CLIMATE CHANGE EDUCATION IN INDONESIA: A LITERATURE REVIEW

Abstract

Recently, climate change issue become critical to be researched due to its badly effects to human life. In response to this issue, UNESCO declared the importance of education and training in addressing climate change in providing education services. However, the climate change issue in education sector is still limited to research. Thus, the purpose of this study is to discover the trends of climate change topic in educational research, especially in context of teaching English as foreign language in Indonesia. A content analysis method, both quantitative and qualitative research are used in this study. A number of education research reports published for the past 10 years were examined, especially regarding topic of climate change issue in English Education. The research reports were form open sources by using keywords; climate change, English, and Education. However, the researchers found limited research about climate change issue in English education reports in Indonesia. It indicated that climate change topic was rarely studied in English education context, including in language classroom activities or lecturer material. It means that climate change issue in English education context still needed to be explored in future researches.  Thus, the researcher suggests other researcher to conduct more studies about inserting climate change topic in their research.