The Quality and Values of Character Education in Sundanese Language Text Book of the 2013 Elementary School Curriculum

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10.2991/icollite-18.2019.75How to use a DOI?

Keywords

textbooks quality; Sundanese; character education; relevance; curriculum

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate Sundanese textbooks used for learning Sundanese language at elementary school. The problems of this study are: 1) the quality of Sundanese textbooks; 2) values of character education contained in Sundanese textbook; 3) Sundanese textbooks relevance with the 2013 Sundanese local curriculum. The method used in this study is the descriptive method. While the technique used was literature study by identifying the material obtained in textbooks based on textbook quality criterion, character education values, and relevance with the 2013 Sundanese Language local curriculum. The data source was Basa Sunda Urang textbook published 2017 by CV. Gegersunten by Tatang Sumarsono et al. The results of this study indicated that 1) BSU textbooks Grade IV, V, and VI have described the scientific point of view that is in accordance with the essence of Sundanese language and literary subjects. It clearly described the concepts related to language and literature; written based on the 2013 Sundanese Language and Literature local curriculum. It can foster students’ motivation to learn and in accordance with their ability and socio-cultural background; fostering students' talents and interests in learning. fostering Student Activity in learning; fulfilling illustrative criteria; Communicative - provides information to the readers clearly and interestingly; relating to other subject matter; respect and consider individual differences; and consider philosophical values. 2) The values of characters’ education pictured are religious, environmental care, hard work, love for the country, love for peace, national spirit, social care, honest, have a spirit of nationalism and nationality. 3) The themes that cover every subject matter generally are in accordance with the themes contained in the 2013 Sundanese Language and Literature Local Curriculum. 4) The structure of the learning material presented was built on the aspects of language skills i.e. listening, reading, speaking, and writing; and consisted of learning instructions, presenting facts, discussion, and ending by the instruction to do assignments and exercises.

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© 2019, 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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AU  - Dingding Haerudin
AU  - Agus Suherman
AU  - Haris Santosa Nugraha
PY  - 2019/03
DA  - 2019/03
TI  - The Quality and Values of Character Education in Sundanese Language Text Book of the 2013 Elementary School Curriculum
BT  - Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 340
EP  - 345
SN  - 2352-5398
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