RESEARCH ON BUILDING OF “GREEN SCHOOL”

THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY TONG THI HONG RESEARCH ON BUILDING OF “GREEN SCHOOL” IN DOI CAN PRIMARY SCHOOL THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE BACHELOR THESIS Study mode: Full-time Major: Environmental Sicience and Management Faculty: International Traning and Development Center Batch: 2010-2015 Thai nguyen, 20/01/2015 THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY ADVANCED EDUCATION PROGRAM BACHELOR THESIS RESEARCH ON BUILDING OF “GREEN SCHOOL” IN DOI CAN PRIMARY SCHOOL THAI NGUYEN PROVINCE Student Name Student ID Year Supervisors : Tong Thi Hong : DTN1053110294 : 2010 – 2015 : Assoc Prof Do Thi Lan : Msc Truong Thi Anh Tuyet JANUARY - 2015 I Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry Degree Program Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Management Student Name Tong Thi Hong Student ID DTN1053110294 Thesis Title Research on building of “Green School” in Doi Can Primary School in Doi Can Primary School – Thai Nguyen Province Supervisor Assoc Prof Dr Do Thi Lan, MA Truong Thi Anh Tuyet Abstract: In recent years, environmental pollution is becoming worse The education of environmental protection is essential, especially for primary students Primary school is the first place for students to start learning and working Therefore, the reasearcher have studied the establishment of “Green Schools” model in Doi Can Primary Schools The aim of the study is to assess the education as well as measures to protect the environment so that students and teachers can study and work in a safe and clean environment In addition, this enables students to enhance their knowledge, awareness and responsibility for the environment The study conducted a survey of incidental 30 students and 25 teachers about environmental awareness Analyzing eight criteria of “Green schools”, we considered it as the basis of evaluating the current state of the school The results revealed that the facilities and environmental awareness of students and teachers are satisfactory, 90%, 92% respectively The measures added into extracurricular activities such as: Clubs, Travel, Games, Arts and culture, etc have increased the effectiveness of the course as well as students’ perception of environmental protection “Green Schools” is a beneficial model, which is not only a green, safe and clean school but also a place to environmentally educate students from early age Keywords: Environmental pollution, Green Schools, Extracurricular activities, Doi Can Primary School, Environment protection Number of Pages: Date of Submission: 47 pages January 15, 2015 II ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First and foremost, I wish to express my sincere thanks to the boards of to teachers in faculty of International Training and Development as well as teachers in Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry for providing me all the necessary facilities to complete this research In particular, I would like to thank my supervisors Assoc Prof Dr Do Thi Lan, Dean of Faculty Environmental Resources, and MA Truong Thi Anh Tuyet who guided me wholeheartedly during the implementation of this research project I place on record, my sincere gratitude to all staffs, government and people in Doi Can Primary School - Thai Nguyen province for their expert, valuable guidance and generous support to our project Finally yet importantly, I take this opportunity to express our deepest appreciation to our families, relatives, friends and fellow students in class of K42-Advanced Education Program who encouraged and supported me unceasingly and all who, directly or indirectly, have lent their helping hand in this venture I sincerely thank you! III TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION 1.1.The rationale of project Error! Bookmark not defined 1.2 Aims of the study 1.3 Research questions and hypothesis 1.3.1 Research questions 1.3.2 Hypothesis 1.4 Limitations of the research 1.5 Definition of Terms CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Scientific basis 2.2 Factual basis 2.2.1 Status of research on the Green School in the world 2.2.2 Status of research on the Green School in Vietnam 10 CHAPTER III: MATERIALS AND METHODS 12 3.1 Subjects and research scope 12 3.2 Location and time Error! Bookmark not defined 3.3 Methodology 12 3.3.1 Inherited method 12 3.3.2 Interview and survey questionnaire method 12 3.3.3 Analysis method which bases on criteria 13 3.3.4 Assessment, synthesis, comparison method 15 CHAPTER IV: RESULT 16 4.1 Basic situation and the current state of environmental education in Doi Can primary school 16 4.1.1 Basic situation of Doi Can primary school 16 IV 4.1.2 Current status of environmental education in Doi Can primary school according to each criteria 19 4.2 Overall assessment of environmental education in Doi Can Primary school 33 4.3 Proposal of "Green School" model in Doi Can Primary school 35 4.3.1 Building a green, clean, beautiful and safe school in Doi Can Primary school 35 4.3.2 Building on some methods through extra-curricular activities 38 4.3.3 Collaborating with students’parents in building a "green, clean, beautiful and safe" school 45 CHAPTER V: DISSCUSSION AND CONCLUSION 47 5.1 Discussions 47 5.2 Conclusions 47 REFERENCES 49 APPENDICES 51 V LIST OF FIGURES Figure 4.1 Location of Doi Can primary school .16 Figure 4.2 Drinking water system