The Investment of Islamic Education Values toward Children in the Early Age through Story-Telling Method

Education is an absolute necessity for human’s life
that one must fulfill for the entire life. Without education it is
impossible for human to develop her/himself well. The education
process is an effort to maintain a good behavior within one’s life.
Good behavior will be absolutely achieved if it is taught to early-aged
children. This paper focuses on how the story telling method enables
teachers to make the students have the construction of good behavior
and obtain the goal of national education in Indonesia. The targeted
students would involve students in As-Solihin kindergarten,
Salafiyah-Syafi’iyah Mumbulsari, Jember, Indonesia.
Story is what early-aged children like most. Thus, it is a gorgeous
chance to make story telling activity as a method to invest Islamic
education values to children. This paper, however, also focuses on
some deliberately important aspects which of course teachers need to
consider including objectives and strategies of the method’s
implementation. The teachers will be in need of knowing each
student’s characteristic in the classroom so that it would enable them
to select appropriate stories that fit best to early aged students. The
selected stories are taken from Islamic stories that tell the life of
Prophet and heroes of Islam as well as well-known persons in Islam.
In addition, there will be a number of activities done in the classroom
after the delivery of the story is over on purpose of leading students
to have the fundamental foundation of how to build self-awareness in
order they could understand better about the importance of being a
well-behaved person.
After reviewing relevant theories, secondary research and
scholars’ opinion involved in all aspects of early-aged children
behavior, the author concludes that by leveraging trusted sources, a
proactive, co-operative and creative strategy, the teacher can
successfully build up children’s good behavior by instilling the
Islamic value toward early-aged children through story telling
method.

Authors:

• Abdul Rofiq Badril Rizal Muzammil

Keywords:

• Story
• Islam
• children
• early age.

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