Inserting Lampung Local Wisdom in Learning Indonesian Language and Its Implications on Character Education

Abstract

Character decadence among others is caused by the education system which more emphasizes on the development of cognitive domain but less emphasis on the formation of character values. For this reason, it is important for teachers to insert character values in learning material by inserting local wisdom values because, forming character means teaching local wisdom to the younger generation. This study aims (1) describing the values of local wisdom in the Lampung area, and (2) explaining how to insert the local wisdom values of Lampung culture in arrarnging learning materials of Indonesian language subject for ten class students of Senior High School and its implications for student character education.This research is a qualitative research. In collecting the data, the researcher used library research and interviews. The results findings shows that the values of Lampung's local wisdom can be inserted through the development of Indonesian language learning material in exposition text. It also have implications for the character building of students.