Environmental Education
Hanieh Khodadadi Tirkolaei; Esmat Rasoli
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The purpose of this study is to validate the model of environmental ethics curriculum based on social constructivism in secondary school. This is an applied research with a descriptive survey method. The statistical population of the study is all secondary school teachers in Mazandaran province with ...
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The purpose of this study is to validate the model of environmental ethics curriculum based on social constructivism in secondary school. This is an applied research with a descriptive survey method. The statistical population of the study is all secondary school teachers in Mazandaran province with 11024 people (5692 men and 5332 women). The research sample includes 360 secondary school teachers who were selected by multi-stage relative cluster sampling with Cochran's formula. As a data collection tool, a researcher-made social constructivism questionnaire with 23 items on a five-point Likert scale was used. Content validity was used to determine the validity of the questionnaires and composite reliability was used to determine the reliability of the questionnaires, which had a suitable and acceptable status. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were used to analyze the data with SPSS and PLS software. The results showed that the objective components, content, teaching-learning activities, and evaluation are effective in explaining the model of environmental ethics curriculum based on social constructivism and the model had a good fit. Environmental ethics curriculum based on social constructivism allows students to be actively involved; they also focus on thinking and understanding rather than just memorizing and the model makes them perform better. Using this approach, basic learning activities can take place in the real-world context (nature) so students' constructivism is stimulated.
Environmental Education
Mahbobeh Eskandari; Esmat Rasoli; Vahid Fallah
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The purpose of this study is to explain the design of a service learning curriculum model with an emphasis on green economics for junior high school students. This research is among the applied researches that have been done by qualitative-quantitative research method (Mixed Method). Accordingly, ...
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The purpose of this study is to explain the design of a service learning curriculum model with an emphasis on green economics for junior high school students. This research is among the applied researches that have been done by qualitative-quantitative research method (Mixed Method). Accordingly, by interviewing experts, a model was drawn for service learning with an emphasis on green economics; then the junior high school science teachers validated it. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire. The statistical population of the study was all 630 junior high school science teachers in Sari and 238 teachers were selected as the research sample by simple random sampling using the Morgan table. Atlas TI software was applied to collect data in the qualitative part and SPSS and LISREL software in the quantitative part. The results revealed that the service-learning element has components of social reconstruction, social literacy training, and social action. Meanwhile, the green economy element has components of sustainable transportation, renewable energy, environmental health, green buildings, water management, and waste management.