Local wisdom as environmental education on Kasepuhan Ciptagelar

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to overview the local wisdom from local knowledge and local value, which build as an environmental educational approach to Kasepuhan Ciptagelar society. This research used a qualitative approach through in-depth interviews, observation, and document evaluation from June until November 2019 on the Kasepuhan Ciptagelar society. The data analysis of this study was completed through a process of reduction, verification, and conclusions. Local wisdom at Kasepuhan Ciptagelar contains environmental education values; physical, social, and cultural-environmental educations. It shows from their attachment to nature where the laws and natural cycles become their benchmark in the agricultural system used. Activities related to the society farming system are still implemented collectively to strengthen ties between residents through cooperation, which is a characteristic of their social-environmental education and seen from cultural-environmental education. It is closely related to a series of customary rituals that must be carried out by the Kasepuhan Ciptagelar agricultural activity.