Environmental Education
Farnaz Karimi; Hadi Veisi; Mohammaadreza Nazari
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This research investigated effective factors on carbon management in higher education institutions based on the viewpoint of managers (official and educational). The present quantitative research is a descriptive-correlational research which the data is collected by the use of questionnaire with five-point ...
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This research investigated effective factors on carbon management in higher education institutions based on the viewpoint of managers (official and educational). The present quantitative research is a descriptive-correlational research which the data is collected by the use of questionnaire with five-point Likert scale. The population of research was 175 administrators in Razi University who were surveyed using the census method. The result illustrates that the significant Razi University measures on carbon management were “increasing green spaces and decreasing water consumption” (with average 4.05 and 3.47 of 5) are the effective measures of Razi University in carbon management but university executives has rarely considered cases like “reducing carbon footprint in business and decision-making activities” and “principals of low carbon management in materials and procurement” (with average 2.09 and 1.91 out of 5) that shows the need of enhancing managers’ attitude toward carbon reduction. Indicators that required academic participation and consideration of carbon reduction targets had low average (about 2 out of 5). Furthermore, based on viewpoint of the respondents barriers to carbon management at the university were more related to the human and software dimensions rather than to technical hardware issues. Solutions also underlined the need to internalize the carbon management program in functional processes.at Razi University, there was a top-down view of carbon management which confirms these programs are grammatical. Suggestion for establishing of a carbon management system are presented as academic participation in various matters, considering reduction of carbon footprint in all activities, monitoring, evaluating, reviewing, correcting them.
Shahnaz Karami; Kourosh Fathi Vajarghah; Ali Akbar Khosravi Babadi; Manuchehr Farajzadeh Asl
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Decreasing the water sources is one of the problems which have been originated from climate change which consist most of it and is one of our country problems. Giving awareness to our students about this problem is one of the duties of the universities and educational institutes which becomes possible ...
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Decreasing the water sources is one of the problems which have been originated from climate change which consist most of it and is one of our country problems. Giving awareness to our students about this problem is one of the duties of the universities and educational institutes which becomes possible by means of a green curriculum. This article has been pointed out in order to use the possibility of applying this green curriculum at the universities and higher education centers which has been based on the pointed sources in southern theory dealing with prevention or adaptation with the water crisis. This research is in terms of research purpose, applied in terms of method, descriptive, and documentary-analytics. For this purpose, various articles and websites have been surveyed through a method of documentary analysis of the related texts. Using the Southern theory in dealing with water crisis or water stress helps to break the monopoly of the knowledge that is under the exclusion of some group in special regions and to share the experience of different regions of country and universities can be considered as a place in order to training correct use of water in modern life. The results of this study revealed that the water crisis can be used in the academic curriculum.
Bahman Saeidipour; Samane Dalir Bostansaraei
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This study investigated the application of mobile education in environmental learning in higher education from the perspective of faculty members of Chabahar University of Marine Sciences. The statistical population was all faculty members of the University of Marine Sciences in Chabahar city and by ...
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This study investigated the application of mobile education in environmental learning in higher education from the perspective of faculty members of Chabahar University of Marine Sciences. The statistical population was all faculty members of the University of Marine Sciences in Chabahar city and by Using a random sampling method and Morgan table, 86 individuals were selected as sample. The Pollara questionnaire was used to collect data. In the present study, "knowledge, attitude and faculty skills in the application of mobile education","Fields of mobile learning that use in blended environmental learning by students", " The relationship between mobile education and the level of students' environmental communication" and" the necessary infrastructure for mobile education in the system of higher education " checked out. The faculty and content validity was confirmed by 5 faculty members. The reliability of the questionnaire was 0.86 by using Cronbach's alpha. Results showed that faculty members' knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy for using mobile learning in environmental learning outside the classroom was significant. Also, according to faculty members, different uses of mobile phones are more effective in environmental education outside of the classroom, Of course, infrastructure needs to be provided to expand it into the process of blended learning.
Vahid Pourshahabi; Masoud Pourkiani; Mohsen Zayande Roodi; Ayoub Sheikhi
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This research is applied in terms of purpose, and in terms of data collection, it is descriptive and survey type. The purpose of this study was to determine the priority of higher education groups for sustainable development in Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran. For this research, sustainable development ...
