• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.56-65
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• 2001

The purpose of this study was to examine and compare the current status of nonformal environmental education between civil and public organization. This study utilized a survey methodology, The survey was developed by the researchers and it has 4 subscales. The subjects consisted of 28 persons who are in charge of environmental education in civil organizations and 31 persons in public organizations. Descriptive statistics provided frequencies and percents for all demographic variables and items. Based on the findings of this study, it is firstly recommended that the government support environmental education policy that prioritizes nonformal environmental education for civil and public organizations. Secondly, both civil and public organizations should make continuing efforts for better nonformal environmental education programs and come up with practical ways to improve ability and quality of the staffs in the civil and public organizations by providing systematic reeducation programs and practical guidelines that would be applied to their daily lives.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.335-347
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• 1999

Restricted by time and space, formal environmental education has a limit in accommodating fast changing socal phenomena and quickly spreading environmental problems. Therefore, to carry out more efficiently the environmental education for middle and high school students, this study is intended to search for a way to establish a network of formal and nonformal environmental education. More than 80% of civil environmental organizations replied they agree to establish a network of environmental education. As for the establishment of a network, they preferred the establishment in which middle and high school, civil environmental organizations, government, the environment-related departments of the universities. They preferred ‘civil environmental organizations’ for the operator, ‘local municipal or provincial level for the scale, ‘direct personal relations’ for the interchange method. To establish a network, they replied that ‘funding’, ‘specialists in environmental education’, ‘staff to proceed educations’, ‘reform of law and systems’ are required. They also preferred ‘funding from government budget’ for a way to fund a network. We can draw the following conclusions from the survey, We need a training program for environmental education staff not to make those educational programs by civil environmental organizations temporary Also, more studies should be done to establish more organized network of environmental education and nonformal environmental education by civil environmental organizations. Environmental problem varies depending on the local characteristics, and thus environmental education should be carried out locally at the network center for environmental education. Besides, local self-governing bodies should support it administratively and financially.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.34-47
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• 2003

The purpose of this study is to analyze the program development process of a nonformal environmental education(EE) program in detail. For the purpose, following research questions were answered in "the Nature School in the Forest" program in Eco-Club 1) What is the program development process? 2) What is the role of staffs, program developers, in the program development process? What are the meanings of their pedagogical approach? 3) With the findings of this study, how is the researcher able to develop ground theory for community-based nonformal EE, and to promote theoretical discussion for field improvement? The data were mainly gathered through participation observation and unstructured interview. And the data were analyzed by qualitative techniques such as clustering, factoring, noting pattern and themes, seeing plausibility, making metaphors, and building logical chain of evidence. The following conclusion comes out of the findings of this study. "The Nature School in the Forest" program is a educational device which the community-based NGO chose as a strategy to change individuals and community with its ideological purpose. And the program development process was the contiuous group decision-making process among staffs and volunteers. Consequently "the Nature School in the Forest" program is a circulated process of the voluntary activists training and their participation in program operation.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.25-33
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• 2003

This study aimed to discern the educational meaning of nature experience activity in a nonformal educational program in Korea, focusing on the interaction between a teacher and learners. To achieve this objective, an ethnographic research method was employed using an environmental educational program for children in a nonformal setting. The results of study are as followings. Firstly, the teacher's belief-"young ecologist" shaped its own characteristics of the program. Secondly, the children had a understanding that they learn something about nature(e.g. learning by seeing, dlscovering, recollecting, and awakening). The analysis of teachers' ideas and learners' attitude toward nature experience shows that there exists a gap between the teachers' expectations and the actual ecological changes in the learners' ideas. However, the educational meaning of nature experience can be understood by the unique type of interaction between a teacher and learners. In conclusion, on the basis of this study, it is suggested that educators should be aware of the fact that nature experience can conttribute significantly to the education of children not just from the encounter with nature but also philosophically with regard to our connectedness with nature. Bringing nature into educational contexts can help children to take part in thoughtful perspectives of learning and to devise their own appropriate nature experience.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.92-106
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• 2001

The main goal of this paper is to suggest a new path to new ecological paradigm in social environmental education. The old paradigm of environmental education consists of two elements. The first element is emphasis on the seriousness and urgency of environmental problems while the second one is the presentation of concrete action programs as solutions of environmental problems. The missing point of this paradigm is the internal process of meaning construction of actors. Any kind of social action must be based on the meaning which the actors gives to their own action. Becoming an environmentally conscious actor, therefore, actor himself needs to interpret the world from the new perspective. In this paper, we call the change of worldview in the deepest sense 'conversion'. Ecological conversion means shift from anthropocentrism to ecocentrism. In the following sections, main characteristics of ecological world view are specified and some examples of ecological confessions which reveal ecological world view are presented. In this last section, 7 ways of lifestyle change which can facilitate ecological conversion are suggested: 1) trying to be alone for a while everyday; 2) making peaceful state of mind; 3) sharpening the 'green sensitivity'; 4) creating slow way of life; 5) choosing voluntary simplicity; 6)raising spirituality; 7) practicing sharing and caring. Social environmental education in the new ecological paradigm could be considered as a starting point towards a civilizational shift from the dominant materialist civilization to the post-material ecological civilization.

• 한국환경교육학회지:환경교육
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.79-93
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• 2004

The aim of this study is to provide a guide for the development of non-formal environmental educator certification system by analyzing certification systems in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan. The following observations from reviewing environmental educator certification systems in the United States, United Kingdom, and Japan have implications for development of our own system in Korea. First, environmental educator certification systems are generally managed by cooperation of local environmental education organization association and local universities. Second, in many programs, applicants are qualified through processes including taking required curriculum and submitting portfolio or documents for reviewing of qualification. Third, in the United States, the majority of programs adopted curriculum based on ‘Guidelines for the Initial Preparation of Environmental Educator’ by NAAEE, which means the majority of programs have relatively standardized curriculum. Fourth, curriculums consist of basic skills of teaching, communication, leadership as well as contents of environmental education so that the applicants can practice more efficient environmental education when they are certified. Fifth, the certification programs utilize selected organizations' environmental education programs for training of applicants rather than establish their own programs. It contributes to the improvement of programs of organizations that applicants participated.

• 대한화학회지
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• 제59권3호
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• pp.246-252
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• 2015

이 연구에서는 초등학교에서 환경교육을 효과적으로 실시하기 위한 기초 연구로서 초등학교 교사들의 환경교육에 대한 요구를 조사하였다. 연구 대상은 충청남도 지역의 초등학교 교사 113명이었다. 환경교육 요구 검사의 20문항을 사용하여 5단계 리커트 척도로 교사들에게 제시하였고, 환경교육 연수 영역의 문항에 대해서는 현장 연수와 원격 연수 중 선호하는 방식에 대한 질문도 제시하였다. 대부분의 문항에서 교사들의 요구는 높았으나, 환경교육 수업에 직접 적용될 수 있는 지원 분야나 연수 내용에 대한 문항에서 특히 요구가 높았다. 교사들은 현장 연수보다 원격 연수를 선호하였으나 지역 내 비형식적 환경교육 장소의 사용, 환경교육 현장 학습 장소의 개발과 사용, 환경교육 교수 전략 등의 문항에서는 현장 연수의 선호도가 상대적으로 높게 나타났다.