for students at Doi Can Primary School 21 Figure 4.4 Drinking water system for students at Doi Can Primary School 23 Figure 4.3 Signs of prohibition of parking outside school gate 37 VI LIST OF TABLES Table 4.1 Achievement Report in 2013-2014 .17 Table 4.2 The quality of teachers in Doi Can primary school 17 Table 4.3 Socialization projects for green, clean, beautiful and friendly schools and classrooms 2008-2012 18 Table 4.4 Quantity of trees in Doi Can Primary School .19 Table 4.5 Current situation of restrooms in Doi Can Primary School: 24 Table 4.6 Survey results for creating classroom environment: 25 Table 4.7 Survey of environmental awareness of Doi Can Primary School’s students: 26 Table 4.8 Overall Assessment of environmental protection awareness of students in Doi Can Primary School 33 Table 4.9 Overall Assessment of environmental education of teachers in Doi Can Primary School 34 PART I INTRODUCTION 1.1 Research rational The environment is very important for human life Each of us needs to have a responsibility, and work together to build a cleaner habitat Every day, the environments that we are living are houses, and village and an important environment that children grow up is the school The school is the second home of the students In particular, Primary school is the first place for the children to start learning and working When students study in school, they need to acquire the systematically scientific knowledge On the one hand, a good educational environment will help students to acquire the skills which are necessary for the formation and development of the original qualities of human beings in an environment On the other hand, the educational environment plays roles on the formation and development of personality through social relationships in diverse academic life, and daily activities of the children It is true that everyone wants to live, learn and play in a real green, clean and beautiful environment The green, clean and beautiful school creates interesting learning and activities environment which attract students, and make them more beloved their school, teachers, and friends Doi Can Primary School which is located in the center of Thai Nguyen City Doi Can Primary School has always been achievements and it is the first position of the education in Thai Nguyen The movement of teaching and learning is extremely good Coming to Doi Can Primary School also is the unit which has a lot of diverse activities such as sport, charitable, outdoor and health care activities To educate students rise awareness, habits, and environmental protection of student and make them keen on go to school Addition, they understand that every day that they attend the class is a happy day Moreover, formation of good character and civilized lifestyle for young generation can be contributed from the Primary school From the idea above, the researcher aims to a study on the: “Research on the building of “Green School” in Doi Can Primary School – Thai Nguyen city” under supervisor Assoc.Prof Do Thi Lan – Dean of Environmental Resources and Truong Thi Anh Tuyet - Lecturer – Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry 1.2 Research’s objective - To evaluate of current status of environmental education in Doi Can Primary School - To propose “Green School” which educate students to improve their skills such as knowledge and awareness of protecting the environment not only through the landscape of the school but also through education daily lessons 1.3 Research questions and hypothesis 1.3.1 Research questions + What is the current status of environmental education in Doi Can Primary School? + Which methods can be built to improve environmental education in Doi Can Primary? How? 1.3.2 Hypothesis + The facility and current environmental education are very good + Building on content of activities which apply in Extra-curricular activities such as games, clubs and travel…to educate environmental education in Doi Can Primary School 1.4 Limitations Due to the limit of economic conditions, as well as the limit of research time and the ability to access data sources, the research only focuses on Doi Can Primary School 1.5 Definitions * According to Article paragraph of the Law on Vietnam Environmental Protection (The National Assembly of Viet Nam, 2005), the environment is defined as follows: "Environment includes natural and man-made material factors 48 The quality of environmental education at Doi Can primary school is pretty good Facilities of schools ensures for the construction of the "Green School" model Awareness and attitudes of the administration team of the school, teachers and students is very good about environmental issues This is an advantage when implementing the activities builds model as well as environmental education in schools and society Building successful "Green Schools" model in accordance with the conditions of Doi Can Primary School - Thai Nguyen City Building “Green - Clean Beautiful – Safety” campus ensure educational environment for students Besides, the implementation of integrated environmental education content in detail will be more helpful through each subject in order to raise awareness of environmental protection for both students and teachers of the Doi Can Primary school 49 REFERENCES Du Ngoc Thanh (2008), Lectures on Water Resources Management, University of Agriculture and Forestry, Thai Nguyen Duc Tien (2014), Green – clean – beautiful