• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제17권10호
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• pp.1183-1193
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• 2008

Today, environmental pollution and destruction due to the industrialization of our modem society have been the global issues. Although now we can lead affluent lives through science technologies and economic development, these environmental problems have resulted in striking the harmonious balance between human beings and nature and threatened human lives with abnormal weather caused by the global warming, destruction of the ozone layer, and El Nino phenomenon, acid rain, decrease in species diversity, movement of hazardous materials, and harmful waste increase. We are aware of the importance of environmental education, but in reality, it seems impossible to implement appropriate environmental education on account of our educational climate which exclusively focuses on the entrance examination. However, environmental education is the most ultimate solution for those problems in that only when students understand our environment fully and grow habits to protect it through environmental education, the present environmental problems can be solved and more serious problems that can be resulted in the future can possibly be prevented. Thus, this study has examined the effect of using image media in the environment subject on students' environmental sensitivity. According to the results, it was shown that it had positive effects on 'sensitivity of environment', 'attitudes towards environment', and 'environmental affinitive behaviors'.

• Educational Technology International
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.45-68
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• 2006

Living in the Information Age, schools and teachers are expected to utilize new information technology in education to make teaching more effective. In Japan, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has been strongly implementing policies to promote information education (IE) in schools since 1988. According to a survey in 2005 (Japan MEXT, 2005), 100% of high schools in Japan at present have computers and the Internet connections. However, videoconferencing systems have only been introduced only in a small number of schools. This paper is the result of a pilot research to see the effects of using a videoconferencing system in a Japanese high school. The purpose of the research was to clarify the effects of introducing videoconferencing system in a Japanese high school and of utilizing it for conferences with other schools abroad on the studies of global issues. The target students were in the 12th Grade in the year 2006. The counterpart school was an Australian high school in Sydney and the conferences were held in English. International discussions on global warming were conducted between the Japanese and Australian students. Affective competence and cognitive competence were measured using questionnaires and worksheets given to students both before and after the videoconferences. The results showed that both cognitive and affective competences rose after each videoconference. Not only the students who actively participated in the conference but also those who were in the audience showed positive effects. In the field of international cooperation on global issues, especially, the effects were large. These results suggest that in order to teach global issues in which international effort and cooperation are needed, direct contacts with foreign students are effective in increasing student cognitive and affective competences. On the other hand, as English was the main communication tool in the conferences, Japanese students faced a certain difficulty in communication. Also, teachers, especially English teachers, were required to make great efforts to assist students in preparing for the conferences. The effectiveness of an international videoconference depends largely on students' English skills and teachers' efforts.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제45권4호
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• pp.182-189
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• 2021

Background: Organism body size is a basic characteristic in ecology; it is related to temperature according to temperature-size rule. Butterflies are affected in various aspects by climate change because they are sensitive to temperature. Therefore, this study was conducted to understand the effect of an increase in temperature due to global warming on the wing of butterflies. Results: A total of 671 butterflies belonging to 9 species were collected from 1990 to 2016 in Seoul (336 specimens) and Mokpo (335 specimens). Consequently, as the mean temperature increased, the wing length of the species increased. However, there are exceptions that the Parnassius stubbendorfii, Pieridae canidia, and Pieris rapae wing length of Seoul increased, but the butterfly wing length of Mokpo decreased. Conclusions: The positive correlations between the butterfly wing length and mean temperature showed that the change of mean temperature for about 26 years affects the wing length of butterfly species. The exception is deemed to have been influenced by the limited research environment, and further studies are needed. We would expect that it can be provided as basic data for studying effect of climate change.

