The Study of Infusing Environmental Education Issues into the Mandarin textbooks of Primary School

• Main Authors: PEI-HUA TU, 杜佩樺
• Other Authors: Mao-Wen Wang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2007
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76379207221140889403

碩士 === 臺北市立教育大學 === 課程與教學研究所 === 95 === The objective of this work is to understand the current situations of integrating competence indicators of environmental education into the mandarin textbooks of primary school from different publishers in Nine-Year Integrated Curriculum and to analyze the essential contents of competence indicators of environmental education covered in the textbooks. We had analyzed the 50 Ministry-of-Education-verified mandarin textbooks of all of the volumes from all of the publishers, including Jenlin, Nan-Yi, Kang-Hsuan, and Han-Lin. Based on content analysis, competence indicators of environmental education were used as categories to analyze the distributions of the contents of the textbooks corresponding to the concept of competence indicators of environmental education and to study the essential contents of competence indicators of environmental education covered in the textbooks. The results showed that in the distribution of the contents of environmental education in the textbooks from the different publishers, both total count of environmental perceptual awareness and that of environmental knowledge were the most, and next were environmental ethics, environmental action skills and environmental action experience the decreasing order. The most competence indicators in environmental perceptual awareness aspect, environmental knowledge aspect, environmental ethics aspect, environmental action skills aspect and environmental action experience aspect were 1-1-1(observing surroundings by sense organs, positive and negative),2-1-1(knowledge of nature and biology principles),3-1-2(full of curious ,and thinking of the meaning and the value of environmental things),4-1-1(describe clearly their own experiences and feelings of nature),and 5-2-3(Carries out the Green consuming and the environmental protection program and the environmental action) respectively. Besides, below were some findings gotten in studying the essential contents of competence indicators of environmental education covered in the textbooks. 1. Environmental perceptual awareness: In texts, there were articles expressing observing surroundings by sense organs, positive and negative influences of the environment on human beings and effects of human activities on the environment. 2. Environmental knowledge: There were plenty of topics about knowledge of nature and biology principles. The contents with regard to the influence of environmental problems of surroundings on individuals, schools and communities can make how environmental problems affect human society understood easily. 3. Environmental ethics: There were a lot of articles concerning conservation of animals and plants in the texts. Moreover, topics as to social justice and concerns about the disadvantaged were also included. 4. Environmental action skills: The primary kind of the articles is related with topics expressing students can describe clearly their own experiences and feelings of nature. 5. Environmental action experience: The topics can be divided into community environmental protection and international environmental protection. However the quantity of articles about international environmental protection was few. There was only one article found. Finally, based on the related works and the results of this work, some suggestions were given for the organizations of education, editors of textbooks and further researchers to take into consideration.