Article
PERANAN SASTRA ANAK UNTUK MEMBANGUN INTEGRITAS ANAK BANGSA
ETNOREFLIKA : Jurnal Sosial dan Budaya, Vol. 5 No. 1 (2016), hlm. 54–61
Abstrak
Children's literature has a positive role to support the growth and development of children. In the midst of the onslaught of technology that is now spoil the child with a variety of gadgets that most of the facilities bring negative impact on children. Children's literature exists to provide an alternative in providing entertainment for children. However, one of the problems in the pattern of student’s school-age children in Indonesia is the poor level of reading culture. Parents tend to not provide effective vehicle to hone their reading fluency. Parents spoil the child with the most preferred gadget facilities, while forgetting that if the reading is the most effective way to build a child's intelligence. For entertaining purposes, for example, children's literature is quite effective to be used as a child's play. Besides children's literature is entertaining, it also gives moral values ​​in children. Therefore, it takes steps to increase the children's interest and to empower the role of children's literature to build generations of integrity. Keywords: child, integrity, and the role of children's literature