• 한국초등과학교육학회지:초등과학교육
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• 제28권2호
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• pp.142-153
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to survey primary students' perception of the global and local environmental issues. The subjects were 853 fifth primary students in Seoul, Busan, Daejeon, Anyang, Gimpo and Cheongju. The results were as follows: First, the perception level of the global environmental issues were global warming (M=3.99), drinking-water pollution (M=3.92), acid rain (M=3.77), yellow dust (M=3.66), ozone depletion (M=3.57), deforestation in tropical areas (M=3.52), desertification (M=3.36), biodiversity (M=3.40) and their perception level of local environmental issues were waste disposal (M=3.87), air pollution (M=3.74), bad smell (M=3.70), noise (M=3.61), river pollution (M=3.57), soil pollution (M=3.44). Second, it was shown that the metropolitan students' perception levels of environmental issues were higher than the non-metropolitan students'. There wasn't a significant difference in the perception levels of two scale environmental issues and characteristics for sex (p>.05). Third, the result of analyzing on the effects between characteristics was that the factors like 'environmental interest' and 'impact on personal life' had a strong influence on the 'behavior will' to solve the global environmental issues, and 'environmental interest' and 'personal knowledge' had a strong influence on the 'behavior will' to solve the local environmental issues. Fourth, the result of analyzing on the characteristics according to the types of the environmental issues showed that 'personal knowledge', 'environmental interest' and 'behavior will' were high in the global environmental issues (p<.01) and 'virtual contamination', 'human responsibility' and 'impact on personal life' were high in the local environmental issues (p<.05).

• 한국과학교육학회지
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• 제31권2호
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• pp.181-197
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• 2011

본 연구의 주요 내용은 한국과 싱가포르의 초, 중, 고 학생들이 지구 온난화 완화를 위한 행동들에 대해 어느 정도의 신념과 행동 의지를 가지고 있으며 그 둘 사이의 일관성 정도는 어떠한지 조사하는 것이다. 또 한 신념과 행동 의지 사이의 회귀 분석을 통해 교육에 의해 행동 의지를 개선할 수 있는 가능성이 높은 행동 이 무엇인지에 대해 시사점을 얻고자 하였다. Boyes et al.(2009)에 의해 개발된 설문을 이용하여 지구 온난화의 완화를 위한 행동 16가지에 대한 학생들의 신념과 행동 의지를 5단계 척도의 문항을 통해 조사하였다. 설문 대상은 한국과 싱가포르 6, 7, 8, 9, 10학년학생 2,389명이다(한국 1,446명, 싱가포르 943명). 연구 결과 행동 의지 면에서는 한국과 싱가포르에서 공통적으로 '가정에서 전기를 절약하는 것'에 대한 행동 의지가 가장 높은 반면 '원자력 발전에 의한 전기 사용'에 대한 행동 의지가 가장 낮았다. 또한 가정에서 혹은 사회적으로 공동으로 실천할 수 있는 행동에 대한 행동 의지가 다른 기타의 항목들에 비해 상대적으로 높은 경향이 있었다. 신념 면에서는 개인 승용차 보다는 대중 교통을 이용하는 것, 나무를 많이 심는 것, 재활용을 늘이는 것 등 이산화탄소의 배출을 줄이는 대표적인 행동은 지구 온난화 완화를 위한 행동으로 양국에서 모두 널리 인식되고 있었으나 육식을 줄이는 것(즉 메탄의 발생을 줄이는 것)이 지구온난화 완화를 위한 행동이라는 것은 양국 모두에서 가장 낮게 인식되었다. 전반적으로 싱가포르 학생들이 지구 온난화 완화를 위한 행동들에 대한 행동 의지가 한국보다 높았으며 보다 많은 항목들에 대해 높은 수준의 신념을 나타냈다. 신념과 행동 의지 사이의 일관성을 살펴보면 신념이 행동 의지보다 높은 문항이 많았는데 대표적인 것으로 한국의 경우 '교통 수단 이용과 관련된 것', '발전 방식과 관련된 것'이 차이가 많이 났으며 싱가포르의 경우 '발전 방식과 관련된 것'에서만 차이가 많았다. 이들 내용에 대해서는 강한 신념을 보인 학생 수가 강한 행동 의지를 보인 학생 수보다 전체의 30%이상 많았다. 개인별로 신념과 행동 의지 사이의 일관성 정도를 살펴보기 위해 행동 의지 점수에서 신념의 수를 뺀 값으로 개인의 반응 지수를 구하여 분석한 결과 한국이 -0.14, 싱가포르가 -0.05의 값을 나타냈다. (-)값은 신념에 비해 행동 의지가 낮은 것을 나타내며 싱가포르의 반응 지수가 한국에 비해 유의미하게 높았다. 즉 싱가포르 학생들이 신념과 행동의지가 좀 더 일관적이었다. 신념과 행동 의지 사이의 회귀 계수와 현재 낮은 행동 의지를 '원자력 발전에 의한 전기 사용'이었다. 이상과 같은 결과를 종합해 보면 지구 온난화 완화에 대한 행동 의지, 신념, 그리고 그 둘 사이의 연관성 정도는 특정 행동에 따라 그리고 국가에 따라 다른 양상으로 나타나지만 양국 사이에 많은 공통점이 있다는 것을 알 수 있다. 또한 전반적으로 볼 때 싱가포르 학생들이 지구 온난화에 대한 행동 의지와 신념이 높았고 이 둘 사이의 일관성도 좀 더 높은 것으로 나타났다.

