• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2000

The purpose of this study is to investigate the present status of environmental education administration in the middle schools of Seoul City and to find problems to be solved environmental education in middle schools. To accomplish these purpose surveys for middle school teachers in Seoul was conducted, and evaluation reports of school environmental education of 1998 were analyzed. The results indicated that both schools and Ministry of Education offered few evaluation standards related to environmental education. Most schools abolished division of environmental affairs because of the reorganization of school system, which focuses on subject and aptitude-based education. In addition, environmental education and related activities were maily the responsibilities of division of science education. The teachers responded that such activities as organization and management of mothers'social service, management of environment day, use of environmental conservation card, and establishment of conservation area were not effective and should be abolished. The conclusion from this study are that environmental education can be effective only when goals of environmental education are included in school evaluation, and the division of environmental affairs should be revived and systematically operated in school.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.107-126
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• 2001

The interest in environmental issues and the awareness of the importance of environmental education have been increasing. This research was carried out in part to respond to such a change, and it aims to search for and suggest ways to strengthen subject-based environmental education in Korea, the most significant part of the formal environmental education. One of the most important of this research was understanding the present status of environmental education of elementary, middle, and high schools in Korea, which was conducted by the questionnaire survey targeted to teachers on the subject-based environmental education. The survey was carried out comprehensively to include respondents from technical and home economics course as well as from vocational high schools. Through this survey, we gained information on the awareness of teachers and students on the objective, learning-teaching strategies and evaluation of environmental education as well as an understanding of the present status of environmental education in schools of Korea.

• 한국환경복원기술학회지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.57-66
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• 2008

This study, with teachers form elementary schools in Chungju-si as its subjects, has investigated influence of school forest on satisfaction with school greenspace and environmental education. It has reached the following conclusions. As for recognition of and satisfaction of school greenspace there were meaningful differences between teachers form school forest model schools and ones from common schools, which was thought to be due to positive effects of school forest movement. It appeared that environmental education was carried out through audio-visual materials once a week in most schools. On the other hand, as for class places, 'classroom in parallel with outdoor class' and 'classroom education' appeared to be carried out most frequently in the case of school forest model schools, and 'classroom education' in the case of common schools. However, considering the fact that 'field learning' the most important element in environmental education, appeared to be carried out least frequently in both of the groups, which suggests that we should improve it for future through introduction of various field-experience learning programs. As a result of the survey of satisfaction with environmental education, some meaningful differences were recognized between school forest schools and common schools, and 'presence or absence of field learning spaces' was the most frequently answered reason for 'satisfied' and 'unsatisfied'. Thus, 'schools' and related institutions' enthusiastic efforts are needed for providing field-experience spaces where children can directly access to and explore into nature.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.272-289
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to compare and analyze the educational philosophy, goal, method, content, and environment of ecologically-oriented alternative elementary schools and suggest several practical methods for alternative education. Both ecologism and alternative education pursue sustainable values. The educational content of ecologically-oriented alternative elementary schools, analyzed from the view of sustainable development, focuses most on the natural resources, biodiversity, and sustainable food production, and also include human rights, peace and security, unification, cultural diversity, and health food in terms of the social sustainability and sustainable production and consumption concerning economic sustainability. This study should help environmental education become establish its possibility and position as alternative education and be recognized of its educational value. Furthermore, based on the cases of ecologically-oriented alternative elementary schools that are becoming 'garden of environmental education' as sustainable development education, it should lead to 'education communicating with environmental education at schools'.

• 환경정책연구
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.95-118
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• 2014

환경교육은 기후변화에 대처하는 가장 근본적이고 중요한 방안이라고 할 수 있다. 환경부가 지정하고 재정적으로 지원하는 환경교육시범학교 제도의 운영은 환경교육 강화의 효과를 검증하기 위한 자연실험(natural experiment) 환경을 제공한다. 2011년 14차 환경교육시범학교로 지정된 학교 학생들의 가구와 인근 지역의 비시범 학교 학생들의 가구에 대한 수도요금, 전기요금, 가스요금의 제 요금 설문자료를 활용하여, 환경교육시범학교 지정을 통한 학교 환경 교육의 강화가 학생들 가정에서의 에너지 절감에 단기적으로 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 difference-in-difference 추정을 통해 분석한다. 환경교육시범학교 지정을 통한 환경교육의 강화는 대상 가구의 전기요금과 가스요금을 비시범학교 대상 가구에 비해 유의한 수준으로 절감시키는 것으로 나타나, 학교 환경교육의 강화가 대상 가구에 파급효과를 가지고 있으며 이를 통해 단기적으로도 에너지 절감 행위를 강화시켜 줄 수 있는 것으로 분석되었다.

