Implementation of ecohistory to increase community disaster mitigation awareness in volcanic environments in East Java

Nowadays, environment-based learning and disaster mitigation are important needs considering the many impacts caused by climate change and the low role of the education sector in the environmental awareness education process. So far, information about disasters, their origins, ways of coping, and their impacts is often only obtained through the media, not yet arrivedimplemented in an integrated manner in the formal curriculum according to the request of Pillar Three SPAB (Disaster Safe Education Unit). To realize this, it is necessary to implement an Ecohistory learning model that is environmentally-based and disaster mitigation with a multidimensional and participatory approach. The purpose of this implementation is to increase students’ awareness of disaster mitigation about the East Java volcanic environment from a historical point of view. The method used in this research is action research which is carried out in two cycles consisting of planning, implementation, observation, evaluation and reflection stages. Data were collected through observations, interviews, and questionnaires. The results showed that the implementation of ecohistory was able to increase awareness of disaster mitigation in the volcanic environment in East Java.