지구 환경을 고려한 미래 지향적 지구 과학 교육 과정 제안 = Proposcurriculum of the Future-Oriented Earth Science Education Placing on the Earth Environment

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to propose an environment-concerned earth science curriculum to provide a new role to earth science education. To accomplish this purpose, first, earth science education in the world-leading countries in science education was analyzed in consideration with status and contents of each country`s national science curriculum. Second, our middle school science textbooks were analyzed to understand what is learning and how the contents are presented. On the basis of the results of curriculum and textbook analyses. a brand-new earth science curriculum with the emphasis on our earth environment were proposed. The newly proposed earth science curriculum contains 7 units, ranging from 7 to 10 grades. They are Earth Environment, Earth in the Universe, Earth Materials and Their Change, Plate Movement and Earth History, Ocean, Water Cycle and Weather, and Movements in Solar System. The proposed curriculum has several characteristics. First, contexts with emphasis on earth environment were situated in every unit. Each context was developed to best explain what the students should know in learning the units and what the teacher should have in mind in teaching the units. Second, earth science contents were considered in the perspectives both of global and local environmental issues. This proposed earth science curriculum is expected to play an important role in fostering all students` scientific literacy as well as their earth literacy.