LITERATURE AS MEDIA TO INTRODUCE THE ETHICS AND

CORE VALUESTO BUILD CULTURE

Dwima2008@yahoo.comTulungagung University

Rationale of the Study

• My belief A student’s autonomous learning and experiences in interpreting imaginative literature can be shared with somebodyelse

• The influence of incoming foreign culture is unavoidable. see life style.

• Preserving identity of Indonesian culture is a must.

Multidirectional Relation

Literature

Ethics/valuesCulture

Ethics or values

culture

Definition

• What ???

• Literature a form of art. It is the expression of human nature and significant human experiences (Edward H. Jones,Jr)

What??

ethics

Morality: attitudes, behaviours

culture

Way of thinking and

reason

Who teach ethics/values?

What are learning sources?

family

society

Formal education : Civic education and Religion,

Ethics, values culture

Questions?

• How do the student’s experiences in understanding literature enrich the knowledge of ethics and core values.

• What ethics, values, principles, religious values and culture do the works of fiction offer to the student?

• How do set of ethics, principles based on shared values, religious values, culture and other values which are challenging and visionary can be a spirit for the student in achieving vision, mission, goals and targets that have been defined and also in controlling characters and behaviors.

Findings: How are ethics/values nurtured or cultivated?

Beginning : vignettes : not knowledgable

Middle: glimse-illumination

Ending: culture performance /actualization ethics and value

Methods• Narrative Research design “focuses on studying a single person,gathering data

through collection of stories, reporting individual experiences, and discussing the meaning of those experiences for individual “ Craswell (2008:512). The narrative inquiry was used because it allowed me to reflect on the one’s own experiences and to reconstruct personal stories in a more worthful way (Pinnegar & Dayness, 2007).

• Personal Reflection• A student who was selected as a subject of this research project found had

engaged herself in a critical reflection about the contribution of works of literature , mainly fictional works to her ways of life . She told that several fictional works she had read influenced her way to think, eat, drink,to argue, work, speak, study,dress, live in society, make a friend and so on.

• To legitimate the quality standards of this interpretative research, the narrative inquiry was judged and evaluated by : Verisimilitude, Transferability and Critical Reflexivity.

Media?? Excluded formal education and environmment

Poem: Who am I, The Road Not Taken

Play: Winter Set, Othello, Death of Saleman, Machbet etc

Novel : Scarlet letter by Austin, A great Expection by Dicken

How are ethics or moral values digested?

Poem •Social approach: writer’ s biography•Structural approach: diction, rhyme,rythm

Play •Social approach: playwright’s biography•Structural approach :Character,plot,setting, style and tone

Prose :short stories & novels •Social approach:novelist’s biography•Structural approach: characters, plot, setting, style and view point

What do fictional works offer??

Pleasure

• Ethics or moral values : honesty, braveness, greedy,carelessness, hopeless, optimism,justice,injustice, true love, tolerance, adultery, discipline and obidience etc.

Moral teaching :

Recomendation

• Since culture is not instantly constructed, it would be better if the interest of reading literary works cultivated at early age when the children be literate. Naturing and cultivating varieties of value either a good or bad norm in society more early may be helpful to shape the cultural identity.

• Parents and teachers can provoke the interest of the children and the students in reading literary works. Providing literary reading materials at home, school and public library.

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