This study investigates the users’perception of the importance and performance of National Recreation Forest Service Programs quality, forest environmental education and cultural benefits, with the aim of improving the level of service quality within the programs. An Important-Performance Analysis (IPA) was performed to determine significant patterns. The IPA results showed that most users’perceived as important how well the service programs performed to meet their expectations. The enclosed study finds, for example, users’answered that three factors which were less important to them were entrance fee, size of program center or facilities and amount of information. These factors performed poorly, and the program of guidance indicates the need for improvement of these factors. In addition, the finding also suggests how recreational service programs in the future can complement and improve what they offer. These are as follows. The process of preparation and content of the program order need to be effectively established. The Program Director needs to maintain a friendly attitude and must have ongoing training on how to provide effective programs. For programs to be enjoyable and satisfying for users, the location of the programs should provide a comfortable environment. Also, detailed program guidance is required for users’ convenience. It is expected that the results of this study will be useful when ameliorating and establishing the marketing strategy of the National Recreation Forest Service Programs.

이 연구는 우리나라 초등학생의 환경행동을 측정 할 수 있는 측정도구를 개발하고 그 규준을 제시하고자 하였다. 두 차례의 예비조사와 내용타당도 검증을 활용하여 측정도구를 개발하였고 전국의 832명의 초등학생을 대상으로 한 본 조사를 실시하였다. 환경행동 측정도구의 신뢰도와 타당도를 확보하기 위해 문항분석(평균, 왜도, 첨도, 문항-전체 상관), 신뢰도 분석, 확인적 요인분석, t검증을 활용하였다. 결론적으로 첫째, 개발된 우리나라 초등학생용 측정도구는 우리나라 초등학생을 대상으로 신뢰도와 타당도가 확보되었다. 소비자 행동, 환경관리 행동, 학습 행동, 상호작용 행동의 네 영역 각 4문항씩 총 16문항으로 구성되며 신뢰도는 0.841이다. 둘째, 개발된 측정도구로 측정한 결과에서 여자가 남자보다, 5학년이 6학년보다 점수가 높았다. 셋째, 제시된 규준은 이 측정도구를 활용하여 얻은 결과 값을 비교 할 수 있었다. 즉, 측정한 값이 우리나라 초등학생 전체에서 어느 정도에 위치하는지 규준을 토대로 파악 할 수 있을 것이다.

In this study, we developed the environmental education program focused on the communication with the exhibits at the ecological museum applicable to the environmental education for gifted students. For this study, we chose 60 gifted students attending U Institute of Education for the gifted, and classified these students into two groups, then applied newly developed program to the 30 experimental group students, and applied general environmental education program to the 30 comparative group students. Below are the study results: First, the environmental education program focused on the communication with the exhibits at the ecological museum was much effective in increasing environmental sensitivity of gifted students as compared to the general environmental education program. Second, the environmental education program focused on the communication with the exhibits at the ecological museum was much more effective in increasing the willingness to environmental act for gifted students as compared to the general environmental education program Third, the satisfaction of the gifted students about the environmental education program focused on the communication with the exhibits at the ecological museum was higher than the general environmental education program.

The consciousness of environmental education has increased for the last decades, and schools make efforts for education in the systematic environment. To keep pace with trends such as the open school and the open class, students, teachers and parents are actively participating in environmental education programs. Parents’ active participate in environmental education programs will provide excellent basis to operate environmental education efficiently and advise fruitful operation of environmental education programs. In addition, as parents play an important role of deciding the students’ life habits or attitudes about environment, their participation is greatly meaningful. This study was conducted to 203 fourth and fifth graders in M elementary school in Ulsan city that operated the model school for protecting the forest from March to December, 2009 and their parents in order to examine the effects of parents’ participation in environmental education programs, and the results are as follows. First, the student group with parents who participated in environmental education programs showed higher interest in surrounding environment of the school. Second, the student group with parents who participated in environmental education programs showed higher environment sensitiveness and environmental practice intention. Third, the parent group who participated in environmental education programs showed higher environmental sensitiveness and environmental practice intention. Fourth, the parent group who participated in environmental education programs showed higher satisfaction about the program. As the result of the study, environmental education programs with parents’ participation attracted their active interest and participation about school environment problems, and a lot of conversation and attention between students and parents who participated in environmental education programs improved the students and their parents’ environmental sensitiveness and environmental practice intention.

