The importance of environmental education in Korea began to be concretely stated in our curriculum at the 4th term. The present 5th-term curriculum contains more substantial and systematic contents of the environmental education. But our education sti...
The importance of environmental education in Korea began to be concretely stated in our curriculum at the 4th term. The present 5th-term curriculum contains more substantial and systematic contents of the environmental education. But our education still needs a lot as far as environmental learning is concerned.
Three basic elements covered in the environmental education are concepts, problems, and protection. Each element is further classified and suggested according to the level of education at each school. The reports reveal, however, that the system of the environmental education at primary school is merely down a grade than that at middle school.
Generlly speaking, our country's environmental education does not have its own system but is merely linked with thr general framework of the established environmental contents. The real environmental education should be concerned with actual living rather than with knowledge or classwork. As our educational reality hardly permits this desirable ideal, one of the urgent tasks in the future will be how to harmonize the various contents of the environmental education with the schoolwork and everyday life.