Revitalization of oral traditions in Tasikmalaya district as a learning media to plant character education values and multicultural insights of students

Abstract

Oral traditions in Tasikmalaya Regency are classified into types of fairy tales, legends, and myths. The three types of oral traditions are spread in 39 sub-districts in Tasikmalaya Regency. Not all of the oral traditions in Tasikmalaya Regency are well documented, this is due to the lack of oral tradition researchers in Tasikmalaya Regency. This study aims to describe: 1) revitalization of oral transmission in Tasikmalaya Regency; 2) education value in oral tradition in Tasikmalaya Regency; 3) character values that need to be embedded in children/students; 4) character education based on psychological/moral development of children/students; and 5) students' multicultural insights. The research method used in this research is the micro ethnographic method with qualitative research. Data collection techniques used are observation, interview, and documentation. Based on the results of research and analysis on the revitalization of oral traditions, it was found that 1) oral traditions in Tasikmalaya Regency were classified in the types of legends, legends/characterizations, and religious legends; and 2) oral traditions in Tasikmalaya Regency found educational values including moral, cultural, religious, historical, and heroic values; 3) values that need to be instilled in children/students, namely moral knowing, moral feeling, moral action; 4) character education based on children's psychological development collectiveoriented morality; and 5) students' multicultural insights can be developed by studying local wisdom and educational values contained in folklore.