SASTRA ANAK DAN PEMBENTUKAN KARAKTER
Abstract: Children’s
Literature and Character Building. This article aims to describe roles and
strategies of the learning of children’s literature in character education. In
terms of the materials, literature has already contained “raw materials” to
build children’s character. Literature is culture in action containinglife
models. The concept of people with ideal character highly appreciating morality
and great values is concretely manifested in the story characters’ attitudes and
behaviors. Children can imitate the heroes with ideal norms and take their attitudes
and behaviors as examples. Moreover, at their age, children like to imitate behaviors
of people that they admire. To prevent literature learning from becomingrote
learning, teachers and parents should work in synergy to help children read,understand,
and give examples of concrete attitudes and behaviors so that theinternalization
process takes place. Therefore, story-telling activities for childrenshould be
routinely conducted and reading habits should be inculcated since the early
age.
Penulis: Burhan Nurgiyantoro
Kode Jurnal: jppendidikandd100219
