Environmental Education
Nafiseh Paivandi; Saeed Shahhosseini; Sirus Mansoori
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One of the most important recent concerns in the world is the environment and its protection. Environmental education by storytelling, which is based on children's thinking mechanisms, can be considered a method for child education. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness ...
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One of the most important recent concerns in the world is the environment and its protection. Environmental education by storytelling, which is based on children's thinking mechanisms, can be considered a method for child education. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of teaching environmental concepts through animism-based storytelling on children's environmental knowledge and attitude. The research is quasi-experimental, including two groups (experimental and control), a pre-test and a post-test. The statistical population includes all the first-grade elementary school students of Shazand, Markazi Province, Iran, in the academic year 2021-2022, with 17 people in each group selected by convenience sampling. The instrument was Leeming's (1995) questionnaire, which includes two subscales of environmental knowledge and environmental attitude. Data analysis was carried out using multivariate covariance analysis. The findings indicated that there is a significant difference between the environmental knowledge and attitude of the experimental group and the control group. The results indicated that presenting environmental concepts using animism-based storytelling had a significant effect on children's environmental knowledge and attitude. In conclusion, although storytelling can generally affect knowledge and attitude, animism-based storytelling has a more significant effect on children's environmental knowledge and attitude.
Environmental Education
Siroos Ahmadi; Sayyed Samad Beheshti; Ehsan Kohansalkhoob
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This study has investigated the effective social factors on solid waste management behaviors (reduce, reuse, and recycle) in Abadan city. 395 people who were selected using the multi-stage random sampling method responded to the questions. Based on the descriptive findings, the mean age of the respondents ...
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This study has investigated the effective social factors on solid waste management behaviors (reduce, reuse, and recycle) in Abadan city. 395 people who were selected using the multi-stage random sampling method responded to the questions. Based on the descriptive findings, the mean age of the respondents is 32.5, and 53.7% are men and 46.3% are women. The analytical findings show that there is a positive and significant relationship between environmental attitudes and reusing and recycling. Mental norms in both dimensions of "descriptive norms" and "emphatic norms", and citizenship culture in both dimensions of "obligations" and "participation" have shown a positive and significant relationship with waste management behavior. In addition, age has a negative and significant relationship with waste reduction. The mean for solid waste management behavior is significantly different among differently educated groups. The mean for reusing among women is significantly higher than among men and the mean for reduction and reusing are significantly different between single and married people. The regression analysis indicates that the independent variables can explain 0.38 of the dependent variable and the perceived behavior control in its external dimension is the most powerful variable for predicting the dependent variable.
Hossein Mirzaei; Hamed Sayarkhalaj; Majid Fatemi Khesal; Mohammad Khanmohammadi
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Today, environmental problems have social roots and, thus, it is important to know the attitudes of individuals about the environment. In this regard, the research with the aim of study the factors related with environmental attitude in the high school students the has been done. The statistical population ...
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Today, environmental problems have social roots and, thus, it is important to know the attitudes of individuals about the environment. In this regard, the research with the aim of study the factors related with environmental attitude in the high school students the has been done. The statistical population of this research, were high school students of Tehran that 450 individuals were selected by using of cluster random sampling by using of Cochran formula. The research is of survey type and questionnaire is the tool of data collecting. The questionnaire Validity is of formal type and its reliability is measured using Cronbach's alpha. The results show that is benefit from informed sources and Imagination of the family's environmental performance has a significant relationship with the environmental awareness. Also environemtal awareness and environemtal values has a significant relationship with the environmental attitude. Results of regression analysis show that, according to the adjusted coefficient of determination variables in the regression equation, 18% of the variance of the dependent variable is determined by the independent variables; and environmental values, has the greatest total effect on the environmental attitude.
Majid Esmaeilpour; Azade Rajabi
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Consumers are nowadays more concerned about environmental changes, and accordingly they have changed their purchasing behavior. Concerns on environment have made them to pay attention to reusability of product packaging in their decision-making process. The objective of this study was to investigate ...
