Relevance of Character Education Values in Rampak Dance: The Work of Untung Muljono towards Character Development of Children Age 5-8 Years

摘要

Character education is an alternative that can help students to reinforce themself in humanity. Rampak dance is one dance that can be used as media to transfer the moral values to children. However, most kids that learned Rampak dance by Muljono do not absorb the values that contained in Rampak dance. Hence, that, researcher want to review the subject which is the students that learning Rampak dance, using fenomenology method to describe what students feel and understand from Rampak dance that been learned. Collected data then analyzed using axiology method. The study was conducted in Taman Indria Jetis Kindergarten in B2 group of second semester of 2017-2018practice year. The results of research found after learning Rampak dance, students experience a meaningful change of behavior into spirit and confidence. The inculcation of character education in Rampak dance can be conveyed by giving stimulus to the children of the values contained in Rampak dance and establish a pleasant interaction between teachers and students. The conclusion of the research is the success of the character education inculcation process in Rampak dance cannot be separated from the cooperation between the school and parents.