Museum : Activities and Programs to Support Environmental Education and Its Role as Information Center

博物馆：支持环境教育的活动和计划及其作为信息中心的作用

• 批准号: 08558007
• 负责人: NAKAYAMA Kazuhiko
• 金额: $ 9.6万
• 依托单位: University of Tsukuba
• 依托单位国家: 日本
• 项目类别: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (A)
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 日本
• 起止时间: 1996 至 1998
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-08558007/
• 关键词: Environmental Education; Museum; Informal education; Internet; WWW; Material Development; Information Center; Virtual Reality; 自然系博物館; 情報システム; バーチャルミュージアム; 生涯教育; 教材開発

With 2 days weekend becoming more accepted around the society, museums become to be expected to play the role of societal educational institute. Also, with the recognition of the importance of environmental education becomes more visible, museums become to be expected to take a part of the role in environmental education. This study focused on the items, which concerns about following 2 points.1 Analysis of the content and the method of environmental education at museums.(1) Conducted a research and analysis regarding the current situation of this theme around the world.(2) Conducted a discussion on how the actual environment education can be carried out at museums content, method and audience based on the findings of the above research.(3) Held a seminar and workshop inviting environmental educators at museums in the USA.(4) Developed a module style educational material that would be used in the actual education.(5) Conducted a survey to museum visitors on their expectations on the environmental education at museums.(6) Held a seminar at museums for environmental education teachers and studied the affect,2 Analysis of the possibility of development of information system for environmental education support cente red in museums and its effectiveness.(1) Development of soft program and fundamental experiment for implementing virtual reality method as a way to introduce visual images in case museums would use Internet and play a role to send information as WWW server.(2) Collected information from WWW server, converted into digital images and organized them into data base.(3) Based on the outcomes of the above research, supported to install a WWW server at Museum Park (Nature museum Ibaraki Prefecture) and opened to the public.

随着双休日越来越被社会所接受，博物馆被期待扮演社会教育机构的角色。此外，随着人们对环境教育重要性的认识变得更加明显，博物馆也被期望在环境教育中发挥一部分作用。1.博物馆环境教育的内容和方法的分析。(1)对国内外环境教育的现状进行了研究和分析。(2)对如何在博物馆内容中开展环境教育进行了探讨。方法和受众。(3)举办研讨会和工作坊，邀请美国博物馆的环境教育工作者。(4)开发模块式的教育材料，用于实际教育。(5)向博物馆参观者调查他们对博物馆环境教育的期望。(6)在博物馆举办环境教育教师研讨会，并研究其影响，2.分析了博物馆环境教育支持中心信息系统开发的可行性和有效性。(1)开发虚拟现实方法的软件程序和基础实验，作为博物馆使用Internet并作为WWW服务器发送信息的一种方式介绍视觉图像。(2)从WWW服务器收集信息，转换成数字图像并组织到数据库中。(3)在上述研究成果的基础上，支持在博物馆公园(茨城县自然博物馆)安装WWW服务器并向公众开放。