The Integration of Sustainable Consumption Education on Social Studies Learning to Increase Students’ Intention Toward Environmental Sustainability

Abstract

Towards sustainability requires a revolution in understanding and solving environmental problems. Sustainable consumption education is an education that is indispensable to form individuals who have a sense of responsibility towards the environment by being wise in choosing their daily needs. Sustainable consumption education is not a field of study that stands alone, it is integrated into a field of study in school. The Purpose of this research is to develop the model of sustainable consumption education on learning social studies in junior high school to increase student's attention to towards sustainability environment. This study reviews various literatures to strengthen the evidence of the model proposed. It is proposed that various themes on the social studies lesson is believed to be effective way to educate student on the understanding of sustainable consumption issues and make them to make an enough action to show their attention to the environment.