DEVELOPMENT OF ECOPRENEURSHIP IN PRIMARY SCHOOL

Abstract

Ecopreneurship is an idea that has not been explored by researchers explicitly and become a learning innovation in the 21 st century, but, implicitly this concept is believed that it has been implemented in some primary schools but no further research, therefore, this study aims to prove and to give the description of ecopreneurship development in primary school. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive method . The subject of this research is 22 teachers in primary school. The results of this research showed that the development of ecopreneurship in primary school was integrated in the curriculum content in schools that have implications to the creation of intracurricular learning, extracurricular learning , and display room based on the ecopreneurship's concept. It is found that 81.2% of teachers have tried to apply the principles of ecology in classroom learning and 54.5% of teachers have tried to associate it with the principle of entrepreneurship. The result of this research became the basis for researchers in conducting further research. In addition, the result of this research is expected to be a reference for primary school teachers to develop current learning in 21 st century and it becomes a preventive effort, especially for Indonesia n society in preparing them to face Indonesia Emas 2045 .