10Aug 2017

IMPROVING PEOPLE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION BY DEVELOPING INSTRUCTIONAL PACKAGE ON ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS RELATED TO SASI CULTURE.

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This research is aimed at finding out whether instructional package development based on ecological concepts related to SASI culture is able effectively to improve people knowledge about natural resource conservation in Maluku Province. For this purpose, Research and Development has been applied by involving 30 people as sample, each for treatment and control group. Instrument for measuring people knowledge has been developed in true-false format with reliability was .897. Research results revealed that there was significant difference of people knowledge between post and pre-test in treatment group, between treatment and control post-test groups, and between treatment and control group gain-scores. These indicated that instructional package was able to improve effectively people knowledge about natural resource conservation. SASI culture has been proven to be one of traditional heritages which influence people way of live in how to live harmoniously with nature. It has been also strengthened by integrating it with ecological concepts in an instructional package. This product could be disseminated for young generation as what expected by sustainable development, especially among Maluku community.


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[Stevin Melay and I Made Putrawan. (2017); IMPROVING PEOPLE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT NATURAL RESOURCE CONSERVATION BY DEVELOPING INSTRUCTIONAL PACKAGE ON ECOLOGICAL CONCEPTS RELATED TO SASI CULTURE. Int. J. of Adv. Res. 5 (Aug). 505-510] (ISSN 2320-5407). www.journalijar.com


Stevin Melay
State University of Jakarta

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Article DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/5084      
DOI URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/5084