Implementation of science learning with local wisdom approach toward environmental literacy

Abstract

Science learning related to everyday life including society's traditions believed since ancestor, known as local wisdom. The aim of the study was to determine the effect of implementation science learning with local wisdom approach to enhance student's environmental literacy. The research design was a matching-only pretest-posttest control group design. The population and sample were 7th-grade students of SMPN in 50 city regency numbering 46 people. Data collection used environmental literacy instruments containing three components that are knowledge, competencies (cognitive skill) and affective. The results showed that data was normal and homogeneous so that based on t-test result showed that there was a significant difference in students' environmental literacy between control and experimental class. The conclusion of the study that implementing science learning with local wisdom approach influenced students' environmental literacy. The implication of this research is teachers should use local wisdom context on relevant science materials to reinforce the concept that students learned.