Need analysis to develop electronic enrichment book of Physics based on contextual teaching and environmental potential

Abstract

Teaching in the 21st century should be connected to the real world context, focused on students, and conducted in collaboration. The application of contextual teaching and the utilization of the potential environment are relevant to the teaching of this century to create the meaningful learning. But the real condition showed that the learning resources of physics were less supportive to create the meaningful learning. The solution to the problem was to develop a physics enrichment book based on contextual teaching and environment potential. To find problems and potential for developing this book, research needs to be done. The purpose of the research was to describe the problems and potential associated with the development of this enrichment book. This type of research was descriptive research. The instruments for obtaining data were observation sheet, questionnaire sheet, and document analysis. The results of the data analysis show that: the application of both the component and strategy of contextual teaching in physics teaching is grouped into the sufficient category, the characteristics of students are generally good for receiving physics enrichment book, the integration of contextual teaching and environmental aspects is still low in physics textbooks, and physics teachers haven't used enrichment books to improve knowledge of students. Therefore, the results of this research can be used as a basis for designing and developing an electronic physics enrichment book needed to improve knowledge of students.