The Value of Character Education in Engklek Games at Primary School

Abstract

Rapid technological advances have an impact on students. One of the negative impacts is the occurrence of moral degradation in the child's environment. Moral degradation in children is shown in data from the KPAI (Indonesian Child Protection Commission) taken fromhttps://www.kpai.go.id/as of 2019 which shows cases of bullying in schools, murders, and cases of suicide. With a high level of moral degradation in students, it is very necessary to instill the value of character education from an early age because it can lead children to maturity in processing emotions. This study aims to describe the character education values contained in the engklek games. This research is a type of qualitative research. The data sources of this research are resource persons and children's activities. The data collection technique is done by interviewing, Observations, and documents Data analysis uses the interactive model of analysis by Miles and Huberman with the stages of data collection, data reduction, data presentation, and verification. These values can be used by children as a means to instill character education in the child's environment and interpret the meaning contained in the engklek game. The results of this study are in the form of character education values contained in the engklek game at primary school including nationalism, independence, cooperation, and, integrity.

Permainan Tradisional Kola-Kola Tematik untuk Penguatan Karakter Anak Usia dini

“…Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa permainan tradisional Kola-Kola Tematik yang telah dikembangkan layak untuk diterapkan pada pembelajaran peserta didik untuk mengembangkan dan menguatkan karakter anak usia dini. Memberikan gambaran nyata tentang nilai-nilai pendidikan karakter generasi muda yang akan menjadi generasi penerus bangsa (Sitio et al, 2021). Hal tersebut diperkuat dari hasil penelitian artikel oleh (Munawaroh, 2017) bahwa model pembelajaran dengan menggunakan permainan tradisional Kola-kola dapat menstimulasi aspek perkembangan peserta didik.…”

“…Pemain boleh berpegangan kuat-kuat untuk menopang tubuhnya sambil membungkuk untuk mengambil gada menumbuhkan karakter disiplin dan kerja keras (Sitio et al, 2021), karakter disiplin terbentuk dengan anak menyetujui peraturan yang dibuat bersama (Halimatus Sadiah et al, 2020). Media pembelajaran tradisional Kola-Kola dalam meningkatkan karakter anak usia dini, meliputi toleransi, disiplin, kerja keras, kreativitas, kemandirian, demokrasi, menghargai prestasi, ramah/komunikatif, cinta damai, peduli sosial dan tanggung jawab/kepemimpinan (Pujiati et al, 2020).…”