Care for the children care for the future: Eco-literacy for enhancing the community ecological awareness.
Maulana Surya Kusumah
Departement of Sociology,
University of Jember
Jember, Indonesia
Abstract
The social practice in ecological governance conduces to damage the environment. This activity is not continuously a permanent behavior. Assigning children as an agent of change and being the purpose of environmental awareness actions is very useful. Based on the results of the study, the agent deconstructs community habit by utilizing an awareness-raising action. Interestingly in this action, children become targets of eco-literacy. This research applies the life history method to reveal the process of deconstruction taking place in the process of social awareness. As a method of a constructivist perspective, the research subjects are actors in the eco-literacy process. This research examines the entire process and the involvement of actors in the action strategy. This eco-literacy process goes through four stages of activity, namely increasing the imagination of the environment, instilling ecological value, constructing environmental awareness, and presenting actions based on socio-ecological ingenuity.
Keywords: eco-literacy, values, awareness, socio-ecological Ingenuity, conservation action.
Topic: Early Childhood Education Philosophies