STEAM Approach to Improve Environmental Education Innovation and Literacy in Waste Management: Bibliometric Research

Abstract

The need for environmental literacy in development agenda has been pressing since the UN proposed the agenda of achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). One of the vital aspect of in sustainable development is about waste management to reduce earth’s pollution. Environmental Literacy were considered as one of the few perspectives necessary for SDGs to be achieved. Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), formerly known as Environmental Education, through science education is one way to develop the environmental literacy of the society through classroom activities. One approach that fits closely to this need is STEAM approach. STEAM is a combination of five different disciplines namely Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics. This approach has a room for developing students’ environmental literacy within its Arts aspect. Teaching Environmental literacy through STEAM would help students not only learning how to be a scientist or engineer, but also building their scientific awareness to environmental issue, which will be the underlying value of their STEM insight. This study seeks to find the current state of the arts of this concept through a bibliometric research. This research was conducted using the Publish or Perish application to create a database of journal articles, which further managed using Zotero application. After managing the database, this study classified and visualized the database using VOSviewer software. The terms “Environmental Literacy”, “STEAM”, and “waste management” were used to search the relevant published journal article related to all three concepts, as indexed in Google Scholar since 1969 to 2020. This study found only a total of 163 result from Google Scholar Index. Further refinement of the results shows that published research are still scarce in the last 51 years and in need of further study to strengthen the concept. Authors also discuss about several suggestions on how STEAM could be considered as a way to develop students Environmental Literacy on waste management.

Pengembangan Modul IPA Pada Materi Sistem Organ Dan Organisme Berbasis STEM-Inkuiri untuk Meningkatkan Literasi Sains

“…Modul yang dikembangkan berbasis STEM, materi yang termuat dikaitkan dengan empat pilar ilmu STEM dengan menggunakan model inkuiri terbimbing di dalamnya, agar peserta didik dapat lebih mudah memahami materi yang berkaitan dengan kehidupan sehari-hari. Penerapan pembelajaran berbasis STEM dari beberapa hasil penelitian telah terbukti dapat meningkatkan aktivitas belajar dan kemampuan berpikir kritis (Islamyah, Yasa, & Rachmawati, 2018), serta literasi sains peserta didik (Afriana et al, 2016;Syahmani Syahmani, Hafizah, Sauqina, Adnan, & Ibrahim, 2021).…”

Analysis of validity, practicality, and readability of islamic STEAM activity storybook for early childhood

“…However, the elements of the Pancasila Student Profile do not only focus on 21 stcentury thinking skills but also the relationship between the individual and the relationship with God, namely belief in the one and only God. The United Nations (UN) summarizes the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a world problem, and STEAM learning is part of solving these problems (Alabi et al, 2019;Hsiao & Su, 2021;Syahmani et al, 2021). Mehdi Ghalsani emphasized that so far, separating science and religion has brought the world into chaos, even though science and religion do not need to be a dichotomy because they can be integrated constructively to solve problems in human life (Hidayatullah, 2018;Rifenta, 2019;Syarif, 2018).…”

“…Based on these educational goals, the government launched Literacy and STEAM for children as superior programs to improve 21 st -century character and skills, referring to the values of Pancasila (Prastyo et al, 2021;Suryawati & Akkas, 2021;Syahmani et al, 2021;Walsiyam, 2021). Literacy teaches children to read and write and invites them to use reading to solve problems around them (Edwards & Potts, 2008;Koyuncu & F\irat, 2020;Machado, 2015).…”

A Bibliometrical Analysis of the Articles on Environmental Education Published between 1973 and 2019

“…As bibliometrical research has been attracting researchers, a significant amount of research with bibliometrical analyses have been published on topics such as STEM education, scientific literacy, astronomy, science misconceptions using various programs (e.g., CiteSpace, Vosviewer, R-Studio, etc.) (Effendi et al, 2020;Syahmani et al, 2021;Kurtuluş & Tatar, 2021). have conducted a bibliometrical analysis of the studies on astronomy education using Citespace.…”

“…Analyzing 859 articles published in the last 33 years on the topic, the study has revealed the research tendencies on the topic. Syahmani et al (2021) have conducted a bibliometrical analysis utilizing Vosviewer program and used "environmental literacy", "STEAM" and "waste management" keywords to scan the articles published in Google Scholar between 1969 and 2020. There are also bibliometrical analysis studies conducted on environmental education on topics such as solid waste, water footprint, carbon education, atmospheric pollution, climate change (Fu et al, 2010;Zhang et al, 2017;Hudha et al, 2020;Li et al, 2017).…”