Abstract
Through a review of current literature on environmental education, this study confirms current situations and challenges to the introduction of nature experience study in school curricula and to the evaluation of such a program. The most important point that the government should consider is how to execute environmental education uniformly in all jurisdictions, thus enabling schools to easily introduce it. However, jurisdictional differences among governmental departments may negatively affect verification of the system through formative evaluation. Additionally, a verification system for each measure's effect, including continuance of long-term environmental conservation in local areas, is important because each differs in terms of duration and frequency of program. Consequently, the government should establish a system to use the information that existing educational research has already clarified.
