Research Paper
Environmental Education
Shahnaz Karami; Kourosh Fathi Vajraghah,; Ali Akbar Khosravi Babadi; Manuchehr Farajzadeh Asl,
Abstract
Recontextualisation is one of the new approaches in the field of curriculum studies. This approach investigates the entry of the curriculum into other subjects and disciplines. One of these subjects is the environment and especially climate change. The main goal of this research is analyzing the new ...
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Recontextualisation is one of the new approaches in the field of curriculum studies. This approach investigates the entry of the curriculum into other subjects and disciplines. One of these subjects is the environment and especially climate change. The main goal of this research is analyzing the new emphasis on environmental issues in curriculas during the post-pandemic period. This research has been done with a qualitative approach and contractual content analysis. A total of 11 climatologists and curriculum experts were selected by purposive sampling method. Data were collected through semi-field interviews. Greenham and Landman's method was used to analyze the data. Global and Lincoln's methods were used to validate the data. According to the purpose of the research, 4 categories including crisis preparedness, respect for laws, national solidarity, and protection of environmental values, and 9 subcategories including identification of threats, understanding of opportunities, protection of laws, strengthening the rule of law, development of public participation, expansion of empathy, water protection, combating air pollution and forest protection were identified. According to the participants’ view; it can be concluded that for a more environmentally concerned curricula in the post-corona period, the main themes of environmental knowledge and environmental awareness in the framework of the curriculum can be used.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Hadis Esmaeili; Laleh Salehi; Feyzallah Monavvarifard
Abstract
University structure has become a key issue in leading the community and the university toward achieving the goals of sustainable development. Therefore, determining the current state of GM in the universities and identifying its elements can help universities in developing activities related to ...
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University structure has become a key issue in leading the community and the university toward achieving the goals of sustainable development. Therefore, determining the current state of GM in the universities and identifying its elements can help universities in developing activities related to GM. Hence, the purpose of this study is to determine the current indicators of GM at Razi University and then to identify the factors affecting its development from the perspective of staff and faculty members of this university (N = 965). therefor, using the proportional assignment sampling method (based on gender and degree), 250 individuals were selected as the statistical sample. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire which its validity and reliability was confirmed by calculating the "Content Validity Ratio", Average Variances Extracted (AVE), Composite Readability (CR), and Cronbach's alpha. Data were analyzed by using Smart-PLS and SPSSWin20 software. The findings show that Razi University focuses on land and building, waste and recycling, and water and energy dimensions of GM. In contrast, less attention has been paid to the educational and research dimensions. Findings from exploratory factor analysis showed that a total of eight factors effect the development of GM in the university which account for 54.717% of the total variables affecting GM in Razi University. These factors respectively were: 1) Strategy and university culture, 2) Environmental pressures (legal, imitation, and normative pressures), 3) Education and capabilities of academic actors, 4) Values of actors, 5) Attitudes of stakeholders towards GM, 6) Institutional cooperation, 7) Assessment and reporting, and 8) Culture making.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Mar Mar Khanmohammadi; Mohammad Seifi; faezeh Nateghi
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of teaching philosophy to children on epistemological beliefs and learning environmental concepts in 11th- grade students. The research method was quasi-experimental and pre-test-post-test with a control group. The statistical population consisted ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of teaching philosophy to children on epistemological beliefs and learning environmental concepts in 11th- grade students. The research method was quasi-experimental and pre-test-post-test with a control group. The statistical population consisted of 11th- grade students in Arak city, 44 of whom were selected by convenience sampling method and were randomly divided into two groups of 22 control and experimental groups. Subjects in the experimental group were taught human and environmental lessons for 12 sessions based on the principles of the philosophy for children program. Whereas in the control group the training method was conventional. Data collection tools were Schumer's Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire (1990) and a researcher-made environmental concept test. Analysis of covariance was used for data analysis. The results showed that applying philosophy in the children programs had a positive and significant effect on epistemological beliefs and their components as well as learning environmental concepts of students (p = 0.001). Based on the results of the study, it is suggested to incorporate the principles of philosophy for children in the curriculum rather than being implemented separately.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Mahjabin Radaei; Esmaeil Salehi; Shahrzad Faryadi; Mohammad Reza Masnavim; Lobat Zebardast
Abstract
Contemporary urban settlements are facing increasing development, transformation, and complexity, which has disrupted the ecological system and the human-nature bond, especially in desert cities, and has led to a crisis of the 21st century or a reduction in urban resilience. Many patterns of human-nature ...
