Involvement in Nature

• Main Authors: Yang-ju Lin, 林洋如
• Other Authors: Chiung-Fen Yen
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5j6y58

碩士 === 靜宜大學 === 生態學研究所 === 94 === A method of qualitative research and the idea of “teacher/researcher” are applied in this study by the junior-high-school-teacher researcher to present the barriers, experiences and changes in taking environment actions in the process of this study. The researcher joined “Journey in Nature club” of Shan-Shang Junior High School in Taichung County in 2003, making observations and participating in the design of the curriculum to guide the students to get familiar with Nature, in order to understand the students’ experiences of getting along with Nature in the Nature-Experiencing Activities. The sources of the researcher’s data come from participation observation, interviews with students, analysis of documents, and study of fieldnotes, reflective journals and records of the Lab meetings she attended, and the researcher raised the validity and reliability of the study with triangulation. The results of the study showed that the Construction-Viewing Activity, which was accidentally added to the curriculum in the process of its design, not only distinguished the students’ responses from the teachers’ expectations, but also urged the researcher to reflect the obstacles to her own environmental actions, which lied in the lack of environmental action skills and negative emotions in the face of damages to the environment. In addition, the researcher also clarified the nave imagination she had previously held that “protecting Nature is a natural consequence of familiarizing with and liking Nature” as well as the urgent claims to “change the present situation in which human beings have seriously damaged Nature.” Meanwhile, through the reflective journals and conversation with colleagues, the researcher found where the tender force of change lies: teachers should (be able to) experience the difficulties in taking environmental actions themselves to guide students to construct and to realize the course of environmental education in environmental actions.