Reinforcing National Character Education in Biology based on the Education for Sustainable Development Concept

Abstract

This research aimed to know teacher perception toward national character education in learning Biology within the concept of sustainable developments. The data collection techniques employed in this research was survey technique with non-test instrument, and the samples of the research itself are teachers in private high schools and public high schools in Yogyakarta. Based on the findings of the research, it can be known that teachers in private and public high schools assumed that learning biology can be integrated with the concept of sustainable development in order to reinforce the students’ national character education, resulting 80,17% for private high school and 79,12% for public school. The learning model assumed most corresponding for the learning with the concept were Problem Based Learning with 75% of the total and Socio-Scientific Issue with 24%. Also, as the most potential materials to be taught were Ecology and the Environment Changes.