本研究旨在探討國民小學教師對環境教育的認知及態度。瞭解不同教師背景變項對環境教育認知與態度之差異情形，以及認知與態度之相關性。本研究採用問卷調查法，以臺中市國小教師為研究樣本，經分層隨機抽樣，發放問卷605 份，有效回收問卷536 份，有效回收率為88.59％。樣本資料以敘述性統計分析、獨立樣本ｔ考驗、單因子變異數分析、Scheffé 事後比較檢定及Pearson 積差相關等統計方法進行分析。研究結果：一、臺中市國小教師對環境教育認知情形良好。二、臺中市國小教師對環境教育的態度正向且積極。三、年長資深的教師在環境教育認知情形較佳。四、年長資深國小教師對環境教育態度較積極。五、教師的環境教育認知與環境教育態度總層面間有顯著正相關。 The purpose of the study aims to explore the cognitions and attitudes toward the environmental education of elementary school teachers in Taichung. In a word, the purpose of the study is to probe into the differences between teachers with various personal backgrounds and the relations between the cognitions and attitudes toward the environmental education. To serve this purpose, the study adopted questionnaire survey method as the research instrument. The population is the elementary school teachers in Taichung. Via stratified random sampling, 605 questionnaires were distributed, 536 of which were valid, and the valid response rate was 88.59%. The collected data were analyzed with statistical methods like descriptive statistics, independent samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffé’s method and Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient. The findings are as follows: (1) The cognitions of the environmental education of elementary school teachers in Taichung are great. (2) The attitudes toward the environmental education of elementary school teachers in Taichung are positive as well as active. (3) Elementary school teachers in Taichung who are senior and experienced, who have administrative positions, who work in small-scale schools, who graduated from relevant departments, who joined more workshops and who have joined environmental protection campaigns have better cognitions of the environmental education. (4) Elementary school teachers in Taichung who are senior and experienced, who joined more workshops and who have joined environmental protection campaigns have more positive attitudes toward the environmental education. (5) There is significantly high relevance among all factors of cognitions of and attitudes toward the environmental education of elementary school teachers in Taichung.
