Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education (한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육)

The Korean Elementary Science Education Society (한국초등과학교육학회)
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The Development and Application of Education for Sustainable Development Program Using Community Resources

지역사회 자원을 활용한 지속가능발전교육 프로그램의 개발과 적용

  • Received : 2019.02.05
  • Accepted : 2019.02.27
  • Published : 2019.02.28
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop an education for sustainable development(ESD) program using community resources in Paju and to investigate the influences on ESD competencies of 6th graders. The community resources used were Unjeong lake park, environmental circulation center, environmental management center, currency museum, butterfly museum, experience center for peaceful unification, Yulgok arboretum, and Jangsan observatory. The newly developed program was related to creative-experience activity and composed of 15 sessions for 6th-grade class in elementary school, including all of the environmental, economic, and social aspects of ESD. Two classes of the 6th grade were divided into the experimental group and the control group. The results to examine the effects of the program were as follows. First, it was proven that ESD program using community resources did not help improving the perception and function competencies of learners except for the thinking abilities. Second, it contributed to the improvement of learners' attitude competencies, especially in self-reflective attitude and other-oriented attitude. Also, according to in-depth interview, the students were constantly developing their values for sustainable development, reflecting their thoughts and behaviors in a reflective way and improving their attitude toward life.

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Fig. 1. The instructional process of the experimental group.

Table 1. Perspective and core contents of ESD

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Table 2. The community resources of Paju utilized in the program

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Table 3. The details of questionnaire for the core competency evaluation in ESD

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Table 4. Detailed activities of ESD program using community resources

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Table 4. Continued

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Table 5. Changes in perception and function competencies after applying the ESD program

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Table 6. Results of covariance analysis on perception and function competencies

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Table 7. Changes in attitude competencies after applying the ESD program

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Table 8. Results of covariance analysis on attitude competencies

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