Establishment of Fundamental Concepts and Adaptation to Schools

环境教育的重要性和必要性已开始引起社会的广泛关注。然而，什么是环境教育，谁应该是目标，应该如何进行环境教育等问题仍然没有得到解决。环境教育的思维方式很多，环境教育的基本理念并不是从全球标准建立起来的。在日本，环境教育作为一种关于污染的教育遗憾地开始了它的历史。此外，在欧洲或美国的学校和社会教育中，活跃在学校和社会教育中的“自然研究”、“户外教育”或“保护教育”等课程在日本并不存在。因此。一些被称为环境教育的课程似乎只是“自然研究”。‘户外教育’或‘保护教育’，本研究计划并实践以下两点：1.确立环境教育的基本概念。(1)研究世界各地的环境教育现状。(2)对世界各地不同学术背景的学者进行面对面的环境教育期望调查。(3)总结上述调查收集到的意见。(4)根据上述活动的结果进行讨论。2.学校基本概念的扩散。(1)环境教育现状研究(2)学校使用的开发课程的评估。(3)构建针对实际情况的建议制定期末课程，课题组成员将总结上述研究成果，并准备报告广泛分发。

The importance and the need of the environmental education have started to attract more attention from societ y now. However, questions such as what is environmental education, who should be the target or how it shoul d be done remains unsolved. There are many ways of thinking and fundamental concept of environmental education is not established from global standard. In Japan, environmental education started its history as an ed ucation about pollution regrettably. Also, curriculums such as 'Nature studies', 'Outdoor education' or 'Conservation education' which were actively done in school and societal education in Europe or the US did not exist in Japan. Therefore. some curriculums called environmental education seem to be only 'Nature studies'. 'Out door education' or 'Conservation education', but not Environmental Education.This study planned and practiced the following 2 points.1 Establishment of the fundamental concept of environmental education.(1) Study of current situation around the world.(2) Face to face survey to scholars of the world with different academic background on the expectations on EE(3) Summarize opinions collected through the above survey.(4) Discussions based on the outcome of the above activities.2 Proliferation of the fundamental concept toward schools.(1) Study of the current EE situation(2) Evaluation of the developed curricula for school use.(3) Construction of proposal for the actual practice and the trail.(4) Drawing up the final curricula.Members of the research team would summarize the outcome of the above mentioned study and would preparereport to distribute widely.