The Study of Infusing Environmental Issues into the Social Studies of Fourth Grade in Elementary Schools

• Main Authors: Chen Nian-Tsz, 陳念慈
• Other Authors: 鄧國雄
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85973356987340621555

碩士 === 臺北市立師範學院 === 社會科教育研究所 === 91 === Abstract This research was focused on studying how the environmental issues were infused into the social studies of elementary school. The main purposes were to analyze the environmental teaching materials in the social studies, to investigate how the teachers carry out environmental issues, and to understand the differences presented on the environmental abilities of each dimension among the 4th-grade students test. Textbooks and workbooks were analyzed by ”Section” and ”Excises”, and the supplemental materials of teacher’s manuals were done by ”Theme”. The analysis was approached after summing up the times of the displayed concepts and ability indicators. The sample was consisted of 302 teachers and 1584 fourth grade students by the stratified random sampling. The conclusions were summarized as follows：1) All versions of 4th-grade social studies mainly emphasized on pollution problems, and ecological conservation, landscape preservation, waste disposal followed. Textbooks and teacher’s manuals both emphasized on environmental awareness and sensitivity, concepts and knowledge, values and attitude. Workbooks noted more about environmental action skills, but less cared about environmental action experiences; 2) Teachers believed that the best teaching methods when carrying out the environmental issues were discussing, audio-visual media, inquiry and discovery, and field survey; 3) Girls and urban students are capable with more complete environmental abilities. And girls presented higher frequency than boys in attending environmental actions. In order to find out the framework of environmental concepts included in the social studies of Grade 1-9 Curriculum. The researcher suggested to analyze the environmental issues included in the social studies of 5th and 6th grades of elementary school and also junior high school, which can understand the coherence, continuance and gradation of the environmental issues inside, and could offer a reference when design the environmental materials and select the textbooks in the future.