International

Seminar on
Bioscience and
Biological Education
Rani Arifiantari, Ashadi, Sri Dwiastuti
Universitas Sebelas Maret
Surakarta
The Analysis of
Environmental Attitudes of
Public Junior High School
Students in Ngawi
 Introduction
Damage to nature is one of the
focuses that must be considered in
the 21st century
Attitudes related to environmental
issues are environmental attitudes
Some factors that influence
environmental attitudes about the
internal and external environment
Most of the damage caused by
humans is not responsible for
nature (exploitation)
Environmental attitudes is a
determinant of the good or bad of
person’s behaviour towards his
environment which leads to the
quality of the environmental
The attitude of a person who cares
about the environment can be
measured using the Dunlap NEP
scale
 Research
Method
Quantitive Research
Each answer was scored
and the percentage of
each student from all
samples was calculated
and categorized

Study sample involved

120 students from 4
public junior high schools
in Ngawi with 30 students
respectively

The data were collected using a

questionnaire modified of NEP
The percentage calculation of each category is obtained from the following
equation :

Category of environmental attitude

Percentage Category

%
> 79 Pro-ecological

54 - 79 Mid-ecological

< 54 Anti-ecological
 Result & Discussion
Figure 1. percentage of students in each category
Pro-ecological category
 feel that the earth will be better if it does
10
not get mixed hands of humans
0
90 38.33% • humans do not have the right to change
and exploit the Natural Resources.
80 • Human tasks are better for the
development of the Natural Resources
70
Mid-ecological Category
60
• The mid-ecological category has a tendency
50 to accept negative statements or Dominant

40
60.83% Social Paradigm,
• having the belief that nature has values that
30 need to be exploited by humans
• knowing the statements of pro-ecology but
20 not fully believing
10 Anti-ecological Category
• Belief that humans have the right to make
0.83% full use of the earth because it is considered
to provide everything that should be used
by humans
• They strongly rely on the technology,
economic and industrial progress without
thinking that nature has no restrictions
 Result & Discussion

• Inclined to anti-ecological
• Quality of enviromental Effect
• Education
• SETS approach
Improving
• learning environment
• Green School

• Globalization
• Technology Cause
• School environmental
• Internal environmental Result

• Pro-environmental category
• Good quality of environmental
Majority in • Good environmental attitude
Mid-ecological • Problem solver in environmental
60.83% issue
 Conclusion
• Environmental attitude of
students majority in mid-
ecological category
• Environmental attitude of
students still needs to be
optimized
• Optimizing environmental attitudes
can be through education, learning
through an environmental approach
such as SETS or out of class activities
Thank You
ISBBE 2018