업사이클링 환경교육 프로그램이 초등학생의 창의적 문제해결력 및 환경태도에 미치는 영향

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to verify how upcycling environmental education program affects elementary school students’ abilities to solve creative problems and environmental attitude by developing and applying the program. The subject of this study is 2 classes of 6th grade elementary school located in G city, and upcycling environmental education program had developed and applied to experimental group for 10 classes. As a test tool, creative problem solving abilities and environmental attitude test paper were used. The SPSSWIN program was used for data analysis, and the t-test was performed to verify the difference in creative problem solving abilities and environmental attitudes between the experimental and comparative groups. The main research results obtained through this study are as follows. Fisrt, the average of all sub-areas(specific area knowledge·thinking skill·technology understanding and master, divergent thinking, critical and logical thinking) of the experimental group was improved by a significant difference compared to the comparative group, and it was found that upcycling environmental education program had a significant positive effect on the improvement of the creative problem solving abilities of elementary school students. Second, the average of all sub-areas(linguistic involvement, behavioral involvement, emotional involvement) of the experimental group was improved by a significant difference compared to the comparative group, and it was found that upcycling environmental education program had a significant positive effect on the improvement of the environmental attitude of elementary school students. Therefore, it can be seen that upcycling environmental education had a significant positive effect on the creative problem solving abilities and environmental attitude of elementary school students.