Environmental Education
Hossein Meiboudi; Babak Omidvar; A.A Enayati; Sahar Rashidi
Volume 1, Issue 4 , July 2013, , Pages 11-19
Abstract
In this research, it has been attempted through a field study; with a descriptive - analysis approach based on questionnaires; to demonstrate the environmental awareness of primary school children in green and traditional schools based on parents' education. The statistics population consists of ...
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In this research, it has been attempted through a field study; with a descriptive - analysis approach based on questionnaires; to demonstrate the environmental awareness of primary school children in green and traditional schools based on parents' education. The statistics population consists of primary school students of green and traditional schools in Tehran. Ratings to the answers for the awareness is on the number of correct answers to the questions. Data, after being coded with SPSS software and statistical appropriate tests, was analyzed. The results showed that the percentage rate of answers environmental awareness questions of green schools is greater than that of traditional schools. Considering the correlation between parents' education and environmental awareness, it was also observed that there is no significant relationship between parent's education and the awareness of environmental issues at schools.
Environmental Education
D. Karimi; Ashraf Enayati
Volume 1, Issue 1 , December 2012, , Pages 59-74
Abstract
Following the Earth Conference in 1992 and the preparation of Agenda 21 and Its 36th chapter which is about environmental education and training for sustainable development, and regarding four main themes of this chapter, all implying the stability of training, and also, because we are in the decade ...
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Following the Earth Conference in 1992 and the preparation of Agenda 21 and Its 36th chapter which is about environmental education and training for sustainable development, and regarding four main themes of this chapter, all implying the stability of training, and also, because we are in the decade of education for sustainable development now, all countries have tried to design and suggest ways for the stability of education. Therefore, in this conference all countries unanimously agreed upon “training of sustainable development in schools as a whole”. This approach put emphasis on implementation of what has been learned to reduce the gap between values in action through integrating formal and informal training programs .In “schools as a whole” approach which is sustainable school in essence, it is necessary to consider a framework for sustainable school with emphasis on its dimensions and indexes. In this article, all of these items have been described completely, and in the end, it has been concluded that training for sustainable development in schools is in it’s initial phase and the managers have come to understood it’s necessary, but there is no clear framework for its implementation.
