Sustainable Awareness About Climate Change on Elementary School Pupils’ Perspective: What Wonderful Finding!

Abstract

Abstract Climate change is a serious issue that has become a global problem, so it needs to be responded to and handled immediately. This study aims to obtain an overview of elementary school students' ongoing awareness of climate change. Sustainable awareness is the basis for someone to change their behavior in controlling climate change. This type of research is ex post facto with descriptive quantitative methods used in this study. The instrument for exploring sustainable awareness data is a questionnaire containing 27 statement items that integrate aspects of knowledge, attitudes, and behavior, with environmental, social, and economic dimensions. The questionnaire uses a Likert scale of 1-4, with the choices of strongly agree, agree, disagree and strongly disagree. Respondents were 467 grade 4 elementary school students in the city of Bandung, Indonesia. The questionnaire was filled out online via the Google form within one week. The data obtained was processed and analyzed descriptively quantitatively by calculating the average and percentage of each item, dimensions and aspects of sustainable awareness. The study results revealed that students have a high awareness of sustainability, especially regarding knowledge and environmental dimensions. The findings have implications for introducing students to other aspects and dimensions of sustainable awareness regarding climate change at the elementary school level.

Keywords

• sustainable awareness
• climate change
• elementary school students.