Sustainability literacy of students’ prospective science teacher

Abstract

The condition of Earth is increasingly worrying. One of the efforts that can be made to anticipate that condition is through sustainable development. Sustainable development can be achieved when people have sustainability literacy. This study aims to obtain information about the sustainability literacy of students’ prospective science teacher. Sustainability literacy is seen based on the percentage of students in the aspects of knowledge, skills, attitudes and topics of sustainability. This study used a survey method with 45 respondents (n=45) of students at the science education program at one of university in Pekanbaru. Data were collected using a sustainability literacy assessment which consisting of multiple choice questions for the knowledge aspect and a questionnaire to measure the level of student confidence in understanding and solving sustainability problems in the aspects of skills, attitudes and topics of sustainability. The results showed that 50.87% of students had knowledge and understood the relationship of sustainability with its components appropriately, 68.78% of students were confident about the effectiveness of their skills in dealing with sustainability problems, 79.78% of students were confident that they had a sustainability attitude based on sustainability issues and problems and 65% of students can define and explain some of the complexities of sustainability topics. Based on the results above, it is concluded that various efforts are needed to be able to increase the sustainability literacy of students’ prospective science teacher.