This condition is quite worrying as it could lead to weakening national character.The term character comes from the Latin word "Charasein" which means carving out the permanent pattern.According to the big Indonesian dictionary, character means psychological traits, morals or qualities that distinguish an individual with others (Balai Pustaka, 1995, p. 445).Character is a concept from moral which is composed of a number of characteristics that can be mold through sports activities, such as compassion, fairness, sportsmanship, and integrity (Weinberg & Gould, 2002).
Ateng (1983) explained that physical education is the integration of education as a whole through several physical activities which aimed to organically, neuromuscular, intellectually and emotionally develop an individual.Specifically, it can be said that physical education is an effort to attain educational goals through physical activity.Physical education and sport at school become an important medium to develop and improve human resources.It also has function as a mean (1) to channel emotion, (2) to strengthen identity, (3) as social control, (4) to socialize, (5) an agent of change, (6) to express inner voice, and (7) to achieve success (Wuest & Bucher, 1995).
Therefore, based on the previously mentioned issues, this research was intended to investigate how is physical education, sport, and health learning being implemented through sports game in developing primary school students' characters.

METHOD
This current research employed a qualitative descriptive method which further being interpreted as describing and presenting research data in words.Moleong (2012, p. 6) explained that qualitative research is research that aimed to explore and describe the phenomenon experienced by the research subject, in an authentic specific context with several natural methods.The description is used to find out principals and explanations which lead to a conclusion.The particular concern in this current research is the implementation of physical education, sport, and health learning through sports game in developing primary school students' characters.The following is a chart on steps in conducting this research:

RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
Learning is a process of reciprocal interaction in which knowledge and experiences are being transferred from teachers to learners.Although the teacher's role is not very dominant, it is still very important for the knowledge transfer in the learning process runs well.To maximize the role of the teacher in the learning activity, it is essential to plan a lesson which followed by its implementation, assessment, and evaluation.
Learning physical education, sport and health through sports game become a media that can be used as a tool to develop human's characters.Sport with its slogan "sport for all" is the first strategic step toward the development of characters.Through sports game, characters building could be based on national culture and also enriched by culture and special characteristics of every sport that is being played.Positive characters could be gained and developed by learning physical education, sport, and health.Through sport, an individual may have self-control and a good sense of cooperation.Values like diligent, honesty and bravery are also grown from sports activities.