著者
山野井 貴浩 伊藤 哲章
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.31, no.1, pp.1_33-39, 2021 (Released:2021-08-24)
参考文献数
24
被引用文献数
1

To understand the level of Entomophobia in nursery teachers, we undertook a questionnaire survey of nursery teachers, students taking a nursery teacher-training course, and ordinary women. Results indicated that nursery teachers tend to like arthropods and can look at photographs and illustrations of them more comfortably when compared to the students and ordinary women. An age-based analysis showed that nursery teachers in their 20s–50s were able to view photographs and illustrations of arthropods with less resistance than students and ordinary women of the same generation. There was no significant difference between participants in the 20–40 age range, but nursery teachers in their 50s showed greater preference to arthropods than university students and ordinary women. As the degree of preference for arthropods had a stronger influence on their confidence in arthropod-related childcare rather than the degree to which they could look at arthropods, it is necessary to develop training to encourage nursery teachers to like arthropods through experiences of seeing, touching, collecting and rearing such creatures.
著者
野村 卓
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 = Environmental education (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.19, no.1, pp.113-124, 2009-07-31
参考文献数
55
被引用文献数
2 1

  In Environmental Education, as for this study, Suzuki and Matsubaguchi organized the research direction until 2005. The content was provided in arrangement with the specialties Home Economics Education, Agricultural Education, Consumer Education, and Teacher Education concerning school education research. However, the problem of food-agriculture in Environmental Education is as diverse as the problems of different regions and societies. In the future, the role of Environmental Education in the problem of Food-Agriculture should cover not only School Education research but also the research direction of Adult and Community Education. Here, the focus is to integrate the accumulated research in the area of Food and Agriculture in a cohesive relationship. We think that these become problems of Environmental Education research in the future, especially where consumer administration is undertaken.
著者
降旗 信一 宮野 純次 能條 歩 藤井 浩樹
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.19, no.1, pp.1_3-16, 2009 (Released:2011-01-25)
参考文献数
47
被引用文献数
6 2

Indicating forecast of Learning through Experiencing Nature (LEN) from environmental education has become an urgent task for education in Japan. In this article, discussion is reviewed reflectively to explore the direction for solving the task.   In the first chapter, we organized social needs for LEN identified in domestic and overseas measures. In the second chapter, taking LEN for nurturing youth, we categorized it with regards to (1) object and practicing subject, (2) learning aims of educational fields, and (3) LEN programs. In the third chapter, focusing on training leaders, we indicated that people in the local community can be leaders as well as school teachers, and leading actor in school education.   In conclusion, we stated three points; (1) the requirements for accumulation of empirical research in nurturing youth like clarification of the relationship between LEN and competence, (2) research and development with new viewpoints which are training leader as “interpreters” who can be communicators eliciting people's positive world view of nature, and (3) framing system which have a view to the relationship between LEN and local systems of environmental education for sustainable and symbiotic community development.
著者
佐藤 真久 岡本 弥彦 五島 政一
出版者
日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 = Environmental education (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.20, no.1, pp.48-57, 2010-08-31
被引用文献数
1

"Sustainable School" in UK prepares young people for a lifetime of sustainable living, through its teaching, structures, and day-to-day practices. It is guided by a commitment to care: (1) for ourselves (our health and well-being); (2) for others, across cultures, distances, and generations; and (3) for the planet, both locally and globally. The school puts a high value on the well-being of its pupils and the school environment. Furthermore, it is also a great place to learn, where pupils can develop self-esteem and achieve higher standards. The DfES developed the National Framework for Sustainable School, with eight doorways (themes), i.e. food and drink, energy and water, travel and traffic, purchasing and waste, school facilities and schoolyards, inclusion and participation, local well-being, and global dimension, through which schools may choose to initiate or extend their activities. Along with this line, the authors introduce the aspects of "Sustainable Schools" led by the UK Government: (1) the implementation strategy and the national framework of UK Government; (2) ESD implications internalized in the activities. This paper describes possibilities and potentialities of Sustainable Schools, thier implications for the area of Formal Education in Japan, and some related research activities conducted by Gayford (2009) and Scott (2003, 2009).
著者
楠美 順理 濱 泰一
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.32, no.1, pp.1_85-94, 2023-03-31 (Released:2023-04-29)
参考文献数
7

This study discusses education to foster the skills needed to select appropriate information from a large amount of complex information, and to make decisions under conditions of high uncertainty. Based on the question of whether the COVID-19 vaccination is necessary, this study focuses on discussions of the framework of education to foster judgement skills. First we examined rational judgement methods and determined the requirements for judgement education. Then we examined methods for risk education and determined the requirements for that. Finally we examined methods for critical thinking education and determined the requirements for that. Twelve requirements for the desired judgment education were listed and divided into categories based on the degree of reflection required and on who was implementing them. Briefly, A1 is what teachers do, and B1 is a requirement that can be measured at specific achievement levels. B2 is a requirement that should be met to the fullest possible extent. A sample course was designed to meet the requirements of A1 and B1, and to meet the requirements of B2 to the fullest possible extent. The course consists of three components: a “simple story” which supports vaccination based on estimated mortality risk, a “detailed story” which is more cautious in judgement and quantitative evaluation, and, lastly, the processes in which students construct their theories and refine them through discussion. While it is not easy to design a course that meets all 12 requirements, it is important to develop comprehensive skills to judge whether the vaccination is necessary. Reconfirming the importance of fostering skills such as critical thinking, judgement and expression, we created a basic framework to discuss the desired education to foster the skills needed to select appropriate information from a large amount of complex information and to make decisions under conditions of high uncertainty.
著者
関 智子 岡島 成行 進士 五十八
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.18, no.3, pp.35-46, 2009-03-31 (Released:2011-06-04)
参考文献数
27
被引用文献数
1

