Research on environmental education through extra-curricular activities organized by community resources for primary students in rural areas of Hau Giang province

Abstract

Research was carried out from May 2016 to June 2017 to indentify factors affecting the results of environmental education through extra-curricular activities organized by community resources. Ten primary schools in rural areas (Phung Hiep District, Chau Thanh A District and Long My Town), 50 teachers and 30 students’ parents participated in the research. Sociological survey method was used in the research. Primary data were used in the Binary Logistic Regression model, in which dependant variable Y indicated the impacts of environmental education through extra-curricular activities organized by community resources. Independant variables X include: X1: Equipment; X2: Documents; X3: Students’ age; X4: Budget. The equation of this model is: Loge P(Y=1)/P(Y=0) = -5.933 + 2.840X1 + 3.319X2 + 2.729X3 + 3.582X4. Besides, a summary of options (%) a band score (0 to 10) were used to understand the impacts of factors that affect the results of these environmental education activities. Results of analyzing important factors are as following: Support from primary schools (directions from schools’ Directorate and support from teachers, accounted for 51% as the highest) and student’s parents (made up the highest ratio at 45%) to extra curricular activities for environmental education, requirements of teaching environmental education contents (cleaning-up surrounding areas, given 9 scores as the highest), suitable time for educational activities (in both academic semesters and summer break, accounted for 46% as the highest) and solutions to draw attention from parents to the environment education activities (organizing talk shows, made up the highest ratio of 56%).