THE VALUE OF CHARACTER EDUCATION IN ANDAI-ANDAI FOLKLORE AND ITS USE AS LEARNING MATERIAL FOR LITERATURE SUBJECT IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN INDONESIA

Febi Junaidi
Mr, Indonesia University of Education, Indonesia, febijunaidi@gmail.com
    

Abstract
This research departs from many variations of folklores in Indonesia specifically in Kedurang society which contain many value of character education that can be taught in literature learning for pupils in elementary school because It is important to teach good character early. The purposes of this research are to describe values of character education in Andai-Andai folklore in Kedurang society and to describe the use of Andai-Andai folklore as material for literature subject in elementary school. The method used in this research is content analysis. Data in this research were collected by observation, documentation, interview, and recording. Technics of data analysis were (1) collecting data (2) selecting data (3) interpreting data and (4) taking conclusion. The results of this research showed that: (1) Seven Andai-Andai folklores found in this research contain many values of character education such as social empathy value, religious value, compiliance value, hardwork value, creativity value, patience value, and keeping a promise value. (2) The Andai-Andai folklores in Kedurang Society in Indonesia can be used as learning material for literature subject in elementary school because most of the major characters in that folklores are children and animals. It also can be taught by doing story-telling method with hypnoteaching technique and making a reading text for pupils. It makes students more motivated and enthusiastic to learn. Therefore, the Andai-Andai folklore is ideal to be used as learning material for literature subject because it contains many good values of character education so that it is needed to maintain and to tell the folklores from generation to generation.

Keywords: Character Education, Andai-Andai Folklores, Literature, Elementary School

 


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CITATION: Abstracts & Proceedings of ADVED 2017 - 3rd International Conference on Advances in Education and Social Sciences, 9-11 October 2017- Istanbul, Turkey

ISBN: 978-605-82433-0-9