This study was started from the discussion about which ‘contents’ should be taught and how those contents should be formed in the Perspective of Environmental Education(EE), aiming to enhance the integrative viewpoint about water environment in th...
This study was started from the discussion about which ‘contents’ should be taught and how those contents should be formed in the Perspective of Environmental Education(EE), aiming to enhance the integrative viewpoint about water environment in the Water EE. The purpose of this study is to realize the teaching material, which develops the Model of Watershed Water EE Textbook, by seeking for a method of the Inquiry with the Perspective of EE and by questing for the contents of watershed water environment necessary for Water EE with the Perspective of EE.
The results of this study are as follows:
First, the value of watershed EE was re-illuminated through the literature analysis on the watershed. The watershed is the learning space and material, which can integrate the contents of water environment and enable the integrative approach and the Personalization of Environment in Water EE.
Second, ‘Inquiry with the Perspective of EE’ was defined as a method that quests for the contents necessary and proper for EE from the viewpoint of EE, and its methodology was newly presented. Also, with suggesting it as concept and methodology of ‘Inquiry with the Perspective of Watershed EE’ by considering the value of EE in Water EE, it presented the content approach direction in the inquiry and the contents of the specific inquiry.
Third, through the Inquiry with the Perspective of EE into water environment of the watershed Musim cheon (stream), which is a case region, it allowed the watershed water environment to be able to be synthetically understood. As for a sphere of the inquiry, 5 spheres were sought by taking into account a relation to a human being, as well as the water environment itself of the watershed Musim cheon (stream). Through the Inquiry with the Perspective of EE into the water environment of the watershed Musim cheon (stream), it enabled the fact to be explicitly revealed that the watershed has the integrative value in EE.
Fourth, it developed ‘the Model of Watershed Water EE Textbook’, aiming to enhance the integrative viewpoint about water environment. Based on the contents of the Inquiry with the Perspective of EE into the watershed Musim cheon (stream), the Model of Textbook for middle-school students was developed. This model of textbook was selected largely four parts, and was organized with 10 learning objectives and 11 activities.
This study established the methodology of ‘Inquiry with the Perspective of EE’, which generally seeks for environment with the Perspective of EE, quested for watershed water environment with this methodology, and developed the Model of Textbook based on these contents. Thus, this study has a significance in a sense that it developed further the direction of a research on Realization of Teaching Material presented newly by Jang, Hye-Ra and Lee, Du Gon (2006).