Harmony in Diversity Through Sundanese Art and Culture

Keywords

Cultural Root, Sundanese Culture, Equality, Togetherness

Abstract

School is a better place to put on the local culture. The school role as a custodian of the local culture is applied in Elementary School of Garut. It was founded by a Chinese woman descent who loves the education. This study aims to reveal the schools efforts in doing the perseverance of Sundanese culture loving to young students. This research uses qualitative method with phenomenology approach. The data collection was conducted through interviews, observation and literature review. The results is the entrepreneurial curriculum-based school are applied on the equality for indigenous children and Chinese descent by determining the composition of learners around 70 percent of children and 30 percent of Sundanese Chinese children. The school also makes Sundanese art and culture as part of the curriculum, and not included on extracurricular activities. The effort to teach “kasundaan” content is expected to embed the children awareness to appreciate the local culture as a force to unite the differences and make the difference as something wonderful that strengthen unity as Indonesia.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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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  - Santi Susanti
PY  - 2017/11
DA  - 2017/11
TI  - Harmony in Diversity Through Sundanese Art and Culture
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Transformation in Communications 2017 (IcoTiC 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 70
EP  - 74
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25902371
ID  - Susanti2017/11
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