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Contemporary urban settlements are facing increasing development, transformation, and complexity, which has disrupted the ecological system and the human-nature bond, especially in desert cities, and has led to a crisis of the 21st century or a reduction in urban resilience. Many patterns of human-nature communication and solutions inspired by the natural environment support the principles and concepts of resilience and sustainability. To apply human dimensions in planning, it is necessary to extract, transfer and use ecological wisdom, or in other words, ideas based on evidence, principles, and strategies of the human-nature bond manifested in ancient cities, in the structure and function of the urban ecosystem. Therefore, the present study aims to establish a resilient city through ecological wisdom and to investigate the link between ecological wisdom and urban resilience. This paper is a descriptive-analytic study and the data collection tool is a library-documentary method. While deduction and comparison of the structural-functional components of social learning with ecological wisdom, social learning has been inferred as a catalyst ring for ecological wisdom expansion and resilience promotion. The strategic components in ecological wisdom expansion are extracted using the structural-interpretive model. Finally the conceptual model of ecological wisdom expansion in the planning of urban resilience promotion through social learning links is presented. The results of the study indicate that the components of the ability to understand the complexity and capacity to create flexibility, are two strategic factors in the tools of expanding ecological wisdom for urban resilience planning.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Ali youness; Hadi ghafari; Amir Ali Farhang
Abstract
Today, in the world, the income from tourism ranks third after the income from the export of fuel and chemicals, which reached a share of 4.7% of the world's total exports in 2019, and for forty poor countries in the world, tourism After oil, it is the second most important source of foreign exchange. ...
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Today, in the world, the income from tourism ranks third after the income from the export of fuel and chemicals, which reached a share of 4.7% of the world's total exports in 2019, and for forty poor countries in the world, tourism After oil, it is the second most important source of foreign exchange. According to the statistical report of GMTI 2021, the countries of Malaysia, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia have occupied the first to third ranks of halal tourism. Iran's economy has a lot of potentials to attract financial benefits from this industry. The current research aims to determine the effective variables that such tourism demands, and provide a model in the form of an endogenous growth by examining the effect of halal tourism education and promotion in Iran and calculating the factors affecting it. To achieve this goal, the process of this model was simulated with the help of mathematical models, and the effects of changes in the factors affecting tourism were investigated. Based on research findings, variables such as foreigners' income, income elasticity of demand, infrastructure factors such as education and promotion of tourism and transportation, roads, culture, tourism, and religious capitals have a positive effect on the number of tourists. Also, some factors have a negative effect on the number of tourists, including the price elasticity of tourism demand, the tax rate on service goods, and the price level.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Sara Karimzadeh; Sadegh Salehi
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Iran, as a country that heavily depends on conventional fossil fuels, is obliged to change it in favor of renewable resources. Renewable technology acceptance has not received sufficient heed from Iranian household consumers. This research seeks to address the question of what factors determine households’ ...
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Iran, as a country that heavily depends on conventional fossil fuels, is obliged to change it in favor of renewable resources. Renewable technology acceptance has not received sufficient heed from Iranian household consumers. This research seeks to address the question of what factors determine households’ incline towards solar panel technology for domestic usage in the Iranian context. To achieve the goal of the study a qualitative survey designed and an integrated theoretical model based on the modified framework of the Technology Acceptance Model, Social Acceptance theory and Diffusion of Innovation theory was developed. Data collected from 462 inhabitants of Mazandaran in 2019, who had not installed solar panels at research time. The internal reliabilities of the final measurement were all above 0.68 and validity coefficients for the constructs of the study were all above 0.56. Based on standardized regression weights the strongest total effect on the main dependent variable of intention acceptance (36%) is related to the perceived easiness of use and overall, the model explains 19% of the variances of the dependent variable.
Research Paper
Nasrin Mangeli; Rohollah Rezaei; Younes Khosravi
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The main purpose of this study was analyzing educational channels that could help to improve village participation in environmental protection projects. The main objective of this qualitative study was to identify the factors affecting wheat farmers’ adaptation to cope with climate change. The ...
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The main purpose of this study was analyzing educational channels that could help to improve village participation in environmental protection projects. The main objective of this qualitative study was to identify the factors affecting wheat farmers’ adaptation to cope with climate change. The statistical population of this study consisted of key experts and informants in Kerman Province,21 of them were selected using purposeful sampling and snowball technique. The collected data were analyzed using MAXQDA11 software. The results indicated that the most important adaptation actions to cope with climate changes in Kerman Province were on-farm actions including technical-agronomic, technological, water conservation, and sustainable environmental actions, and off-farm actions including managerial-economic, occupational, and diversification of livelihood. The results also showed that the main factors affecting adaptation actions to cope with climate changes in Kerman Province were three factors, institutional- supportive (i.e., legal-administrative, institutional-organizational, supportive, and economic), extension-awareness (i.e., extension-educational and information-advisory), and individual (i.e., individual-psychological), respectively.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Aida Esmaeilzadeh Seilabi; Amir Semiari; Mahdi Malmir
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Biodiversity is the root concept of ecological knowledge. The goal of the research is to evaluate the biodiversity concept perception among Iranian academic graduates to compare the findings derived from the sample population with definitions provided by international and national institutions. The research ...
