MORAL VALUE AND CHARACTER-BUILDING EDUCATION IN FOLKLORE: SI GALE GALE

Abstract

In character building education and moral values there are significant things that are written
in the meaning of folklore as a characteristic of a culture. The aim of this study is to describe
folklore as a way to build character education and increasing moral values into an education.
SIGALE-GALE PEOPLE'S STORIES FROM TAPANULI UTARA as source of data in this
research. After analyzing and recording important points in the story through a qualitative
descriptive method, several things can be obtained that contain character building education
and moral values in the SIGALE-GALE story: individual, social, and religious moral values.
Which can be applied in attitudes and behaviors in character building education.
This research uses the technique of content analysis, which is a research analysis that reveals
the ideas of the author or creator, both manifestly and latently. There for, it can be concluded
that the SIGALE-GALE folklore apart from being an education to build character and moral
values can also be a means of getting to know ancestors and their stories for future
generations.
Keywords: character buiding education, moral value, folklore, SIGALE-GALE.