The Future of Art Education: Enhancing Character Values Through Karawitan at Prymary School

Abstract

This study was held to determine the learning process and future set goals of the karawitan as a part of musical arts extracurricular at SD Muhammadiyah 1 Surakarta due to learning objectives and learning materials. Qualitative method was chosen to describe the results of this study using the data on musical arts learning, learning objectives, learning materials, and character value education. The data sources of this research were varied including the headmaster, educators, guardians of students, and documents. Data sorting and selecting were done through structured data results. Data analysis was done through interaction models in order to improve the quality of understanding of deep meanings and data validity by triangulation method of sources. The results of this study were the description of objectives of karawitan as musical arts extracurricular activities. The descriptions were explained in details namely students can understand the names of gamelan instruments and present gamelan music (lancaran) correctly both in terms of gending rules and attitude when practicing karawitan. Students were also determined in knowing the extracurricular learning materials for the art of karawitan, namely Lancaran Wulanging Jagad, Wajibe Dadi Murid, and Lancaran of character value education. This learning fosters an understanding of the character values as becoming a leader, patience, responsibility, tolerance, and nationalism. The character values education were contained in the learning objectives and learning material based on the rules of presenting cakepan (lyrics) in gending karawitan (the musical arts when playing the instruments during the extracurricular).