Non-Curricular Strategies in the Implementation of Education for Sustainable Development in Three Prominent Green Schools in Indonesia

Abstract

Non-curricular strategies have been qualitatively studied towards three leading green schools in Indonesia. These strategies have made those the three green schools reach an amazing success story in achieving national green school award from the government of Indonesia. This study follows a qualitative research paradigm. Content analysis was used to interpret the main pattern of the data resulted from the performed in depth interview upon three school principals. Evidences also collected to confirm the result of interview. According to the analysis, three patterns of strategies can be easily identified. Those the three strategies were related to character building. These non-curricular strategies were habituating Javanese culture to enhance positive ethical attitude, reinforcing student’s Islamic spiritual value to raise the respects towards nature and, strengthening student’s environmental literacy trough engaging student in research and project-based activities.