Environment in an mountainous school, Retrieved from http://laocai.gov.vn/ Dieu Nguyen (2014), Green School in Bali, Retrieved from http://e4g.org/truong-hoc-xanh-tai-bali/ ESD Team in Education Unit (03/04/2012), UNESCO’s Green School Action Project in Banjarmasin City, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, with support from KOICA Retrieved from, http://portal.unesco.org/geography/en/ev.php- URL_ID=15397&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html ESD Team in Education Unit (08/05/2012), First teacher training session of KOICA-UNESCO Green school action project on climate change education on Banjarmasin City, South Kalimantan, Indonesia, http://portal.unesco.org/geography/en/ev.phpURL_ID=15517&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html Greenest school on Earth, (n.d) Green School History and Founders Retrieved from http://www.greenschool.org/general/green-school-history-andfounders/ Greenest school on Earth, (n.d) Curcicular: Primary School: Grade 1-5, Retrieved from http://www.greenschool.org/curriculum/primary-grades-1-5/ Greenest school on Earth, (n.d) Learning for sustainable future, Retrieved from http://www.greenschool.org/general/what-where-why/ Greenest school on Earth, (n.d) Learning for our future, Retrieved from http://www.greenschool.org/ Green-Schools in Ireland (2014) Green-Schools in Ireland Retrieved from http://www.greenschoolsireland.org/about-us/green-schools-inireland.106.html Hoang Van Hung (2008), "Lectures on Environmental Pollution", University of Agriculture and Forestry, Thai Nguyen 50 Department of Training Education, (2014), Introduction of Doi Can Primary school, Retrieved from http://thainguyen.edu.vn/ Nguyen Minh Quyen (2013), Green Schools, Retrieved from http://vnexpress.net/tin-tuc/nang-luong-xanh-cho-cuoc-song/truong-hoc-xanh2897340.html Phan Thi Lan (2011), A number of measures of educating building "Friendly Schools - active students" actively, page 4-7 The National Assembly of Viet Nam (2005) Law in Environment Protection Tran Cong Binh, (2012), Trieu Son Primary School with "Greening the school" Retrieved from http://pgdtrieuphong.edu.vn/ Tran Ha, 2006, "Guidelines on Environmental Protection to the mass media that is the youth", Ha Noi 51 APPENDICES Sample survey THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry QUESTIONNAIRE STUDENTS’ ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS This survey questionnaire is part of the real program of students in Environmental Science Management (Advanced Programs) - Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry The information you provide will help students collecting data and information for the report "Research on model building "Green School” in Doi Can Primary School, Thai Nguyen City” With the permission and supervision of Doi Can Primary school’s and Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry, I guarantee the information done by the students will not cause any effects to you We appreciate your enthusiasm in providing information in high accuracy during this program Sincerely thank you! Interviewer: Tong Thi Hong Class: K42 - Environmental Science and Management (Advanced Programs) Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry 52 PART I GENERAL INFORMATION Name: Class: Age: Gender: Ethnicity: Address: Group Ward, Thai Nguyen City Telephone number: Interview Time: Date Month 2014 Please answer or mark "X" in the appropriate answers for your opinions! PART II STUDENTS’ ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS Question 1: Have you ever NOT littered in prescribed place yet? Regularly Sometimes Rarely Not yet Question 2: Do you think canned food, plastic packaging, plastic bottles are one of the main causes of environmental pollution? Not think ofNo Yes, but let it be Yes, and try to reduce Question 3: To protect the environment, are you ready to use recycled products (eg: recycled shoes, sandals or paper, ) which are cheap but not nice? Yes It depends No Question 4: Does your family classify the waste and gather old bottles for sale? Yes Sometimes No Question 5: What you with used items (eg: coke bottles, ice cream tins )? Throwing into the bins Throwing away Recycling into other products such as pencil box, vase, Queation 6: To protect the environment, are you ready to use friendlyenvironment products (eg: water heater with solar), despite high cost? 53 Yes Considering No Question 7: Do you know and care about serious environmental pollution problems today (Eg: sea pollution, ozone hole, greenhouse effect, acid rain, ) ? No Yes, but not interested in Yes Question 8: If the city launched classifying home’s garbage program, would you be willing to participate in? Yes Yes in case of reducing sanitary cost No, because of time-consuming Question 9: Do you often get information and propaganda about environmental protection? Frequently Sometimes Rarely Never Question 10: Where did you get these environmental information from? Book Radio Newspapers Television From the community Local radio Movements Question 11: What you think about following substances: detergents, cesspool sewage, waste oil from motors when changing oil? Toxic waste Normal Not interested in Question 12: Does your school have lots of trees? No Average Yes Question 13: Which activities you have participated concerning to the environment your school? Planting trees Sanitizing Sanitizing the way to school Other