The Effectiveness of Adiwiyata Program in Creating Ecoliteration

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to create ecoliteracy through schools that care about the environment in the Adiwiyata program, as support for sustainable development goals. This program seeks to change behavior and attitudes, as well as increase students' knowledge, awareness and skills related to environmental values and issues. There are four components in adiwiyata to support the creation of an environmentally cultured school, so as to produce an ecoliterate generation, both in terms of knowledge, attitude and behavior. This mixed method research was conducted in adiwiyata and non-adiwiyata schools, then compared based on the same instrument. The results showed that the average score of students' knowledge, attitudes and behavior in Adiwiyata schools was better than in non-adiwiyata schools. These results are very influential in increasing student ecoliteracy. The highest scores are in the aspects of knowledge and attitudes, while the lowest scores are in the aspects of behavior in the school environment. That is, students' environmentally friendly behavior in the school environment is better than outside the school environment. These results indicate that the implementation of the adiwiyata program has proven effective in building students' ecoliteracy in schools. However, it needs to be developed so that environmentally friendly behavior outside of school can be improved so that students' ecoliteracy becomes better, as an effort to support behavior change towards the environment that is promoted by sustainable development goals.