An Ontological Analysis of the Environmental Education Curriculum
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Huang, Ting-Chun
Abstract
Environmental Education Act of this nation had published in 2010, the goal of Environmental Education Act can connect the relationship between the citizen and the land Ethic. And the ultimate goal of environmental education is to cultivate the citizen to have well-mannered toward environment. And the Environmental Literacy is cultivated from cognitive environmental knowledge, self-reflection, and the process of proposing the environmental solutions to put into action. The ontology was originated from the Greek philosophy concept since the old times. And the definition of the ontology is to discuss the existence in the world and its essence. After using this theory into the practical application, the ontology becomes the emerging management tool of knowledge in 21st century. This research use the ontology theory on environmental curriculum in order to analyze whether this curriculum can achieve the indicator of Environmental Literacy, which can feedback to this lesson plan and as a suggestion. After practicing the ontology tool on the environment to educate the facility place, such as: NTU Experimental Farm,Flyingcow Ranc,Toucheng Farm,Aliban ecological farm, we can understand both various environment education curriculum and the construction of ontology;moreover, we can know whether this curriculum can fulfill the goal of Environmental Literacy. Therefore, we are can convinced that the ontology has its positive benefit in the environment education application.
Subjects
environment education
the environment educates the place
the environment education curriculum analyze
Environmental Literacy
ontology
SDGs
Type
thesis