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This research is applied in terms of purpose, and in terms of data collection, it is descriptive and survey type. The purpose of this study was to determine the priority of higher education groups for sustainable development in Sistan and Baluchestan province of Iran. For this research, sustainable development indicators have been extracted from the sustainable development model of Sistan and Baluchestan province. After determining the status of the indicators, the desirable condition of each indicator is determined by 4 panels of 50 experts with a fuzzy Delphi method. Finally, the prioritization of higher education study groups and sub-groups was done with the help of experts using the AHP method and the Expert Choice software. The results of this research show that the priority is "Engineering, Production, and Manufacturing", and the second priority is the "Humanities and Arts" group, and the educational group "Educational Sciences" is the third priority for sustainable development of Sistan and Baluchestan province.
H. Liaghati; M. Yazdi; N. Mobarghaee Dinan
Volume 5, Issue 4 , September 2017, , Pages 63-75
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This research aims to review the recent situation of environmental higher education courses in Iran and introducing the requirements for fulfilling the best status. Studies show that there are 43 environmental courses in four educational degrees in Iran. The number of students in the environmental sciences ...
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This research aims to review the recent situation of environmental higher education courses in Iran and introducing the requirements for fulfilling the best status. Studies show that there are 43 environmental courses in four educational degrees in Iran. The number of students in the environmental sciences fields that have been accepted in 2016, were about 14444. Statistics illustrate that in 2016, Islamic Azad University has accepted the highest number of students in environmental field (8997). Also PNU stands on the next step of 3587 accepted students and the third comes for the MCHE with 1869 students in this year. Also about the distribution of environmental student, around 74 percent are in bachelor degree and below, 23 percent in master degree and around 3 percent in PhD level. The results show during a ten year period from 2000 to 2010 about 11842 students have been graduated in different fields of environmental sciences in Iran. Also it shows that in recent years the number of PhD student have been increased remarkably. Furthermore among the most important diagnosis in environmental higher education in Iran is miss match between the numbers of graduated and the need to expert in this field that cause a high level of jobless. At the end, some suggestion have been offered to improve the situation.
Y. Mehralizadeh
Volume 5, Issue 3 , June 2017, , Pages 39-52
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The main purpose of this paper is exploring the nature of tourism relation with higher education in the light of conflict theory. This paper is addressing to how extend the policies of tourism development planning and higher education in Iran are convergent or divergent. Since the nature of policy making ...
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The main purpose of this paper is exploring the nature of tourism relation with higher education in the light of conflict theory. This paper is addressing to how extend the policies of tourism development planning and higher education in Iran are convergent or divergent. Since the nature of policy making in two socio –cultural issues such as tourism and higher education are effected from complicated social science bases like power, discipline T conflict, convergent or divergent, so by using of a phenomena-analytical methodology and applying different sources such as review of literature, documents of last five development planning in Iran, review of scholars, and websites of different organization relevant to tourism and higher education, collected data are examined by using of content analysis method.The results indicated that:a- in the last five year development planning of Iran there are less policies to make a relation between Tourism and Higher Education, b-in the first draft of the sixth five year development planning of Iran new relations are considered but due to the current divergent between tourism and higher education activities its successful under critical situation, c-development of tourism must be considered as an interdisciplinary science in the universities and higher education institutions.
Seyed Mohammad Shobeiri
Volume 2, Issue 5 , November 2013, , Pages 1-10
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Environmental problems, the spread of knowledge and the development of new technologies need Environmental curriculum in higher education and academic thinking on development planning for the dynamics of the relationship between past, present and future .In this regard, the present survey studies the ...
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Environmental problems, the spread of knowledge and the development of new technologies need Environmental curriculum in higher education and academic thinking on development planning for the dynamics of the relationship between past, present and future .In this regard, the present survey studies the "Analysis of environmental education programs to identify opportunities and threats in Higher Education". The research method is descriptive andapopulation of 739 people including Aoteachers and 719 students of environmental education of Ivan’s universities. Students are to simple random sampling. The table suggests that the sample size of 250 was selected and Morgan Krjysy. And practices for teacher’s census. The data in this study is a questionnaire developed by the researcher. The formula for determining the validity of the opinions of experts and LA and will 0/8 and reliability based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated to be equal to %806 EFE Matrix is based on the analysis and interpretation of data Citing the results of 8 opportunities and threats were identified 8. That's according to the results of the component under study.
