Abstract

Ngaben ceremony has its essence, as a liturgy that means theology. Additionally, its presence substantially contains sociologist, cultural, and pedagogic aspects. Ngaben as its form of socio-religious activity also contains character values that can be internalized in the process of Social Science learning. The present study aimed to analyze values within the ngaben ceremony that can be used as a constructive aspect of building the students' character in Social Science learning. The research methodology in this study was a qualitative approach, in which the data collection was conducted by using observation, interview, and sources analysis. The observation was conducted to do a direct examination of the sequence of the ceremony and the socio-cultural activities conducted in the ngaben ceremony. At this stage, the first informant acted as an applicative practitioner, who knew the sequence of ngaben. The other informant was an academician, specializing in Social Science. The informant was included due to the aim of knowing character values that can be taken from the ceremony and used in Social Science learning. The least was sources analysis. At this stage, an analysis of varied sources of literature related to ngaben was expected to help identify pedagogic values in the ceremony of ngaben. The tradition implements practical ceremony and represents the character's values. The character values presented in ngaben, such as collectivity value can be seen in the ceremony preparation. Moreover, a responsibility value can be seen from each task of elements in finishing the task given. Additionally, solidarity value is seen from the ngayah implementation by the community or banjar. Ngaben can be seen as a contextual aspect in which values can be taken to be internalized in the process of Social Science learning in constructing students' character.