The goal of this research is to describe theoretical aspects of the education of international understanding through teaching natural environments in the global era. Natural environments can be considered various areas such as humanity, culture or nat...
The goal of this research is to describe theoretical aspects of the education of international understanding through teaching natural environments in the global era. Natural environments can be considered various areas such as humanity, culture or nature, but this paper concentrates on the area of natural environments to describe the education of international understanding. Because natural environments include plenty of elements ranging from plants and animals to pesticide pollution and space environment, it will organize relevant environmental elements, and choose and explain natural environment elements related with humans and natural environments in the global era.
The education of international understanding from environmental perspectives is concerned with preventing the environmental ruining that economically and culturally developed countries have confronted, and with stopping the same mistakes in developing countries that other countries already made, by examining what ideologies and what ways they have made their effort for protecting environments. It will help to give them meaningful insights in terms of deciding on the ideologies, policies and directions of protecting nature, by means of how they can endeavor to prevent environmental ruining under restricted circumstances that the developing countries have in common. It will also be able to seek how the developing countries can cooperate with each other.
Understanding the relationship between environmental destruction and human survival is concerned with teaching what should be cared in accordance with international as well as intranational efforts in order to protect environments, through understanding examples in which natural ruining, seawater and fresh water pollution, air pollution, pesticide pollution and soil pollution can happen with a series of their reactions.
Examples of many kinds of environmental pollution can be seen from conflicts between economic development and environmental problems. The process of developing natural resources has resulted in a great deal of pollution. Fertilizer overuse in fields, water polluted by waste water from plants and air polluted by waste gas from cars can be more likely to be seen in Korea than other developed countries. We should understand how developed countries went through and coped with them, and seek how we can take care of our environmental problems.
Given international cooperating organizations working for protecting environments and preventing environmental destruction, every country has competitively tried to achieve industrialization and modernization, which has caused every kind of pollution and environmental ruining. This is considered the crisis of humans, and so needs for international cooperation have been emphasized in order to protect environments. Therefore this research is interested in understanding organizations, functions, roles and prospects on the international scale that have been created and might be able to be created in the future through those efforts.