Growing up of science, technology, and phenomena in the global era becomes the challenge of the Indonesian nation in maintaining local wisdom. Elements of local wisdom contain the values of cultural excellence of the community associated with environmental conditions, so it needs to be integrated in learning in the form of character education. Integrating character in science learning, it is necessary to balance the four dimensions of science, that is: ways of thinking, ways of inquiry, knowledge, and science-technology-society. The science learning process should optimize the ways of thinking and the ways of inquiry to develop thinking skills and thinking strategies. Local wisdom can be optimized through Science Technology Society and Environment based learning. Implementation of the reference of international standards of science learning is expected to graduate Indonesian students able to face global competition.
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