DEVELOPMENT OF ECOPRENEURSHIP IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Ecopreneurship is an idea that has not been explored by researchers explicitly and become a learning innovation in the 21st century, but, implicitly this concept is believed to have been implemented in some elementary schools but no further research, therefore, this study aims to prove and give the description of ecopreneurship development in elementary school. This study used a qualitative approach through the descriptive method with the subject of research is 22 teachers in elementary school. Based on the research that has been done can be seen that the development of ecopreneurship in elementary school was integrated in the curriculum content in schools that have implications for the creation of intracurricular learning, extracurricular learning and display room based on the ecopreneurship's concept. Quantitatively, it can be seen that 81.2% of teachers have tried to apply the principles of ecology in classroom learning and 54.5% of teachers have tried to associate it with the principle of entrepreneurship. The results of this study become the basis of researchers in conducting further research, in addition to the results of this study is expected to be a reference for elementary school teachers in developing current learning in 21st century and it becomes a preventive effort, especially for Indonesia in preparing itself to Indonesia Gold 2045.