Meta-ethnography of Local Wisdom Total Peace of Urang Sunda and Its Implications to Peace Pedagogy

Abstract

Frequent conflict and violence among individuals and groups promote the increasing of the need to live together in peace and harmony. Teaching citizens to be competent to resolve conflicts and violence constructively is a challenge to education. Peace education is considered as a strategic alternative to develop a culture of Peace. The development of peace education is required in the context of a country's values, culture, aspirations, religion, and needs. This research aims to explore the local wisdom of Urang Sunda as the foundation of peace pedagogy. The research used a constructive paradigm with a meta-ethnographic design. The data sources are 15 results of UPI Ethno-pedagogy research in 2011-2013, which were collected through the documentation studies technique. The research procedure consists of four steps: identification, selection, abstraction, and analysis. Research data were analyzed thematically, interpreted through researcher reflection, and confirmed by relevant theories and previous research. The research findings' credibility was obtained through an external audit by Sundanese cultural experts. The results show that: etymologically and historically, the meaning of Urang Sunda is in line with the ontology of Peace; core values of Urang Sunda are constructed through the harmonious relations between intrapersonal, interpersonal, and transcendental dimensions which construct wholeness as total Peace; moral and cultural values become the communal identity of Urang Sunda as well as peace predisposition. Urang Sunda's local wisdom can be positioned as content and a strategy for implementing the pedagogy of Peace.