Swimming and Character Development in Early Childhood Education

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.200808.035How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Swimming, character development, early childhood education

Abstract

Character development in early childhood education is a crucial matter. Since children learn the value and character through their experience and the surrounding environment, character development needs to be emphasized in every teaching and learning activities. In swimming, children are motivated to be a risktaker and independent. This study aimed to inquire the effect of swimming towards character development in early childhood. It is a qualitative study which was conducted by employing a phenomenological approach. The research subjects were four swimming coaches, seven parents and nine children in Indonesia and Taiwan. The data were gathered by interviews. The study found that there are five characters in swimming i.e. discipline, honesty, independence, risk-taking and hard-working. Furthermore, these characters were formed by three steps i.e. introduction, repetition and habituation.

Copyright

© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Muchamad Arif Al Ardha
AU  - Kartika Rinakit Adhe
AU  - Chung Bing Yang
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/10
TI  - Swimming and Character Development in Early Childhood Education
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Early Childhood Education and Parenting 2019 (ECEP 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 177
EP  - 181
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200808.035
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200808.035
ID  - Ardha2020
ER  -