• 환경생물
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• 제37권1호
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• pp.82-87
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• 2019

지구온난화는 농업생태계를 포함한 지구상 다양한 생태계에 생물계절, 생리, 분포 등 변화를 줌으로써 큰 영향을 미치고 있다. 지구온난화로 인한 생물상 반응을 모니터링하는 것은 기후변화가 초래한 위기로 생물다양성을 보전할 수 있는 답을 얻기 위한 하나의 노력이다. 우리나라에서는 농업생태계 기후변화지표종으로 배추흰나비, 노랑나비, 호랑나비, 남방노랑나비 4종을 선정하였다. 이 연구에서는 농업생태계에서 나비를 모니터링하기 위한 서로 다른 방법을 적용한 후 가장 적절하게 여겨지는 방법을 제시하고자 실시하였다. 나비 모니터링은 전국에서 8지점을 대상으로 2018년 4월부터 10월까지 월 1~2회 실시하였다. 조사방법은 세가지로 농지에서 점 조사, 여러 농촌 경관과 산지를 포함하는 점 조사, 농지와 산지를 포함한 경로를 따라 조사하는 선 조사법이었으며 조사 시간은 모두 30분으로 동일하게 진행하였다. 조사결과 총 92종 4691개체가 확인되었으며 배추흰나비가 1205개체로 가장 우점하였으며 네발나비, 남방부전나비, 노랑나비, 암먹부전나비 순으로 나타났다. 세 방법 간 총 나비종 수와 개체수는 선 조사법에서 높았다. 기후변화지표종 4종을 대상으로 비교한 결과에서는 조사방법간 통계적인 차이가 나타나지 않았다. 이 연구를 통하여 농업생태계에서 기후변화에 따른 나비상 변화를 모니터링하기 위하여 선 조사법을 이용하는 것이 종 다양성과 풍부도면에서 효율적이라고 판단하며 이 방법을 전국적으로 시행하기 위해서는 사전 교육이 반드시 필요하다는 것을 제안한다.

• 보건의료생명과학 논문지
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.379-386
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• 2022

본 연구는 예비유아교사의 기후변화에 대한 인식을 알아보기 위해 G광역시 G대학교 예비유아교사 150명을 대상으로 하였다. 설문지를 수집하여 빈도와 백분율, 다중응답분석을 실시하였다. 연구결과 첫째, 예비유아교사의 기후변화 인식은 모두가 인지하고 있었으며, 온실효과 개념, 기후변화개념, 온실가스 종류에 대해 충분한 이해가 요구되며 과학적 지식이 부족한 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 예비유아교사의 기후변화와 인간과의 관계에 대해 지구온난화 원인과 기후변화신호에 대해 적절하게 인식하고 있으며 지구온난화 영향에 대한 인식은 높았으나 종합적인 이해는 부족한 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 예비유아교사의 기후변화 대응에 대해 기후변화협약은 어느 정도 알고 있으며 기후변화 방지 주체는 국제사회로 인식하고 기후완화노력은 개인에 한정되어 나타났다. 생활 속 탄소 배출 감소를 위한 실천내용에 있어서 대부분 잘 실천하고 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 기후변화에 대한 예비유아교사 교육프로그램 개발의 기초자료를 제공하고자 한다.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.80-88
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• 2008