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Consumers are nowadays more concerned about environmental changes, and accordingly they have changed their purchasing behavior. Concerns on environment have made them to pay attention to reusability of product packaging in their decision-making process. The objective of this study was to investigate the impact of factors affecting consumers' perception of the reusability of product packaging. This study is applied in terms of objective and descriptive-survey in terms of data collection. The population of study included customers in Bushehr city. Questionnaire was used to collect the data. Data of study were collected among 385 customers of retail stores in Bushehr city using convenient sampling. Then, they were analyzed by structural equation modeling to test the conceptual model and hypotheses of study. Results of the study revealed that match between material, form, and color of the package have a positive and significant impact on consumer perception of reusability of packaging. In addition, results of this study suggest that environmental attitude and the sensitivity to recyclability of packaging have a positive and significant impact on consumer perception of the reusability of packaging. In general, five factors of environmental attitude of consumer, consumer sensitivity to recyclability of packaging, match between material, form, and color of product packaging in total could explain 0.681 of variance of consumer perception of reusability of product packaging.
Mohammad Najjarzadeh; Sakineh Jafari; Narges Jafari; Negar Rajabi
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The aim of this study was to investigate the structural relationship between environmental attitudes and knowledge with behavioral intentions in Conservation of Environment with the Mediating role of tourist satisfaction and Perceived Benefit in Khar Turan National Park. Regarding the goal, the current ...
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The aim of this study was to investigate the structural relationship between environmental attitudes and knowledge with behavioral intentions in Conservation of Environment with the Mediating role of tourist satisfaction and Perceived Benefit in Khar Turan National Park. Regarding the goal, the current research was practical and according to the method of data collection, it was considered descriptive - correlation. The study population was consist of all tourists who visited Khar Turan National Park. Participants were 200 tourists selected by using convenience sampling method. All of them completed questionnaire scales. Data analyzed by the path analysis. The results showed that environmental knowledge has a significant effect on tourist behavioral intentions in the conservation of the environment. Environmental knowledge by mediating perceived benefit didn’t have an indirect effect on tourist behavioral intentions in the conservation of the environment. Environmental knowledge by mediating perceived benefit and satisfaction had an indirect effect on tourist behavioral intentions in the conservation of Environment. Environmental attitude had a significant effect on tourist behavioral intentions in Conservation of the environment. Environmental attitude by mediating tourist satisfaction had an indirect effect on tourist's behavioral intentions in Conservation of the environment.In conclusion, environmental knowledge and environmental attitudescould directly affect the tourist behavioral intentions in Conservation of Environment.
Mahdieh Rezaei
Volume 6, Issue 4 , September 2018, , Pages 53-66
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The growth of social networking has made it possible to define new applications for this tool especially in learning, including formal, informal, and tacit education (visual, auditory and written). The purpose of this study was to explain the impact of the use of Eitaa social network on the environmental ...
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The growth of social networking has made it possible to define new applications for this tool especially in learning, including formal, informal, and tacit education (visual, auditory and written). The purpose of this study was to explain the impact of the use of Eitaa social network on the environmental attitude of students in three cognitive, emotional and behavioral areas. The present study is the type of applied researches which regarding the purpose, and regarding the data collection tool, it is a semi-experimental study with pre-test, post-test, and control group. The study sample has consisted of 46 students of Payame Noor University of Markazi province that were selected by the convenience sampling method and were randomly divided into two control and study groups. According to the results of the covariance analysis test, it was concluded that there is a significant difference between the three variables in the two stages of pre-test and post-test, which shows the effect of environmental training with the application of Eitaa social network on all of the three dimensions of the students' environmental attitude. The comparison of the mean of the two stages of pre-test and post-test showed that the mean of all of the three variables in the post-test was higher than the pretest. Scheffe post hoc test results also showed a higher mean in the study group than the control group in all three variables. According to the calculated level of effect, respectively about 70, 10 and 14 percent of the variance of the cognitive, emotional and behavioral dimensions of the environmental attitude of the study group was explicitly explained by applying the training method (environmental training of Eitaa).
