Establishing Process of 'Environment-related' Subjects in Korea and their Development

Abstract

  This paper discusses in detail how Korea introduced environment-related subjects into the 6th national curriculum of secondary education, and the difference in social backgrounds between Korea and Japan, where environmental content has dispersed to all subjects. The study was based on interviews with Korean officials who deeply involved in the formalizing of environmental education as subject at that time, and their reports. Furthermore, we considered the teachers-training system related to the introduction of environment-related subjects and the establishment of environment education department at colleges, and examined the changes of the content of environment-related subjects and those of curriculum in environment education department at colleges.　
  Finally, we appreciated the contribution of introducing environment-related subjects from the viewpoints of the spread and progress of environmental education in Korea. We also discussed the suggestions of Korean experiences related to the introduction of environment-related subjects for us to consider the formalization of environmental education as subject.