英文摘要 |
By considering the curriculum guidelines for Taiwan’s 12-year Basic Education, this study aimed to analyze the present state of environmental education, as presented in life curriculum textbooks published in 2016. This study applied content analysis to textbooks by the publishers Nan I, Kang Hsuan, and Han Lin. The findings were as follows: The “Five Major Learning Themes” from most to least emphasized were (1) “environmental ethics,” (2) “sustainable development” and “sustainable use of energy resources,” (3) “disaster prevention” and “climate change,” and (4) “disaster prevention.” The “Seventeen Substantive Implications” from most to least emphasized were (1) E1 of “environmental ethics,” (2) E2 of “environmental ethics,” (3) E10 of “climate change,” E9 of “climate change,” and E4 of “sustainable development.” Of the textbooks from the three publishers, those from Han Lin incorporated the highest proportion of the aforementioned implications, although all textbooks did not significantly differ in this respect. Among the 72 units in total, 33 and 39 were directly and indirectly correlated with “environmental education,” respectively. This study provided some prescriptions for the design of life curriculum textbooks and teaching of environmental issues. |