The purpose of this study is to present philosophical elements useful in re-examining the foundations of environmental education in Japan by analyzing two of Ishida Baigan's representative works: “Tohi mondo” (Dialog between Sages and Commom People) and “Kenyaku seika ron (Bringing Order to One's House through Frugality)”.   Our findings can be summarized into the following three points. First, the relationship between humans and nature as espoused in Baigan's philosophy is founded on the philosophy of banbutsu ittai (the unity of all things). Second, a rereading of Baigan's Kenyaku ron (Frugality) and Shonin no michi (The Way of the Merchant) in the context of the first finding makes possible the following interpretations: (i) wealth represents not personal assets, but public interest within the global environment, and therefore must be used in ways that are useful to the environment; (ii) the merchant's job is to distribute wealth properly. Third, we can therefore view Baigan's philosophy as an environmental philosophy.   From these results, we conclude that environmental education in Japan should put a high priority on “the integration into nature” based on the philosophy of “the unity of all things.” By ensuring that this integration is not obstructed in any way, we will be able to develop approaches to the environment that are based on our traditional philosophies and are easier to accept for the public. The results of this study also suggest that Baigan's practical philosophy transcends time and is therefore applicable in modern environmental education as well.
著者
高野 孝子
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.23, no.2, pp.2_27-37, 2013 (Released:2015-10-20)
参考文献数
53

While ‘place’ has been a center of attention in many disciplines, the Japanese words equivalent to the concept of ‘place’ is multi-faceted and controversial. This paper overviews the discussion around the concepts of ‘place’ in literature as well as Japanese terms which may translate as ‘place’ and ‘community’. The discourse around place-based education (PBE) is examined, and the 100-year history of the movement of the similar concept in Japan is outlined. It discusses the meaning of PBE in the context of globalization, and encourages Japanese practitioners and researchers in outdoor and environmental education to explore the perspectives of place as many ‘relationships’ linked to education for sustainability at the current time of high social, economic and environmental instability.
著者
鈴木 敏正
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.19, no.3, pp.3_29-40, 2010-03-31 (Released:2011-03-31)
参考文献数
36
被引用文献数
1

Adult and Community Education is the practice to support and organize the activities of self-directed education for widening and deepening cultural reasons based on real life. It is composed of enjoying human culture and learning of living/environment, act/cooperation, production/distribution, and self-governing/policy. Environmental Education is to promote living/environment learning as learning to be, and to form Environmental Reason, through realizing the mutual relationship between human individuals and their environment.   Environmental Education has to be based on the theory of ‘Conscientization’ proposed by Paulo Freire, and ‘Learning Network’ proposed by Ivan Illich. It is real as Community Development Education that needs Illich's ideas of Conviviality, Subsistence and Commons, and Freire's Ideas for ‘Pedagogy of Hope’ However, if we are to regenerate those theories and ideas in Environmental Education, we must critically analyze them and clarify their meanings and limits.   The article will discuss, firstly, Illich's criticism against modern technique and institution, and Freire's understandings of human praxis, secondly, Freire's pedagogy towards environmental education, thirdly, Illich's idea of Learning Network towards Education for Sustainable Community Development Education (ESCD). Lastly, it will propose Community Environmental Education (CEE) to structurize the learnings (1) to conscientize nature, (2) to self-conscientize one's own life, (3) to realize the relationship between nature and human being, and (4) to empower the people by themselves for regenerating the environment.
著者
高橋 満彦 大宅 裕紀 土井 徹
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.31, no.4, pp.4_48-55, 2022 (Released:2022-08-04)
参考文献数
19

This paper analyzes how the management of wildlife (birds and mammals) is described in textbooks authorized by the Japan's Ministry of Education for use in elementary and middle schools. All of the textbooks authorized for Social Studies (24 items for elementary and 13 items for middle schools), Science (28 for elementary and 18 for middle schools), Life Environment Studies (17 items for elementary schools), and Technical Arts (thee items for middle schools) were investigated for discussion.  Wildlife management consists of multiple elements. Japanese wildlife policy originally focused on protective elements; however, with increasing wildlife damage, the Wildlife Act was revised in 2014 to define “protection” and “control” as dual values of wildlife management.  Through our research of textbooks, we found that they describe the “protection” of wildlife fairly well. However, the “control” of wildlife is mentioned or alluded to in only 16 items. Lethal control is discussed in only one textbook for middle school science.  The authors assert that the “control” of wildlife should be described in textbooks not only for the pupils to understand the current environmental policy, but also to comprehend the challenges towards agricultural and rural communities.
著者
白井 信雄 田中 充 青木 えり
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.25, no.2, pp.2_62-71, 2015 (Released:2017-07-26)
参考文献数
12
被引用文献数
1

