Characteristics of Desaster Pre Liminary Research in Developing Learning Model of Environment Education Based on The Disaster in Efford to Grow an Cultural Anticipatory

Abstract

Abstract: East Java is one of the region which have a potential natural disaster. There are four potential disasters occurred in the region, namely floods, landslides, volcanic eruptions, and earthquakes. The disasterproved tohave a negative impacton people's lives. The impact ofthe disasteris due toa lack of anticipation for communities to disasters that occurin there environment. To preventlong-term impact, environmental Education(EE) has astrategic roletoempower students to have anticipatory culture. This study is a preliminary research which aims to identify the characteristics of the disaster which occurred in East Java and conditions of disaster education at school. Object of the study is floods of the Konto river and landslides at Pujon district and the Kelud eruption at Pandansari Ngantang. This research uses descriptive analysis by reducing data, looking for determinant variables, and takes a conclusion. The research results show the natural disaster in research consists of flooding, landslide, and eruption. Floods and landslides occur on rainy season around December-January. Catastrophic floods caused by heavy rainfall and deforestation. While, the eruption depends on each mountain. The cause of disaster is material of eruption. Status of environment education at school is diverse, there is a region by mandatory local content-based with monolithic approach, and there is also region by elective with integrative approach. Load of the EE subjects is 2 credits, while the school is not compulsory be integrated to the main subject. In this study also be foud tha teachers do not have a EE model for anticipate natural disaster.

Keywords: disaster characteristic, Environment education, Cultureanticipatory

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17977/um017v20i12015p059