Sarang Kang in Master’s program gave a presentation titled “Development of a Place-Based Geographic and Environmental Education Program to Connect Students’ Lives with Their Local Environment” in the 2025 Winter Conference of KAGEE (The Korean Association of Geographic and Environmental Education, 한국지리환경교육학회) held at Ewha Womans University. She developed a geomorphic and environmental program to foster ecology-centered values (생태중심가치) for secondary school students, grounded in a placed-based education (장소기반교육) approach.
What most clearly distinguishes her program from many previous education programs is its emphasis on first strengthening students’ understanding of connectivity among environmental elements (i.e., geomorphology, hydrology, and biology), which is key to diagnosing the causes of local environmental problems and natural hazards.
I truly appreciate her passion and dedication to helping students to have ecology-centered minds in their lives.