<![CDATA[This literature review examines the potential of rencek in Wayang Sasak as a medium for character education in higher education, using social criticism in the Brambang Ulung performance as its main context. The review focuses on how the play's conflict creates opportunities for moral reasoning, how rencek medi-ates social voices through everyday language and humor, how improvisation contextualizes inherited narratives, how cultural and religious plurality shapes meaning, and how these findings can be translated into pedagogical use for uni-versity students. The study employs a narrative synthesis by distinguishing di-rect evidence on Brambang Ulung, general studies of Wayang Sasak, studies of carangan plays and character values, and contextual non-journalistic sources. The synthesis indicates that social criticism in Brambang Ulung lies not only in explicit moral messages but also in competing claims, the legitimation of vio-lence, stigma, leadership responsibility, and choices for resolving conflict. Rencek expands this space by translating social issues into language and experi-ences closer to audiences. Drawing on a character-education framework that connects moral knowing, moral feeling, and moral action, the article proposes a pedagogical model: experiencing social criticism through rencek → moral awareness and knowledge → moral reasoning and decision-making → empathy, self-control, and humility → moral action and habituation. The model is a peda-gogical proposition rather than an empirically tested effectiveness model. The main limitation is the lack of complete transcripts and audience-reception data specifically for Brambang Ulung; therefore, the proposed model requires empiri-cal testing through classroom or student-reception research.]]>
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