2010 Volume 51 Issue 2 Pages 109-124
In this research, the author developed and tried an environmental education program based on the thoughts of deep ecology, investigated students' responses and the practical problems, and acquired introductory knowledge to examine how the environmental education based on the thoughts of deep ecology should be. The author focused the work "the practice of identification experience with familiar plants," and made the environmental education program in high school biology. Though the program was short and the practice was influenced by some various conditions of the high school, its aims were attained to some degree, which were the changes of students' environmental awareness and attitude, "the understandings of the concepts of diversity and symbiosis of organism" "the acquisition of the views of nature of biospherical egalitarianism as a fundamental rule" "attainment to self- realization by identification with nature" found in the thoughts of deep ecology. It was cleared that the environmental education program based on the thoughts of deep ecology was accepted by the students without a feeling of wrongness, if the program met the needs of the actual conditions of the community and the school.
