英文摘要 |
This study aims to fuse environmental education issue into high-tech geography curricula to teach students within twelve-year basic education. Five suitable environmental concepts and issues were selected and fused into geography course subjects and five curricula were developed. The experiment was designed with different groups, with pre- and post-testing. A total of ten classes were conducted for experimental teaching in Taichung Municipal Taichung Industrial Senior High School. Five classes were experimental groups and the other five classes were the control groups. Experimental curricula, named Planting Factories on Farmland, Staying in the Mountains for One Night, The Beauty and Sorrow of Machu Picchu, The Truth under the Comfort of the City, and The Secrets behind the Forest Fires, were used for each experimental group. Two groups of students took pre-tests before teaching and post-tests after teaching. We invited co-teachers to conduct teaching observations, and interviewed the participating teachers. Moreover, the more involved students were interviewed. We comprehensively explored the appropriateness and teaching effectiveness of curricula integrating five environmental issues, determining whether they aligned with the environmental education teaching goals of -year basic education. In regard to the teaching effectiveness of these five curricula, after the students of the experimental group participated in the curricula, they achieved significant improvement in environmental knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors. As for environmental knowledge, four curricula achieved extremely significant improvements in environmental attitudes, with one curriculum achieving extremely significant improvements, and three of them achieving very significant improvements. For the behavioral aspects, three curricula achieved extremely significant improvements, with two of curricula leading to great improvements. In addition, this research used a role-playing issues discussion model, which stimulates students to put forward multiple points of view. This approach effectively enhances students' vision and environmental problem-solving ability. When it comes to curricula revision, we recommend increasing the teaching time of curricula, designing environmental action and practice activities to enhance the interest of learning, discussing topics in a more in-depth and complete manner, improving environmental problem-solving skills and behaviors, making arrangements before class, and guiding the classroom activities according to differences of students’backgrounds. |