Action Research on the Implementation of Marine Education Curriculum in Higher Grades of Elementary School

• Main Authors: Lee, Chun-Yi, 李俊毅
• Other Authors: Tsai, Chin-Tien
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06836664400426471543

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 教育學研究所 === 102 === The study, upon the use of action research method, explored the development issues of marine education curriculum encountered by senior students based on the situational analysis results of different classes. Meanwhile, effects and refection of the curriculum program were evaluated with the workout and implementation of it so as to achieve the curriculum development goal. With the participants of 25 students from higher grades under teaching practice in elementary school, researchers conducted marine education curriculum cored at “marine conservation”, and the data obtained from teaching observation, academic record, interview minutes, pre-post test and curriculum implementation questionnaires were analyzed through self-evaluation and peer-evaluation curriculum appraisal checklists. Research results are concluded as follows: 1. From the situational analysis, it is found out that parents’ fear of the marine affects students’ learning; students lack the concepts of cherishing marine resources and the awareness of marine reservation; they are unfamiliar with the close relationship between Taiwanese history and the marine, having unilateral understanding of the marine. 2. Through the establishment of class vision, the marine education curriculum plans curriculum goals, determines curriculum framework, develops teaching goals, selects teaching materials and schemes teaching process to complete curriculum program design as well as amend it during the implementation process. 3. The marine education curriculum development was conducted through small and heterogeneous students groups and the steps of preparation, development and comprehensive activities, with diverse teaching resources applied and students’ experience and ability considered as well as multiple teaching strategies and assessment method adopted to implement curriculum teaching program. 4. It’s found from the evaluation results of marine education curriculum implementation effects that both students’ learning effects and teachers’ teaching effects can achieve the marine education curriculum goals and teaching goals. Besides, the overall effects evaluation of the curriculum program can reach partial key connotation of the 12-year Compulsory Education – National Core Competence of Childhood. In accordance with the research results analysis and discussion, suggestions were finally proposed to schools and teachers involving in the implementation of marine education curriculum and for subsequent researches in the future. Key words: marine education, curriculum development, action research