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Human beings face environmental problems. Consistent endeavors have to be done through shifting young generation's ecological behaviours through environmental education as children 's environmental values and attitude might be affected by their surrounding society. The purpose of this study was to explore students' knowledge, attitudes and actions towards environmental education of a school claiming as a-go-green school. The data were collected through semi-structured interviews and documents. We systematized our analysis and discussion around participants' perspectives and contexts in which students' knowledge and behavioural changes towards environmental lifestyles and strategies they faced occurred. The analysis of the data revealed that key themes related to development of caring schools and culture environment policy, development of activity based participatory, management and or development of school instruments, environmental education in schools, the ways of environmental education is integrated, and the effect of environmental education on knowledge and behavioural changes of students. Policy implications and future environmental education research are also discussed.
Keywords: attitude, behavioral changes, environmental education
INTRODUCTION
Changing young generation's ecological behaviours is important because environmental conditions badly have decreased from year to year caused by human activities to meet their needs. As a result, human faces environmental degradation and problems. Climate change, the decline of ecosystems, the depletion of the ozone layer, rapid population growth, forest degradation, increasing urbanization, acid rain, declining biodiversity species and natural habitats, as well as pollution are among of the issues. To anticipate such issues, some efforts have to be done to reduce or stop the environmental degradation and problems through a sustainable development strategy that can be integrated with the educational system at all levels, lines, and other types of education as education is the key agent of change in the context of implementation (Sofwan et al., 2021; Yaakob et al., 2019).
Regarding the United Nations' Education for Sustainable Development, Indonesia has not specified an explicit commitment to the Environmental Education (EE) program to teach the next generation about sustainable practices. However, in elementary and secondary schools, the EE is rooted in the subjects such as Science and geography. Also, the national education dedicates to all aspects of national development, especially the development of human resources corresponding to the demands of development in the context of globalization. Additionally, some classes...