Educational Management of Tatanén di Balé Atikan to Foster Students’ Environmental Care Character at Elementary Schools
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https://doi.org/10.58905/jse.v7i1.1.796Keywords:
Ecopedagogy, Educational Management, Elementary School, Environmental Care Character, Local Wisdom, Tatanén di Balé AtikanAbstract
Fostering environmental care character in elementary school requires structured educational management rather than incidental activity. This study describes how the Tatanén di Balé Atikan (TdBA) program, a Sundanese local-wisdom policy of the Purwakarta Regency Government in Indonesia, is managed through Terry’s Planning, Organizing, Actuating, and Controlling (POAC) functions, and how participants interpret that management as shaping students’ environmental care character. A qualitative multi-site case study was conducted at SDN 1 Sindangsari (rural) and SDN 2 Bojong Timur (semi-urban) from October 2025 to January 2026. Data were generated through 30 observation sessions; semi-structured interviews with 2 principals, 2 program coordinators, 6 classroom teachers, and 2 school supervisors; 4 focus group discussions with 20 students; and analysis of 68 program documents. The data were analyzed deductively against POAC with inductive sub-coding using the Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña model. Planning is embedded in school work plans and budgets; organizing operates through decreed task forces extended to student farmer groups; actuating follows the five Pancaniti stages and is modeled through kindness-based leadership; and controlling is the weakest function because evaluation evidence is documented unsystematically. Land availability explains most differences between the two sites. The first four Pancaniti stages are evidenced in group practice, whereas internalization (Niti Sajati) is indicated only for some students. Character outcomes are therefore reported as participant-perceived and observationally indicated rather than as measured gains.
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