Knowledge and participation of geography teachers toward flood disaster risk reduction in sampang indonesia

Abstract

Floods occur in Sampang Indonesia every year, due to overflowing Kemuning rivers and rising sea levels during spring tide. The morphological conditions which are hills in the middle and syncline valleys in the south with trellis flow patterns with weak and resistant bedrock exacerbate Sampang conditions. This condition increases the threat of urban flooding and rob flooding. One of strategic effort is to know the characteristics and reduce the threat of flooding through Geography subjects in school. Geography teachers as responsible people, act as facilitators and informers who provide knowledge and shape students psychology about flood disasters. Knowledge and participation of geography teachers are very important in flood disaster risk reduction because the teachers are a source of knowledge that is trusted by students. This is a survey research with univariate and multivariate analysis using a quantitative descriptive approach (single frequency and crosstab). The researcher also used inferential analysis in the form of chi-squared to see the relationship of the variables of knowledge and teachers participation in Sampang District. The results of the study indicate that there is a relationship between teachers knowledge and participation in flood disaster risk reduction presented in the learning process. The analysis results show the probability value or Asymp Sig 0.034. so that the knowledge of the geography teachers is very influential.