ABSTRACT
Character education is one of the educational goals in Indonesia. Physical education has an essential role in realizing character education through the concept of sport for development (S4D). This study aims to create a physical education learning model to support student character formation. This research method uses a quasi-experiment design. Three main characters were observed in the pre and post-test. The characters were teamwork, honesty, and risktaker. There were 138 students aged 8.3 ± 1.19 years involved in this study. The observation form and score rubric were used to see the implementation of character. Wilcoxon test by SPSS 26 computer software was used to analyze the significant difference between the pre and post-test. The results of this study indicated a significant difference between the pre and post-test of all characters (sig. < 0.05). In conclusion, the sport for development (S4D) framework could support character-building in physical education.
