A Proposed Educational Guideline for Environmentally Friendly Growth
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Abstract
The aims of this research were: 1) To study the context of the challenges facing Thailand in the provision of education for enhancing the quality of life that is environmentally friendly with an emphasis on education and awareness of biodiversity; 2) To study and propose educational approaches that raise awareness of biodiversity; 3) To study the results of the use of educational approaches that raise awareness of biodiversity. The research was research and development methodology with three steps. Target groups were school administrators, teacher representatives, and community representatives from all three schools in Bang Rakam district, Phitsanulok Province. The research tools were a guideline for educating and raising awareness about biodiversity, assessment form for good global citizenship in environmental awareness, assessment form of biodiversity awareness. Analyze the data was with mean, standard deviation and content analysis.
Research results summarized as follows: 1) Thailand context still encountering environmentally friendly growth issues in many ways, therefore, was a challenge to create growth on the quality of life that was environmentally friendly; 2) A guideline for environmentally friendly growth gets a process that was a circuit consisting of 11 activities; 3) The results of using the guideline were teachers had lessons raising awareness. Students who used the developed educational guidelines had overall the awareness of biodiversity before study at a moderate level (x̄ = 2.94, S.D. = 0.55) and after study at a high level (x̄ = 4.22, S.D. = 0.45). Students who used the developed educational guidelines had overall competency as a global citizen of the environment before study at a moderate level (x̄ = 3.39, S.D. = 0.62) and after study at a high level (x̄ = 4.22, S.D. = 0.45).
Keywords: Educational Development, Environmentally Friendly Growth, Biodiversity, Good Global Citizenship, Environmental Awareness
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