Representations of Museums and Museum Visits in Narrative Picturebooks

Drawing on a range of theoretical frameworks to illuminate various aspects of visual and textual representations, this study analyses the ways museums, museum visits, and museum exhibits and activities are represented in contemporary narrative picturebooks featuring a child character going to a museum for a variety of reasons. Analysis of approximately fifty museum picturebooks using a multimodal content analysis tool led to the construction of findings in the following themes: representations of museums; representations of museum exhibits; museum visitors; reasons for museum visits; museum activities and events; children’s attitudes while visiting museums; and metaleptic transgressions in picturebook representations. The findings suggest the potential implications of these multimodal texts in the hands of teachers and young readers.

Strategi Membangun Karakter Anak Usia Sekolah Dasar (Telaah Kritis Buku “Alhamdulillah Anakku Nakal” Karya Miftahul Jinan dan Choirus Syafruddin)

A naughty child is a test from God who has to be lived with the right solution. So, parents should be grateful if they haave a naughty child. This research aims to determine the strategy to build the child character of elementary school in the book "Alhamdulillah Anakku Nakal" by Miftahul Jinan and Choirus Syafruddin. This research type is library research and the method used in data collection is the documentation. The results of this research explained that to create a good success in character education of children in a family, in addition to how to educate or proper parenting, as parents need a strategy in building the child character of elementary school. The strategies used include: (1) creating an atmosphere filled with comfort and affection, (2) inviting children to feel what others feel, (3) reminding the importance of affection between family members, (4) using habituation methods, and (5) making them accustomed to good behavior. The contributions of contemporary education in this book include: (1) building a mindset whose paradigm is about bad attitudes from children to be good, 2) parents become more relaxed, wise, and calmer seeing children's behavior that is not in accordance with their wishes, and (3) parental remorse due to wrong actions.

CHILD CHARACTER EDUCATION IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF ISLAMIC EDUCATION

The most important child education is to form a character, which can be done in family education or school education with an Islamic education perspective. Shaping the character of a child in the perspective of Islamic education is by providing Islamic religious guidance that is applied in the family or at school, which is intended to shape the child to become a human being who believes and has devotion to God Almighty, and has noble character which includes ethics , morals, character, spiritual or understanding and experience of religious values in everyday life. Which is basically education based on imitating the behavior of the Prophet Muhammad. So, in essence, karak educationtar is the spirit in Islamic education. Islamic education and character education print students into beings who have better characters or values.Keywords: education, Islam.

Book Review: Character Education as the Main Key of the 21st century golden generation (Pendidikan Karakter sebagai Kunci Utama generasi emas abad 21)

The purpose of writing this review is to observe and find out some critical information and assess the strengths and weaknesses of this book. The author created this book because he saw the consequences of the shift in learning patterns before and after the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, an important strategy is needed for educators when providing learning to strengthen children's character at an early age. Otibi Satibi Hidayat wrote The Child Character Education study according to the 21st Century book. He was born in Majalengka on July 17, 1968, as a teacher at the Faculty of Education, State University of Jakarta. His purpose in writing this book is to see the changes in education in Indonesia, which are getting more comprehensive day by day. In the character development process, the educators become a central role in character building. The detailed information to implement children's character education following what is expected of the nation and state. This book is targeted at educators both at school and at home, namely teachers and parents. At school, the child no longer meets the parents but meets the teacher; on the contrary, when the child is home, the child no longer meets the teacher but meets the parents. So that later the role of educators is beneficial for children's growth in implementing moral character education. "Buku Pendidikan Karakter Anak sesuai Pembelajaran Abad Ke 21", or (The Child Character Education study according to 21st Century book), provides essential information thatthe educators must understand. The educators must implement several strategies for children's who later can receive the learning process with a sincere heart. Besides that, it also explains the installation of character education for the nation's hopes. Character education is a critical thing in the 21st-century generation because a child can prepare very appropriate steps to anticipate the impact of technological advances. The learning model statistically changes along with the development of technology.

