Destructive behavior towards nature adversely affects environmental damage. The root of this crisis lies in the structure of the value of human life in interacting with nature. This research aims at studying a philosophical foundation, model, aspect of environmental cultured education, and it’s implication on the student’s competencies in three schools. It employes phenomenology. Data were gained from deep-interview, observation, and document analysis. The information is determined with a purposive sampling technique. While data were analyzed descriptive-exploratively, involving data reduction, data display, and conclusions. This research finds that the vision and mission of the school become the main foundation in growing awareness of environmental cultured education. The model of environmental cultured education is developed integratively through all subjects. The aspect of education was formulated in the Adiwiyata programs dan Educotourism with participatory and sustainable principles. The implications for student competencies including demonstrating environmental cultured attitudes and behavior, the cognitive understanding of environmental education, and developing in own students’ skills, creativity, and productivity.

This article is intended to capture the extent to which PAI teachers are prepared to implement the 2013 Curriculum at the SMA and SMK levels in Sidoarjo. Readiness is seen from the planning, process, and assessment. This research is a qualitative research with interview data collection technique, observation and documentation study. The main data sources in this study were PAI teachers at SMAN 3 and SMK Antarctica 1 Sidoarjo. The results showed that in general the readiness of PAI teachers in implementing the 2013 curriculum at SMAN 3 Sidoarjo and SMK Antarctica 1 Sidoarjo was good, starting from aspects of planning, implementation and assessment of learning. However, a number of obstacles were found, namely in the aspect of learning planning including the lack of understanding of PAI teachers about the 2013 curriculum; in the aspects of the implementation of learning including not being able to apply the scientific approach to the maximum; on aspects of learning assessment including the number of instruments and assessment formats that must be prepared.