EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE BUILDING CHARACTERS OF STUDENTS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN THE 21st CENTURY

These proceedings represent the work of researchers participating in The International Conference on Elementary Education (ICEE) which is being hosted by the Elementary Education Study Programme School of Postgraduate Studies, Universitas Pendidikan
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2018): Proceedings The 1st International Conference on Elementary Education

This article aims to describe the importance of emotional intelligence in building the character of elementary school students in the 21st century This method used in this study is descriptive qualitative. Data collection through literature or library research. Data sourced from books, articles, online mass media. The data obtained was collected and processed using documentation and discourse identification techniques. The results showed that emotional intelligence can build students to have honest, disciplined, self-respecting, responsibility, authority, confidence, able to take advantage of opportunities, ,more skilled at calming self, better in dealing with other people, competent in understanding others, and more organized in academic work.