| Forest resource education | Based on forestry education, FRE can said as traditional and professional forest education that helps to understand forest’s values in the aspects of economy and resource and to participate in the process of producing, managing, and utilizing the values. | The public function of forest, development process of forest, forest as in future life resource, seed management, fostering seedlings, Tree planting and cultivating, managing forest resource, forming habitats, processing and utilizing of forest resource.) |
| Forest environment education) | Forest environment education helps to understand forest’s function as for environmental public interests like climate control, atmosphere purification, prevention of flood and drought, preserving soils, and providing habitats within changing environments including urbanization. The education aims to manage and maintain such functions. | Ecology, forest and ecosystem, forest and plants, forest and ocean ecology, soil ecology, forest and climate |
| Forest culture education | This education’s definition is divided into two ways: broad sense and narrow sense. | life history in necessities of life-food, clothing, shelter-and forest. (ex. the necessities of life, forest cultural assets), awareness of the culture for forest (traditional perspectives of forest, arts and forest, or emotion and forest) |
| ① In broad sense, the forest is the fundamental base of human life and formation of culture. |
| ② In narrow sense, the education aims to understand, appreciate, and spread out spritual values like culture, tradition, and arts in which were created between human and forest. |