몬테소리 우주교육론을 기저로 한 초등학교 환경교육 프로그그램 개발을 위한 기초 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to design the environmental education program based on Montessori’s space pedagogy for primary school children. Montessori’s space pedagogy does not only deals with the changes of the universe including its formation, expansion, and death but also with all the mankind on the earth. In this study adopts ecological and peace education of Montessori’s space pedagogy as a theoretical background of environmental education. Montessori’s ecological education focuses on human, animals, lifeless things, and the earth. It emphasizes that men in relationships initiatively is responsible for preventing and educating the environment for their descendents. Montessori says in peace education that creating peace is duty of education and education is a tool for peace. Peace education is deeply related to individuals and social communities. And furthermore the essential element of the peace education is child-centered education, which is the most important character of all educational methods. This study selects human, living and inanimate object, and the earth as essential elements of Montessori’s ecological education. In peace education, its key words are self esteem, social community, lives, and earth community. Reconstructing and regulating the elements of ecological and peace education, 10 weeks of environmental education program is established and developed, which is ‘The earth is hard breathing’ ‘water, water, water’ ‘Tree is green’ ‘Smell the earth’ ‘The space we are living in’ ‘Guard of justice’ ‘Glorious lives’ ‘For world peace’ ‘We are environmental guards(1)(2)’. 10 themes of the program are divided in 4 areas which is object, Montessori method, learning contents, and activity progress areas.