Identification of Character Values Developed in Early Childhood Education

Character education in early childhood needs to be developed and identified so that the development of these values is appropriate to the early childhood development stage. This study aims to identify the character values that will be developed in early childhood education. The formulation of the problem in this research is what character values are developed in early childhood learning. The type of research is qualitative with data collection technique by observation and interview. Data were collected through teacher respondents on early childhoodresiding in Padang. The results showed that there are fivedifferent aspects of character developed in early childhoodeducation that is, religious character, social character, personalvalue, caring character and environmental character.