• 과학교육연구지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.320-326
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• 2010

이 연구에서는 대안학교의 생태중심주의적인 환경 교육의 실태를 조사하였다. 전국 42개 대안학교의 홈페이지와 학교 안내책자를 통해 각 학교의 교육목표와 교육과정, 그리고 환경 활동을 조사하였다. 또한 추가적인 정보를 조사하기 위하여 대안학교 교사를 대상으로 면담도 실시하였다. 연구 결과 생태주의를 지향하는 학교의 비율은 상대적으로 낮았지만 42개 대안학교 중 36개교(85.7%)의 교육 목표에 생태주의를 직 간접적으로 포함하고 있었다. 39개교에서 환경 관련 교과를 편성하고 있었는데, 이 과목들은 평균적으로 주당 3시간씩 운영되었다. 대안학교에서 가장 빈번하게 사용되는 환경 활동은 분리수거였고, 다음으로는 일회용품 사용 줄이기와 친환경 및 재활용 용품 사용하기였다. 자체 정화조 사용하기와 대체 에너지 사용하기도 환경 활동으로 실천되고 있었다. 이에 대한 교육적 함의를 논의하였다.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.54-68
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• 1998

With a theme of the ‘Environmental Education in Middle Schools’ and ‘Open Education’, this study has been aimed to suggest the improvements for environmental education through ‘Open Education’, which is nowadays emphasized in Korea. This study suggests that the following should be concluded in the syllabic for the environmental education; the environmental problems and their relations to the environments] education, the establishment of the model of environmental education system, the goal of environmental education and its characteristics, the analysis of environment-related subjects' contents, the teaching-learning methods for environmental education, and the applications of ‘Open Education’ to the environmental education. This study has found that the ‘Open Education’ would play a great role in increasing the effect of the environmental education, and thus it strongly recommends, as a necessity, that teaching skills and text for it should be developed as soon as possible.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제15권2호
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• pp.86-99
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• 2002

The purpose of this study is to make clear the management of Environmental Education in Elementary school in Korea. To accomplish this purpose, The research for the actual condition of management of Environmental Education according to school, grade, and class was progressed. The researcher was analyzed Hindrance Factors of Sound Environmental Education in School and presented some suggestion on the basis of above-mentioned findings. On one side, the method of research is a case study on qualitative based way. A case study was conducted with it's focus on public elementary school in Seoul. As for major research methods, observation by participating in school field and in-depth interview were respectively employed; subsidiary methods included literature study. The findings of this study are as belows: First, Environmental Education was not managed practically with specific way in school. Second, Environmental Education by direct and actual outdoor experience was unusual. Third, most of class school work about Environmental Education was focused on not only the type of prescription after the environmental problem but also, the treatment of articles in newspaper and TV. Forth, educational compulsion such as “you have to do that.” was mainly used as Environmental guidance for sound attitude in school without clear reasons. In the last analysis, hindrance factors of sound management for environmental education in elementary schools were ‘passive adjustment’, ‘discriminative reception’, ‘absence of information resource’. these factors came from atmosphere of negligence environmental education in schools. Therefore, all of teachers have to affirmative belief and attitude as personal dimension and all of elementary schools improve environmental education system.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제5권1호
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• pp.101-111
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• 1993

The Korean National Commission for Unesco has helped Korean Unesco Associated Schools undertake environmental studies within the framework of education for international understanding, cooperation and peace from 1991 - 1993. The environmental studies enjoyed participation by nine Associated Schools among 35 throughout the country, with each school on a different theme each year. Environmental studies by the Unesco Associated Schools are differentiated from those by the former continues to work on environmental or Provincial Boards of Education. The former continues to work on environmental education, longer than 1 - 2 years, and they can also capitalize on the international networks of the ASP, which may be instrumental to understanding the worldwide nature of the environmental issues these days. This paper contains a breif explanation of the cases of environmental studies by level of education from primary to teacher education level. It is argued that through the study, the students of Unesco Associated Schools well recognize the seriousness of environmental problems facing mankind and will have positive attitudes and values towards the preservation of our environment. It is also argued that the studies result in a variety of useful teaching/learning methods for environmental education: students visit to polluted areas. survey, composition of works with environmental themes such as posters, poems, organization of discussion by the students on environmental problems, exhibition, international correspondence, etc. The studies also have produced various helpful reaching/learning materials : photos, slides, scrapbooks of articles on environmental issues from newspapers, etc. However, several problems also emerged through the studies. A few of them are described here ; First, focus on the extra-curricula activity rather than regular curricula results in the neglect of the knowledge base of environmental education. Second, only a part of the all 35 Associated Schools have participated in the project. Third, primary and first secondary students have difficulty in using foreign language which is vital for international activities.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.123-137
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• 2006

Since 1985, the Ministry of Environment has supported environmental education in schools through Environment Conservation Model School initiative. Selected elementary, middle, high schools and kindergartens were designated as model schools for environment conservation programs every 2 years to develop model cases that can be adopted at other schools to promote more structured and effective environmental education. These supporting programs played a central role in developing an environmental education model for formal schools and enhance the importance of environmental education in school curriculum. This study aims to evaluate the current statues of environment conservation model schools and support to environment conservation model school initiatives which have created basic framework to enable the continued development of environmental education. For the study, documents and reports from 1985 to 2005 were analyzed, which included operation guidelines for model schools, case studies, implementation reports along with the systematic analysis of documentations. Also this study included interviews and a survey with people responsible for running programs, and consultation processes with experts to address the current status and issues related to Environment Conservation Model School initiative. Based on the present status and issues, the recommendations for improving Environment Conservation Model School initiative were provided.