The Planning and Execution of Environmental Curricula Program in the Fields of Industrial Visiting and Recreation

• Main Authors: LEI,LI-JUNG, 雷麗蓉
• Other Authors: LIN, MIN-RAY
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/xdv28p

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在職專班 === 106 === Abstract Targeted at 2 kinds of environmental education sites (for industrial visiting and recreation) and took “Environmental experience, problem-oriented, action for the environment” as an axis, the study is to develop 4 kinds of curricula programs for environmental education: “Nature Conservation, Biodiversity, and Habitat Conservation”, “Understanding, Inheritance, Preservation of Local Culture”, “Resource Conservation, Recycling, and Green Consumption”, and “Adjustment to Global Warming, Climate Chang, Energy Saving and Emission Reducing, and Extreme Climate Adjustment”. We selected 4 sites: “Kuo Yuan Ye Museum of Cake and Pastry”, “Environmental Education Site of Sixth Naphtha Cracking Program in Mailiao”, “Environmental Education Site of Janfusun Fancy World”, and “Recreation Site of Flying Cow Ranch”; we took schools’ students, government officers, the general public, and firm employees as our object for the teaching. There was an experimental design of curricula programs adopted. After the environmental education, the learning effectiveness of participants is evaluated by comparing the differences between pre- and post- teaching. “One Way ANOCOVA” was adopted to exclude the influence of participants’ pre-test remark on teaching effectiveness. Besides, before and after teaching, teaching observation and post-class interview was adopted to evaluate if environmental literacy of participants from aspects of knowledge, attitude, and action could be promoted, and if the participants demonstrated their capability to solve and execute the environmental problem. Also, we try to understand if the developed curricula teaching programs matched the requirements of the fields, and if there is anything needs to be improved. Based on the overall teaching effectiveness, we can find that there is a significant improvement of participants’ environmental literacy from aspects of problem-solving, strategy-building, attitude, and behavior. 1. The effectiveness analyses for experimental teaching of each curricular program as below: (1) Curricular program of “Nature Conservation, Biodiversity, and Habitat Conservation”: In “Environmental Education Field of Janfusun Fancy World”, the program was applied to villagers from Qiaotou Village and Leicuo Village of Yunlin. The questionnaire results of the treatment group before and after the teaching was compared, and it was found the learning effectiveness of the treatment group is significantly better than the control group from aspects of knowledge, attitude, behavior, and skill. There are significant differences in each mean. In “Environmental Education field of Sixth Naphtha Cracking Program in Mailiao”, the program was applied to government officers. By comparing the questionnaire results of the treatment group before and after the teaching, there are very very significant differences in knowledge and behavior; there is a very significant difference in attitude, which shows that participants’ learning effectiveness is good. By discussing the environmental issues such as nature conservation, biodiversity, and habitat conservation, the participants can understand more about the ecological problems around their life, more precisely observe the circumstances, and demonstrate their nature and habitat conservation capability. However, there is something needs to be revised: There was a ramp in “Environmental Education field of Janfusun Fancy World” and the more of participants were there, which caused the queue to be too long. The participants could be separated into 2 groups, the effects of guiding and introducing would be better. (2) Curricular program for “Understanding, Inheritance and Preservation of Local Culture”: The program was applied to a construction firm’s employees and their family in “Recreation Field of Flying Cow Ranch”¸ and applied to students of the senior grades of Hsing-Fu Elementary School in Taoyuan in “Kuo Yuan Ye Museum of Cake and Pastry”. The questionnaire results before and after the teaching were compared, and there are found very very significant differences in the means of knowledge, attitude, and behavior, which shows that the learning effectiveness of the participants was good. By discussing how to understand, inherit, and preserve local culture, the participants knew local culture, and understand culture is an intangible asset, and they demonstrated their capability to carry out preservation and inheritance of local culture. However, there is something needs to be revised: the culture of cake and pastry can be combined with the program topic of the field, but the participants were too young to consider the cultural heritages. And our future strategy to solve this problem is to select older students and the general people. (3) Curricular program of “Resource Conservation, Recycling and Green Consumption”: The program was applied to teachers from 4 schools (Zhonghe, Yangming, Fengrong, Dayou) in Lunbei Township, Yunlin in “Environmental Education field of sixth Naphtha Cracking Program in Mailiao”, and was applied to students from the senior grades of Hsing-Fu Elementary School in Taoyuan in “Kuo Yuan Ye Museum of Cake and Pastry”. The questionnaire results before and after the teaching was compared, and it was found that there are very very significant differences in the means of knowledge, attitude, and behavior, which shows that the learning effectiveness of the participants was good. By discussing the environmental issues such as resource conservation, recycling, and green consumption, the participants knew 5 Rs and how to recycle, and they demonstrated their capability to carry out green consumption. However, there is something needs to be revised: the length of the video is too long, and the video can be condensed in advance. (4) Curricular program of “Global Warming, Climate Chang, Energy Saving and Emission Reducing, and Extreme Climate Adjustment”: The program was applied to a construction firm’s employees and their family in “Recreation Site of Flying Cow Ranch”. The questionnaire results before and after the teaching were compared, and it was found that the learning effectiveness of the treatment group is better than the control group from aspects of knowledge and attitude which shows that the learning effectiveness of students was good in “Environmental Education Site of Janfusun Fancy World”. The program was applied to villagers from Qiaotou Village and Leicuo Village of Yunlin. It was found that the learning effectiveness of the treatment group is significantly better than the control group from aspects of attitude and behavior; especially very significant in behavior and skill, which shows that the learning effectiveness of students was good. By discussing the environmental issues such as global warming, climate change, energy saving and emission reducing, and extreme climate adjustment, the participants realized the urgency of climate warming and change and its influences on us, and they demonstrated their capability to adjustment under extreme climate and execute energy saving and emission reducing. However, there is something needs to be revised: if we had surveyed the quality of the participants in advance and carried out a heterogeneous distribution, and the participation would have been more passionately. According to both quantitative and qualitative data, the developed activities programs in the study can effectively promote the relevant environmental literacy of the participants and their capability to solve and execute the environmental problems. Keywords: Curricular Program, Environmental Education Field, Industrial Visiting, Recreation, Teaching Effectiveness