| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 地理學系在職進修碩士班 === 96 === The purposes of this study are：(1)to explore the geography curriculum guidelines and the future prospect of sustainable development education in the Geography subject of senior high school in Taiwan, (2)to investigate senior high school students’ cognition, attitude and behavior toward sustainable development and teachers’ opinion about sustainable development education,(3)to develop sustainable environmental teaching materials in senior high school.
The study was conducted through content analysis, questionnaire survey, and action research. Content analysis was adopted to analyze geography curriculum and textbooks of both senior high school and the vocational school. Regarding the questionnaire, the population was selected from 109 senior high school teachers, as weu as 261 senior high school students and 154 vocational school students in Taipei. Statistical techniques applied in the study were descriptive statistics and hypothetical Z-test.
The major findings of the study are as follows：
1. In the aspect of both senior and vocational curriculum guidelines, highest ratio is seen in the content of sustainable environment, followed by sustainable economics and sustainable society.
2. In the textbook aspect, the ratio of the sustainable development concepts is the same as that of curriculum design. However, the ratio of the behavioral objectives is not the same as the curriculum design.
3. Only one-third of the high school geography teachers think that they have a better understanding of sustainable development and that the ratio of sustainable development in the current curriculum as well as the textbook is not enough.
4. The results of the questionnaire reveal that high school students’ cognition about sustainable development has been above the average level, but fail to have better attitude and behavior. The results also reveal that there are significant differences among high school students with reference to their frequencies of attending classes or activities related to environment, the expectations of their parents, their school grades and their genders.
5. Geographical field study has been designed in Yangmingshan Area equipped with Google Earth and the GPS. Most of the students achieve the goal of the research which has been set for them; however, their environmental affection can achieved only partly.
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