The Use of Asset Based Community Development to Improve Clean and Healthy Life Patterns

Abstrac t---A clean and healthy life pattern should be implemented in daily lives so that any individual will not easily get sick. Its importance should be taught in early childhood for children. One of the strategies to teach is by applying an asset-based community development approach (ABCD). This research aims to improve cognition, motivation, and attitudes of fifth graders of Al Islam Islamic School Semarang by applying the ABCD approach. This is semi-experimental research with one group pretest and post-test design. The population was also used as the sample. It was the fifth grade of Al Islam Islamic School, consisting of 32 learners. The applied instrument was cognitive questions, motivation questionnaires, and a clean and healthy life pattern attitude questionnaire. The findings showed the implementation of the ABCD approach could improve cognition and motivation of the learners. However, the learners' attitude toward a clean and healthy life pattern did not show any improvement.