Eco-literacy-textbook: Instructional need to improve students' environmental awareness in a primary nature school

Abstract

This study is aimed to identify the eco-literacy textbook as an instructional need to improve students' environmental awareness so that it can be taken into consideration in the preparation of textbooks. One of the schools that need to improve students' environmental awareness through textbook is a Primary Nature School in West Java, Indonesia. Qualitative descriptive method was used in this study. The data collection used observation, interview, and questionnaire. Participants were 15 students in fifth grade and 2 teachers. The result showed that instructional needs of the eco-literacy textbook are the textbook that has images used simple the language, it has material integrated with everyday life and the natural environment. It is equipped with an activity-based outdoor learning worksheet. The sustainable development will be achieved if the instructional needs through this eco-literacy textbook are fulfilled.