Year: 2025 | Faculty: FIP
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Source metadata: PKM: Narratives for Change: A Community Writing Initiative with Parents to Promote Tolerance, Diversity, and Moderate Values in Children’s Literature | Tim: Tati Lathipatud Durriyah, Lakhaula Sahrotul Aulia, Ajeng Satiti Ayuningtyas Okta Ferdiana, Agus Suprapto
Children learn values not only from formal lessons, but also from stories told at home, in classrooms, and in community spaces. UIII’s Narratives for Change project invited parents to take part in a community writing initiative that promotes tolerance, diversity, and moderate values through children’s literature.
The Faculty of Education team recognized parents as important cultural educators. When parents write or share stories, they help shape how children understand difference, kindness, justice, and coexistence. Children’s literature can make complex values accessible through characters, plots, images, and everyday conflicts that young readers can understand.
The project is significant because values such as tolerance and moderation must be introduced early and gently. Moral education is more effective when children can imagine it through stories rather than receive it only as instruction. A story about friendship across difference, for example, can open a child’s imagination more effectively than a lecture on diversity.
For UIII, the activity combines literacy, family engagement, and peace education. It also shows how community service can empower parents as knowledge producers. They are not merely receiving content from experts; they are creating narratives that reflect their own hopes for children.
A feature article can foreground parents sitting together, writing, revising, and discovering that their experiences can become meaningful stories. Final publication should include examples of story themes, participant reflections, and whether the writings will be compiled or published. The central message is that children’s books can become small but powerful tools for building a more tolerant society.