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題 名 | 國中環境教材及學生環境知識與態度之研究 (摘要) |
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作 者 | 余興全; | 書刊名 | 國立臺灣師範大學教育研究所集刊 |
卷 期 | 27 1985.06[民74.06] |
頁 次 | 頁左55-69 |
分類號 | 524.3 |
關鍵詞 | 知識; 國中; 教材; 態度; 學生; 環境; |
語 文 | 中文(Chinese) |
英文摘要 | The main purposes of this study are (l) to assess the content of environ mental problems in junior high school science textbooks; (2) to investigate student, knowledge of, and their attitudes toward the environment; (3) to make some suggestions for improving the environmental education based upon the findings of this study. This study has placed equal emphasis on both the method of content analysis and the survey approach. The selected textbooks for analysis include biology, health education, and chemistry published by Taiwan Book Store and used in 1983 school year. The environmental analysis of the content is chiefly discussed by "Section" units. The focus of contents, regional features, and the attitudes of the textbook editors characterize the analysis of the texbooks. In January, 1983, 2112 junior high school students in 22 randomly selected schools (10 from urban areas, and 12 from rural areas) in Taiwan serve as the subjects of the survey, and 1768 students have completed the questionaire. The questionnaire based upon Syracuse Environmental Awareness Test Level III include 20 factural problems, 20 conceptual problems, and 20 items devised for assessing the students' attitudes toward the environmental issuses. The questionnaire data collected were submitted to three-way ANOVA to test the statistical significant differences among the grade levels, sexes, and geographic backgrounds. The following are the main findings of this study: 1. After the analysis of the eight-book series, we learn that 242 out of 1219 sections (19.85%o f the total content) involve environmental problem. 2. The greatest proportion of the problem content is related to the categories of ecological relations and natural resources. 3. These textbooks touch least the problems of energy and toxic substances. 4. The materials of environmental education focus more on information than problem solving or environmental attitudes. 5. The teaching materials involve both urban and rural problems. 6. The attitudes of the textbook writers tend to form the environmental protectionism, but some chemistry editors have the tendency to form the attitudes toward the economic development. 7. Students possess little knowledge of the environment. 8. Female students seem to have less knowledge about the environment than male students. 9. Urban students appear to have more knowledge about the environment than rural students. 10. This study indicates that the students are active in environmental problems in a positive way. 11. Male students appear to have a more positive attitude toward the environment than do female students. 12. Rural students appear to have a less positive attitude toward the environment than urban students. 13. High-grade students appear to have a more positive attitude toward the environment than do lower-grade students. We present some suggestions based upon the conclusion as follows: 1.In order to enforce and supervise the national environmental education, the education authorities should request the specialists of all fields to form and research the environmental education. 2. It is recommended that the environmental protection departments of the government should publish more supplementary readings for students' references and for promoting their attitudes. 3. Junior high school teachers must endeavour to emphasize the importance of the concepts of toxic substances, waste disposal, and population. 4. Junior high schools should enforce the research work on the environmental curricula among teachers. 5. It is recommended that the researchers should analyze all the textbooks used in junior high schools, senior high schools, or elementary schools for the purpose of viewing the complete development of the teaching materials of the environmental education. |
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