THE USE OF FOLKLORE TO IMPROVE
CHILDREN’S SOCIAL EMOTIONAL COMPETENCE IN KB TPA
AYAH BUNDA
(Literature in the Context of
Asia)
Abstract
Children folklore is traditional art that contains
practically all of the principal genres of tradition, including games,
narrative, many kinds of songs, customs, and material culture literature, and
are passed on in large part through oral communication and example. It shares
ideas and values of groups of societies. By understanding game’s rules or
literary structure, children learn some fundamental aspects of cooperation and
strategy as integral/ one part in developing Children’s emotional development.
Morever, recently many children grow up with unstable social and emotional
competence. This study is aimed at improving the social emotional competence of
children using Javanese folklore. The method used in this study is action
research method with the model developed by Kurt Lewin. It was conducted at
KB-TPA Ayah Bunda, Colomadu, Karangayar. There are seven children having social
incompetency. Folklore was applied in teaching learning process for two cycles.
The technique of collecting the data was observation and interview. The data
were analyzed by using a model developed by Caldarella and Merrel. The
assessment includes peer relationships, self management, academic, compliance,
and assertion. The result shows that there is an improvement in children social
emotional competence. From all the subjects, 6 children show improvement on
affect scale especially on five categories of assessment, especially on self
management aspect, but only one child shows significant improvement of
assertion aspect and one child had not showed improvement, since the subject
often missed the program. It can be concluded that folklore can stimulate peer
relationship and self-management among children.
Keywords: Children folklore, Javanese, traditional play,
social emotional development
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