| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 環境教育研究所 === 90 === The achievement of Environmental Education (EE) is not as remarkable as we think, though a great deal of effort has gone into EE by all countries around the world. To make EE more effective and to make concepts of EE deep in every mind of world citizens, the abilities of practical experiences and social learning have to be improved to increase people’s concerns and action abilities for the environment.
Nowadays, knowledge-transmitting is emphasized too much so that practical experiences are neglected. Hence this research focuses on personal life experiences and the autobiographic study of life course is used as a research method. The life course in this study is about why the researcher started to contact EE, what professional knowledge the researcher learned in the Graduate Institute of EE (GIEE) in National Taiwan Normal University, and how the researcher planed and executed a conference workshop of volunteer training for a Environmental Learning Center in Miaoli County.
There are four research questions provoked to analyze the life history : how the researcher started to develop her environmental awareness and sensitivity, how the researcher developed her environmental attitude and created her active driving forces of getting involved into EE, how the researcher’s practical experiences of holding a workshop of EE training improved her environmental actions skills, and how the study process in GIEE affected the researcher’s environmental learning.
Every key event is truly recalled and described in detail in fieldnotes, tape-recording, video tapes, and personal diaries. The life course of the researcher’s environmental learning and practicing is divided into seven stages：environmental learning, entry into the field of EE, thinking and learning multidisciplinarily, learning by doing, communication with EE, knowledge with EE, and partnership with EE.
Six dialogues between environmental learning and practicing are found as well: the interaction between environmental learning and practicing is like a delicate food web, EE is a process that careful listening to nature and people, EE is a stepping-stone, the interaction between EE learning and practices is a communicating process, EE is a to cultivate a whole human, practicing EE is practicing love.
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