한국 고등학교 학생들의 환경문제 및 환경교육에 대한 인식 연구 = A Study on the Consciousness of Environment and Environment Education for the Korean High School Students

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to develop guiding principles of the environment education in high school geography courses through the search for the consciousness of the matter of environment and environment education on the part of high school students. The method of questionaire is taken up for the inquiry. The subjects of this inquiry include 260 students in Seoul, the metropolice, 150 students in an industrial city, Incheon, 60 in a small and medium, sized city, Choon-chun, and 60 in a farming community.
The investigation into the consciousness of environment includes the degree of environmental interest, the degree of virtual examination in the inhabited regions, general knowledge of environment, and the policy of environment. The investigation into the environment education comprises general environment education, environment education in geography class, teaching methods in environment education, and the practice of environment education and the preservation of environment. The guides at which should be aimed in environment education in every situations and geography class are as follows:
At first, the environment education should be done, with the awarness of respective regional aspects; the awarness of virtual degree of contamination and the cause of environmental pollution vary in every situation.
Secondly, despite of high awarness of the degree of interest in the matter of environment and environment education, the degree of awarness of terms, representing the amount of environmental pollution, and of the government's policy toward environment is somewhat low. The majority become aware of the necessity of environment preservation and the environment-related information chiefly by mean of mass media, so the reinforcement of environment education toward these areas is required through formal environmental education.
Thirdly, the students emphasize on active participation in the activities, in which are at the formation of the pleasant environment. In view of their inactive participation in environment preservation at home and in and out their campuses after school, the greatest emphasis should be put on the practical aspects of life with ecological understanding of relationship between human and environment for the purpose of practice of environment education in every day life.
Fourth, the current curriculum should be shifted from the emphasis on individual phenomenon and individual cases to those of multiple phenomena and materials dealing with common environmental issues. The field of study in class should be emphasized not only their own inhabitation areas but also other areas, which will help enhance the abilities to think in a comprehensive way and to make their decisions in a reasonable way.
Finally, the use of multimedia including photographs, maps, tables, and statistic data, is required in environment education in geographic class, in addition to these, the use of a variety of audio-visual aids and a variety of new teaching method are recommended.