21ST CENTURY SKILL-BASED CITIZENSHIP INTELLIGENCE DEVELOPMENT IN DISTANCE EDUCATION: AN ALTERNATIVE FOR CHARACTER EDUCATION

Abstract

Citizenship intelligence is a person's ability to play his role proactively as a citizen and citizen of a complex life
system based on the nation's normative identity. Someone with citizenship intelligence will show performance as a
citizen who cares about social conditions, is honest in responding to various existing phenomena, is critical of existing
conditions, and is harsh in dealing with various life problems he experiences. If this citizenship intelligence thrives
in a person, he will become a good citizen. Thus, the key to the formation of good citizens is civic intelligence. To
cultivate civic intelligence, a skill that can look far ahead is needed, namely 21st-century skills and a flexible
educational process from various points of view, namely distance education. The process of linking distance education
to realizing civic intelligence by developing 21st-century skills is a process of character education in analyzing this
phenomenon using the literature study method. This article discusses civic intelligence as a normative identity, 21stcentury skills in distance learning, distance education as a process of developing civic intelligence, and character
education embody civility.