Literature Research: Ethnoscience in Science Learning

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to provide a bibliometric literature review to find the trends of research on the discussion of Ethnoscience in science learning. The descriptive method with the bibliometric approach was applied in this research. The articles were found on the Google Scholar and Scopus databases assisted by the Publish or Perish (PoP) software. The numbers of articles obtained were 661 in 2015-2020 (5 year period). All articles had been selected according to the criteria determined by the researcher. The Mendeley software was used to manage the metadata so that the final numbers of articles were 272. The visualization was produced using Bibliometric VOSviewer software. The trends recommendations for further research on the Ethnoscience in science learning are related to ethnostem, chemistry learning, and the development of teaching material in the form of books and worksheets related to Ethnoscience in science learning.