Exploring Development of Three Types of Taiwan’s Environmental Education Certificated Facilities, Including Social Cultural, Recreational and Community Involvement, from “The Characteristics of Quality Environmental Learning Center”

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 科學教育與應用學系環境教育及管理碩士班 === 103 === The National Environmental Education Act provided the certification for the environmental education facilities. However, it doesn’t mean those certificated facilities are able to attain their quality performances. According to Shih-Tsen Liu (2014),...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hung-Che Chang, 張宏哲
Other Authors: Shih-Tsen Liu
Format: Others
Language:zh-TW
Published: 2015
Online Access:http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79auea
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Summary:碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 科學教育與應用學系環境教育及管理碩士班 === 103 === The National Environmental Education Act provided the certification for the environmental education facilities. However, it doesn’t mean those certificated facilities are able to attain their quality performances. According to Shih-Tsen Liu (2014), these diversified environmental education facilities can be categorized into five types: natural ecology, environmental protection facilities, social cultural education, recreation, and community involvement. Using “The Characteristics of Quality Environmental Learning Center” written by Ju Chou and Yung-Chun Chiang as an estimate, with methods of interview, observation, and document analysis, the research explored three types of Taiwan’s oncoming and civil environmental education facilities, which are socio-culture, recreation and community involvement. Results of the research discover that these environmental education facilities present characteristics of “overall concern” in high quality. The facilities integrate local resources and combine the meaning of environmental education in characteristics of “site and facilities”. In the aspect of “operation and management”, the governments provide experience exchanging, resource surveys, allowances, and marketing channel for civil facilities. “Human resources” in civil facilities provide positive and diversified personnel training mode. “Programs” in these facilities also have characteristics of positive which could reflect the concern for environment, and supplement with school learning. The research provides some suggestions for environmental education facilities, official authorities and follow-up researchers as reference as well.