Character Education of Balinese Local Wisdom-Based Through the Integration Social Studies Subject

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10.2991/assehr.k.200803.031How to use a DOI?

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Character Education, Social Studies, Local Wisdom

Abstract

This research aimed at explaining the practices of cultivation of national character values at the school environment and teaching and learning of social studies as well as the consequent implications. The research employed educational ethnography design, involving all academic civitas (principal, teachers, and employees), school committees, and community leaders. The data were analyzed in a qualitative approach. The research results demonstrated that social and cultural contexts of societies, both directly and indirectly, were involved in giving color to the educational atmosphere at Junior High School 1 Singaraja. It was the societies’ socio-cultural contexts accommodated in the school’s vision, namely: “Excellent, Civilized, and Globally-Oriented” made the philosophical, socio-cultural, and psychological bases in the administration of educational practices in general and in teaching and learning of social studies. The educational practices inseparable from the social contexts which are able to embody a school environment as a strong medium for characterization for all the academic civitas and for the students’ empowerment to develop knowledge and insight, values and attitude, and social skills participatory in teaching and learning of the local, national, and global socio-cultural lives. According to these research findings, some recommendations were developed, namely: the necessary to develop the creation of such educational atmosphere learning inseparable from local wisdom and social traditions, the practicing of democratic leadership; social studies curriculum on the basis of social reconstruction approach; the necessary to develop content, model or approach, resources, media teaching and learning social studies contextual and authentic assessment.

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© 2020, 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  - I Wayan Kertih
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/08/04
TI  - Character Education of Balinese Local Wisdom-Based Through the Integration Social Studies Subject
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference On Social Studies, Globalisation And Technology (ICSSGT 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 248
EP  - 254
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.200803.031
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.200803.031
ID  - Kertih2020
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