Teachers’ Views on Integrating Environmental Education for Aboriginal Students

Abstract

This study was investigate the teachers’ views on integrating environmental education in terms of the definition, the importance, and the environmental education approach in aboriginal school. Data were collected through interviews using purposive sampling from six primary and six secondary school’s teachers who were teaching in Aboriginal schools in Pahang, Malaysia. The
verbatim transcript was analyzed manually based on incorporated the same code into several categories until the theme and sub-themes of the teachers’ views emergence regarding the environmental education in aboriginal school students. Results showed that the teachers implemented environmental education through fostering of environmental values in subject taught, creating clean environment in classroom, writing essay related environment issues, and stimulating the students' thinking through observation. However, environmental awareness programs conducted by the schools are limited. Therefore, the teachers must have competencies in integrating environmental education through subject matter and established by the role of
related stakeholders to aboriginal community.