• Hwankyungkyoyuk
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.103-113
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• 2000

The 7th national curriculum for environmental education in elementary and secondary school focuses on consideration of learner's ability, learner's activities, and learner's region of everyday life. The contents of environmental education are scattered subjects in elementary schools and an independent subject as 'Environment'in middle school and 'Environment and Ecology'in high school of the second school. With upgrading of schools, the aims and activities of environmental learning move up from value-centered, through activity-oriented and to cognition-centered.

• Journal of Korean Home Economics Education Association
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• v.22 no.2
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• pp.31-43
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• 2010

We investigated the extent of recognition and the rate of class practice on the contents relevant to the environmental education in the units of 'Clothing Life' of the 7th 'Technology-Home Economics' curriculum in Korean middle school teachers. Two hundred sixty teachers, who had taught the units of 'Clothing Life' and responded to the questionnaires by mail from December 2007 to January 2008, were enrolled and each item in the questionnaires was analyzed in this study. Most teachers recognized the serious environmental issues in their residential area resulting in a harmful influence on their lives. Also they exhibited increased practice will such as joining to the environmental organizations and showed high practice of the environmental preservation. They commented relatively high rate of class practice on the contents relevant to the environmental education and enhanced practice of the environmental preservation in all units of 'Clothing Life' of the 7th 'Technology-Home Economics' curriculum except the units of 'Clothing Skill and Dress Clothes' and 'Simple Clothes Making'. Moreover, teachers with higher age and longer teaching career had the higher level of recognition and the greater rate of class practice on the environmental education compared to those without. Teachers should try to raise the students' recognition and practice will on the environmental issues in the class of 'Clothing Life' of the 7th 'Technology-Home Economics' curriculum in Korean middle school.

• Hwankyungkyoyuk
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• v.16 no.1
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• pp.1-11
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• 2003

The discussion about environmental education is a little new concept which emerged remarkably in late 1960s. The environmental education means the educational curriculum which make sure value understanding and conception to develop function and attitudes necessary for the proper understanding and evaluating the interaction between human beings and physical environment Centenng an important geographical paraingm for 'the interaction between human beings and physical environment', to make the students understand the concept of environment and know environmental problems are the tasks to be pursued in environmental education courses in the middle school geography classes. The reasonable understanding of environmental problems and voluntary participation through the efficient environmental education in middle school geography classes, not only the systemization of educational curriculum and other needed changes mentioned above, but also the development of policy and institution in national government accompanying with earnest attention and effort must be made in environmental education and other environment-related fields.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Environmental Edudation Conference
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• 2004.08a
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• pp.48-55
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• 2004

In Korea almost all subjects in school teach environmental education. In such situation it is difficult that the environmental subject as a regular stand-alone subject for environmental education establishes its own individuality. In many cases it and the other subjects teach identical contents with the nearly same methods. Such redundancy could make students lose their interest in the topics that were already taught by other subject. And the environmental subject and the other subjects might compete with one another rather than cooperate. To avoid such negative effects we need to partition their roles. For example, the other subjects focus on teaching their own knowledge and skills related to environmental problems. And the environmental subject focuses on encouraging students to possess environmental attitude and to participate in environmental activities. Above all, the environmental subject needs to teach the social nature of environmental problems and the social process through which we make a decision on the problems. It should let students experience highly integrated process of environmental decision. In order to establish the individuality of the environmental subject I discussed its goals and contents. I hope that the related persons in all the subjects start to deeply discuss the partitioning of roles, with open mind, in order to effectively achieve the goal of environmental education in school.

• Hwankyungkyoyuk
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• v.23 no.3
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• pp.50-61
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• 2010

As the influence of mankind's actions grows on the earth's climate, the necessity of climate change education is increasing everyday. Therefore, this study will discuss desirable courses about climate changes education that can be used throughout the world. It is meaningful to try to compare the contents and scope of earth global warming education courses of different nations. where education and a research about earth global warming occur simlutaneously. This is key because global warming is not just a national issue, but an international issue. Therefore this study need to understand the status of environmental education is over the world to devise an improvement plan help to solve the problem of climate change on an international level. Therefore, this study compared, the global warming educational contents which appeared in Korean textbooks to Japanese and American textbooks, and analyzed commonalities and differences of each. Also, we will discuss desirable global warming educational instructional strategies. This study analyzed the present situation of nations by looking at common points and differences using an analysis form. Even though the researchers of an each nation analyzed the teaching material through common analysis forms, this study utilized a common analysis method with a colleague researcher regarding environmental education, environment, environmental science to increase the validity of the study in each nation. Also the difference and similarities were aggregated as This study collected the analysis results of each nation. The researchers utilized the results of the analyses to engage in repeated discussion and the sharing of results.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.84-92
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• 2010

