Development of a Program for Environmental Education Based on Water Use from a Life Cycle Perspective

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  • AKASAKA Michitaka
    Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Yokohama National University
  • NAKAHARA Yasutaka
    Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University
  • TADAKA Hatsuna
    Faculty of Education and Human Sciences, Yokohama National University
  • MATSUMOTO Shinya
    Graduate School of Environment and Information Sciences, Yokohama National University

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  • ライフサイクルの観点から水の利用を考える環境教育プログラムの開発
  • ライフサイクル ノ カンテン カラ ミズ ノ リヨウ オ カンガエル カンキョウ キョウイク プログラム ノ カイハツ

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<p>Objective. Our life style is based on the large consumption of energy, materials and natural resources through the use of many products and services. In order to take a responsible action toward the environment in this life style, it is essential to realize the visible and invisible environmental loads of our daily lives. The concept of life cycle thinking should play an important role in environmental education（EE）in helping students to realize their own environmental loads with their lives' activities. We already reported a life cycle thinking-based EE program for high school students focusing on industrial products. In this work, we have developed a new program for EE based on our direct and indirect water use from a life cycle perspective.</p><p>Results and Discussion. We defined two educational objectives for the design of the program. One is to aid students to rethink water use in daily lives on the basis of the recognition of the influence of our direct and indirect water use on the environment and the other is to support them to applying the learning of this program to the reconsideration of other lives' activities. The developed program comprises four parts: the introduction, lecture based part, group work and conclusion. The introduction provides students with raising an awareness about our mass-consumption life style in terms of life cycle thinking. After the introduction, the students learn fundamental issues related with direct and indirect water use through our daily lives in the lecture based part. The students then participate in a group work to consider a decrease of water use in their circumstances. Finally, an opportunity to rethink our life style based on the preceding activities is given as the conclusion of the program. The developed program was implemented in a high school in Kanagawa at Jan. 2012. A questionnaire survey was conducted after the implementation and many positive responses consistent with the educational objectives were obtained.</p>

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