Teaching Remo Dance Art Using Surabaya Style to Improve Primary School Students' Character Building

摘要

This study aims at finding out the lesson about education for the fourth graders of education at SDN Sedatigede II. This research was a descriptive qualitative research. In this study, the researchers used the phenomenon of interaction in the school classroom. The object of the research was the learning of dance art that existed in this school for students, especially for elementary school students. The data were collected through interview, documentation and audiovisual materials. The data analysis included data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions or data validity that was done through triangulation embracing source triangulation, time triangulation, method triangulation. The result of this research shows that the learning of Remo Gagrak dance Surabaya which applied the value of character education was involved giving stimulation to the students. Such dance applied the value of the character building so that the students could apply the value of discipline, responsibility, confidence, the sense of nationalism, and politeness with the environment culture, in order to achieve the learning goal.