In order to practice the environment responsible behavior, to direct experience nature, is an effective way to increase the value and attitude to the environment. Learning in the real environment, it is possible to promote the relevance practical, to ...
In order to practice the environment responsible behavior, to direct experience nature, is an effective way to increase the value and attitude to the environment. Learning in the real environment, it is possible to promote the relevance practical, to the learner, to grant more sense. Among them, there is no limit of the target from children to adults by emphasizing the theme of "forest and human" experience environmental education using the forest. In particular, when you experience the nearby forest, the learner, to learn the nature of the relationship and their own forest, recognition and love of forests will differ greatly. The forest, much information about the nature and history has been put, it is possible to enhance the effect experience learning and teaching.
Studies on the experience of the forest, has been advanced by using the school forest, and urban ecological park. However, studies related to the teaching of the woods, as well as no more in quantity than the other fields, various attempts are determined in terms of the approach. Study of the situation and context that children experience in the woods, what you feel is particularly necessary. Thus, through the forest experience program, and to understand a little more deeply that the students have experienced and inspect the meaning of the forest as a place for environmental education.
In this study, the junior high school students of 18 people science gifted children, we conducted a forest experience of community-based programs. It is the theme of the forest of Seodaemun-gu An-San mountain, with the aid of artifacts, the discussion transcription pattern observed diary with the picture of forest experience at that time, whether exercise, we analyzed the experience of forest experience of the study participants.
Most students frequently visited the forest of An-San, they had a nature-friendly attitude of the tree and the forest. At the beginning stage of the forest experience, forest of An-San was a place of memories and everyday students. And go climbing with my family, they went for a walk a lot, and it was a familiar place had done well in ecology learning experience and volunteer activities in school. Through hands-on activities that took place in the commentary of the forest, students, won the knowledge of insects and tree is a member of the forest. The acquisition of new knowledge, to induce the interest and curiosity of forest An-San, they felt new, fresh environment. In addition, through the experience of the forest, students and joy that together with friends, have experienced various emotions comfort space itself that forests provide, a sense of stability and warmth, and freshness, and coolness, such as the arms of mom. And, they thought the space of harmony various organisms interact with each other in the woods, coexist, and they realized that direct experience with the function of the forest, that space that is indispensable to humans.
As the location of the beginning, of knowledge acquisition in the woods, acquisition of interest and curiosity, thinking stability, ecological-oriented emotional acted in a complex manner to understand the forest environment. It was affected to feel the feeling that want to know more about the forest and learning needs of the forest. In addition, forest, was able to be able to think deeply learners aware of the relationship with the environment, through such analysis, to understand the meaning and importance of the forest as a place for environmental education.