抄録
A course of lectures on the environment through many-sided approach for undergraduate students and another course for graduate students from Thailand were conducted and applied “ELF Environment Learning Process.” This Process has been proposed as a framework integrated ten programs for learning the environment. The questions on a few words, “nature, environment, environmental issues and hopes of topics” through a free association and the records of their impression on the course were asked of the students taking the courses before and after the classes.
The answers including many words and text were processed by SPSS Text Analytics for Surveys. The undergraduate students recognized a word “nature” as to be such vast nature as forest, ocean, river and mountain, but these were not the familiar nature in their side. They recognized the two words “environment and environmental issues” as to be the same phenomena as global issues including acid rain, desertification, global warming and deforestation. Those issues are negative images for them. On the contrary the graduate students from Thailand recognized the words “nature and environment” as to be familiar and positive images, and only did the word “environmental issue” as to be negative. Because they changed their recognition, thought widely the environment, and added positive images after their attendances, the courses applied “ELF Environment Learning Process” were effective in understanding “environment” as a whole.