S. Karimi
Volume 6, Issue 2 , March 2018, , Pages 127-140
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The pro-environmental behavior is one of the most effective factors for protecting the environment. This behavior is influenced by many factors including individuals’ environmental attitudes and knowledge. This study was conducted to investigate the relationships between environmental knowledge ...
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The pro-environmental behavior is one of the most effective factors for protecting the environment. This behavior is influenced by many factors including individuals’ environmental attitudes and knowledge. This study was conducted to investigate the relationships between environmental knowledge with environmental behaviors with regard to the mediation role of environmental attitudes. This research has been conducted through survey method. The statistical population was 1850 agricultural students at Bu-Ali Sina University. Based on Krejcie and Morgan's table, a sample of 300 agricultural students was chosen through simple random sampling method. Data was collected using a standardized survey questionnaire. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by agricultural extension and education experts, and its’ reliability was confirmed by pilot study and Cronbach’s Alpha. Results indicated that both objective and subjective environmental knowledge were correlated with environmental behavior. Furthermore, environmental attitudes mediated the relation between subjective environmental knowledge and environmental behavior. By investigating the relationships between subjective and objective environmental knowledge and environmental attitudes with environmental behaviors, greater insight is gained with regard to this behavior.
M. T. Sabzehei; S. Gholipoor; M. Adinevand
Volume 4, Issue 4 , September 2016, , Pages 16-5
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The pro-environmental behavior is one of the most effective factors for protecting the environment which is heavily depending on the environmental awareness of citizens. This study explored the effect of “environmental awareness” on “attitude” and “environmental behaviors” ...
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The pro-environmental behavior is one of the most effective factors for protecting the environment which is heavily depending on the environmental awareness of citizens. This study explored the effect of “environmental awareness” on “attitude” and “environmental behaviors” of Qom university female students based on Bamberg and Möser’s Theory about the factors affecting environmental behaviors. Survey research method was adopted and the data collection instrument was questionnaire. In the current study, 370 participants were selected using Cochrane formula for categorical sampling. The descriptive results showed most of the students’ (57.9 %) environmental awareness seem to be at medium level. The inferential results indicated that, there was a significant relationship between the “environmental awareness“, “environmental attitude“, “tendency for environmental behavior“ and “pro-environmental behaviors“ while no significant relationship between the awareness resources and environmental awareness was observed. “Environmental awareness” directly, indirectly and generally exerts remarkable influence on environmental behavior. The results of regression analysis showed that the three remaining independent variables explain only 20.6 % of the variance of the dependent variable. In total, the findings of the present study confirmed the theoretical framework based on which the research model was planned. For improving pro-environmental behaviors, awareness resources must be reinforced; all state and private organizations and institutes as well as families must help the process of “environmental socialization”, and education quality must be enhanced.
S. Salehi; L. Emamgholi
Volume 4, Issue 3 , June 2016, , Pages 12-21
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To foster environmental friendly behavior, it is necessary to understand individual an social norms. Thus, this study aims toanswer the question that to what extent these norms are facilitating individual’s environmental behaviorand to what extent, they are filling the gap between attitudes and ...
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To foster environmental friendly behavior, it is necessary to understand individual an social norms. Thus, this study aims toanswer the question that to what extent these norms are facilitating individual’s environmental behaviorand to what extent, they are filling the gap between attitudes and behaviors towards environmental behavior. This study was conducted among urban dwellers of Mazandaran province in 2016 with utilizing survey method. To identify the sample, a cluster sampling method was applied and 467 people were surveyed. The questionnaire was used as a mean of data collection and the validity was measured by utilizing some experts, while reliability of the questionnaire was measured by using Alpha Cronbach technique. The results of the study show that levels of individual and social norms are not so strong among surveyed people. However, the results indicate that above mentioned norms affectenvironmental behaviors. These types of norms also help to fill the gap between attitudes and environmental behaviors. The results of regression analysis also show that social norms have most influence on environmental friendly behavior and are a strong predictor compared with other surveyed variables. The paper is ended up with some explanation about norms weaknesses.
