Authors:
Elindra Yetti
1
;
Titin Hermayanti
2
and
Suharti
2
Affiliations:
1
Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia
;
2
Laa Tahzan Islamic School Cirebon, Indonesia
Keyword(s):
Creative Dance, Self Confidence, Early Childhood Education
Abstract:
Self-confidence is a person's belief in his ability to achieve certain targets, which are not dependent on others, are responsible, respect themselves, and easily communicate and help others. While creative dance is one of the activities that affect self-confidence, because creative dance activities are dance activities that give freedom to children to express their imagination through children's gestures. The purpose of this study was to describe the process and results of creative dance activities to increase the self-confidence of kindergarten students in group B in East Jakarta. The action researched method uses the kemmis and mc models. Taggart. The subjects of this studied were group b students who numbered 10 children. The steps in this studied were: 1) planning; 2) implementation and observation; 3) reflection. The data analysis used was qualitative and quantitative analysis. Qualitative data analysis uses the miles and hubberman models, while quantitative data analysis
uses descriptive statistics. The results show that there is an increase in students' self-confidence, starting at the pre-cycle it is 26.25%, cycle 1 is 55.52%, and cycle 2 is 87.05%. In conclusion, implementing creative dance activities can increase students' confidence.
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