身近な電池のSTSとリサイクルについてのモジュール開発とその有効性 : STS教育と環境教育の立場から

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Recently STS education has been focused on the field of science education. We developed the "Batteries and Recycling" module, which was related to STS education and environmental education, and put this module into practice. We asked high school students to draw recycling diagrams using the KJ Method, both before and after learning about STS with regard to batteries. This concerned such questions as the use of batteries at home, disposal problems, construction materials, the energy consumed and given out, and so on, and the place of batteries in the history of science was also discussed. The students were able to assess their own views on the recycling of batteries. Before taking this module, the students had rather naive views about recycling : that people who practice recycling are good, and that recycling is very useful. They also imaged that the recycling process was very simple. However, after taking the module they realized that recycling was related to scientific technology and energy, and that it was also influenced by factors such as individual attitudes, costs, social organization, and so on. The students reached three conclusions about recycling : 1) recycling is a completely reliable system, 2) today's recycling system is, however, unreliable, 3) reducing waste is more effective than recycling.