{"title":"Comparing Undergraduates' Connection with Nature and New Ecological Paradigm in Relation to Intention of Environmental Behaviors in Taiwan and Japan","authors":"Yu–Chi Tseng, R. Sakurai, Kimiharu To","doi":"10.5647/jsoee.31.2_38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5647/jsoee.31.2_38","url":null,"abstract":"Connection with nature (CWN) is a promising research focus in environmental education. Previous research has repeatedly indicated that CWN was an important predictor of proenvironmental behaviors. Therefore, the purpose of this research was to understand the difference of Taiwanese and Japanese undergraduates’ CWN and most importantly to compare the predictive power of CWN and the new ecological paradigm (NEP) in terms of explaining the intention of environmental behaviors (IEB) in both countries. This survey adopted one Taiwanese CWN scale to avoid possible measurement bias caused by eastern-western cultural contexts. A total of 302 undergraduates participated in this survey: 178 students were from 3 Taiwanese universities, and 124 were from 2 Japanese universities. The independent sample t-test showed that Taiwanese undergraduates significantly performed more actively in CWN, NEP, and IEB than Japanese undergraduates. The overall findings of multiple regression analysis indicated that CWN was a more powerful predictor than the NEP to predict the IEBs in both countries, and the regression coefficient of CWN in Taiwan was higher than in Japan. Although the NEP can significantly predict some IEB constructs in Taiwan, it was not a significant predictor in Japan. Based on those findings, this research also proposed possible directions for future research.","PeriodicalId":308853,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114751518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Survey of Entomophobia in Nursery Teachers Compared to That in Nursery Teaching Students and Ordinary Women","authors":"T. Yamanoi, Tetsuaki Ito","doi":"10.5647/jsoee.31.1_33","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5647/jsoee.31.1_33","url":null,"abstract":"To understand the level of Entomophobia in nursery teachers, we undertook a questionnaire survey of nursery teachers, students taking a nursery teacher-training course, and ordinary women. Results indicated that nursery teachers tend to like arthropods and can look at photographs and illustrations of them more comfortably when compared to the students and ordinary women. An age-based analysis showed that nursery teachers in their 20s– 50s were able to view photographs and illustrations of arthropods with less resistance than students and ordinary women of the same generation. There was no significant difference between participants in the 20–40 age range, but nursery teachers in their 50s showed greater preference to arthropods than university students and ordinary women. As the degree of preference for arthropods had a stronger influence on their confidence in arthropod-related childcare rather than the degree to which they could look at arthropods, it is necessary to develop training to encourage nursery teachers to like arthropods through experiences of seeing, touching, collecting and rearing such creatures.","PeriodicalId":308853,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123747497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Issues to Consider in Fostering Primary and Lower Secondary Schools' Environmental Education in Shiga Prefecture : Comparative Analysis of National Surveys","authors":"S. Ichikawa, K. Takeda","doi":"10.5647/jsoee.30.1_3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5647/jsoee.30.1_3","url":null,"abstract":"Shiga Prefecture is sometimes described as having advanced environmental education. However, the details of environmental education at primary and lower secondary schools in Shiga Prefecture have not been investigated. In this study, the authors investigate the status of environmental education at primary and lower secondary schools in Shiga Prefecture, and attempt to clarify issues for consideration through comparison with national surveys. No remarkable issues were identified for primary schools. With regard to lower secondary schools, issues were discovered in the implementation of teacher training regarding environmental education in schools, as well as teachers’ degree of interest in environmental education and the implementation rate of such education.","PeriodicalId":308853,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123784835","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Environmental Education for Nature Conservation: Trends and Challenges in International Cooperation and Aid Assistance.","authors":"Kazunobu Suzuki, N. Tsuji, Awangku Hassanal Bahar Pengiran Bagul, Kueh Boon-Hee","doi":"10.5647/JSOEE.28.4_52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5647/JSOEE.28.4_52","url":null,"abstract":"Kazunobu Suzuki*, Nobuyuki Tsuji**, Awangku Hassanal Bahar Pengiran Bagul***, Kueh Boon-Hee**** Japan International Cooperation Agency*, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sabah**, Faculty of Business, Economics and Accountancy, Universiti Malaysia Sabah***, Institute for Tropical Biology and Conservation / EcoCampus Management Centre, Universiti Malaysia Sabah**** Accepted on May 27, 2019","PeriodicalId":308853,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128678942","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
K. To, Tzuchau Chang, Chankook Kim, Sun-Kyung Lee, R. Sakurai, Sachi Ninomiya-Lim, N. Hata, Junko Katayama, S. Furihata
{"title":"International Collaborative Research Possibilities for Environmental Education in Asia","authors":"K. To, Tzuchau Chang, Chankook Kim, Sun-Kyung Lee, R. Sakurai, Sachi Ninomiya-Lim, N. Hata, Junko Katayama, S. Furihata","doi":"10.5647/JSOEE.28.4_77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5647/JSOEE.28.4_77","url":null,"abstract":"Taking into account of the both significant growth of higher education in Asia and the infiltration of cosmopolitan viewpoints in environmental education research, our team designed and conducted pilot survey amongst EE researchers of Japan, Korea and Taiwan (n=51) concerning: self-evaluation; methodology; training; themes; education sector levels and interests in and barriers against international collaboration. This paper shares notable trends revealed through the pilot survey and discuss the significance of these in relation to our future, full-scale survey. Toward conducting a larger-scale survey, two aspects should be stressed. First, use of native language is essential to securing greater participants. This would improve the accuracy of meaning sometimes lost through translation and increase the efficiency of completion. More survey participants would enable us to conduct cross-national comparisons, which this study could not. Second, the support from the participating academic societies is crucial not only for executing a full-scale survey but also facilitating opportunities for increasing research skills and capacities international collaboration.","PeriodicalId":308853,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129020162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Issue of Nuclear Energy in K-12 Education: Cases of National Curriculum in Japan and Korea","authors":"Chankook Kim, Shinobu Goto","doi":"10.5647/JSOEE.28.4_68","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5647/JSOEE.28.4_68","url":null,"abstract":"Japan and Korea have been highly dependent on nuclear energy for their electricity supplies, considering nuclear energy as a significant way to overcome energy shortage. However, the disaster that struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan in 2011 has significantly changed public attitudes toward nuclear energy and reignited domestic policy debates on the future of nuclear energy. In this study, focusing on how the societal changes in energy/ environmental policies are reflected in national curricula, the authors from Japan and Korea reviewed the ways of including nuclear issues in K-12 national curricula and recent changes found in Japan and Korea. The appearance of nuclear-related keywords in national curricula as well as the characteristics of coverage was investigated. Based upon the results, characteristics of and implications for nuclear education in Japan and Korea are discussed. To foster citizens who make decisions for their energy future through environmental education or energy education, it is required to consider how the public discourses on nuclear energy are incorporated into the national curricula.","PeriodicalId":308853,"journal":{"name":"Japanese Journal of Environmental Education","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121239471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}