Ethnographic Study of the Community of Ecological Village, Temas Village, Batu City as a Source of Social Studies Learning

Ali Nasith Et Al

doi:10.17762/pae.v58i1.876

Abstract

Cultivating the values of ecological wisdom in fostering a love for the environment through social studies learning is so important today because it can provide solutions to the negative impact of human anthropocentric views and provide insight into the nation's culture's knowledge. This research aims to provide a cultural description of the ecological village community groups who have local wisdom in the environment. The value of local knowledge is internalized in social studies learning to build a harmonious relationship between humans and nature. This study uses a qualitative approach to a new ethnographic type. Subjects are vital informants in the ecological village community. The results showed that the ecological village community had local wisdom, including socio-cultural values, including helping each other (“gotong royong”), shame culture. Then the value of environmental care includes the value of environmental sustainability, education, and waste management. The value of caring for the environment takes organic farming system activities, prohibitions raising roads, environmental planning patterns, healthy bazaar activities for waste bank management, and hand skills in utilizing waste. This study's considerations can be a reference or as a source of sociocultural-based social studies learning at various levels of formal, non-formal, and informal education.

Highlights

In the National Education System Law, Yulia Siska stated that the main objective of social studies education at the elementary school level is to develop the ability of students to have the sensitivity to every social problem, be able to be optimistic about social issues and be trained to provide solutions to solve the social issues [1]
The success of social studies learning when contextualizing social culture has been proven in several studies; it was found that students were more enthusiastic and familiar with local culture, students' interest and passion for learning had increased, teachers and books were no longer the primary sources of learning [3], [4]
The aims of this study is to find the values of a community group's local wisdom in maintaining a sustainable environment

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Introduction

In the National Education System Law, Yulia Siska stated that the main objective of social studies education at the elementary school level is to develop the ability of students to have the sensitivity to every social problem, be able to be optimistic about social issues and be trained to provide solutions to solve the social issues [1]. Negative, there is no www.psychologyandeducation.net practical benefit from social studies learning [2]. In households in the City of Tarakan, domestic waste for some people living on the riverbanks indirectly decreases the quality of water in the river This is caused by people who do not want to manage domestic waste such as chicken manure, used soap water, cooking leftovers, and food. Local wisdom in ecological villages is oriented towards ecological values that have developed since long ago made people in their ideas and behavior preserve the environment. The value in ecological wisdom is internalized in social studies www.psychologyandeducation.net learning to pass on values to build a harmonious relationship between humans and nature

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