We analyzed learning materials from web sites of the Ministry of Environments, the Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs and Korea Energy Management Corporation to help people to develop and utilize web-based multimedia teaching materials. The contents of web-based multimedia teaching materials for environmental educations were generally concentrated in 304 cases of natural environments (22.1%), 250 cases of environmental contaminations (16.5%) and 187 cases of environmental preservation plans (12.4%). It did not significantly deviate from traditional teaching-learning contents being conducted focusing on environmental pollutions of the past. The types of web-based multimedia teaching materials for environmental educations were 934 cases of teaching plans (61.8%), 156 cases of documentaries (10.3%) and 128 cases of e-text information (8.5%). The web-based multimedia teaching materials by school-levels showed that there were 796 for primary schools (35.3%), 588 for middle schools (26.1%) and 320 for high schools (14.2%). It also showed that environmental education with similar contents were provided even in advanced schools. Therefore, it is believed that there needs development of various types of teaching materials while the fields of environmental education contents are covered with connectivity according to school-levels.

• Hwankyungkyoyuk
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.112-120
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• 2010

The study first reviewed the significance, enactment process, and future challenges for growth of the Environmental Education Promotion Act first proclaimed in Korea in March, 2008. Then it sorted out the drafts about the plans for the overall growth of environmental education, which were researched and developed in the national level Environmental Education Master Plan based on the act, their major tasks in each field, and research plans to be promoted. Its findings will provide reference to the efficient operation of the act and the plans for the overall growth of environmental education.

• Hwankyungkyoyuk
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• v.24 no.4
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• pp.51-61
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• 2011

In this study, the Korean alternative school teachers' perceptions of ecocentric environmental education were surveyed. A total of 80 teachers from 42 alternative schools across the nation answered to the survey. The results were as follows. Teachers were found to have a lot of interest in environmental issues and to practice some environmental actions inside and outside school. Over sixty percent teachers agreed with the ecocentric philosophy of environmental education. The most two important issues among 11 environmental education contents for teachers were "natural environment" and "environmental ethics". Teachers used and preferred "field work" for teaching environmental issues, and got teaching materials mostly from the internet. However, many of them were not satisfied with environmental activity in their schools because of their lack of professionalism. They had not enough experience of professional development for environmental education, and strongly wanted to learn about field work.

• Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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• v.14 no.1
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• pp.12-23
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• 1994

This study was conducted to investigate the status and the problem of environmental education in schools. For this investigation, sub-goals to the general goal for environmental education such as knowledge, awareness, attitude, skill, participation, and evaluation were classified. The contents and objects of the environment-related chapters in elementary and secondary school science texts and of the materials for environmental education were analyzed. Resultingly, the content and objects focused on the cognitive domain such as knowledge and skill category in science texts($85{\sim}92\;%$) and in the materials for environmental education($70{\sim}84\;%$). The result indicated that the objects of the cognitive domain were heavily emphasized in the present environmental education.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Environmental Edudation Conference
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• 2002.12a
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• pp.79-85
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• 2002

Inquiry activity contents presented at a chapter on natural environment and our lives in 6 science textbooks of the middle school were analyzed based on kinds of the inquiry Loaming classified by textbook. The number of inquiry activity subjects showed severe variation as mean value was 8.3${\times}$3.7 ranged from 4 to 15. Moreover, textbooks had little common point among each other as the percentage of subjects appeared together in the textbooks more than 3 kinds, 50% of total ones investigated, was just 26.3%. Data interpretation occupied significant position in the inquiry activity as 42% of total activity contents, whereas observation and experiment (or survey) did slight part of the activity as 10% and 16%, respectively even though they are main factors of science education. A model for field education based on the reasonable common subjects was prepared in the Gildong ecological park located In the eastern fringe of Seoul as a plan in order to solve the problems.