2019, Vol.8, No.2

Journal of the Association of Korean Geographers 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.35

pISSN : 2287-4739 / eISSN : 2733-8991
https://journal.kci.go.kr/JAKG

The purpose of this study is to explore the alternatives of constructing contents of inquiry type primary geography textbooks in the future. The primary geography textbooks of the United Kingdom and the United States of America was analyzed. As a result of the analysis, I found that there are devices as inquiry textbooks in the following three aspects. First, textbooks provide relevant learning contents to acquire core concept knowledge related to topics necessary for inquiry, and to acquire related functions, so that learners can naturally carry out the inquiry process. Second, it presents a set-type inquiry task by level. The basic problem that can check the subject matter by each subject and the deepening task that needs to utilize in depth thinking can be used to help the students to develop high-order thinking ability through simple thinking activities. Third, the core concepts, related data, and related functions presented in the textbook reflect well the concept of geography and generalization knowledge. Based on this, students learn naturally to acquire conceptual knowledge and inquiry process of geography and help to form geographical perspective.

The purpose of this study is to understand the structure of place attachment and to grasp the correlation between place attachment elements by using grounded theory. In order to collect the data of the study, 77 college students were asked to write about the memory of place attachment, and the research results were derived by analyzing it as a grounded theory. According to the results of the study, the college student was recalling the places of daily life, intense experience, the search and discovery of places as memories of attachment. Emotional priming effect, sensory priming effect, change of place, and the excellence of the natural environment was working as positive factors in remembering places, and personal resting place, kinship, group membership, and place convenience were affecting the college students equating themselves with place or giving meaning to place by individuals grew into independent identities, improving inner competency, forming a network of relationships. In this study, the results of the paradigm model were abstracted to derive a structured model of place attachment. The results verified that place attachment lies in causal correlation between place discovery and recognition, embodied cognition, place dependence, place identity, place meaning.

This study empirically analyzed the environmental awareness types of elementary school students using Q methodology. Q methodology is well developed to figure out person’s subjectivity on specific issues. In this research 25 statements on ecological awareness are sorted by 21 Q sorters, then 4 types of perception on ecological awareness in elementary school students are extracted; ecological cosmopolitanism, territorial civicism, global futurism, romantic anthropocentricism. First, ecological cosmopolitanism considers environmentally friendly attitudes and behaviors related to their practice to be important. Second, territorial civicism perceives the consideration of future generations as negative nonetheless, emphasizes problem solving of the present generation. Third, global futurism cares about consideration for future generations. And they look at environmental issues more macroscopically. Finally, romantic anthropocentricism recognizes that environmental advances can be solved by technological advancement. This result shows us ecological awareness of elementary school students, then suggests the direction of environmental education in the future.