THE NARRATIVE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS: STUDY ON TEXT IN PUBLIC SPACE AT MALANG SCHOOL, INDONESIA

Abstract

Environmental crisis is problems of human behavior. Humans mistakenly view nature and mistakenly place themselves in the context of the whole universe. Mistakes of the human perspective on nature stem from anthropocentric ethics. Excessive and irresponsible exploitation of natural resources is a manifestation of anthropocentric behavior. Human anthropocentric behavior portrayed creatively in the outdoor media in the school's internal public space. Some posters displayed in several schools in the Greater Malang region show strong symptoms of anthropocentric behavior. This qualitative study describes the results of linguistic landscape data to find the symbolic function of environmental crisis. The research data in the form of visual-verbal information and ecological ideas were taken from poster displayed in public spaces around the school at public and private Junior, Senior, and Vocational high school in Malang City, Indonesia. Data was collected using documentation (photography) and analyzed ethnographically. As a result, environmental education posters contain ideas about the environment, namely crisis, and conservatives. These two ideas simultaneously make confusion an ethical orientation. The intended ethical orientation is wise behavior in water use, waste management, and environmental sustainability. In addition to messages on waste handling and management and saving water, educational posters also convey crisis messages. As a follow-up, the findings of this study can be used in the curriculum at school so that poster material can become a learning medium.
 Keywords: environmental crisis, environmental education poster, waste management, apocalypse