Integrating the value of local wisdom of the Sidoarjo community into social studies learning in junior high schools in Sidoarjo Regency, East Java, Indonesia

Abstract

This research was motivated by the emergence of moral degradation in junior high school students in Indonesia. Value-based education is needed to develop moral qualities, personality traits, and attitudes of togetherness that are increasingly eroded by globalization. This type of research is research and development with three stages, namely: define, design, and develop. The purpose of this article was to describe the background of integrating the values of local wisdom of the Sidoarjo community as a learning resource, identify values and find ways to integrate local wisdom of the Sidoarjo community as a learning resource in the form of developing lesson plans and textbooks. The results showed that (1) the importance of the values of local wisdom of the Sidoarjo community as a source of learning because of the moral message that has the potential as a source of learning; (2) the values of local wisdom of Sidoarjo that have the potential as a source of learning include the values of honesty, discipline, responsibility, tolerance, mutual cooperation, politeness, and self-confidence, and (3) the integration of the Sidoarjo community’s values of local wisdom into validated learning tools and textbooks for class VIII junior high school students is feasible, as evidenced by the results of the validation of the lesson plan at 3.56 and the validation of the textbooks at 3.57.