Hwankyungkyoyuk (한국환경교육학회지:환경교육)
- Volume 19 Issue 2 Serial No. 30
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- Pages.26-47
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- 2006
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- 1225-1259(pISSN)
A Study on Methods to Revitalize Environmental Education through Domestic and International Environmental Project Olympiad
국제 및 국내 환경탐구올림피아드를 통한 환경교육의 활성화 방안 연구
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Moon Yun-Seob
(Korea National University of Education) ;
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Choi Don-Hyung
(Korea National University of Education) ;
- Lee Mi-Ae (Korea National University of Education) ;
- Lee Seong-Hee (Korea National University of Education) ;
- Cho Seong-Hoa (Korea National University of Education) ;
- Hwang Eun-Ja (Korea National University of Education)
- Published : 2006.08.01
Abstract
Environmental problems became bigger and widely known among all parts of the society in the last decade. The broad and sustainable study of the environment is the most basic and primary solution to the problems. For this reason, International Environmental Project Olympiad (INEPO) was organized in 1993. Many countries have participated in this organization. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to revitalize the environmental education and to realize the value of environmental education by making students aware of the environmental problems through the INEPO and Korean Environmental Olympiad (KEO). To achieve these goals, we conducted as follows First, we introduced aims, major contents and rules of the INEPO and grasped problems related to the applying method of students who want to participate in the INEPO in Korea. In addition, we introduced both results of domestic contest for participating in the 14th INEPO and of the 14th INEPO itself opened in 2006. Second, we analysed participants' themes according to project types such as environment-biology, environment-chemistry, environment-physics, environment-health and environment-social sciences from Previous INEPOs. Third, we had interviews with several participants to gather their thoughts on motivation and impression of participation, the reason of theme selection, and the method of environmental education in school, by visiting each booth of INEPO. Finally, we suggested sustainable methods of the KEO to revitalize environmental education, and proposed various methods to revitalize the environmental education through the KEO and INEPO in the primary and secondary schools.
Keywords
- International Environmental Project Olympiad (INEPO);
- Korean Environmental Olympiad (KEO);
- the environmental education;
- sustainable methods