The purpose of this study was to examine the relations between using experience of environmental education facilities and attitude toward environmental education in parents who have elementary students in Seattle, U.S. The findings of this study represented that elementary parents have a great understanding about the importance of environmental education. Parents have a strong agreement with the necessity of environmental education in childhood. This research also found the differences between grades and facilities for environmental education in expected effect on environmental education and desirable fields of environmental education. The awareness of the importance of environmental education increased according to frequency in using environmental education facilities. In addition, the more the experiences of using various environmental education facilities, such as museum of natural history, science museum, arboretum, and aquarium expanded, the more educational effects positively increased over time.

This research was composed over a period of 10 times and was performed to be conducted in an environmental education class for 4 months from September to December of 2008 by selecting 32 experimental group students and 32 control group students from OO Middle School in the Busan area. An environmental education program utilizing IIM(independent investigation method) was composed by selecting a theme for environmental education among the environmental curriculum in middle schools. The results of analyzing the effects which influence environmental sensitivity and environment-friendly behaviors after applying the environmental education program utilizing IIM are as follows. First, it was revealed that the environmental education program utilizing IIM is more effective among experimental group students than control group students in regards to environment-friendly sensitivity. Second, it was revealed that the environmental education program utilizing IIM is more effective among experimental group students than control group students in regards to environment-friendly behaviors. Third, it was seen that even students responded very favorably toward environmental education program utilizing IIM.

This study was investigated on the consciousness of middle school students in Jeju city about the environmental education through questionnaire, in order to understand the actual conditions of environmental education and to find out the solutions about them. Middle school students responded that environmental education in school was taken at the class for the special activity or voluntary service, not in regular class and was worked as in the form of the field trip. They generally obtain the knowledge and informations on the environmental problems from mass media such as TV, radio and newspaper than from regular environment class in school. And 36.0% of students perceive that environmental education is needed as a regular class and 31.3% of students perceive that the regular class in school is effective to the environmental education. These results suggest that many students are interested in the regular environment class in school. However, the most of students responded that the regular environment class in school is not worked or is not worked at all, suggesting that the environmental education in middle school is not worked effectively. Most of students prefer to take the environment class in the form of observation or field trip, and they think that observation or field trip is more effective to obtain environmental informations. In conclusion, the special activity such as observation or field trip needs to be supplemented to regular environment class in order to improve the environmental education in middle school more effectively.

우리나라 학교환경교육 목적은 우리나라의 교육적 상황이나, 교육 그 자체보다 외국의 연구나 국제적인 권고에 토대를 두고 있다. 따라서 교육에 기초하고, 우리나라의 교육현실에 적합한 학교환경교육 목적을 설정할 필요가 있다. 본 연구에서는 이홍우와 장상호의 교육관을 중심으로 학교환경교육 목적을 고찰해 보았으며 연구 방법은 문헌 연구를 중심으로 이루어졌다. 이홍우의 교육관을 중심으로 도출된 학교환경교육 목적은 “환경교과의 지식을 깊이 있게 이해하여 세상을 환경적인 ‘눈’으로 볼 수 있게 하는 교육”으로, 장상호의 교육관에 의해서는 “환경과 관련된 주제중심 교육방법으로 환경교육계에서 스승과 제자가 상호 협력하는 과정을 통해서 각자의 수준을 향상시키는 것”으로 도출되었으며, 이 목적들을 Engleson이 1994년에 제시한 학년별 환경교육의 주요 강조점과 조성화.최돈형(2008)의 연구 등에 비추어서 시사점과 의의를 조명해 보았다.

Today, environmental pollution and destruction due to the industrialization of our modern society have been the global issues. Although now we can lead affluent lives through science technologies and economic development, these environmental problems have resulted in striking the harmonious balance between human beings and nature and threatened human lives with abnormal weather caused by the global warming, destruction of the ozone layer, and El Nino phenomenon, acid rain, decrease in species diversity, movement of hazardous materials, and harmful waste increase. We are aware of the importance of environmental education, but in reality, it seems impossible to implement appropriate environmental education on account of our educational climate which exclusively focuses on the entrance examination. However, environmental education is the most ultimate solution for those problems in that only when students understand our environment fully and grow habits to protect it through environmental education, the present environmental problems can be solved and more serious problems that can be resulted in the future can possibly be prevented. Thus, this study has examined the effect of using image media in the environment subject on students’ environmental sensitivity. According to the results, it was shown that it had positive effects on ‘sensitivity of environment’, ‘attitudes towards environment’, and ‘environmental affinitive behaviors’.

