Pre-service Teachers’ Concept of Sustainable Development and Its Integration in Science Lessons

Darryl Roy T. Montebon

Abstract


Abstract: Sustainable development is a “durable development” that is systematic and long-term devel-opment of countries ensuring strong relationship between societal and environmental security with economic progress. The concept of sustainable development is essential for pre-service teachers to realize because the country is on its way to progress and industrialization and their role as future teach-ers is important. Hence, this paper investigates aims to determine pre-service teachers’ concept of sus-tainable development. It is important that the concept of sustainable development should be clear to teachers because it determines how effective they can teach the concept to their students.  A qualitative research design utilizing questionnaires, interviews, and focused group discussions reveal the miscon-ceptions of the pre-service teachers on sustainable development.  The result of the present research will be utilized to create a program that will assist them in preparing lessons that integrates the concept of sustainable development successfully.
Key Words: misconceptions on sustainable development, pre-service teachers concept of sustainable development, integration of the sustainable development concept on science lessons


Abstrak: Pembangunan berkelanjutan adalah “pembangunan tahan lama” yang merupakan pembangun-an sistematis dan jangka panjang negara untuk menjamin hubungan yang kuat antara keamanan sosial dan lingkungan dengan kemajuan ekonomi. Konsep pembangunan berkelanjutan penting bagi calon guru untuk diwujudkan karena negara sedang dalam proses untuk kemajuan dan industrialisasi serta peran mereka sebagai guru masa depan sangatlah penting. Oleh karena itu, tulisan ini menelaah konsep pembangunan berkelanjutan calon guru. Sangatlah penting bahwa konsep pembangunan berkelanjutan calon guru harus sangat jelas karena hal itu menentukan seberapa efektif mereka dapat mengajarkan konsep kepada siswa mereka. Sebuah desain penelitian kualitatif menggunakan kuesioner, wawancara, dan diskusi kelompok terfokus mengungkapkan kesalahpahaman dari guru calon pada konsep pemba-ngunan berkelanjutan. Hasil dari penelitian ini akan digunakan untuk membuat sebuah program yang akan membantu mereka dalam mempersiapkan pelajaran yang mengintegrasikan konsep pembangunan berkelanjutan dengan berhasil.
Kata kunci: kesalahpahaman pembangunan berkelanjutan, konsep pembangunan berkelanjutan calon guru, integrasi konsep pembangunan berkelanjutan pada pembelajaran sains


Keywords


misconceptions on sustainable development; pre-service teachers concept of sustainable development; integration of the sustainable development concept on science lessons

Full Text:

PDF

References


Brundtland Commission. (1987). Our Common Future: Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development. Oxford University Press.

Delors, J. (1996). Learning, the treasure within. Report to UNESCO of the International Commission on Education for the 21st Century. Paris: UNESCO.

Leal Filho, W. (2000). Dealing with misconceptions on the concept of sustainability. International journal of sustainability in higher education, 1(1), 9–19.

Hawken, P. (2010). The ecology of commerce: A declaration of sustainability. New York: Harper.

Parkin, S. et al. (2004). Learning and skills for sustainable development: developing a sustainability literate society. Forum for the Future.

Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment (PCE) (2004). See Change: Learning and Education for Sustainability. Background Paper 3: The tertiary education sector.

Sethi, S. (2011). Myths about sustainability. Retrieved from https://drsuneelsethi.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/sustainability-myths-and-misconceptions/

UNESCO. 2010. ESD Lens Review Tool 9 ESD integration in the curriculum. ESD Lens: A Policy and Practice Review tool. Learning & Training Tools, No. 2. http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001908/190898e.pdf

United Nations. (1992). Agenda 21: (chap 36). New York: United Nations.

United Nations. (2002). World Summit on Sustainable Development. The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation. UN: New York.




Copyright (c) 2018 Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.


Jurnal Pendidikan Humaniora

Graduate School, Universitas Negeri Malang

Lisensi Creative Commons

JPH is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License