As the gravity of the issue of the global warming surfaced, environmental protection and energy conservation have become one of the most serious issues that global society faces. At the status quo, there are criticisms for not effectively educating the students although the problem is very severe. In middle school, for instance, only 10% of the school offer environmental education while only $20{\sim}30%$ of the high school offer it. As witnessed by these examples, we can infer that there are not well-structured, effective environmental education for teenagers. Recently, NIE(Newspaper-In-Education) has been used as effective means for some fields of middle and/ or high school education. If so, it also could be used for environmental education. The researches, however, on the topic of NIE on environmental education are very rare. In this study, the effect of NIE on environmental education was empirically tested. Our basic assumption is that NIE will cause differences in environmental perception; the cognition and concern. And environment education through NIE will cause the high level of cognition, concern, and practice regarding environment issue. Using simple experimental design and regression analysis, we tested the effect of NIE on cognition, and, concern of environment issue, and then, on the practice of environment-improving action. The "cognition level" did not show significant difference between the experimental group(which was exposed to NIE) and control group(which was not exposed to NIE). The "concern level" for environment showed significant difference. Finally, the "practice level" showed highly significant difference between the experimental and the control group. According to regression analysis, "concern" and "NIE"(dummy variable) was turned out to be statistically significant variables for practice of environment improving action. Therefore, we came up with the conclusion that NIE, which provides the most up-to-date information regarding the environmental status, can serve as the good supplementary mechanism for the effective environment education in the present Korean middle school curriculum system. The statistical result also suggests that each individual school needs to employ and extend NIE method in its environment education curriculum.

• Nuclear Engineering and Technology
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• 제42권3호
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• pp.231-236
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• 2010

The growth in global energy demand and the increased recognition of the impacts of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel plants have aroused a renewed interest on nuclear energy. Many countries are looking afresh at building more nuclear power stations to deal with the twin problems of global warming and the need for more generating capacity. Many in the nuclear community are also anticipating a significant growth of new nuclear generation in the coming decades. If there is a nuclear renaissance, will the expansion of nuclear power be compatible with global non-proliferation and security? or will it add to the environmental burden from the large inventory of spent nuclear fuel already produced in existing nuclear power reactors? We learn from past peaceful nuclear activities that significant concerns associated with nuclear proliferation and spent-fuel management have resulted in a decrease in public acceptance for nuclear power in many countries. The terrorist attack in the United States (US) on September 11, 2001 also raised concern for security and worry that nuclear materials may fall into the wrong hands. As we increase the use of nuclear power, we must simultaneously reduce the proliferation, security and environmental risks in managing spent-fuel below where they are today.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제20권3호
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• pp.63-75
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• 2007

This paper focused on examining the middle school students' perceptions of characteristics(personal knowledge, human responsibility, impact on personal life, and predicted trend, behavior will) of 10 global and 8 local environmental issues. Subjects(N=516) demonstrated by completing a survey that they perceived the characteristics of issues differently on global and local scales, and to a degree those characteristics are related. First, middle school students' perceptions of global and local environmental issues were above mid-point mainly, and perceptions of local environmental issues were higher than those of global environmental issues. At perceptions of characteristics, They perceived that the personal knowledge of global environmental issues were higher than those of local issues, that the human responsibility effects on global environmental issues more than local environmental issues, that global environmental issues in the future, will be more serious. For each environmental issues, the perception of global warming among the global issues was highest, the perception of yellow dust and air pollution among the local issues was highest. For perceptions of characteristics, behavior will to solve the environmental issues was lower than that of 4 characteristics(personal knowledge, human responsibility, impact on personal life, and predicted trend). Second, there was significant difference of the perceptions of two scale environmental issues for area and sex. It showed that Seoul students' perceptions were higher than Kong-ju students' perceptions according to area, and that girl students' perceptions were higher than boy students' perceptions according to sex. Third, correlations among issues were significant. Especially, it was positive relationship between knowledge and human responsibility, human responsibility and impact on personal human responsibility and predicted trend. Educators and communicators should take into account the perceived characteristics of environmental issues and choose effective information sources and teaching methods to improve students' understanding of human-induced environmental changes.