KEBERKESANAN BENGKEL INTEGRASI UNTUK PEMBANGUNAN LESTARI DALAM KALANGAN GURU PELATIH

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2014-08
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MEGAT JIWA, RABIATUL ADAWIAH
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The concept of Sustainable Development has been proposed as a solution to the environment challenges that we face. A concern for biodiversity loss has lead the United Nations to declare 2011-2020 as the Decade on Biodiversity. Within this Decade on Biodiversity, educational institutions are expected to play a critical role to educate their students for a better understanding in biodiversity. According to the United Nations, the ultimate aim of the Decade on Biodiversity is to ensure the integration of biodiversity considerations into work related to the core issues of sustainable development. Clear goals and an intensive program should be carried out to increase the shortage of skilled teachers in integrating ESD. In order to ensure the successful integration of ESD in biodiversity education, teachers should have adequate knowledge, attitude, skills, values and intention to integrate it into their teaching. The Decade of Education for Sustainable Development is also nearing the end (2005-2014). Enhancing adequate teaching skills, knowledge, attitude, values and intention to integrate ESD is thus a challenge to take up immediately. This study is a quasi experiment to enhance the knowledge, attitude, skills, values and intention to integrate ESD in teaching among pre-service teachers. One training workshop was conducted to facilitate pre-service teachers to integrate ESD in their teaching. The instruments to check their knowledge, attitude, skills, values and intention are questionnaire, interview session and lesson plan to integrate ESD. The findings revealed that overall knowledge, attitude, skills to integrate ESD significantly different from control group which did not undergo training workshop. They are xvii expected to be able to provide proper guidance to their pupils about ESD when they become teachers. While for values and intention to integrate ESD shows the result is not significantly different. Therefore, training workshop suggested may be effective to enhance student teachers professional development and further research should be done to enhance the values and intention to integrate ESD. There is a need also to ensure student teachers practice their skills when they start teaching. Future studies directed towards identifying student teachers’ sustained effort in integrating ESD are necessary to ensure the goal of DESD achieved.
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KEBERKESANAN BENGKEL INTEGRASI
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