Exploration of Different Perspectives on Local Environmental Education

Abstract

Recently regarding environmental education, there is a different sense of activity at the national and regional levels. Unlike before, environmental education is being discussed from a life-cycle perspective and in all areas of the city. The study aims to reveal that local activists have different points of understanding and perspective in the flow and direction of environmental education at the local level in this social and policy background. To this end, an expert narrative interview was conducted to environmental experts working for local environmental education institutions and organizations to collect data and classify the contents into qualitative content analysis. As a result of this study, the activities of environmental education in A metropolitan city are basically presenting plans in a direction that satisfies the interests of institutions and organizations as much as possible, rather than the vision and strategy of the city as a whole, and interest in coexistence and symbiosis. And they found that they were proposing projects centered on projects they could pursue. This tendency is that many of the research participants emphasize collaboration and express their thoughts on collaboration, but individually, they say that it is quite lacking. Regarding networking, it is found that administrative-private networks as well as public-private networks are not working well. In the operation of private networks involving civic groups, cases of arbitrary operation were also found depending on individuals. Such co-prosperity, coexistence, cooperation and networking require a considerable budget, but the overall market for environmental education and environmental learning is so small that private organizations are busy maintaining groups. Therefore, in implementing the vision and strategy of the entire metropolitan city, it is revealed that there is a need for a system and culture of coordination and management that achieves the cause by appropriately merging the interests of institutions and organizations.