본 연구는 학교 옥외환경이 학생들의 환경의식 및 환경교육적 측면에 미치는 영향에 대해 알아보기 위해 시범학교와 일반학교의 비교 연구를 실시한 결과 다음과 같은 결과를 도출하였다. 1. 학생들은 자신의 학교 옥외공간에 ‘나무, 꽃 등의 관찰공간’, ‘화단’, ‘야외수업 및 휴식공간’, ‘연못 및 생태 숲’ 등에 대한 요구도가 높은 것으로 나타났으며 특히 ‘야외수업 및 휴식공간’에 대한 요구도가 가장 높게 나타났다. 2. 조경공간 만족도에 있어서는 시범학교와 일반학교의 차이가 검증되었으며 숲 조성으로 인한 식물 수량의 증가와 이로 인해 계절감을 느낄 수 있는 점이 만족의 이유로 조사되었다. 3. 학교숲 조성은 학생들의 식재수량 인식도에 유의적인 영향을 끼쳤으며, 학교숲 조성으로 인한 식재수량의 증가는 학생들의 식물 관찰빈도를 높여주는 결과를 보였다. 또한 관찰빈도의 증가가 식물이름을 아는 정도에도 유의적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 4. 교목․교화의 인지도, 교과서 식물 인지도의 분석 결과를 볼 때, 학교숲 조성 후 적극적인 환경교육이 이루어지지 않으면 학생들의 환경의식고취 및 교육적 효과가 미비한 것으로 나타났으며, 현재 환경교육은 대부분 교실에서 이루어지는 교과서 위주로 진행되고 있었으며, 현장에서 직접 체험하는 방식의 교육이 저조한 것으로 나타났다. 따라서 학생들이 몸소 체험하며 보고, 듣고, 느낄 수 있는 방식의 효과적인 학습방법을 모색하기 위한 추가연구가 필요할 것으로 사료된다.

The purpose of this study was to clarify the effects of the environmental education system focusing on the knowledge, attitude and practice in relation to environmental education to the students in Mokpo middle school. The study is accomplished by the survey which includes a total of 268 inquiry lists sampled from four groups of the middle school, one of which composing of two middle schools having the environmental curriculum, hereafter referred as 'the case group' and the other group of two middle schools without the curriculum, hereafter referred as the 'the control group'. From the results of the average scores on the environmental knowledge, attitude and practice between the two groups, the case group showed better knowledge scores than the control group (p<0.05). The case group with environmental education were relatively high to the control group without environmental education to the attitude(p<0.05), and did not showed signifiant differences in the environmental practice. From the results of stepwise multiple regression analysis, the factor affecting the environmental knowledges was the interest in the environment problems (R2=0.130), economic status, academic achievement and the necessity of environment conservations in order. The factor most affecting to environmental attitude and practice were the interest in environmental problems of the parents.

This study investigated the environmental awareness synthetically with the drawing activity for making up for the weak points in the writing test that cannot measure emotional aspects. This study found that students have negative viewpoints on reasonable judgement for the present and future environment of the earth, while they show hope to live in better environment in their mind. Furthermore, it found that the drawing activity can be adopted as a complement for the traditional measuring method of the environmental awareness, through which this middle school students' sensibility to the environment can be shown. It also inferred that the drawing activity can be used as a way of education during school classes for environment and it can increase the sensibility to the environment in mind.

A survey of middle school students and teachers in Mokpo city has been done to understand the perception of environment of students and the present situation of environmental education in middle school. Only 2 of the 14 middle schools have chosen the environmental education course as a required subject. The majority of middle-school students in Mokpo city have learned the environmental education as a subordinate course included in the other subjects such as science, social science or technology. The environmental education in school has been done mostly through non-subject activities such as club activity, group work etc. The survey shows that almost all students think the environmental pollution is serious problem(83% of respondents) and they are especially interested in separate garbage collection(72%) and environmental conservation activity(63.9%) to protect the environment. The concerns about the environmental problems of students(57.7%) has increased after environmental education regardless educational methods or subjects. The students and teachers think that environmental education in school has not been carried out enough and almost all of them(68.4% of students, 97.5% of teachers) agree that the environmental education should be done as an independent subject. In order to more practical and effective environmental education, many opportunities to experience environmental conservation activities should be given during the environmental education course and the environmental education should be separated from other subjects to be taught independently. Moreover, it might be necessary to increase proportion of teachers in environmental disciplines and to develop various teaching methods.

