Abstrak. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memperoleh gambaran secara komprehensif mengenai keterampilan berpikir kritis siswa yang memperoleh pembelajaran RADEC berorientasi penyelidikan. Metode penelitian yang digunakan yaitu mixed methods, dengan sampel sebanyak 29 orang mahasiswa PGSD. Instrumen yang digunakan yaitu tes keterampilan berpikir kritis mengacu pada 5 aspek Critical Thinking Abilities yang dikembangkan Ennis (2011). Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa PGSD pada materi perkembangbiakan pada tumbuhan melalui pembelajaran RADEC berorientasi penyelidikan  memiliki kategori cukup (53,4%). Adapun keterampilan berpikir kritis tertinggi pada aspek the bases for a decision (59,1%) dan persentase terendah pada aspek basic clarification (44,5%). Hasil uji hipotesis menggunakan software SPSS 22 menunjukkan bahwa tidak terdapat perbedaan yang signifikan keterampilan berpikir kritis antara mahasiswa PGSD perempuan dan laki-laki. Namun demikian, nilai rata-rata keterampilan berpikir kritis perempuan (55,3) lebih besar daripada laki-laki (45,8), maka dapat disimpulkan keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa PGSD perempuan lebih tinggi daripada keterampilan berpikir kritis mahasiswa PGSD laki-laki.Kata kunci: Keterampilan berpikir kritis, RADEC, Penyelidikan

Indonesia with a variety of tribes and cultural diversity also has a variety of traditional ceremonial rites. The city of Blitar as part of this country also has various rites, one of which is Grebeg Pancasila. The purpose of this research is to describe multiliteration in the Grebeg Pancasila rite in order to preserve the history of the birth of the Pancasila. The approach and type of research used in this study is descriptive qualitative with the library research method (library research). Multiliteration which is examined in the Grebeg Pancasila rite includes religion literacy, cultural literacy, human literacy, beauty literacy, media and technology literacy, number literacy, economic literacy, reading literacy, communication literacy and others. This is an action taken to commemorate and preserve the spirit of struggle in upholding Pancasila as the philosophy of life of the Indonesian people.

Sundanese culture in the care of children is known as kakawihan. Realized or not, a kakawihan which is sung by parents when caring for children is the process of introducing early literacy, especially related to literacy in the scope of Sundanese culture and language. As time goes by, the flow of globalization that infiltrated every part of life in Indonesian society slowly eroded the culture of each ethnicity, including the culture of the Sundanese people, one of which was kakawihan which was used to nurture children. In this case, the researcher conducted a study aimed at obtaining a comprehensive picture of the value of early literacy in kakawihan which is used to care for children. This study uses the content analysis method. The research techniques used are in the form of document studies, observations, and interviews. Based on the results of the study, it was found that kakawihan used to care for children contained early literacy values within the scope of Sundanese language and culture. Kakawihan is used in caring for children, besides being used by the closest people, it is also done with compassion to foster phonological awareness, knowledge of letters, and children's vocabulary in Sundanese.

Environmental education aims at making students to have environmental literacy. Student with environmental literacy will be able to behave respectfully and be environmentally responsible. This study examines comprehensively about environmental literacy in the classroom learning based on Sundanese Local Wisdom through literature method. This research resulted in a basic paradigmatic view of the local wisdom of Sundanese people drawn from the concept of life of the Kanekes community. The basic ideology of the Kanekes community connects the environment with human life. "Natural balance" becomes the main pioneer in the survival of the Kanekes community. Customary local wisdom, a social and cultural condition in which the repertoire of cultural values is contained which respects and is adaptive to the surrounding environment, and is arranged in a strict order of the customs of a society. Although often considered ancient, the values they teach are still the best way to preserve the environment in post-modern times.

Reading is important to students' academic achievement and contains a problematical process. One important aspect of teaching reading has been ignored, that is the need to teach students the suitable reading approaches. In this study we investigated the use of reading approaches in developing students' reading competency on Javanese language among primary school teachers. For the purpose of the study, twenty school teachers from jepara central java have been randomly selected as the research subjects. A questionnaire survey was administered to define whether the teachers have knowledge of reading approaches and to demonstrate their students. The findings of the study indicated that while teachers were responsive of the use of reading strategies in developing reading capabilities on javanese language, they did not completely utilized them in teaching reading to primary school students. Effective reading approaches such as setting context, recitation the text to students and predicting or interpreting transcript were less frequently used. Other than, teachers also unsecsessful to encourage students' interaction with the script.