Disaster Mitigation Learning Using Katumbiri Model in Early Childhood Education

Abstract

Currently, many disasters occur in all corners of the world, and no one can avoid it, including children. Children are individuals who are still weak and need protection, and the provision of knowledge and skills so that they can protect themselves from every disaster that befalls them. Children’s resilience to disasters must be physically and mentally strong, so disaster mitigation teaching is needed for children who integrate Islamic values so that children can become individuals who have mental strength and are aware that every disaster has various life lessons to make every human always be grateful and better. Therefore, the model used in teaching is the Katumbiri disaster mitigation model, which is a disaster mitigation learning model that is in accordance with children’s development and integrates Islamic values. The method used in this research is a pre-experiment, and a one group pretest-posttest design. The method started with a pretest activity to determine children’s understanding of disaster mitigation and ended with a posttest that was conducted to determine the level of understanding of children after using the Katumbiri disaster mitigation learning model. The results of the research prove that there is a significant difference between the children’s abilities on the pretest results and the children’s abilities on the posttest results. This showed that there is a significant effect of teaching disaster mitigation using the Katumbiri model on children’s understanding and skills related to disaster mitigation.