環境教育プログラムの評価における内部評価と外部評価の併用の可能性

－清里ミーティングに関する実務者と研究者との協働事例をもとに－

抄録

  Two approaches are commonly used in the evaluation of environmental education programs: internal evaluation conducted by practitioners responsible for implementing the programs, and external evaluation conducted by outside researchers or experts. However, a third approach utilizing both internal and external evaluation through collaborative research is also expected to have merit. In this study, two practitioners who were staff members of the Japan Environmental Education Forum (JEEF) responsible for executing the Kiyosato Meeting and two outside researchers collaborated to conduct action research to evaluate the meeting. This paper focuses on how their collaboration took place as well as the outcome of the process. An analysis of dialogue from several meetings revealed that there was a gap between what the practitioners and researchers talked about in the first meeting, but this gap narrowed in the following meeting and both sides began to discuss the program using similar words. The practitioners and researchers created a logic model illustrating the short-term and long-term goals of the Kiyosato Meeting, which was revised by the practitioners and other JEEF staff members and later used to promote the program. This collaborative action research led to changes in the goals and objectives of the Kiyosato Meeting in 2018. For example, the program no longer focuses solely on environmental education but has updated its mission as "education to establish a sustainable society".