Indonesian Folklore Fashion as a Form of National Identity in Literature Learning for Early Childhood

Abstract

Learning is a process of increasing insight through various things around the learner with a happy and conducive situation. One of the learning processes that must be undergone by a human being is learning at an early age. One of the fields of study that needs to be studied by early childhood is literature. Learning literature means giving children space to imagine and get to know local wisdom. One form of local wisdom is traditional clothing or traditional clothing which is the identity of the Indonesian ethnic group as well as a distinctive characteristic for each region in the archipelago. Traditional clothing has its own fashion or style and when combined is called Indonesian Folklore fashion. Indonesian Folklore fashion is a place to introduce early childhood to the richness of the archipelago as well as introduce children to legends, folklore, each region in Indonesia. This study aims to explain the method of learning literature for early childhood by involving the field of fashion science as a visual space and legends, folklore as a place for learning literature. This study found that early childhood prefers something visual because visual objects can help them observe, remember, and know the shape and appearance of the object directly, as well as develop their imagination