Developing good characters may take quite a process of enculturation early at the primary schools. Character education may include local wisdom or local knowledge learnt through the Indonesia language curriculum. Bali’s local wisdom, which adheres in the Hindu philosophy, is potentially rich for the development of character education’s themes and sub-themes. The central themes and sub-themes fleshed out from the Hindu philosophy are coherently tied into a system of meaningful moral entity. Children may learn the moral characters contextually and meaningfully through the national language of Indonesia at schools. However, caution should be taken as the themes and the sub-themes are critically beyond the first and second graders’ cognitive and moral development stages.

This study was aimed at describing phenomenon-text based information literacy in Indonesian language learning and the students' response to the teaching. The subjects were 5 lecturers of Indonesian language and 302 students of Universitas Pendidikan Ganesha (Undiksha). Data on the teaching and learning activities were collected by observation and interview, while data on the students' responses were collected by questionnaire. The result showed that phenomenon-text based information in Indonesian language teaching and learning was done in six steps: 1) communicating the phenomenon that occurred in the society (through pictures or video), 2) discussing the phenomenon, 3) reading a phenomenon text, 4) searching information from various sources, 5) writing the results of the search and 6) communicating the results. This syntax of teaching and learning was then called as six steps of phenomenon information literacy. A survey showed that 77.65% of the students felt very happy, 19.91% of the students were happy, 2.44% of the students were less happy, and none of them said that they were unhappy with teaching and learning. It can be concluded that phenomenon-text based information literacy can attract the students' interest and develop students' positive attitude.

This study aimed at producing an integrated thematic book in terms of Indonesian Language and Literature for grades I and II with local Balinese wisdom. Therefore, in year 1, exploration of themes/subthemes of the materials was conducted. In year 2, the draft plan was developed into a draft of the book. In year 3, the draft of the book was tested from the validity of experts, content, design, and media (Nieveen, 1999, Yamasari, 2003, Thiagara Jan 1974. Users' responses were based on field testing (Borg and Gall 1989 and Kusmariyatri, 2012). The methods of data collection were a questionnaire, observation, interview, and test. The results showed that: (1) integrated thematic book with sustainable local of Bali was qualified as a textbook. (2) The validity (experts, content, design, and media) was qualified as valid. Students' understanding valued 75 (good). Thus, this thematic book was qualified as teaching materials.

Abstract-This study was aimed at finding out: 1) what folklores are suitable to be taught to the first graders at primary school and 2) what local wisdom values are there in the folklores. For this purpose, the sample was determined purposively, i.e., the first grade teachers who teach Balinese language, experts in folktales (Made Taro, DK Djareken, Buda Gautama, Suardiana and education experts. The data were collected through documents recording method, data cards and interview. The data were processed descriptive-qualitatively. The results showed that 1) the folktales that are suitable to be taught to the first graders at primary school are as follows: 1) folktales that teach the students to speak interact and socialize politely, education, and storytelling for 5 minutes. The local wisdom values contained in folktales are: 1) compassion (karuna); 2) Tri Hita Karana; 3) Tri Parartha; 4) Lascarya 5) alertness; 6) Kharma phala; 7) politeness; 8) Tri Dandim; 9) Mitia Hrdaya. In this context, the suggestion made is that the folktales that are suitable to be taught should meet the criteria (honesty, faith, and respect) that facilitate the teaching and learning process.

This study aimed at finding out a creative construction model in linguistic politeness for elementary school children character education and an approach that needs to be used. The population were elementary school children in Bali based on the traditional social structure. Hence, the sample was selected using the stratified sampling technique that consisted of educated and triwangsa ( Brahmana, Ksatria, Weisa) stratum. The data were collected through interview, observation, and recording. The collected data were processed qualitatively. The result of analysis showed that the construction model of language acquisition in linguistic politeness plays an important role in the character education of the elementary school children who are friendly, communicative, peace loving, because of the use of polite speeches and loving and caring approach, parents' examples and model, especially the mother at the family level. At the school level there are models from the school community members in speeches and the way the problem children are handled with love. It is suggested that a creative construction model in linguistic politeness be used for children's character education.