The Effect of Environmental Volunteer Integrated with Service Learning (EV_SL) to Improve Student’s Environment Care Attitudes and Soft Skills

Abstract

Universities are required to provide graduates with environmental care and soft skills to survive in the globalization era. The universities in Indonesia implemented a special curriculum, called ‘Kurikulum Merdeka (Independent Curriculum)’, that required students to do volunteering activities to the community or do internships in institutions and companies for two semesters.The research aimed: (1) to determine the effect of the Environmental Volunteer model integrated with Service-learning on students’ environmental care attitudes, (2) to determine the effect of the Environmental Volunteer model integrated with Service-learning on students’ soft skills. This research was conducted on students of geography education program, Malang State University, Indonesia. The data was collected using observation sheets and test sheets, then analyzed using the independent sample t-test in SPSS version 21. The results showed: 1) there was a significant effect in the Environmental Volunteer integrated with Service-learning on students’ environmental care attitudes, 2) there is a significant effect of the Environmental Volunteer integrated with Service-learning on students’ soft skills. Student’s environmental care attitude and soft skills are important assets in creating future leaders to support sustainable development goals