Ecoliteracy as a Catalyst for Social Change: Building an Environmentally Caring Community in Elementary Schools

Environmental conservation efforts need to be instilled in every generation from an early age. The educational environment has a major role in instilling social attitude awareness in students. Elementary School (SD) is the longest internalization process of instilling social attitude awareness in students for six years. Quantitative experimental research aims to analyze the effectiveness of the influence of ecoliteracy-based learning in the role of social change in building an environmentally conscious community in elementary school students. Indicators of social change include attitudes, behavior, and social environmental care. Data analysis was carried out using paired sample t-tests, descriptive statistical tests, N-Gain Score tests from the results of questionnaire instruments, interviews, observations, and test methods. The results of the N-Gain Score test on the aspects of attitude and behavior change obtained an effective category with a percentage of 85.88% and 85.46% respectively and a fairly effective category for the aspect of social change with a percentage of 73.66%. The overall mean of social change towards the environmentally conscious community managed to obtain an effective category with a score of 81.67% which proves that the ecoliteracy program for social change in the role of the environmentally conscious community is considered effective.