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Appreciation of the pure values of preschool students can be applied through the introduction of scientific disciplines, especially in Teaching and Learning (PdP) of Moral Education. For some country, the goal of Moral Education is focused on the shaping of virtuous people in three domains, namely (i) moral reasoning, (ii) moral emotions and (iii) moral behaviour toward non-Muslim students by implementing the National Preschool Curriculum Standard (KSPK) based on 14 universal values by preschool teachers. This paper is to study the implementation of teaching and learning by them as one of the reason to build citizen in the community with good moral behavior and reduce the immoral culture among individual. However, based on the review of the previous ideas, there are various issues related to the implementation of Moral Education at the preschool level. The study reviews by an analysis systematic method uses one databases from Google Scholar and the Google search engine. The search finding is to identify issues and suggestions to improve the teaching practice of Moral Education. As a result, there are five issues involved to the implementation of Moral Education include the aspect of teacher pedagogical skills dan parental involvement. Each section is discussed in detail to get an overview of the issues that occur both in the country and abroad. In addition, this paper also provides some suggestions such as narrative and habituation method in teaching sessions to improve the teaching practice of Moral Education to be more effective. Further research on this topic is expected to enlighten people involved such as the ministry, schools and the community about the importance of implementing Moral Education for preschool students.
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To Cite this Article: Sabri, N. B., & Mohamed, S. B. (2022). Implementation of Teaching and Learning (PdP) of Moral Education in Preschool. International Journal of Academic Research in Progressive Education and Development, 11(4), 732–743.
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