WASTE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION THROUGH NATURE SCHOOL APPROACH TO INCREASE CHILDREN ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS IN KRAJAN, CEPOKO VILLAGE, NGRAYUN, PONOROGO

Abstract

Nowadays, environmental issues are increasingly neglected by society. The environment that was originally pristine and preserved began to be polluted by household and industrial waste. The waste problem requires human action to be able to manage it, but in reality literacy and knowledge about waste management are still not massively promoted. Therefore, it is necessary to strive to conduct interactive waste management education, especially for children as the younger generation. This research aims to reveal the effectiveness of a nature school-based approach in learning waste management applied to Krajan children. This research uses an Asset Based Community Development (ABCD) method, which contains five research steps: discovery, dream, design, define and destiny. Based on the results of the study, the nature school activities that have been implemented in Krajan provide a new learning atmosphere for children in Krajan. In addition, this nature school activity was chosen because it can be connected to the material about the environment and waste management to be given. The impact of this nature school activity is that children become more enthusiastic in participating in learning, there is direct implementation through joint practice in recycling waste, and learning is more interesting because the object studied is an environment close to the students.