The purpose of this paper is to present the suggestions that geography teaching methods are related for environmental education and development education.
1. The contents of study are below.
(1) The philosophical backgrounds of environmental educat...
The purpose of this paper is to present the suggestions that geography teaching methods are related for environmental education and development education.
1. The contents of study are below.
(1) The philosophical backgrounds of environmental education.
(2) The internationl trends of environmental education.
① the development of environmental education.
② the content characteristics of Rio Declaration on evnironment and educational programme of Agenda 21.
③ the spill over effects of UN Declaration on environment.
(3) The natures of environmental education.
① the purpose and essence of environmental education.
② the relationships of environmental education and geography.
③ the approaches about environment.
④ the contributions of geography about environmental education.
⑤ the geography teaching methods about environmental education.
(4) The development education
① the jistory of development education
② the geography teaching activities for development education
③ the development education for sustainability: a planning framework.
2. The suggestions that geography teaching methods are related for environmental education and development education are below.
(1) There are three streams of environment, about enivironment, for environment in environmental education. Therefore geography teaching is needed to move from of environment, via about environment to for environment.
(2) The geography teaching is needed values education, involvment and action as well as knowledge and critical thinking skills of environmental and development prblems in terms of sustainability development.
(3) The geography teaching is needed to cooperate environmental education and science educators for environmental education.
(4) The geography subject is core of environmental education and Therefore can greatly contribute for environmental education and development education. We need to strengthen geography teaching for environmental education and development education.
(5) There are needs of humanistic education to reinforce environmental education and development education to be sustainability development in geography teaching.