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The Effects of Field-trip Based Environmental Education on Young Children's Environmental Literacy (경험중심의 환경교육활동이 유아의 환경보존에 대한 인식에 미치는 효과)

  • Han, Young Suk;Choi, Tae Sik
    • Korean Journal of Child Studies
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    • v.26 no.6
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    • pp.237-245
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    • 2005
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of field-trip based environmental education on young children's environmental literacy. The subjects for the study Were the 40 children of five years old at two nursery centers in province. The questionnaire and checklist for parents and the children developed by the researcher were used in this study. The conclusion were as follows. First, the care center environmental education improved the young children's saving, and anti-pollution depending on their mother is reported. Second, the care center environmental education improved the young children's saving, recycling and anti-pollution depending on their teacher is reported. Results showed that the field-trip based environmental education improved environmental literacy.

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A Study on the Consciousness about Environmental Education of Junior-High School Teachers in Seoul (서울지역 중·고등학교 교사들의 환경교육에 대한 의식조사)

  • Kang, Hee Sook;Cboi, Myung Jin
    • Journal of the Korean Society of School Health
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.74-83
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    • 1992
  • The purpose of this study is to provide the basic data in developing environmental education curriculum by searching the consciousness junior-high school teachers in Seoul. 28 junior-high schools in Seoul were randomly selected and again selected 547 teachers to answer this questionnaire. The major findings of this study are as follows; 1. Teachers recognized the seriousness of environmental problems in the national level(about 54%) and Seoul level(about 90%) 2. Teachers recognized the need of environmental education at junior and high school(85%). 3. Only 17.5% of respondents marked to be selected Environmental Education at the 6th curriculum revision in their school. 4. If Environmental Education was selected at the 6th curriculum revision, about 58% of respondents recognized that Environmental Education Teacher should be responsible Environmental Education course. 5. If Environmental Education course was not selected at the 6th curriculum revision in their school, about 45% of respondents recognized that Environmental Education course should be done the whole subjects. 6. About 57% of respondents recognized that effective method of Environmental Education should be used audio-visual material. 7. About 25% of respondents recognized that environmental education should be prevented by Enterance-exam oriented education. Several improvements should be made on the following aspects; 1. At the 6th curriculum revision, Environmental Education course should be selected a required course. 2. At the Collage of Education, Environment-related course should be established. 3. Programs of environmental education should be urgently designed and improved so that teachers can proceed it more effectively.

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Effects of Participation Environmental UCC Making Program on Elementary School Students' Environmental Literacy (초등학생의 환경 UCC 제작 참여가 환경 소양에 미치는 영향)

  • Kim, Sin-Bae;Nam, Young-Sook
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.107-117
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    • 2009
  • The purpose of this study is to find out the effects of participation environmental UCC(User Created Content) making program on elementary school students' environmental literacy. Through the questionnaires and the analysis of students' outcomes, the effects of environmental literacy in both quality and quantity was verified. By applying computer programs to make environmental UCC to elementary students, helped them increase their environmental knowledge, and got them to recognize the importance of the environment that surrounds them. Students can find a solution to solve environmental problem from their interaction between the environment and themselves. It could also improve students' ability to think positively. From this research, I hope we require to develop possible programs for various kinds of educational activities based on UCC ones, since we already verified the effects of computer programs to make environmental UCC. The programs to make environmental UCC with learners participated is a kind of good model to reflect the learner's need who is a educational user. Or it could be teaching materials to help meet learner's viewpoint. It can also offer learner-oriented and creative learning and which teachers and learners work together to make a good result and that they make a new wave, instead of being teacher-oriented, which teachers force learners to do something. We can have a feeling of achievement through this and we can expect to enhance both our professional ability as a environmental teacher and the quality of lesson.

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Improvement of Environmental Education in Elementary School Using Analytic Hierarchy Process (위계분석과정을 활용한 초등학교 환경교육 활성화 방안)

  • Jung, Soon-Ok;Lee, Sang-Won;Bae, Young-Boo
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.145-165
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this study is to investigate items for improving environmental education in elementary school for the more efficiency policies of environmental education. In this study, we investigated the relative importance of each items through Analytic Hierarchy Process for the various groups of the expert who is related with environmental education. We made hierarchical structure for efficiency education through brainstorming process. The hierarchical structure consisted of 3 high-level items and 8 low-level items. The questionnaires were distributed to 4 groups with 187 experts. After the consistency test of returned questionnaires, we gained 60 available questionnaires of experts. According to the generalization results of all groups, "The pro-environmental attitude of the teacher" is the most important. The second important thing is "The pro-environmental attitude of the schoolmaster" and the third is "Experiential learning and on-the-spot study concerning environment". And the following are "Budget for environmental education" and "Environmental education in discretionary activity", "Teaching materials for environmental education", "The cultivation of the experts on environmental education", "Environment event in school" in order. As the result, we have to intensify the pro-environmental attitude of the teachers and schoolmasters and develop experiential learning and on-the-spot study programs concerned environment to improve environmental education. At the same time, we need the more politic support related with budget for environmental education.

