Character Building For Religious Moderation Through The Issue Of Climate Change In Vocational Higher Education Context

Abstract

Climate change is becoming an increasingly urgent and global threat in the scale of its impact. Students as future agents of change have a key role in responding to and overcoming the challenges of climate change. Therefore, a deeper understanding through the issue of climate change is expected to be able to shape the religious moderation character of students. The purpose of this research was to identify the relationship between understanding the issue of climate change and the formation of religious moderation character in Indonesian vocational higher education context. This study employed a qualitative  and quantitative research, targeting population being Electrical Engineering students comprising 8 classes and approximately 234 individuals who were enrolled in religion courses, the sample of respondents was chosen purposively including students from various religious beckgrounds. The research instrument used observation, interviews and questionnaires to respondents.  The results showed that there is a significant relationship between students' understanding of climate change issues and the formation of religious moderation character. The higher the students' understanding of climate change, the higher their level of religious moderation.