Author: Wen Lin Huang
AIT Library Call Number: AIT Thesis no.RD-00-29
Year: 2000
Academic Program: Regional and Rural Development Planning (RRDP)
Type: Thesis (M.Sc.) – Asian Institute of Technology, 2000
Examination Committee: Edward L. Webb (Examination Committee); Ganesh P. Shivakoti, Robert Mather, Barbara Earth (Examination Committee Members)
Abstract: In Taiwan, people have suffered from many natural disasters and declining environmental quality recently, The main causes are urbanization and industrialization, agricultural and economic activity expansion, and lack of environmental awareness. People are always under the fear of shortage of resource, invasion of disaster and suffering bad quality environment. For many evidences, the development will revoke the deterioration, but in the contrast way, it will hinder the economic benefits. It is a dilemma between conservation of resources and development. These cause people to think about ‘What happens to our environment? And what should we do?’ Environmental education becomes an important solution. Environmental education is to build the public environmental consciences and enforce them to take the positive attitude and responsibility toward environmental issue. Except the existing formal education system in school, NGOs may have a significant role in informal environmental education. The SOW’s E.E. has broader impact to environmental conservation, due to its various types of activities. From the sixth occasion interpreter training program, nature experience has significant impact on members’ attitude changed to conservation. Emphasize nature experience and nature ethic will benefit participant’s good experience and to get close with others, but results in deficiency of nature knowledge. For an interpreter-training program, it is an inadequate development. It’s a benefit/cost in the EE. The formal education system and informal sector do not ignore this trade-off in the environmental education. For this interpreter training program in SOW’s E. E., the leader play a significant role in the curriculum design, the trainer is an important catalyst to improve the program active. The human resource is the main factor to influence the program it needs to promote their communicative skill to make sure the successful outcomes. This training program is under the experimental stage, its curriculum content is not systemized,
Scholarship Donor(s): The Government of Taiwan Province
Note: A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science
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