Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. As a components of environment, korean coasts and ocean suffered from increasing environmental pressure, as like reclamation, oil pollution, pub...
Human activities inflict harsh and often irreversible damage on the environment and on critical resources. As a components of environment, korean coasts and ocean suffered from increasing environmental pressure, as like reclamation, oil pollution, public tourism, etc. Now, it is a time to promote marine environmental education to change the marine environmental attitude of the public.
Education is the key in raising awareness for conservation our coasts and ocean. Marine habitats and species can not be valued if they are not known and damaging practices cannot be altered if they are not perceived to be threat. For such reasons environmental education, especially empirical education, is widely recognized as being crucial for achieving long-term conservation.
The purpose of this study was examine situation of korean marine environmental education and reveal useful information for directing marine environmental education. In this study, marine environmental education examined in two fields, korean education and foreign country's education(USA, Australia and Japan), and then these fields divided into two factors, GO side education and NGO side education.
Through the research of literature and internet on the subject, useful ideas for marine education were drawn. In addition to this approach, korean marine conservation education was assessed, using social survey techniques at Pusan and Ulsan areas.
From the literature and internet study, traditional culture, educational center based on user friendly internet link and programs linked with contents of class in school was recommended in marine environmental education.
From the survey results, the number of educated person in marine environmental education was 37.9% of the answer. But 79% of marine conservation education conducted in class roon under lecturer. The most preferred marine activity was examination of tidal flat, and the others. But preferred level of the others was different according to answer's age. Preferred level of examination site was different according to age, too. So, before planning marine filed study, age of applicants must be referred.