Environmental Sustainability Education In Early Childhood Education: Study of literature
Murtafiah, Elindra Yetti, Ade Dwi Utami

Early Childhood Education, Universitas Negeri Jakarta (UNJ)

Abstract

Environmental sustainability began to be widely debated both in government and scientific contexts, including in the field of education covering topics including climate change, depletion of natural resources, drought, land degradation, water scarcity and the extinction of biodiversity and various natural damages (UNESCO, 2017- Wang, 2017). 2017). Impact of natural conditions related to environmental sustainability raises the need for the development of environmental sustainability in educational practice, included in the context early childhood education. This type of research uses the study of literature to explore environmental sustainability education in early childhood context. The search of literature was carried out through online during the period April-June 2022 by using national and international online databases namely google schoolar, ebsco, eric and scopus. The number of relevant articles collected was 35 articles. Results of literature studies found that environmental sustainability education in early childhood education has several focus, namely 1) Theory development as the basis that forms the education environmental sustainability in early childhood education- 2) The development of environmental sustainability education practices in early childhood education- 3) The media used for environmental sustainability education practices in early childhood education. However, not many studies have developed the concept of environmental sustainability education in early childhood education, including how to utilizing related digital media environmental sustainability done in Indonesia.

Keywords: Education, Sustainability, Early Childhood, Indonesia

Topic: Early Childhood Education