In this study, a survey residents living in Saitama, Tokyo, Kanagawa, and Nagano prefectures was conducted to deepen the knowledge required to develop educational programs on climate change mitigation and adaptation. The results are as follows: 1) The residents are becoming increasingly aware of the effects of climate change, and this awareness affects not only their adaptation behavior, but also their mitigation behavior. 2) Sufficient recognition of the causes of climate change affects mitigation behavior. An awareness of the effects of climate change on one’s personal life affects current responses, and an awareness of the effects of climate change on regions affects long-term responses. 3) Regarding environmental consciousness, the perception to give priority to an action affects current responses, and respect towards nature affects both current responses and long-term responses. 4) Females, especially over 30 years of age, have a strong consciousness of giving priority to an action and have a strong awareness of the effects of climate change. Consequently, their behavior towards adaptation and mitigation is stronger.  Based on these results, we consider implementing educational programs on climate change adaptation and mitigation. In particular, consideration is given to developing educational programs for females who are more sensitive to climate change.
著者
降旗 信一 石坂 孝喜 畠山 芽生 櫃本 真美代 伊東 静一
出版者
日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.15, no.2, pp.2-13, 2006-02-28
参考文献数
19
被引用文献数
3
著者
深須 祐子 樋口 利彦 吉冨 友恭
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.31, no.3, pp.3_10-20, 2021 (Released:2022-02-23)
参考文献数
16

The Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE) program is an international hands-on environmental science and education program. Since its launch in 1995, over 37,600 schools across 125 countries have participated in the GLOBE program. In Japan, 281 schools and institutions have been involved in this program to date. This study examines how the GLOBE program, offering the experience of observing and analyzing data on the natural environment, affected students' awareness of the natural environment and their future career choices. The survey was conducted using questionnaires sent to 16 teachers and 108 students of high schools participating in GLOBE program (quantitative research), and interviews with 7 GLOBE alumni (qualitative research). The results show that the GLOBE program has enhanced students' interest in the natural environment and commitment to awareness of environmental conservation. Moreover, based on their approaches (e.g., enthusiastic guidance from teachers, continuous observation and data analysis, independent inquiry activities, experience in presenting research findings, interaction with other students and researchers, etc.), it was revealed that the program also influences students' career choices, such as choosing university or college courses on environmental or natural science and jobs related to nature, biology, and science.
著者
鈴木 敏正 佐藤 真久
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.21, no.2, pp.2_3-14, 2012-01-31 (Released:2013-10-31)
参考文献数
46

The age of globalization could be considered an era of “internalizing” corporate activities and human living and so on, that have been “externalized” and disposed of as has been the case with natural resources and wastes from industry and daily living. In this age without “externalities,” “global environmental problems” and “social exclusion problems” are no longer separate issues; rather they have an intricate and reciprocal relationship. Today, the need for linking these issues and developing them together has emerged in both environmental and development education, which have been involved in the educational aspects of both of these problems. In this article the authors address “global environmental problems” and “social exclusion problems” created as the outcome of “economic globalization” which has exacerbated the mutually prescribed opposition of excesses in wealth and the accumulation of poverty, and they examine environmental education and development education as two educational initiatives working on these problems.   Based on these initiatives, the authors articulate the perspective of “Endogenous Development”, which aims to solve both of these problems at the same time, as a ‘glocal’ practical theory towards the creation of a “Sustainable and Inclusive Society.” They also articulate the importance of “Education Planning Theory” which promotes proactive learning (self-education activities) related to internal development. In environmental education and development education within the context of globalization, people need to become the problem solving agents through the learning process and participating in knowledge creation. This means not simply understanding and criticizing environmental problems and problems of social exclusion, but protecting a sustainable and inclusive environment in a living community and forming cooperative and creative practical theory will suffice. Lastly, the authors explore the significance and possibility of “Education for Sustainable and Inclusive Communities, ESIC”.
著者
土井 美枝子
出版者
一般社団法人 日本環境教育学会
雑誌
環境教育 (ISSN:09172866)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.20, no.2, pp.2_26-39, 2010-12-10 (Released:2011-11-30)
参考文献数
14
被引用文献数
2 1

The aim of this paper is to examine the formation of university students’ environmental consciousness and behavior. A survey has been given to university students in Japan, China and Malaysia. Those university students’ consciousness and behavior toward the environment are divided into “Environmental consciousness and behavior in daily life” and “Consciousness and behavior to solve environmental issues.” Then, comparative analyses have been conducted. The following were the results: 1) Many of the students have concern for environmental problems and also possess thorough knowledge of them. 2) There is a gap between student’s “Environmental consciousness and behavior in daily life” and “Consciousness and behavior to solve environmental issues.” 3) Students’ consciousness and behavior for environmental problems are related to personal attributes and experiences.