Historical Literacy as Strengthening Character Education

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210918.042How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Historical Literacy, Biography, Creative Pedagogy, Character, Covid-19

Abstract

This article aims to describe the role of historical literacy through character biographies in strengthening character education. Moral decadence is an urgent issue that must be addressed, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic, houses are transformed into schools which make literacy and character are urgently needed. The low ability of historical literacy causes a decline in character, just like the rural children in Bayang, West Sumatera. The Covid-19 pandemic has intensified the ability to digitize in the learning process demanded by virtual learning even in rural areas. Digitalization as a new form of habit for rural children causes them to be addicted to games and social media by gathering in “Pondok Mojok” because they have stable internet access there. Strengthening character education can be achieved if it is supported by creative pedagogy which can be developed by building historical literacy skills of students through character biographies. This is what underlies the researcher to change the “Pondok Mojok” into “Pondok Literasi” to activate the historical literacy of students through the biographies of Buya Hamka. The method used is descriptive method. Historical literacy skills contributed to the gradual change in behavior towards the better for the children in Bayang.

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© 2021, 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/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nadia Ramona
AU  - Nana Supriatna
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/09/18
TI  - Historical Literacy as Strengthening Character Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Education & Social Sciences (ICESS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 224
EP  - 231
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210918.042
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210918.042
ID  - Ramona2021
ER  -