The Queerness of the Man-Child

The literary man-child character can function as a subversive agent within the text to expose traditional ideologies and suggest alternate possibilities. Much beloved in Sweden, Karlson from Astrid Lindgren’s Karlson on the Roof trilogy (1955–1968) represents this kind of man-child character in texts for children, particularly through his queerness. The trilogy illuminates Karlson’s queerness by contrasting him with the normative reality of 20th-century Stockholm through his trademark narcissism, primal desires, and illogical or fallacious rhetoric that often invokes silence from children and adults within the story. Through the lens of Jack Halberstam’s queer subcultures, Karlson can be appreciated as a specific kind of literary man-child character that necessitates a legitimated queer visibility. This visibility is cultivated by his non-normative belief system and buttressed by his resistance to being silenced or kept secret from this normative world. Furthermore, Karlson’s queerness fuels his charisma, making him popular because of his behaviour, not despite it. Ultimately, his queerness as a man-child character disrupts traditional boundaries and delineations of the child/adult binary and allows the child reader to witness the vulnerabilities of normative institutions while also appreciating diversity in non-normative family structures.

THE TRUTH OF LIFE AND ART IN THE FATE OF A “SHUM BOLA”

In this scientific article, the "Orphan Child" character in the story "Shum bola" by G. Gulam is studied as an object of research, the observation and artistic interpretation of spiritual experiences. It is an artistic analysis of the peculiarities of the child's psyche, an analysis of the orphan's mental anguish, emotions and experiences.

Indigenous in Jackie French’s Perspective as a White Author: Unsettling Narratives in Australian Children’s Book

How Australian children perceived the image of Indigenous from their readings is highly influenced by the authors. As many Australian children’s books are written by White authors, it is important to reveal whether their past and cultural background manifest in the image they built for Indigeneity. This study aims to reveal how Jackie French, a white Australian children’s book author, portrayed Indigenous characters and environment in her novels and to find out whether French creates a shift of the images as a form of her tendency to the major culture in Australia. The data were significant textual units from Nanberry Black Brother White novel and were analyzed using Bradford's post-colonial theory of unsettling narrative. The result of this study shows that French deliver a varying degree of Eurocentric mindset in portraying indigenous characters and characterization. It implies that French, as a White-Australian writer still possibly has a colonial mentality who, deliberately or not, positions the Indigenous characters as Others through the focalization of both Non-Indigenous and Indigenous characters themselves. For instance, in Nanberry Black Brother White, it appears that French try to justify whiteness as more civilized and a better race through Nanberry’s point of view as an Indigenous child character. It implies that the process of depicting Nanberry, the representation of Aborigines, in the novel is actually a justification for establishing an Eurocentric mindset through the character’s narratives, and therefore creates unsettling narratives.

COMMODIFICATION OF VALUES IN AMERICAN POPULAR FAMILY MOVIES IN 1990S

This thesis investigates the American popular family films from the 1950s to the 2000s by using Interdisciplinary approach. This approach is intended to explore the object of research from the history, sociology, and cultural background. The theory of representation and commodification are used together to examine how the films represent American family life and how the film industry commercializes American family values. By focusing on family roles that include the division of roles between husband and wife, interactions between family members, and the values adopted by children as a result of parenting practice, it was found that the family concept shown in films from the 1950s to the 2000s represented the reality of the dynamics of family life in every decade. Besides, in popular films of the 1990s, 'Hollywood Family Entertainment' commercialized the patriarchal issues contained in the 'traditional family' concept. There is an ideology of 'ideal woman' strictly as a housewife which was commodified through these films. Optimistic value in the family was also commodified through the child character consistently, shown by the emergence of child character who tends to be positive towards the future, focus on goals, strives for success and happiness and free in making choices.

THE CORRELATION BETWEEN DEMOCRATIC PARENTING AND 4-5 YEAR-OLD CHILDREN’S AUTONOMY IN GONILAN VILLAGE

<p>Planting character values needs to be given from an early age. One of the character values that needs to be instilled early is independence.The role and parent's support is needed to build an independent child character. Parenting is one of the factors that influence children's independence. The purpose of this study was to find out whether there was a relationship between democratic parenting and disciplines of children aged 4-5 years in Gonilan Village. This study uses quantitative approaches with correlation research type. This research was conducted on January 2019 by using a sample of 69 children and parents of children aged 4-5 years in Gonilan Village. Retrieving data from this study uses questionnaires that distributed to the parents. The results of the hypothesis test of the Spearman Rho correlation indicate that the significance value is 0,000 &lt;0.05 which means the hypothesis is accepted, there is a relationship between democratic parenting with the independence of children aged 4-5 years in Gonilan Village. The results of the correlation coefficient are 0.998 using the Spearman Rho hypothesis test, which means the higher the democratic parenting style of parents, the higher the child's independence<strong><em>.</em></strong></p>