Study of Environment Education Teaching Materiade Infused in Elementary Science Textbooks

• Main Authors: Hang Ming chang, 韓名璋
• Other Authors: Shin ming chin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2001
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76208961217114853652

碩士 === 國立花蓮師範學院 === 國小科學教育研究所 === 89 === Abstract This study applied national curricula standard concerning the indicators of environmental education abilities to analyze all contemporary elementary science textbooks, practice books and teaching guidebooks by content analysis method. The analysis were focused on the five domains of environmental education such as environmental awareness, sensitivity, knowledge, value and attitude, skill and experience. The total samples were 52 volumes of textbooks, 52 volumes of practice books and 52 volumes of teaching guidebooks. Moreover, the researcher employed semi-structural interview to gather more reliable information from the in-service teachers. The result revealed that the prevailing domains were environmental awareness and sensitivity in all publishers. The other domains were environmental skill, knowledge and value and attitude ordered sequentially by their prevaility. All publishers provided less information towards environmental experience domain. Different publishers had different focuses on these five domains. For example, National publisher put more emphasis on the domain of environmental skill, and NanYi publisher emphasized the domain of value and attitude, Newton publisher was dominant on knowledge, value and attitude. KanShang publisher paid more attention on every domain equally. According to the frequency of usage among different publishers in Hualien County, the most frequently used publisher in the first, the third, and the fifth grades was KanShan Publisher. Meanwhile, the most frequently used publisher in the fourth grade was the National Edition Publisher, yet other publishers were still used by some elementary schools in Hualien County. The new curricula standard will begin in September 2001 and the elementary teachers have to design teaching activities to meet the national curricula standard and enhance conceptual learning. Thus, in the future, elementary school teachers must have the ability of analyzing and integrating different information. Besides, in choosing science textbooks, teachers must not only take the content of textbook into account, but also integrate the environmental issues into the related learning and daily life. Keywords: Elementary school science textbook, content analysis, environmental education.