activities: Question 14: Have you ever heard the definition of "Green Schools"? Yes No Question 15: Is your classroom airy and well-lighted? Yes No Normal Question 16: Do your school’s toilets guarantee hygiene? Yes 54 No Question 17: How you go to school? Walking By bicycle By car By motorbike Other: Question 18: Are there any manufacturing facilities or factors causing noise, air and water pollution around your school? No Yes Level of influence: Question 19: Have there been any incidents (Eg: Fire, explosion, waste leakage, ) related to the environment in your area yet? Not yet Yes, the cause is: Question 20: Do you learn any subjects related to environmental knowledge? No Yes, it is: Question 21: What matters is that subject related to? Garbage Environment Pollution Waste treatment Others: Question 22: Are you interested in learning that subject? Yes Normal No Question 23: How you apply the knowledge about enviroment you’ve learned into practice? Keeping school, house and public places hygiene Afforestation Littering Other Question 24: How you understand about the environment: Question 25: Why you need to protect the environment: Question 26: For healthier environment, What you need to do? 55 Question 27: Comments, suggestions and recommendations: Sincerely thank you! Informer (Signature and full name) 56 THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry QUESTIONNAIRE TEACHERS’ ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS This survey questionnaire is part of the real program of students in Environmental Science Management (Advanced Programs) - Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry The information you provide will help students collecting data and information for the report "Research on model building "Green School” in Doi Can Primary School, Thai Nguyen City” With the permission and supervision of Doi Can Primary school’s and Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry, I guarantee the information done by the students will not cause any effects to you We appreciate your enthusiasm in providing information in high accuracy during this program Sincerely thank you! PART I GENERAL INFORMATION Name: Class: Age: Gender: Ethnicity: Address: Group Ward, Thai Nguyen City Telephone number: The highest degree has achieved  College  Bachelor  Master  Intermediate  Ph.D  Other (Specify : ) Major of training  a Natural Sciences  b Agricultural Science  c Science and technology  d Science medicine and pharmacy  e Social Sciences  f Human sciences  g None  h Other (Specify ) Working position : Which area you work?  Administrative offices  Teachers subjects  Other (Specify : ) Your monthly income?  Under million  From million to million  From 10 to less than 15 million  From the 15 million or more  From million to less than 10 million Please answer or mark "X" in the appropriate answers for your opinions! PART II: INFORMATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AWARENESS A – Source of access to information on mass media 57 How often you read newspapers, magazines, watching television, listening to the radio? Phương tiện thông tin Never Frequently Monthly Weekly Everyday a Newspaper b Magazine c Television d Radio The topics and level of interest with the following categories Topics Level of interest Not interested Less interested Interested Very interested a Hygiene school b Landscape school c Noise pollution d Building green schools e School Safety f Medical, health g Other (Specify: ) Which source of information you receive ? (You can choose many diffrent items)  a Newspaper  d Science magazine  g Books  j Handouts  b Radio  e Magazine  h Seminar/Workshop  k School  c Television  f Internet  i Exhibition  l Other (Specify : ) B – Access to Science and Technology through the tour, attend exhibitions, conferences, forums In recent years, how many times did you visit to the site below ? Times Places More a Museum b Zoo c Water Park / Aquarium d Park / Botanical Gardens e Other (Specify: ) In recent years, how many times did you attend to exhibition and workshop? Times Exhibition and Workshop a Education b Technology and Science c Art d Books e Other (Specify : ) C – Knowledge and awareness of environmental education More 58 Have you heard about the problems? Yes No Yes a Environment pollution i Cloned b The Greenhouse Effect j Broadband c Acid rain No k Pollution d Noise pollution l Cloud computing e Soil pollution m Climate change f Air pollution n Raising sea level g Ozone hole o Genetically Modified Organisms h H5N1, H7N9 p Earthquake Arcoording to you, the following question is right or wrong, if no clear answer, then choose uncertainty Right Wrong Uncertainty a Environmental pollution is a dramatic increase in the concentrations of pollutants b The greenhouse effect is the phenomenon of global warming due to CO2 emissions and other types of industries causing up c.hole of ozone layer caused mainly due to gas CFC d Cloning is a process that produces two identical cells e Broadband is a device that controls the intensity light f Cloud computing is a technology that does not need to use the internet g Climate change is caused by increased greenhouse gas waste h Genetically modified organisms are mainly due to man-made and never existed i Earthquakes stimulation causes mainly by hydropower reservoirs D - Your interested and understanding for environmental education Assess the level of interest and understanding of the