F Sigarchian; S.M Shobeiri; M Larijani
Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2013, , Pages 11-18
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Nano-technology has a lot of positive impacts in human life and industry is potentially one of these areas which gain a lot of benefit from nano development. Some environmental application of nano will be made possible through environmental education; of course this possibility depends ...
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Nano-technology has a lot of positive impacts in human life and industry is potentially one of these areas which gain a lot of benefit from nano development. Some environmental application of nano will be made possible through environmental education; of course this possibility depends on positive attitude in this regard .this research is going to investigate car industry manager’s attitude towards environmental education as a basis for nano application. This study is an applied research which uses a descriptive method based on survey approach. The statistical population is 63 car industry managers and data collecting tool is a self-administered questionnaire. Result showed that the managers had a positive attitude towards nano –application , but there was not any significant difference between managers attitude and the level of their education or their years of experiences , while there was a significant difference between their attitude and the kind of education field
Environmental Education
forozan farrokhian; Mohmmad Hosseinpour; Atousa Soleimani
Volume 2, Issue 5 , November 2013, , Pages 31-38
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Environmental education as a lifelong process that a major part of it is performed in the school environment has an undeniable role in improvement of environmental problems. Hence, investment in school environment to raise children aware of environmental issues requires sensitive teachers with positive ...
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Environmental education as a lifelong process that a major part of it is performed in the school environment has an undeniable role in improvement of environmental problems. Hence, investment in school environment to raise children aware of environmental issues requires sensitive teachers with positive attitudes in this context. This study aiming at reviewing the role of educational level on the environmental attitudes of teachers in Ahvaz middle schools reviewed the four-item criteria of environmental attitudes of teachers. A descriptive and surveying methodology was used in this study. Data collection tool was the Fernandez-Manzanal et al.(2007) evaluation of environmental attitudes questionnaire. This questionnaire consisted four criteria: “Need for Education about Environmental Problems”, “The Importance of Fieldwork and Activities for Environmental Education”, “Environmental Contamination and the Need for Conservation”, and “Environmental Protection Action” that distributes among 331 middle school teachers. The results of descriptive analysis of data and independent ANOVA test indicated significant difference between teachers’ educational level with criteria of “Need for Education about Environmental Problems” and “The Importance of Fieldwork and Activities for Environmental Education”
azimeh abdelahi; hamid sadeghi
Volume 1, Issue 1 , December 2012, , Pages 9-16
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This research is allocated to examine the extent of environmental knowledge, attitude and performance of students in order to measure their needs for environmental education. This study is done by survey method through questionnaire, and the environmental knowledge, attitude and performance of 150 students ...
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This research is allocated to examine the extent of environmental knowledge, attitude and performance of students in order to measure their needs for environmental education. This study is done by survey method through questionnaire, and the environmental knowledge, attitude and performance of 150 students of Isfahan elementary schools, chosen by multi-step cluster sampling, is measured. The findings indicate that students have a relatively good knowledge about the necessity of plant types existence, dangers of sound pollution, and dangers of getting rid of trash in a wrong way, but they don’t have enough information about lack of necessary resources in life varieties and the effects of trees in reduction of sound pollution. 80 percent of students don’t know the sign of recycling and don’t have a good knowledge about recyclable substances. They even have no knowledge about ozone-friendly sign on products and the necessity of paying attention to it. Yet, they have a positive attitude about their own part and other people's part in reduction of environmental pollution. They're worried about their own health because of environmental reasons, but still don’t believe that human use the environment wrongly.
