The Limits of Environmental Education Challenged by an Intense Environmental Education Program of Rainwater Living Experience on a Remote Island

2022 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 20K02747
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Review Section: Basic Section 09040:Education on school subjects and primary/secondary education-related
• Research Institution: Fukui University of Technology
• Principal Investigator: KASAI Toshihiro 福井工業大学, 環境情報学部, 教授 (60279396)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 近藤 晶 福井工業大学, 環境学部, 准教授 (70550606) ; 三寺 潤 福井工業大学, 環境学部, 教授 (80585711)
• Project Period (FY): 2020-04-01 – 2023-03-31
• Keywords: 環境教育 / 体験型 / 特殊体験

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The project was designed to obtain basic data for developing an environmental education program that would lead to a change in people's awareness and behavior that would lead to the prevention of global warming. The "Rainwater Drinking Project" was implemented as a program that could be implemented even in the event of the Corona disaster, and the effects of the rare experience of drinking rainwater on the change in people's awareness were evaluated through a questionnaire survey. As a result, in order to increase awareness change and further change actual behavior, it is useful to define targets by age, to deepen understanding of the concept and the manufacturing process, and to consider design approaches.

Free Research Field

環境教育

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

二酸化炭素排出削減など、実質的な環境負荷削減につながる行動変容を起こす環境教育の開発が喫緊の課題である。その為には、効果を最大化させる環境教育プログラムの内容やその開発時に考慮すべき点を明らかにする必要がある。その点から、今回の研究で得られた成果は意義あるものである。