DANCE ARTS EDUCATION FOR CHILDREN’S CHARACTER BUILDING
Abstract: The dance arts as a
creation of human expressions in addition having its beauty value and
ethicsinstillation, it also contains a useful meaning for the audience, actors,
or observers. Dance arts evolvewith the changing times, so that the function of
dance arts is no longer as entertainment or spectaclebut develops towards the
direction of the educational activity. Function of dance arts education inearly
childhood contributes to build the children’s character. Children’s character
building should beestablished at an early age to avoid new human moral crisis
trends in developing countries. Thismoral crisis is a proof that the aspect of
sense, character, and spiritual have not been built in thecommunity. The
phenomenon of moral crisis is characterized by the attitude of indifference
towardothers, selfishness, aggressive behavior, or high destructive behavior in
a human. Dance artseducation as a form of works of beauty, is assumed to be
able to overcome the problems associatedwith the crisis of moral and civilized
nations and the establishment of the nation’s character. Byintroducing the
dance arts education at early age to adulthood, an individual will be trained
to besensitive to the unity, harmony, refinement of manners, and taste. Dance
activities will be built whensomeone is introduced either through formal and
informal education. The dance arts education thatwas introduced starting from
the path of early childhood through college, can grow even enhance
theappreciation of aesthetic and ethic. From the appreciative activities it can
apply character educationin children. The results of the study are grounded on
the concept of dance education that is the artseducation that is based on the
character that involves aspects of knowledge (cognitive), feeling, andaction.
Implementation of dance education in building the character of children is
through the four way consisting of: (1) guidance as a basis for building the
character of the child, (2) educationalmaterial, (3) implementation of the
method, and (4) implementation of the evaluation. Based onThomas Lickona,
without these three aspects, character education will be not effective and
itsimplementation must be done systematically and sustainably. With character
education, a child willbe aesthetically and emotionally intelligent. Aesthetic
and emotional intelligence is an importantprovision in preparing children to
meet a bright future. The impact of aesthetic and moralintelligence is a person
will be successful in dealing with all sorts of challenges, including
academic,moral, people, even the global world challenges.
Author: Atip Nurharini
Journal Code: jppaudsdgg150013