following issues ? Environmental problems a Pollution b Methods to reduce environmental pollution c Invention and New Technology of Vietnam in the field of environmental protection d Environmental education at the school level e Extracurricular activities associated with environmental protection f Integrating environmental content with subjects in class g Scientific research and technological development environment Level of interested Not Very Interes intereste intereste t-ed d d Level of understanding Not Unders Unders underst -tand -tand -and well 59 E - The effects of environmental education Someone said environmental education more positive effects than negative effects Please tick your comments about the above statement ? Agree  Disagree  Unknown  10 The assessment of the impact of environmental education for the following issues If you not have an answer please select unknown Positive effects Negative effects None effects Unknown a Standard of living b Cost of living c Public Health d Working conditions e Environment f Enjoyment of life g World Peace 11a Have you heard about educational environments ? Yes  No  ( Remove to part G) 11b If YES, according to you, should you apply and develop environmental education in Vietnam? Yes  No  Uncertainly  G - Awareness and participation in environmental education activities 12 Did you know or participate in any programs/activities below? If yes, Has the program affected your awareness on environmental education? Programs/Activities Yes Knowing No Pảticipation Yes No a Contest clean green school b Building the school landscape c Propaganda environmental protection d Planting trees around the school e Hygiene school classroom f Environmental content into the subject g Creativity Summer Camp h Documents, movies, video on environmental education i Reduce noise pollution around schools k Hygienic canteen, toilets j Other: (Specify: .) H - The attitude for environmental education Yes Effective No 60 13 Do you agree that we need to invest more in education environments?  Yes  No  Unknown 14 Do you think that the educational environment for students with attractive ?  Yes  No  Unknown 15 Providing feedback on issues related to environmental education Agree Disagree Unknown a There is little documentation of environmental education b Not all jobs require knowledge of environmental education c Teachers in Vietnam lack of awareness of environmental education d The scientific problem is difficult e The approach in problem based learning environment is too academic f The environmental education difficult during training 16 Do you teach educational environment for students?  Yes  No  Unknown 17 Do know about the documents related to the environmental education of Vietnam following ? Yes No a Environmental Law 2005 b Strategy development of environmental education in 2011-2020 c Directive No 02/2005 / CT-BGDDT 31.01.2005 of the Ministry of Education and Training on "Strengthening the protection of environmental education in schools" d Official Letter No 1741 / BGDĐT - GDTrH V / v guided movement results build friendly schools and active students e Official Letter No 1741 / BGDĐT - GDTrH V / v guided movement results build friendly schools and active students 18 Do you agree or disagree with the statemrnts above? Agree a Environmental education to improve the quality of life of our b Quality environmental education in schools is not satisfactory c Integrate environmental education into the subject contribute to raising the awareness of students about mt d we e Environmental education increases knowledge, although it does not benefit immediately f Although research on the scope can cause difficulties in teaching, but this study needs to be conducted for the benefit humans g Government should provide more funding for environmental education research h Schools need to spend more for environmental education research i We need to have knowledge about the environment to the daily life of our better Disagree Unknown 61 j Environment Pollution makes our life change too fast k Scientists are working to make our life more comfortable l Environment of our daily lives will be fresher when applicable environmental education m These new discoveries will help us solve the negative effects of pollution mt n Environmental education is very important for the development of the country I – Infrastructure and support facilities 19 Do you access to facilities above? If yes , please indicate the location? Access Yes Location No At home 20km a.Library b Internet c Computer d Museum e Water Park / Aquarium g Zoo h Park / Botanical Gardens i Other (Specify: .) , Date Month 2014 Interviewer: Name: Informer Phone: E-mail: (Signature and full name) Sincerely thank you! Thai Nguyen, …/ …/2014 62 Candidate’s name (Sign) Tong Thi Hong Supervisor (Sign) Assoc.Prof Do Thi Lan ... make monthly report to administrators Criteria 8: Combination knowledge of environmental protection education in the lesson Environmental Protection Education is an important content of education... food poisoning, social evils of the school - No phenomenon of discrimination, violation of gender, violence in schools Criteria 8: Combination knowledge of environmental protection education in... the lesson - Environmental education through lessons in class - Environmental education through the lessons in the environment outside of school such as the local environment - Education through