Enhancing the Role of Early Childhood Education Institution in an Effort to Grow Ecoliteracy

Eco literacy is an effort to embody sustainable community that is community who organize their life by considering the importance of life environment protection and preservation. This article aim to describe how important that Eco literacy should be possessed by each individual today and how the effort that should be done by early childhood education institution in an effort to grow Eco literacy in individual from early age. The method which is used is bibliography study. From result of explanation, it can be stated that Eco literacy should be implanted to each individual from early age, because early childhood is period of intellectual development and period of behavior shaping. In early childhood various stimulus which are given will become foundation for a child in his/her future life. Because of that, early childhood education institution should be play a role in embodying individual who has ecological literacy ( Eco literacy) by implementing comprehensive effort, from developing environmental concept policy, implementing environmental based curriculum, building eco-friendly school culture and managing eco-friendly infrastructure.