Communication between mothers and children about environmental issues (a study about the role of mothers to educate their children on keeping a clean environment)

Chandra Kirana,H Herdiansyah

doi:10.1051/e3sconf/20187408012

Abstract

For the last two decade, many studies about environmental issues show that interpersonal communication plays an important role. Interpersonal communication is very useful and strategic to involve people to take part on this issue, particularly on how people deal with waste management (how to keep a clean environment). By using interpersonal communication approach at the micro level, this can lead us to identify and understand more about the whole elements of communication process (communicator, receiver, message, medium (channel), and effect) when we need to deal with the environmental issues. Based on what I observed about the communicator’s role in this paper, I argue that mothers have significant role to educate their children to keep a clean environment. This paper aims to explain the role of mothers on how they educate the children to keep a clean environment. This study use in-depth interview to 5 mothers who have children in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok. The data will be analyzed by thematic analysis. The findings indicate, to educate the children about keeping a clean environment, mothers needs to communicate interpersonally by using some examples, personal experiences, personal values, and certain media to discuss about this issue to their children.

Highlights

In the past few decades, the issue of the environment has become one of the important global issues; besides the issue of poverty and hunger eradication, education, health, gender empowerment, etc. Those things can be found in the Millennium Development Goals, set by the United Nations (UN) in 2000-2015 (1)
Concerning to that, this paper aims to explain the role of mother – as communicator in maintaining or keeping the clean environment
There are a number of criteria in this study, namely, 1) mothers who have elementary school children, 2) communicating ways to maintain environmental cleanliness to children, 3) domiciled in Jabodetabek

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Introduction

In the past few decades, the issue of the environment has become one of the important global issues; besides the issue of poverty and hunger eradication, education, health, gender empowerment, etc. Those things can be found in the Millennium Development Goals, set by the United Nations (UN) in 2000-2015 (1). The organization stated that environmental issues become an important priority in some of indicators in SDGs – Sustainable Development Goals (2). Environmental issues are important to consider because the physical environment is the habitat for humans and other living things that are depending each other, over a long period of time

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