Art Education for Building Leadership Character

Abstract

Education has already been an essential need for everyone. There are three (3) main goals in education: development of knowledge, skills, and attitudes. Development of attitudes aims to create a certain character for the learners. From the beginning, art education given in schools is intended to provide a balance with the group-oriented education in the sharpening of reason and logic. Art education, aiming to smooth manners, shaping personality traits and have a high sense of the cultural values of a nation. This paper aims to describe the potential of arts education in fostering leadership and character building with a mix of Javanese concept of leadership in the puppet story. For that row will be described on (a) leadership character in Java, (b) the potential of arts education in developing character in this case through art, (c) the author's experience in developing leadership through art education (d) conclusions and recommendations.

Keywords: art education, art student functions, leadership character Java, graphics clip