This Interior landscape design was proposed for the high school culture center in mansu- dong, Incheon. Today users of culture center ask plans for improving the indoor spatial quality of their school environments. Indoor to meet the user's needs, various effeorts and works should be implemented as soon as feasible. And the purpose of this study was to offer the opportunity of contact with the nature to high school student by the creation educational space Recently one of the mainstream design approaches in space emphsizes to be synchronized with the nature and its basic attitude is the revival of the right relationship between man and nature. The interior landscape design covers the following: a survey of the present status, a site analysis, a schematic design, and design development. To create the interior landscape space , the site analysis was carried out. Based on that, we proposed educational space by the concept of environmental art education, which transform plan into the system of nature image. The high school space is designed to have educational spaces like water space, voice space, color space and the sense of smell space which are designed to be flexible in accommodating different time and events. We found that it is very effective to organize environmental art program in the interior land sacape space. Through the high school space created by this plan, the high school student will have more opportunity of contact with the nature. It aims to prove the fact that high school students needs the design which connects environmental art education space with natural environment.Key word; interior landscape design, highschool, environmental art education

Having the Seorak mountain National Park as an object of study, this research grasps the problems of the present environmental observatories through the awareness investigations of visitors towards the function of environmental observatories made by the evironmental education. In order to achieve this, a questionaire has been conducted for 26 days, starting from the 25th October 2002, directed towards 100 visitors to the Seorak mountain National Park about the maps and degree of satisfaction of the usage ofthe environment observatory and explanation program. The results of the analysis show that general satisfaction on the environmental observatories are valued very negatively. This informs us that the present environmental observatories under the environment education are not fullfilling entirely their functions. Supporting itself upon the basis of the visitors' questionaire, this research has attempted the resolution of the present problems having as an object of study the scenery and cultural resources present in the Seorak mountain National Park, and proposing an entertaining environmental education of the environment observatory’s constitution.

The education effect of environmental impact cognitive instruction on high school students was investigated. Environmental values of students could be classified into egocentric, social-altruistic and biospheric values like those of Schultz's three kinds of categories. The value distribution of students consists 44.7% of egocentric and biospheric value groups and 12.5% of social-altruistic value group, respectively. The environmental function such as knowledge and skill did not show remarkable differences between value groups. The environmental value only affected the attitude function. The biospheric value group had the higher attitude function than other value groups. The environmental impact cognitive instruction enhanced the environmental functions irrespective of the value group or instruction type. However, significant variables were different according to environmental functions. Environmental functions such as knowledge and skill were influenced by the instruction itself. The attitude function was dependent on instruction itself, value type and instruction type. The optimum application of the environmental impact cognitive instruction can be efficiently achieved through class division into egocentric value group and biospheric value group. Alternatively, the proper combination of instruction methods focused biospheric and egocentric impacts in a class can be recommended.

The objectives of the study were to. 1) explain the seriousness of environmental problems and the importance of environmental education in rural development , and 2) explore more effective and efficient ways of environmental education for agriculture and rural development in Korea. The world has rapidly changed and concepts such as clientele -centered, efficiency, and globalization are flowing under this change. Agriculture or rural development is not an exception. In order for agriculture as an occupation and rural communities to have competitiveness in efficiency and attractiveness, it is important to develop and execute a well-planned program for agriculture and rural development. Otherwise, farmers and rural inhabitants will continue to leave the agriculture and rural areas. Frequent recent reports of newspapers on nit and water pollution, including nutrients and pesticides have brought attention to the seriousness of environmental problems in Korea. Environmental concerns should consider in planning and executing the rural development program. People want to get contamination-free foods, water and fresh air. They can and are willing to pay their money for high quality food, water and a better living environment, as their incomes have been increasing, Agriculture and rural communities may have competitiveness in these aspects. It is irony that environmental concerns makes the possibility of changes in agriculture and rural development in Korea. Environmental education will have an increasingly important role in agriculture and rural development. Environmental problems relate to the human behavior in various aspects. Many environmental problems are mainly rooted to people's ignorance and spending-habits, and lack of technology related to environment. These human behaviors are the focus that environmental education should teach and change. Environmental education has been carried out through various subjects in school education in Korea, but "Environment" in middle school and "Environmental Science" in high school were separated as a regular subject from 1996. Environmental education still has a lot of room for development from a theoretical frame work. Environmental education should be carried out as action-oriented, student-centered programs. Various teaching materials, programs and proper supporting budget should be developed so that environmental education fulfills its necessary role well in agriculture and rural development. A textbook about the environment alone will not guarantee a high quality environmental education.