Fostering Love of Culture through Habituation at School: An Effort to Preserve Sundanese Culture

Abstract

This article discusses the importance of fostering cultural love through habituation in schools as an effort to preserve Sundanese culture. This research uses a qualitative method with an ethnographic approach to understand how the Sundanese cultural habituation process can foster cultural love in students. The results showed that the habituation of Sundanese culture in schools can foster a love of culture in students through the process of habituation in wearing Sundanese traditional clothes every Thursday called Nyunda Thursday, compulsory mulok Sundanese language learning, Angklung art learning as compulsory mulok art and extracurricular, Ngalageuna or writing Sundanese script as an optional extracurricular, Pencak silat as a compulsory mulok lesson and optional extracurricular, which is also called in local wisdom character education. The article recommends that schools need to prioritize the habituation of Sundanese culture as part of the education curriculum to preserve Sundanese culture and foster cultural love in students. This article makes an important contribution to the development of culture-based education strategies to support the preservation of local culture in the future.