| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 環境教育及管理研究所 === 99 === STS teaching module to enhance the elementary school students "global warming activism" in the ability of political participation
From previous studies we learned that people in Taiwan have good “policy support” and “environmental behavior” toward global warming but low action on “political participation.” Further, the capability of political participation should be developed since childhood. As a result, this study designed the “Global Warming Activism” of STS teaching model and discussed the impact of this teaching model on children’s learning with an emphasis on the “political participation” and its key variable –“political discussion networks”.
This study targeted on the 6th grade students of Guan Yu Elementary School at Chuanghua County and selected two classes as the experiment group and two classes as the control group for conducting the experimental teaching through quasi-experimental design. According to the analysis of the comparison between the pre-questionnaire and post-questionnaire and the survey data obtained from the teachers and students who participated in this experiment, the results showed that the STS teaching methods such as video watching, presentation, information searching and discussion can significantly increase the students’ action of “political participation” while the variable of “political discussion networks” also increasing. This further indicated that the students are more willing to save the Earth and discuss global warming issues with others through the participation of group activities. In addition, other variables that may affect the “Global Warming Activism” were also improved with this program. For example, the students’ “Global Warming Knowledge” and “Expected Reciprocity” all significantly improved. They believed stronger than before about thier ability in influencing others for fighting against the warming. Although the quantitative results of other variables including “perceived risk”, “environmental behavior” and “policy support” did not indicate a significant difference, it was found that the students noticed the global warming issue is more server than what they thought before attending the class. Some of the students even adjusted their habit such as eating less meat concerning the global warming issue.
Finally, this study provided the recommendations for teaching practices, curriculum design and future study based on the results of this research.
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