The Character Values in the Children Song Lyrics by A.T Mahmud on the Third Grade Elementary School Book

Abstract

The aim of this research was to analyze the character values on the children’s song lyric by A.T Mahmud on the third grade elementary school book. This was a qualitative research that was presented descriptively using discourse analysis approach. The data of this research is the sentence of the children’s song lyric by A.T Mahmud on the third grade elementary school book which contains character value of character education reinforcement (PPK). The data collection method use in this research was documentation. The result of this research showed that not all the themes include the children’s song lyric by A.T Mahmud as the teaching material of the character values on the third grade elementary school book. There were more than one character values in a song title. The dominant character value was independent character value (NM) and integrity character value (NI) appeared 5 times with the percentage of 31.25%. The nationalist character value (NN) was not found, because the use of children's songs as the teaching material should be suitable to the core competence (KI) and the basic competence (KD) of the 2013 curriculum on the third grade of elementary school.