PEl'lGEMBANGAN INTELLECTUAL CAPITAL DAN SOCIAL CAPITAL MELALUI PENDIDIKAN KEWARGANEGARAAN

Abstract

Developing
intellectu,,1 and social capital in preparing student for their future's
role as constructive
and critical citizen is essential in a healthy de~ocratic state,
School-based civic
education ,as one of means in building such ones faces some
challenges, Developing intellectual and capital, may be, is the greatest one. This
paper tries to propose the urgency of such effort by arguing that school"based civic
education
Can be utilized as a means of making well informed citizen, The main
concepts, such as democracy, citizenship, and responsibilities of government
should be understood by citizen properly and comprehensively. Therefore, the
paramount challenge of civic education teachers is how to implement a teaching
strategy for best instilling those values, because people are not born with the
knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to make democracy work; rather, they
acquire this knowledge and capacity for democratic citizenship .only Ihrough
experience,especially through 'School-based civic educa.tion, One of the best
strategies of civic education is portfolio-based teaching strategy. In this activity,
students
have an opportunity to practicing their values related to deIrtocracy,
citizen,
and responsibility of government. Besides its disadvantages, portfolio­
based teaching strategy is a promising one in order to prepare the well informed
citizen very
needed in a healthy democratic 'State. Accordingly, teachers of civic
education should change their circumstances by implementing this strategy