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A Study on Factors Related Between Adolescents' Perceived School Environment and Physical . Mental Health (청소년이 지각한 학교환경과 신체적 . 정신적 건강과의 관련요인 분석)

  • 장영미
    • Korean Journal of Health Education and Promotion
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.35-56
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    • 2000
  • This study is research on physical health and mental health(physical and mental symptom at school) in perceived school environment among adolescents. The study subjects ere selected by senior high school students in seoul and random sampling. The 3,060 subjects were selected 18 schools. The duration for survey was for Nov. 25-Dec. 13, 1998. The reliability of Questionnaire was Cronbach's $\alpha=0.95$. This study used multiple regression through Factor Analysis in SPSS programs. The major findings of this study are as follows: (1) All of Multiple Regression Models were significant. (p<0.001). (2) Physical Mental health is related to gender, personal environment, and economic status. (3) Physical Health is related to perceived school environmental variable (therapeutic teacher-student relationships, classrom climate, and school life satisfaction) among adolescents. (4) Mental Health is related to perceived school environment variables(therapeutic teacher-student relationships, classroom climate, school life satisfaction, teachers' climate, and classmates' attitudes) among adolescents. This study could be used as the basis for the development of educational program, counseling, teacher in-service training, student teacher training and the establishment of educational and health policy.

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A Study on the Elementary School Teachers Perception of the Subjects of Environment-related Education in Science and of Their Instructional Methods (초등교사의 과학과 환경 교육에 대한 수업실태 분석 및 인식도)

  • 조태호;서승조;백남권;김성규;박강은;박원석
    • Journal of Environmental Science International
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.611-620
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to analyze the elementary school teachers'perception toward the environment-related subjects in science education and to investigate their instructional methods in delivering the subjects in the classroom. The participants of this study were 300 elementary school teachers sampled from elementary schools in Kyung Nam Province. The findings of this study were as follows; First, more than half of the teachers surveyed showed that the environment-related units and contents in the science textbook were insufficient to the existing issues. Second, the large portion of teachers responded that the teaching materials in the textbook were insufficient to deliver the contents. Third, the largest portion of respondents replied that their preferred instructional method was a teacher-directed instruction followed by a case study approach. Fourth, in terms of the effectiveness of environmental education, both male and female teachers showed negative responses. Furthermore, male teachers were more negative than female teachers. Fifth, total means of their preference of the environment-related units was 3.13. The unit for sixth graders titled`Environmental Pollution and Protecting Nature'showed the highest preference, whereas the unit for fifth graders titled`Structure and Functions of Plants'showed the lowest preference. Sixth, there was no statistically significance in gender and their working areas. Seventh, there was statistically significant differences between male and female teachers in terms of teaching experience. In detail, the teachers with 5 to 9 teaching experience showed the lowest scores, while the teacher with more than 15 years teaching experience showed the highest scores in their perception of the units. Eighth, there was a significant difference between two groups in terms of their educational background. For example, two-year college graduates showed higher preference than four-year college graduates.

Perceptions of Elementary School Teachers on the Use of Analogy Generation in Scientifically-gifted Education (과학영재교육에서 비유 만들기 활동의 활용에 대한 초등학교 교사들의 인식)

  • Noh, Tae-Hee;Yang, Chan-Ho;Kang, Hun-Sik
    • Journal of Korean Elementary Science Education
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.22-37
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    • 2011
  • In this study, we investigated the perceptions of elementary school teachers on the use of analogy generation in scientifically-gifted education. The relationships among the perceptions and the self-perception as teacher for scientifically-gifted students were also investigated. A survey was administered to 119 elementary school teachers, and in-depth interviews with some teachers were conducted. The results revealed that the teachers had a relatively good understanding of the advantages/disadvantages of analogy generation in cognitive, affective, and learning environmental aspects. Their perceptions on the usability of analogy generation and their willingness to practice of it in scientifically-gifted education was also positive. They highly perceived on the various factors related to effective uses of it in scientifically-gifted education. Their self-perception as teacher for scientifically-gifted students was comparatively low, and significantly related with the perceptions on the advantages of it, the usability, the practical methods to use, and the various factors related to effective uses in scientifically-gifted education. Educational implications of these findings are discussed.

