Abstract
Objectives The main purpose of this study is to determine what the key words are in the basic plans for ecological(environmental) education created by provincial offices of education and what the relationships are between those words. In addition, this study was conducted to determine whether the documents of the provincial office of education contain the value of ecological transformation in education.
 Methods The research method used in this study is semantic network analysis. The words included in the basic plans for ecological(environmental) education created by the provincial offices of education in 13 regions were corrected, controlled, and removed to extract key words, and the frequencies of the words were analyzed. Additionally, basic attribute analysis, centrality analysis, sub-network analysis, and ego network analysis were performed using Gephi 0.10.1, a network analysis program.
 Results The results of this study are as follows. First, as a result of analyzing the frequency of use and centrality of each key words, ‘practice’ and ‘carbon neutrality’ appeared most frequently and have the highest influence in the documents. Second, as a result of clustering key words according to their similarity, these words formed four sub-networks. Third, as a result of examining the connection structure between ‘ecological transformation education’ and ‘ecological environment education’ through ego network analysis, the two words shared a lot of related words.
 Conclusions The conclusions of this study are as follows. First, The use of ‘practice’ and ‘carbon neutrality’ as key words in the basic plans for ecological (environment) education should be maintained in the future. At this time, educational activities at the cognitive and affective levels should also be treated with great importance in the document. Second, since ecological transformation education and ecological environment education form different clusters, each documents must establish a mutually cooperative and complementary relationship. Third, many words are shared between the ecological transformation ego network and the ecological environment education ego network, and since there is ongoing discussion about what term to replace the existing environmental education with, so provincial offices of education should be cautious in using the terms.
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