Thematic Text Book Development Based on Local Wisdom

Local wisdom based education is a part of the implementation of character building principles in education which enable students to prepare themselves for future. The local wisdom plays significant role since the implementation of real-life context in teaching learning activities is the best approach to initiate the lesson. Not only as a basis in teaching learning activity, the implementation of local wisdom will assist student to comprehend every concept in learning material, therefore students will be able to implement their cognitive ability in daily life. One of means of integrating local wisdom is by transferring it to the textbook. Research and development study need to be done in developing local wisdom based textbook. The aim of research and development study is to create a valid, interesting, practical and ef- fective textbook. Thiagarajan’s 4D model was implemented in this research and development study. The data analysis shows that this book is valid, interesting, practical and effective to use in teaching learning process.