Study on Environmental Factors of Inquiry Instruction of Secondary School Science Teachers (중.고등학교 과학교사의 탐구수업 환경 요인에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Hyun-Uk;Shim, Kew-Cheol;Yeau, Sung-Hee;Chang, Nam-Kee
    • Journal of The Korean Association For Science Education
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.443-450
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    • 1998
  • This study was performed to find the environmental factors of inquiry instruction perceived by secondary school science teacher. The instrument consisted of three domains such as teaching conditions, viewpoints of secondary school science teachers of environmental factors for inquiry instruction, and barrier and improve! rent factors of inquiry instruction. Teaching conditions between middle school and high school science teachers were not different significantly. Environmental factors of inquiry instruction of secondary school science teacher included five factors such as 'facilities and encouragement', 'amount of works and materials', 'teacher education and textbook', 'practice and knowledge' and 'perception of necessity and satisfaction'. And all factors except 'perception of necessity and satisfaction' were very low state for inquiry instruction. In the disturbant and improving factors, the critical factors were 'over students per class', 'textbook' and 'learning materials' for middle school science teachers, and 'over students per class', and 'entrance examination' for high school science teachers. Thus the development and diffusion of adequate inquiry learning materials may be helpful to practicing inquiry instruction as decrease of works and psychological charges, and it is needed to reorganize systematically and intensify pre- and in-service teacher education to practice inquiry instruction.

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Development of Water Environmental Education Program Using Streams - Focused on ENVISION - (소하천 물 환경교육 프로그램 개발 - ENVISION을 중심으로 -)

  • Kim, Jeong-Hwa;Lee, Du-Gon
    • Hwankyungkyoyuk
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    • v.20 no.4
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    • pp.12-26
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    • 2007
  • The purpose of this research is to develop a water environmental education (EE) program using streams, based on the core ideas of ENVISION and materializing elements that were extracted in this research. This research realized the elements and presented a model of the water EE program using a local stream. First, this research developed a basic model of a water EE program using streams by extracting 10 materializing elements and realizing the elements in 4 stage-procedural model. The 10 materializing elements were 1. experiencing the process of inquiry, 2. inquiring local environments, 3. self-directing learning and mutual interaction with colleagues, 4. collecting real data and interpreting, 5. utilizing the ICT(information and communication technology), 6. inquiring with the view point of the 'Environmental Studies for EE', 7. inquiring with the watershed concept, 8. inquiring with the integrating and the holistic view point, 9. pursuing the macroscopic understanding about environment, and 10. connecting the real world phenomena with the environmental concepts and theories. This research materialized these 10 elements in 4 stage model, following the previous ENVISION research, which are 1. preparing stage and visual assessment, 2. writing the report of the inquiry plan, 3. collecting the real data in the environment and performing the investigation, and 4. presenting the inquiry results. Second, with using this basic model, this research developed and presented a model of the specific water EE program using a case stream called 'Baig Cheon' stream, which is a local stream. This research is considered to have a considerable meaning in developing a EE program with ENVISION ideas for the watershed concept and inquiry with environmental science using local streams. The developed model can help the professional development of teachers and teacher education of water EE.

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European Integration Processes for the Development of Future Foreign Language Specialists in the Information Society

  • Lazarenko, Natalia;Zadorozhna, Olga;Prybora, Tetiana;Shevchuk, Аndrii;Sulym, Volodymyr;Rudnytska, Nataliya
    • International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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    • v.21 no.12spc
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    • pp.427-436
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    • 2021
  • The article reveals and theoretically substantiates the trends of foreign language teachers' professional training in universities of Ukraine in terms of European integration, which are systematized in three areas: macro-level (system of education), meso-level (universities) and micro-level (subjects of educational process). The article aims to substantiate the trends of foreign language teacher training in the context of European integration and the main directions of creative use of constructive ideas of European experience in the innovative development of education. The article lights up the system for improving foreign language teacher training in universities, which is based on updated goals, content and approaches to the implementation of basic concepts, principles and features of teacher training in European experience, enable us to improve the quality of teacher training, its competitiveness in the European labor market. In the article developed the conceptual model of strategic development of the university in the conditions of European integration. It is emphasized that information technologies provide great opportunities for the development of professional skills and intellectual potential of future professionals. At present, the computerization of the educational process in higher education institutions is considered as one of the first and most promising areas for improving the quality of education. The article offered directions of internationalization of educational activity of university in the conditions of European integration. Diagnostic tools for the development of the university in terms of integration into the European educational space, individual rating and ranking of structural units of the university have been developed; main directions of activity of the laboratory of the skill of the teacher of higher school and methodical recommendations on the creation and the organization of work of scientific laboratories.