| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 環境教育研究所 === 88 === ABSTRACT
Research in the field of Significant Life Experiences (SLE for short) was initiated by Thomas Tanner in 1980. It has become a serious research sector for environmental education 20 years down the road. Deconstructing a person''s major underlying life experiences, to reveal the relevant factors that resulted in a person''s environmental behavior, is the focus of this
field of studies. SLE is a qualitative approach, different from, but supplement to the traditional quantitative approach to study environmental behavior. The approach is designed not only to study what people are doing, but also why they are doing. As a result, it is importance is to reconstruct the context and spirit of environmental education, which was based upon the
deconstructing procedure previously accomplished. Meanwhile, action competence is the theme among Danish environmental education research and practices recently. Its impact gradually becomes a new research paradigm. The model of action competence emphasizes upon environmental issues along with their resolutions, and the potential of raising students'' action competence.
We just begin our effort in these two fields. Both of them are in the explorative stage. This researcher has the honor, under the careful supervision of some university faculty members, to touch these fields. More important, the research framework can apply to this research project. As a result, this researcher used the qualitative approach, the case study, to
begin the investigation. When the researcher just began his investigation, he was interested in a foreigner''s, Pierre Loisel, environmental behavior, and was very curious about Loisel''s environmental action during the past thirty years in Taiwan. This researcher wanted to know how Loisel could have accomplished so much so effectively? What factors pushed him to do all of these? Why couldn''t Taiwanese do that when the same situation applied? Could all of these answers provide some insights to environmental education?
Therefore, the study focused upon Loisel''s significant life experiences, his environmental action, and the potential relationship between them. It is the researcher''s attempt to investigate the motivation of Loisel''s commitment to take environmental action, and the important factors influencing effective environmental action, and finally, the potential implication of the research
results to the implementation of environmental education.
Research results indicated the followings: There is interacted relationship in between the motivation of a person''s commitment to take environmental action, and the relevant factors of the effective action. Working models can be established through the analysis from this study, and the two models have close relationship to each other.
These models are quite different from many models currently accepted by most
environmental educators. The results of this study provide a chance for environmental educators to reflect, and criticize upon. It is time to seriously evaluate the true context, the proper approach to implement environmental education.
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