Systematic Literature Review: Students' Sustainable Thinking Toward Environment
Abstract
Environmental issues are often debated in the mass media, thus indicating the need for improvement in existing efforts, primarily through the education system. It is common knowledge that environmental education is a curriculum integrated into several subjects, one of which is Moral Education. In addition, environmental sustainability is one of the elements across the curriculum applied in the Moral Education. This shows that the application of this education is crucial in helping to realize the goals of the Moral Education curriculum in line with the goals of sustainable development. Therefore, this article is presented to review the literature on students' sustainable thinking toward the environment. The researchers use the Systematic Literature Review methodology based on three stages of selecting relevant articles: identification, screening, and eligibility. The findings of this article showed that the level of sustainable thinking of students is still at a low level, while the application of environmental education is not satisfactory. This research integrated various research designs where studies were selected based on published standards. The articles used were those published from 2015 to 2022. This study selected articles using two leading databases, Scopus and Web of Science, and one supporting database, Google Scholar. This study is expected to be a source for other studies on sustainable thinking toward the environment.
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