학교 환경교육에서 시스템 접근법의 활용방안과 기대효과

As recent environmental discourse has drawn attention to the integrative approach including sustainable development, school education calls for a holistic approach with systems thinking to the environmental issues to overcome the limitations of reductionism. The purpose of this study is to investigate the applications and effects of microcosm and model as tools for the systems approach and suggest a future work to advance systems approach to the environmental education in schools. Students will gain valuable insights on ecosystems by microcosm experiments, which are manageable in the temporal and spatial scales and available for students to test a number of hypotheses, unless the results from the experiments are directly understood as those from ecosystems. Students will be trained to systematically approach the complex environmental issues by conceptual and simulation models. Students will be able to systematically understand the complex environment by conceptual models of ecological and socioeconomic systems, and test how policy or behavioral changes influence the environmental issues by simulation models. To maximize the benefits of systems approaches using microcosms and models, these tools need to be adapted to the school curriculum and tested through pilot projects to finally be utilized in schools.