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Biodiversity is the root concept of ecological knowledge. The goal of the research is to evaluate the biodiversity concept perception among Iranian academic graduates to compare the findings derived from the sample population with definitions provided by international and national institutions. The research methodology is based on field analysis by a structured questionnaire with an emphasis on one open question; what is your definition of biodiversity? The result of the content analysis of 137 responses is categorized based on the respondents' educational group into four categories; technical & engineering, natural and biological sciences, humanities & social sciences, and architecture & art, which indicates the fact that the responses of the sample population can be categorized at two-level; theoretical knowledge (holistic and partial attitudes) and practical knowledge (conservative, interactive and developmental approaches). Finally, based on the findings of this study, graduates of Iranian universities, at the level of theoretical knowledge, possess a deeper understanding than responsible institutions, which indicates a high awareness of the theoretical level of the biodiversity concept. However, at the level of empirical knowledge, the codes derived from the analysis of the responses don’t provide clear and significant themes, and this shows insufficient knowledge of the academic community about the dimensions of biodiversity in practice and experience.The concept of biodiversity is one of the most fundamental concepts of ecological knowledge. This research was conducted with the aim of measuring the conceptual understanding of the Iranian academic graduates of the concept of biodiversity and comparing the findings of the studied sample with the definitions provided by international and national institutions. The research method is based on field analysis and a structured questionnaire centered on this "open" question that; What is your definition of the concept of biodiversity? The results of the content analysis of 137 complete and meaningful responses based on the respondents' educational group in four categories; technical & engineering, natural and biological sciences, humanities & social sciences, architecture & art, express the fact that the sample population studied can be divided into two levels of theoretical knowledge (holistic and partial perspectives) and practical knowledge (conservative, interactive, and developmental approaches). The results showed that at the level of theoretical knowledge, the respondents referred to deeper themes of the concept of biodiversity than media and responsible institutions, which indicates a high awareness of the theoretical level of the concept of biodiversity among the studied sample. At the same time, at the level of practical knowledge, the answer codes do not provide clear and significant themes about the concept of biodiversity, and this indicates the insufficient knowledge of the studied sample about the dimensions of biodiversity in the field of practice and experience.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
Vahid Afshinmehr; Somayeh Hosseini; Hadi Ivani
Abstract
A city is like a living creature that is possible to continue its life according to the preservation of existing works and values. Historical textures are an important part of cities as they are the essence of their beings and today’s lack of favorable attention to these parts has caused various ...
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A city is like a living creature that is possible to continue its life according to the preservation of existing works and values. Historical textures are an important part of cities as they are the essence of their beings and today’s lack of favorable attention to these parts has caused various problems. The materialist view of such historical works, especially in the holy city of Mashhad has destroyed the conceptual meaning of this metropolis to its residents and pilgrims. Attention to historical textures as sources of value and the main structure of historical cities is an important issue that is sometimes forgotten in the planning of comprehensive and new urban development. The main purpose of this research is to identify and preserve historical monuments using modern design methods in order to keep these elements efficient and educational. The target population in this research is the historical monuments located in the 4th section of the Samen project, around the holy shrine of Imam Reza. The research method in this paper is descriptive-analytic. For this purpose, Studies about the different methods of preservation and maintenance have been collected in the form of documents. Field studies have been done to recreate the new architectural space using existing works. Eventually, Infill design has been proposed to preserve historical valuable works in the mentioned area.
Research Paper
Environmental Education
saeedeh karimi; Lo'bat Taghavi; Nematollah Jaafarzadeh Haghighi Fard; Jamal Ghodoosi; Ruhollah Mahmoodkhany
Abstract
Hospitals produce a wide range of waste. Office waste and kitchen waste are considered household waste, while operating room waste is highly contaminated and considered hazardous waste. In other words, about 75 to 90 percent of the waste generated in hospitals is quasi-domestic and 10 to 25 percent ...
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Hospitals produce a wide range of waste. Office waste and kitchen waste are considered household waste, while operating room waste is highly contaminated and considered hazardous waste. In other words, about 75 to 90 percent of the waste generated in hospitals is quasi-domestic and 10 to 25 percent of waste generated in hospitals is hazardous. This study aimed to identify the effective factors in the management of special medical waste to analyze these factors and determine the most effective ones to improve the quality of management of such wastes. Evaluations based on Fuzzy Delphi technique, and extracting information from the questionnaires given to a statistical population of 35 experts in the field of waste management showed a coefficient of 0.882 using Cronbach's alpha formula, gathered from 45 effective indexes identified. Experts had full consensus on the impact of 12 main indexes to be used to model the management of such waste. According to the ranking, the "amount of dedicated budget to educational programs in the hospital" index with a consensus percentage of 92 percent has the first rank in this section and it is the most effective index in hospital waste management. "The amount of Dedicated budget to hospital waste management", "the amount of Dedicated budget for periodic monitoring of the performance of production centers", and "Number of active autoclaves in contracted medical centers" are placed after with a percentage of consensus of 89, 88 and 86 percent, respectively. Also, the population index is ranked last with a consensus of 77 percent.
