전국 사회 환경교육기관 현황과 숲 교육 프로그램 분석 및 발전방안 연구

Abstract

Due to the global environment crisis today caused by the destruction of ecosystem, the problem of global environment preservation is being recognized as the biggest challenge of mankind. With the importance of environmental education activities to raise eco-friendly value consciousness being on the rise, forest that is effective in preventing climate change is becoming increasingly important. This research investigated and analyzed the nationwide SEEI(Social Environment Educational Institutions) in order to grasp the actual state of environmental educations, and based on the results thereof, presented the future development direction of SEEI and FEP(Forest Education Programs). To achieve this, the nationwide social environment educational institutions were divided into those in metropolitan cities and those in provinces, and the curriculums, educational objects, education types, education cycle, and educational personnel were surveyed and analyzed by collecting data from visiting nationwide natural environment training institutes. Visiting survey was conducted on nationwide environment educational groups such as natural environment training institutes from April 2008 to November 2012, and the inquiry into homepage contents through Internet and related literature search were conducted on those during the period from September 2011 to May 2013. The results of this research showed that social environment educational institutions were distributed and operated in similar proportion to the population of each region, and most of them were distributed downtown with good accessibility. The curriculums were relatively diverse but the courses to understand the regional characteristics were relatively insufficient. However, the natural environment training institutes were utilized as the places where people can have diverse experiences about the nature and the environment. And most of the forest educational programs were operated in the individual region’s ‘forest of life’ and ‘national park office’ and nationwide distributed ‘natural environment training institutes.’ Through this research, it was found that diverse nationwide social environment educational institutions were operating diverse curriculums and raising the people’s awareness of the environment. However, the objects of education were relatively limited, and the curriculums were all similar nationwide, so it is considered that broadening the scope of educational objects and the development of new curriculums featuring regional characteristics are needed.