지식채널 ⓔ를 활용한 환경교육 프로그램 개발 및 효과 분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop and investigate the effects of an environmental education program based on ‘knowledge Channel ⓔ’. To achieve the purpose, documentary and investigatory research was conducted and thereafter the program was developed and implemented by following the 4 stage of planning, development, field test and evaluation. Forty-four students of 5th grade elementary school were enrolled in this study. The learning before and after, their pro-environmental attitudes were investigated to evaluate the program. The results of this study were as follows. First, 70 programs among the 790 ‘knowledge Channel ⓔ’ video programs which were aired between September 2005 and March 2012 selected as the study by Lee & Lee(2013) were analyzed by criterion of environmental area and content analysis(Choi, 1992 and Lee, 2011). These programs are related to ‘natural environment’, ‘artificial environment’, ‘population’, ‘industrialization and urbanization’, ‘resources’, ‘environmental pollution’, ‘environmental conservation and protection’, ‘environmental hygiene’, ‘environmental ethics’, and ‘healthy consumer’. And the text and guidebooks revised curriculum of 5th grade students in 2007 were analyzed by the same analysis criteria. Based on these materials, total 18 environmental educational programs were developed to foster pro-environment attitudes of elementary students. Second, the environmental education program based on ‘Knowledge Channel ⓔ’ had a positive effect on the environmental concerns and needs for learning of environmental problems. And this program showed the significant differences on the pro-environmental attitudes with each 3 subdomain of verbal commitment, actual commitment, affect. Third, this program had a positive correlation(from .509 to .691) among the 3 subdomains. So, the students who hold verbal commitment showed good effect on the actual commitment and affect. In conclusions, the environmental education program based on ‘knowledge Channel ⓔ’ had a positive effect on pro-environmental attitudes of elementary school students. It is demanded that more intensive research on this study should be done, linking with teaching and learning method, as a follow-up activity.