Methods of Strengthening Children's Characters Through Local Wisdom Mappatulung Bugis as National Identity

Abstract

Education serves as a means to develop intelligence, abilities, and skills to shape students'personalities. Education must be linked to reality, close to students , and relevant to society in orderto have human values. The importance of strengthening cha racter education is needed along with theweakening of the nation's character. Therefore, educational institutions in Indonesia can implementeducation based on local wisdom. Education-based on local wisdom is education that is based moreon cultural values. Besides, character education based on local cultural wisdom also has the aim ofchanging the attitudes and behavior of existing human resources in order to increase workproductivity to face various challenges in the future. This study aims to obtain a picture of theinternalization of the value of local wisdom mappatulung as a reinforcement of character, and effortsin its preservation. This type of research is qualitative research, which is a series of studies relatingto observation, data collection, and concluding. With learning based on local wisdom, it is expectedto be closer to the lives of students and the community as well as to recognize the noble values ofthe nation's culture as reinforcing their character.