This research aims to determine the influence of moral reasoning method on elementary students’ nationalism character development in thematic learning. This is a quasi experiment research with a nonequivalent control group design. The subjects of this research were fifth graders of Ngebel Kasihan State Elementary School. Ngebel Kasihan State Elementary School has two fifth grade classes, class V-A as the control group used a storytelling method, and class V-B as the experiment group used a morel reasoning method. The data collection techniques used were observation and interview. The data analysis used was t-test with a significance level of 0.05. The research results showed that there was a significant difference between nationalism character development using a moral reasoning method and a storytelling method. The difference was seen is all nationalism sub characters which include “Belief in the one and only God†value with the t test result = 0.155, “Just and civilized humanity†value with the t test result = 0.129, “the unity of Indonesia†value with the t test result = 0.405, “Popularism Led by Wisdom of Wisdom in Consultation / Representation†value with the t test result = 0.529, and “Social justice for all the people of Indonesia†value with the t test result = 0.608.
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