Model of Planting Discipline Traits for Children in Minangkabau Story

摘要

There are many values related to character education found in folklore. Minangkabau is one of the places in Indonesia that retain a lot offolklore. In 2016, the researchers managed to collect and archived fifty pieces of children's stories that come from all regions of West Sumatra. The children's stories that were collected are legends, both local legends and individual legends. All thirty-nine children stories that were collected is a curse-themed story whose character is a boy, while the other three curse-themed story is about a girl. The rest story is about fairy tale. Generally, the function of the story is for entertaining. However, there is also a story that serves as an educational tool for children, especially character education. One model of character education contained in the folklore is the discipline character that is reflected through the behavior of characters in the story. The implementation of discipline character is seen from the characters of the story who experienced unfortunate and unpleasant events in life if they violate established rules such as, becoming a fish, stone, or buffalo. Punishment experienced by the character can be used as learning for children in implementing the discipline character in them.