Formation Of Local Wisdom About Earth and Space: an Analysis Of Thinking Pattern

Abstract

Local wisdom has a role in reducing the impact of disasters. However, so far, local wisdom has not been a subject of study in disaster education. Kedu's residence in a disaster-prone area has a wealth of local wisdom that can be used as study material in disaster education. The phenomenon of disaster is related to the phenomena of earth and space so that the local wisdom of the community that can be used as material for study in disaster education is contained in the local wisdom of the community about earth and space phenomena. Therefore, to obtain data on local community wisdom about the disaster, a study of earth and space phenomena is needed. Study material in a scientific discipline must be scientific knowledge. The local wisdom of the community is not a scientific product. For this reason, scientific testing of the local community's livelihoods can be used as material for studies in disaster education. One way to test the
knowledge of a knowledge product is to analyze the reasoning pattern of the knowledge product. For this reason, this study aims to analyze the pattern of reasoning to be used as a study material in disaster education and to categorize knowledge in the local wisdom of the ex-Karisidenan Kedu people on Earth and Space as misconceptions or P-Prims. This study uses qualitative research methods with the type of The Investigation of Lived Experience with the type of Cognitive Psychology. The stages of this research are literature study, data collection, and data analysis. Data analysis using the method of fixed comparison with a sequence of work steps as follows: Organizing Data, Data Reduction, Categorization, Synthesis, Compiling "Work Hypothesis". This study produced 31 research data on the local wisdom of the community about earth and space phenomena in the ex-residency of Kedu and surrounding areas in Central Java. Analysis of the data shows that most local people's wisdom about earth and space phenomena in the ex-residency of Kedu and surrounding areas in Central Java is a myth that has developed in the community and is believed to last for years, and some are in the form of Indigenous Knowledge. Local wisdom in the form of myth forms misconceptions, while local wisdom in the form of Indigenous Knowledge forms P-Prims. From the results of the analysis, it can be concluded that the myths that are built upon natural phenomena in society occur because people try to explain these phenomena with acceptable explanations based on limited facts that are known to be related to these phenomena that are linked to their limited knowledge. Society tries to explain natural phenomena with limited knowledge to form conclusions in the form of non-science and approach science. Non-scientific conclusions form myths, while conclusions that approach science form Indigenous Knowledge.