Educational Value in Pela Tradition (Ethnographic Study Ambonese)

Abstract

The culture value system is the basic system in human life that has been rooted in society. The values have been protected, it is high adored and it has been honored and also it is actualized in social life. The value system is the regulation that has been guided as the hint and the behavior direction of each member of society in doing social culture activities. The values and culture norms in a society always arrange and direct an individual as a member of society in having attitude and behavior base on the value order that has been agreed as local wisdom values. The value that has meaning in Pela tradition in Ambon society is something that has been handled as personally and can be internalized in human behavior. The reality of Pela tradition value order has been processing in institutionalized as the education direction of social values. This research is qualitatively describing the values containing on Pela tradition as the education value order of Ambon society. The values covering (1) religious value that arrange god dimension in human life, (2) philosophy value that has universal and be affected as ending value and subjectively,  and (3) ethic value that has  individual responsibility consequence in achieving moral obligation.

Keywords: value education, culture, Pela tradition