Kritik Sastra Lingkungan Pengantar, Pendekatan, Teori, dan Implementasin ya di Dunia Pendidikan

Abstract

Strengthening character in education has been the president's
main mission since 2016. In fact, he emphasized that character
education is the spearhead of the national character revolution that is
mentioned in the ideals of the Indonesian nation. The regulation in
strengthening the character of education was clearly be implemented
by the Minister of Education and Culture which is contained in the
formulation of character education values, including: Religious,
Honesty, Tolerance, Discipline, Hard Work, Creative, Independent,
Democratic, Curiosity, National Spirit, Love the Motherland, Respect
for Achievement, Friendly/ Communicative, Peace, Love to Read, Care
for the Environment, Social Care, and Respon- sibility (Putry, 2019)
Vise verse with the reality, due to the earth day at 22nd April 2020, this
book which is focuses on Eco criticism area as one of the solutions of
the bad pollution in Indonesia. As a result of deforestation and peat
lands, Indonesia has become a country the third largest polluter in the
world after America and China. From 85% of emissions produced by
Indonesia, comes from forest destruction and land conversion
peat(Central Bureau of Statistics, 2019).
Various ways have been done by the government to tackle this
environmental crisis, but the solutions taken by the government only
are not enough. The root of the basic and long-term problem lies in
the community's habit of caring for the environment. So, the aim of
this book is to build up long term awareness of the important of good
environment from an early age especially at school. In accordance
with the government regulation in the Strengthening of Character
Education, this book becomes a bridge to improve the regulation
especially the regulation to care the environment. The need for
curriculum development must be carried out in all lines of education,
especially the outputs that support the government program. 

Therefore, the bookers need to prepare a specific scientific output
system to support good character in education specifically for the
future teachers in Mojokerto. And most responsible ones is the
university who produce the educators. The largest University in
Mojokerto was Islamic University of Majapahit and there is faculty
there namely; Teacher Training and Education, English Education
study program, Islamic University of Majapahit Mojokerto at the
Literary Appreciation course using the Eco Criticism approach to
strengthen the character of the national values in Environmental Care
sector.
This book was the improvement of previous book that focused on
improving writing skills using a literary ecology approach with the
title " The Implementation of Eco Criticism Approach for Healthy
Earth and Strengthen the English Writing Skill of Literary
Appreciation Class at Islamic University of Majapahit -
Mojokerto" (Saifulloh, 2019) as the basic foundation of further book
that will be developed in this book. Previous book has had good
implementation outputs, but there are several evaluations that need
improvement, especially in the field of teaching materials as a guide
for lecturers. So the focus of this book is about how to develop
teaching materials with ecological literature approach at the course of
"Literary Theories and Appreciation” used by the fifth semester
student of English Education Program Faculty at Teacher Training and
Education Islamic University of Majapahit Mojokerto.