Nahid Sarlak; Faeze Nateghi; Mahnaz Jalalvani
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The purpose of this study was to design and validate the environmental curriculum framework based on the upstream documents in the middle school, which was carried out using a qualitative-quantitative method with exploratory design in two sections. The research population in the first section of the ...
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The purpose of this study was to design and validate the environmental curriculum framework based on the upstream documents in the middle school, which was carried out using a qualitative-quantitative method with exploratory design in two sections. The research population in the first section of the research was upstream documents. The sampling method from this population was criterion-based. The data collection tool comprised a checklist and taking notes whose validity was assessed and approved by experts, masters, and professors. The output of this section was the environmental curriculum framework in the format of four elements of the curriculum (purpose, content, method, evaluation), which was used to validate the 42-item questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire approved from the experts' point of view and reliability by Cronbach's alpha coefficient. The statistical population of the study in the validation section comprised 2259 people of the experts and masters of the social sciences, experimental sciences, and Farsi literature from six districts of education in Isfahan in the academic year of 2018-19, of which, 329 people were selected by categorized relative random sampling. The data obtained from this section were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis method using Lisrel software. The results showed that the fitness was appropriate for the proposed model based on the indexes
S.E. Rad; A.R. Faghihi; F. Nateghi; M. Moeinikia
Volume 6, Issue 1 , December 2017, , Pages 29-40
Abstract
Iran confrontsin major challenges and serious crisis economic, social, cultural, environmental and sustainable development aspects, now and in the future. The integration of sustainability criteria in the strategic plans of universities, the social response to the needs of society and achieving of sustainable ...
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Iran confrontsin major challenges and serious crisis economic, social, cultural, environmental and sustainable development aspects, now and in the future. The integration of sustainability criteria in the strategic plans of universities, the social response to the needs of society and achieving of sustainable development appears necessary. The purpose of this study and summing up the results of research in the field of higher education is stable, so come with using qualitative methods combined, a total of 15 articles were examined And collecting and analyzing data as well as analysis framework based on open coding, axial and selective, Nvivo-10 was done by software Finally, the 203 sustainability indicators universities in 25 components and 8 concept of organizing, was organized. Dimensions terms of reference and the number of sources in descending order are : environmental management of the campus, teaching sustainability, participation, sustainable management, social capital, sustainable research, monitoring, assessment and reporting, administrative and financial. The results showed that: Less research with indigenous and comprehensive approach to sustainable higher education; and the environmental dimension of sustainable development has been considered more of a social and economic dimension, Also on the cultural dimension and key infrastructure, other dimensions of sustainable development is not given, so a comprehensive and holistic model based on sustainability universities, according to Iran's rich culture and Islamic-Iranian model of progress for future research it is suggested.