碩士 / 國立臺灣海洋大學 / 教育研究所 / 103 / This study utilizes action research to investigate the promotion of marine education in elementary school and the professional development situation of the teachers. Five out of thirty-one elementary school teachers in the marine education action research of domestic theses are interviewed to collect experiences and opinions and analyze our results. In the last, four perspectives of marine education professional development are proposed as follows.
(1) The understanding of basic concepts and meaning of marine education: Before marine education, teachers have little knowledge about the contents. From literature reviews, action researches bring them new understanding step by step and enhance the ability and related discipline knowledge of marine education.
(2) The information search and integration ability of marine education: The focus of each action research process is quite different, from culture to citizen action. However, in addition to textbooks, the information search of marine education has to gather those references from some books, the Internet, and related community; then make these materials integrated. Even though the processes are so harsh, teachers still obtain professional growth in the instructional design of marine education.
(3) The ability of marine-data transformation and creative teaching: Because the teachers are engaged in action research, the design of marine education must collect and transform related information to connect teaching materials to fit the student ability for marine education. Besides, most teachers regard diverse learning activities may promote learning interest; experiential learning can make students more moving. Some teachers even recommend that learning field can be expanded from classroom to community and the ocean. Furthermore, teachers keep high positive by their absorbing the suggestions of co-workers to change teaching strategies and to increase students’ learning interest.
(4) The positive attitude of marine education: After the engagement of action research, all the teachers endorse the necessity of marine education, and possess more strong sense of responsibility to continuously support and dedicate more enthusiasm about marine education.
In conclusion, the above research findings propose several suggestions for the future elementary teachers in marine education.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/103NTOU5331029 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Liu, Wan-Jane, 劉宛甄 |
| Contributors | Wu, Chin-Kuo, 吳靖國 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 126 |
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