지속가능발전교육의 측면에서 2007 개정 중학교 「환경」 교과서의 내용분석

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to analyze how the content and organization of sustainable development education are reflected in the 2007 revised environment textbooks for middle school students. For this, I analyzed four different middle school environment textbooks, published in 2009, which are based on the 2007 revised curriculum. By using social network analysis for this research I investigated the relations of the contents and the organization of the textbooks. The results of the study are as follows. First, all the textbooks dealt with Education for Sustainable Development(ESD) in contents. Second, the common themes found in all the textbooks were natural resource, energy, climate change, environmental problems, sustainable production, sustainable consumption, and healthy foods. However, different themes such as disaster prevention, amelioration of discrepancy of the rich and the poor, and sustainability of enterprises also appeared, and their frequency was various depending on the textbooks. Third, the most highly occuring theme was about environmental sustainability including natural resource, biodiversity, energy, environmental issues. However, economical and social sustainability such as sustainable cities, sustainable consumption, and sustainable food production were only included in a limited fashion. Finally, the sequence of the textbooks was mainly based on environmental sustainability, but the integrity of environment, economy, and social sustainability in its contents was found to be relatively weak.