A analysis of environmental text book for secondary education has been conducted toward ecocentric education, eventually to provide a creative and open-minded teaching. Based on the result of analysis, the following problems suggested, the content of ...
A analysis of environmental text book for secondary education has been conducted toward ecocentric education, eventually to provide a creative and open-minded teaching. Based on the result of analysis, the following problems suggested, the content of the text book has too wide scope for the intelligence of the middle school student. Furthermore, the text book is mainly focused on demonstrating the surface of the phenomena as an existing public nuisance in society, however, the present book deals with the superficial aspects of environmental problems and makes the problems considered as simple. From the analysis study of present environmental text book several suggestion has been conducted as follows : First, additional education units are needed for judgement traning toward emotional approach to law of nature and environmental phenomena. Second, it is necessary for teachers to develop various teaching methods in an environmental class.