Abstract
Professional guidance and counseling services are based on a comprehensive guidance and counseling program. Professional counselors were able to implement the program of group guidance based assessment prior to program implementation with four competencies, (1) personality, (2) paedagogy, (3) social, and (4) professional. This article discusses the effectiveness of group guidance services through folklore. The fundamental goal of folklore as a medium of group guidance services is the history of the past can foster National Character. The research approach uses literature study. The analysis through descriptive analysis. The findings show that process of group guidance services through the opening stage, intermediate, core activities, and termination. Folklore as the primary basis of group guidance services carried out on the core activities. Folklore presented by the counselor as a group leader and discussed by members with leader of the group to develop a National Character. Folklore in the process of group counseling is effective in order to grow a national character that corresponds to the origin of the formation of the Nation.DOI: https://doi.org/10.24071/ijiet.2018.020105
Highlights
Each country has a diverse culture and unique character compared to other countries
Implementation of group guidance services to develop characters requires media tailored to the developmental tasks of junior high school students with the cooperation between counselors and related parties
The use of didactic folklore can evoke sensitivity, self-awareness and embrace the noble, pious and humanist nature. (Okeowo & Okeowo, 2015). This opinion is corroborated by research from Sakiyeva, Berdibayeva, Shomanbayeva, & Kalkhojayeva (2014), that the components of the internal structure of the individual are ethnic identities as community awareness of membership in certain social and ethnic groups reflecting the nation's situation in the social system. research show that the People's story from Malang (East Java) "contains the values of character education in the form of faith, the power of a prayer, honesty, discipline, hard work, creativity, independence, curiosity, abstinence, tolerance, love of peace, caring for others, nurturing nature, utilizing nature, and love of the country (Malitasari, 2013)
Summary
Each country has a diverse culture and unique character compared to other countries. Cultural diversity gives rise to unique features in every society of language, religion, ethnicity, race, color, and custom. Positive views on diversity give rise to a united nation with challenges in the era of globalization. The negative influence of cultural diversity that can affect all elements of the nation if the people of Indonesia can’t appreciate all the differences of human diversity. School's role in developing the character of learners through the education of national character. Strengthening national character can be started from the optimization of character education based on local wisdom (Sultono & Hilmi, 2015). Value-based education emphasizes the realization of good citizens, who possess holistic competencies in knowledge, skills, and traits based on the values of Pancasila or Five Principles of Indonesia or national character (Nurdin, 2015)
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