Students’ innovative and creative thinking skill profile in designing chemical batik after experiencing ethnoscience integrated science technology engineering mathematic integrated ethnoscience (ethno-stem) learnings

Abstract

This research aims to measure the innovative and creative character of Chemistry students in batik motifing of Chemical structures after learning natural products with the integrated STEM approach Ethnoscience. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study with students of Chemistry education at UNNES taking Natural Product courses as a subject. Instruments data collection are questionnaires, interviews, the value of chemical batik products, and creativity in describing the meaning of batik motifs, appearance, origin, and color creations that have been designed on canvas. Chemical batik products produced by Ethno-STEM Project study were assessed by a research team and batik experts from Zie Batik Malon Gunungpati and batik experts from Pekalongan to determine which batik motifs are feasible to be produced as a form of research downstreaming. The final result of the batik design was decided that four decent batik products were produced in terms of motifs, color display, originals, and interesting creativity according to the judgment of batik experts. The four innovative and creative batik motifs with high scores are the anti-Christian batik motif, alpha pinene, curcuminoid, and Etbo-STEM carotenoids. From the results of this study it was concluded that the profile of innovative and creative character of students after learning with the Etno-STEM approach is very good.