Maryam Mohammadi Ostadkelayeh; Bahman Zandi; Javad Hatam; Seyed Mohammad Shobeiri
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The purpose of this study is to design a curriculum pattern for environmental education for pre-primary school children and validate it from the viewpoint of specialists and educators. The curriculum of environmental education in the pre-school period includes curriculum objectives, curriculum content, ...
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The purpose of this study is to design a curriculum pattern for environmental education for pre-primary school children and validate it from the viewpoint of specialists and educators. The curriculum of environmental education in the pre-school period includes curriculum objectives, curriculum content, curriculum teaching methods, and curriculum evaluation practices and the idea of integration was taken from Bahman Zandi's Language learning book (1394). This research, In terms of purpose, is applied, In terms of tools, it is a type of evaluation and the method of doing it is groundless. To determine the sample size required for designing the curriculum, a purposeful-judgment sampling was used from the statistical community of experts. The experts included curriculum specialists, the specialist in environmental education and kindergarten coaches. Also, the assessment and validation of the curriculum were based on the views of 45 coaches and managers of selected kindergartens in Rasht. The data gathering tool was a questionnaire which was designed based on the integrated curriculum design of environmental education and descriptive statistics and inferential statistics were used for analyzing the data. In this study, four sections of curriculum design, designed curriculum implementation, Determining the effectiveness of the educational intervention, assessment, and validation of the curriculum designed to be examined separately. After validating all the items, 25 items in the curriculum section, 26 items in the curriculum content section, 7 items in the curriculum teaching methods and 6 items in the curriculum evaluation practices were obtained Which totally includes 64 items.
B. Zandi; M.R. Sarmadi; N. Karimi
Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2016, , Pages 41-52
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This research seeks to explain the educational needs of citizens based on the main purpose of "identifying and prioritizing the educational needs of people in Tehran towards earthquake. This research is of survey type and for determining of educational needs the feasibility study method has been used ...
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This research seeks to explain the educational needs of citizens based on the main purpose of "identifying and prioritizing the educational needs of people in Tehran towards earthquake. This research is of survey type and for determining of educational needs the feasibility study method has been used based on the three-dimensional model of Kaufman, Gorican and Johnson. The statistical population of the study is the population of Tehran city (based on the statistics of 2006), amount to 7707520. Out of them, 750 people have been selected as a sample including 700 citizens in classified random method from five regions of the North, South, East and West and also the Center of Tehran and 50 experts and staffs in a non-probable purposeful method for the research. Referring to the library sources and searching in internet websites related to the civil defense, researchers extracted a relatively full list of the examples of civil defense to be prepared against the earthquake in Tehran city. Using the self-made questionnaire in Likert scale (four-options), the necessary data from the statistical samples were collected. The data analysis for feasibility study, comparing the views among the groups and prioritization of the needs, has been performed; using SPSS software and Freedman test. The general prioritization among the three mentioned sections has specified that the educational needs related to skills of vulnerability reduction before the occurrence of earthquake is in the first priority. In addition, comparison of the educational needs by population specifications (gender, group, rate of education and area of residency) in this research shows that the mentioned specifications do not have any impact on individuals’ educational needs