Reconstruction of Instructional Material for Christian
Higher Education; A Way of Strenghtening Attitude
Upon Fear of God
Lince Sihombing
IAKN Tarutung
mutiarafoundation@yahoo.co.id
Abstract. This article purposively deals with the research result and its implication in
human life. The conducted research belongs to ethnography research which is purely
applied qualitative method by using social-involving approach coring on the problem of
the research namely “How to reconstruct instructional material for Christian higher
education?”. Technique of sampling was done by using purposive sampling, by
selecting certain informants for certain purposes. Data gathering was done by
distributing questionnaire, interview, and observation. Data analysis was done by using
descriptive qualitative analysis. The research result showed that the attitude/character of
the students can be well-formed and sharpened or strengthened throughout
reconstructing the instructional material that was taught to the learners. It was found that
the bad character of the murderer student at the vocational school in Manado city upon
his died-killed religious teacher, was caused by the school learning schedule that was
not suitable for students circumstances regarding character building for all around the
school. The novelty of the research bearing to the human life is, that learning material is
the essential part of education to design.
Keywords: Reconstruction of Christian education material, Instruction in higher
education, Strengthening Christian attitude, Fear of God
1 Introduction
The news about a teacher murdered by his own student in Manado exactly at a vocational
school, became booming or viral all around the world, especially around Indonesia, either by
electric media or printed media. The reason of the student killed his teacher was actually
trivial. The religious teacher reminded/rebuking the two students who were smoking while
sitting - after having punishment given by the school for being late to school. Actually there
are two students who were reminded/rebuking by the religion teacher regarding that smoking
in the school and around during the learning hours is not allowed. One of them was rejected to
rebuke by the teacher, he went home but not to his house, but to his family's home, and taking
a knife in 25 cm length - back to school, looking for and chasing religious teachers who made
him angry - because he did not receive being rebuked - killed him repeatedly to death. After
having interrogation, it was found that the murderer was drunk a day before the event
happened.
ICCIRS 2019, December 11-14, Manado, Indonesia
Copyright © 2020 EAI
DOI 10.4108/eai.11-12-2019.2302114