Purpose Higher education plays a vital role in educating citizens about climate change and promoting pro-environment behavior. Based on this statement, this study aims to analyze and evaluate students’ perception of climate change at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji. The study aims to understand the main ideas and concepts of climate change by analyzing information habits and individual opinions on the causes of climate change as perceived by the students of two student organizations aimed at environmental protection. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative approach was used to gather data on students’ perceptions and information habits toward climate change. The data were collected through a questionnaire to characterize students from the socio-demography and their perceptions, information habits and knowledge relating to climate change. This paper uses the case study method to examine students’ climate change perceptions at two different student organizations at the same university. The research study involved a focus group technique. Two focus groups at the University of the South Pacific were administered. The focus groups’ selection in this study took into account the aims and objectives of the students’ organization toward climate change awareness, adaptation, mitigation and environment protection. Findings The focus groups participants believe that climate change is a serious problem in the South Pacific region. Results suggest significant differences in climate change perception at the two students’ organizations chosen for this study. Students at the Econesian society nicknamed climate change as a nuclear weapon for the South Pacific responsible for changes in the habitat, coral bleaching, lifestyle changes, mother of all other environmental problems and the introduction of invasive species into Fiji. Students at Wantok Moana-related climate change to drastic weather changes, lack of fish feed and additional toxins in the sea. The results also showed that students at the Econesian society have a better understanding of climate change than the students of Wantok Moana. Practical implications This paper provides an insight into how students of Small Islands Developing States view climate change and the factors affecting their opinions. It also shows how climate change perception varies within the same university. This implies the need to integrate climate change into the higher education curriculum and more research on this topic. Originality/value This paper is the first to compare and contrast university students’ climate change perception in Fiji. The results make an essential contribution to the extant climate change literature by identifying and categorizing climate change perception and the factors that shape students’ perception of climate change from the university students’ perspective in Fiji.
Identification of groundwater potential through the characteristics of the aquifer layer is an important study. This is useful for knowing the availability of shallow groundwater in an area. Arjosari Village, Kalipare District, Malang Regency is an area that often experiences shortages in meeting daily water needs, especially during the dry season. The availability of groundwater at the research site is influenced by the area's topographical conditions, which range from flat to very steep.This study aims to identify the location of the aquifer and groundwater potential in Arjosari Village. This study uses the Schlumberger configuration to identify aquifers and groundwater. This method adheres to the basic principle that each rock layer has a different resistivity value. In addition to rock material type factors, the level of saturation and chemical composition in water affects the value of resistivity. The results showed that the aquifer characteristics and groundwater potential were different for each lithological condition, slope, soil type, and land use. In the research location, shallow aquifers were found less than 20 meters while there were also deep aquifers located more than 25 meters below the ground surface. Shallow aquifers can be used as a water source by the community, especially to meet their daily water needs. The results of this study are used for Geography learning on hydrological material.
The strategy to improve the quality of education in schools is to improve the management of literacy culture. Literacy refers to the process of reading, writing, and speaking to build, integrate, and critique meaning. Many researchers studied teachers' role in improving elementary school students' literacy and forgot how lecturers also have an essential role. On that basis, this study aims to identify geography education lecturers' role in measuring students' basic literacy and numeracy skills at SDN Pujut District, Central Lombok Regency. Research Methods use descriptive qualitative. Interviews, observation, and descriptive analysis of documents by purposive sampling obtained data. To increase the credibility of research informants using the principle of data saturation. The results of this study show that student's literacy and numeracy skills are still low because teachers' ability in Central Lombok Regency is also considered to have decreased, so the support of parents is considered a servant. This research also shows that the role of geography education lecturers is very significant in measuring literacy and numeracy skills applied to all fields of learning in an integrated manner so that the roles of teachers and lecturers both have an essential role in measuring the literacy and numeracy of elementary school students.Keywords: Lecturer Role, Literacy Ability, Basic Numeracy of Students
This research aims to investigate social science education students’ preparedness before they attend problem-based hybrid learning (PBHL). This research is quantitative research with an explorative survey method conducted on college students taking Social Science Education Program in Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang, Indonesia. The participant of this study were 118 students, subsisting of 32 male and 86 female students. This research used a questionnaire with a 1-4 Likert scale as an instrument to measure students’ readiness, weighted from their motivation, prospective behavior, and information and communication technolog (ICT) skills. The data collection process was carried out through Google Form in April 2020. This research used descriptive quantitative analysis to discover students’ preparedness and one-way ANOVA to identify the effect of gender type to the students’ preparation in PBHL. The results of this research show that social science education students’ preparedness (motivation, prospective behavior, and ICT skills) in PBHL is classified high, namely in the B+ category. Furthermore, the gender type has no significant effect on students’ preparedness for PBHL (p0.05). Recommendation based on the research result is the university has to facilitate easy internet access, such as by accelerating the bandwidth, internet connection, and promote other policies that support PBHL.
This study aims to 1) explain the development products of Student Worksheet on Student's creative thinking Skill; 2) describe the validity product of student Worksheet on Student's creative thinking Skill; and 3) describe the influence of student worksheet on Student's creative thinking Skill. The method in this study used to research and development (R&D) the model of R & D in this study using Borg & Gall. The analysis used in the study of development technique has three of them, a review of the learning contents, descriptive analysis, and the analysis of the test results. The development of learning materials in the form of student worksheet of creativity proved can improve the process creative thinking skill of grade V SDN Tambak Asri 02 Malang. Suggestions for optimizing the utilization of materials development is 1) the development of learning materials can utilized as references for educators. 2) Learning materials that have been developed this for more good news can be integrated with the Quran or the Hadith perspective.
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