| dc.description.abstract | This study examined the representation and the dominant value of peace
values in the Junior High School English textbook issued by the Department of
education and culture in Indonesia. In dealing with the peace values that were part
of the character-building program, the researcher related some example of some
categories of peace values with the value in the character-building program. These
peace values were Inner peace, Social peace and Peace with nature. From each
value, there were subcategories: Appreciating the achievement value and religious
value from the character-building program were included in inner peace.
Tolerance, friendly/ communicative, democratic, social care, and peace-loving
from the character-building program were included in social peace. And
environmental care value from the character-building program was included in
peace with nature.
The researcher gathered the texts only, texts completed with the images
and images only which provide information about peace values by using the
documentary method. Content analysis and critical discourse analysis, focusing on
two layering meaning of visual semiotic analysis was used to analyse the
discourse of visual and textual form.
The findings showed that there were a total of 9 images, 96 texts
completed with the images and 37 texts presented social peace values. While in
inner peace there was only one image, four texts completed with the images and
12 texts, and in peace with nature, there was only one image, six texts completed
with the images, and two texts presented in the textbook. The data prove that
social peace was the dominant value presented in the textbook. In inner peace, the
researcher found some texts and images presented appreciating achievement in the
topic of appreciating clean and tidy classroom, appreciating parents’ job,
appreciating someone coming on time to school, and appreciating other attitudes.
Religious value presented in the textbook in the topics of shaking hands between
students and teacher and an image of a family praying together before eating.
There were some topics presented in the textbook to show some value of social
peace: tolerance value presented in the image of some children from different
races playing together without discrimination, and there was also a dialogue
completed with the image between a girl wearing hijab greeted her friend that had
a different complexion. In the textbook, the friendly/ communicative value was
presented in all forms of different topics and different situations of dialogues, also
some dialogue completed with the images. Democratic value was presented in the
textbook with the topic of human rights. The other value of social peace was
social care value presented in the topics of helping other people, caring to other
people and cooperation. And peace-loving value in the textbook presented in the
topic of conflict and understanding others condition. The last, in the peace with
nature, the environmental care value presented some images and texts completed
with the images that can invite the reader to plant trees and loving animals and
keep the environment clean.
In this case, to maximize the development of education in Indonesia, the
teacher are suggested to pay more attention to students’ character-building
program, and As the developers of the textbook, the authors and publisher are
suggested to review and evaluate the textbook that has been made based on the
latest curriculum in accordance with government regulations. | en_US |
