Nurturing Religious and Moral Values at Early Childhood Education

Abstract

This study aims to describe the process of nurturing religious and moral values to children at early childhood education since the development of this aspect is urgent to establish the laying foundation of students’ character in the next future. This research is a qualitative descriptive study which uses participative observation, in-depth-interview, and documentation to conduct the data. Meanwhile, the data analyses techniques used Miles & Huberman concept. The findings showed that nurturing religious and moral values within children at Aisyiyah 13 Kindergarten have been cultivated through scientific-based learning and indirect learning through morning activities. In the process of scientific-based learning, the teachers integrated the latest curriculum, al-Islam curriculum, and Kemuhammadiyahan with such materials that are faithful, worship, and morals. Based on the students’ performance, it is known that almost students achieved very good growth related to spiritual attitude. The last part of the article identifies the factor that supports students in enhancing religious and moral values that is the curriculum framework that accommodates religious classroom environment design and the role of teachers and principals. Meanwhile, the inhibiting factors of internalizing religious and moral values to early childhood were teachers got difficulties in integrating the core material of Curriculum 2013, al-Islam, and specific content based on the school affiliated to such as Kemuhammadiyahan.

Erken Çocukluk Dönemi Din Eğitiminde Uyaran Zenginliğinin Nörobilimsel Temelleri

“…65 Erken çocukluk döneminde birey müthiş bir öğrenme kapasitesine sahiptir. 66 Yaşamın ilk dört yılında, beyin tıpkı bir sünger gibi çevresindeki herşeyi adeta emmekte ve çocuğun hayatı boyunca öğrenme becerisini etkileyecek olan bağlantılar kurmaktadır. 67 Montessori beynin bu kapasitesini emici zihin olarak nitelendirmektedir.…”

Using Center Learning in Building Early Childhood Character

“…Therefore, children's character needs to be built to bring out good behavior in children. 98 Building children's character from an early age is the obligation of a teacher to form a generation that has noble character (Farisia, 2020). Characters taught to children from an early age will continue to stick until the child is an adult (Yusuf & Akbar, 2020) and forms a personality reflected in their behavior (Kristjánsson, 2020).…”

Penanaman Karakter Moralitas dan Disiplin Melalui Program Ekstrakurikuler dan Ko-kurikuler di SMA Negeri 2 Donggo

“…Sejalan dengan pernyataan bahwa penanaman nilai-nilai agama dan moral pada anak telah ditanamkan melalui pembelajaran berbasis saintifik dan pembelajaran tidak langsung melalui kegiatan pagi. Dalam proses pembelajaran berbasis saintifik, para guru mengintegrasikan kurikulum terkini, kurikulum al-Islam, dan Kemuhammadiyahan dengan materi-materi akidah, ibadah, dan akhlak [24]. Penguatan nilai-nilai agama siswa di sekolah dapat terjadi dari: (1) penciptaan budaya sekolah, yang meliputi disiplin sekolah, fasilitas belajar, dan kompetensi guru; (2) proses pembelajaran pendidikan agama; (3) kompetensi hasil belajar; Dan (4) religiusitas peserta didik di masyarakat terkait dengan keyakinan, praktik keagamaan, dan perilaku keagamaan (akibatnya) [25].…”