英文摘要 |
The purpose of this study focuses on understanding the current situation of the environmental education issues contained in the Chinese literature textbooks in junior high schools of the Nine-Year Integrated Curriculum. The researchers employed content analysis, and the five constructs, eleven topics in the environmental education issues served as the main analyzed classifications. Our study revealed that the proportion of environmental education contents in each company's version exceeds one-third. As for the five constructs of environmental education, most versions covered the construct of "environmental awareness and sensibility", while "environmental skills" and "environmental experience" were the least mentioned ones. In eleven topics, every edition used the "Experiencing natural and cultural environment" for the main point in presentation, and all ignored the three topics: "the planning of environmental activity", "the participation in the environmental activity in the locality", and "the investigation of global environmental issues". We detect the following points: 1. The topic of ecological basic conceptions: focus on the biological and ecological environment, and on the interaction between the living things and the environment. 2. The topic of the intension of environmental issues: nuclear pollution, earthquake calamity,and floods. 3. There are very few materials discussing about the sustainable development. |