The heterogeneous, rich and unique social cultural background of Indonesiahas routinely become a hidden agenda of hate speech, intolerance, cultural conflicts, and group friction leading to disharmony. Educational intervention is believely needed to address the issue of tolerance. This article aims to investigate ten young students’ experiences with their narration during the creative process of peace-themed Digital Storytelling (DST). By employing a narrative research paradigm, the study reveals the students’ thoughts during the creative DST process. The students’ statements, picture selection, and syntax served as the primary data. Applying Braun and Clark’s thematic analysis, the parameters of peaceful literacy included the commitment to one nation, tolerance, non-violence, and acceptance of various cultures and traditions. The results of this study on the students’ narratives indicated that these young people were peaceful literary agents who use their voices to speak about the importance of upholding cultural traditions, and respecting and accepting others. The study offers a novelty in terms of methods by using a narrative design to narrate the youngsters’ voice related to peace literacy, and in empirical contribution as the supplement to support the national curriculum as well as the implementation of peace-themed peace literacy in educational context.

In this study, we set puppet as the media to educate them concerning how to prevent sexual harassment as the lack of information of private area among children. The preventive program was built from the infusing important aspects from very beginning age. Series of actions were implemented: specified characters from Big Book story (a boy, a girl, a mother, a father, an aunt, an uncle, a stranger, a police, and a teacher) as puppet characters, colored the puppets, to played them due to the plot of the story. The research proved that visual aid helped the process of instilling the core message to children, and empowering them to say no against bad touch. In the process of transferring the message, certain aspects must be taken for granted. As private parts are not included in easy to be digested theme for children, considering the lack of information given by parents, the material transferred & language used to these young learners must be well tailored to children’s age.

The increasing moral degradation in Indonesia makes moral education is in high needs. This research is a qualitative research that seeks to find scaffolding strategies applied by teachers in fostering moral literacy among children through the use of image reflection media and finding narratives that are built from children's reflections. Ten elementary school students in Central Java, Indonesia were involved in this study. In collecting data, researchers used semi-structured interviews and observations to strengthen research data. As for analyzing the data, this study uses thematic analysis. Although it has several shortcomings, the research subjects show positive response regarding the use of the image reflection method as an effort to foster moral literacy in early childhood. This method is expected to be an alternative measure in moral teaching, especially at the elementary age level        

This narrative research exposed four pre-service teachers’ emotions in pre-service teaching practice during the pandemic of Covid-19. It focused on how the pre-service teachers enacted their emotions while they performed various teaching challenges during the pandemic of COVID-19. Written reflections during the pre-service teaching from four pre-service teachers were taken as the data. By employing Andy Hargreaves’ emotional geographies theory, the research indicated that pre-service teachers experienced positive and negative emotions during the practice of teaching.