H. Liaghati; M. Yazdi; N. Mobarghaee Dinan
Volume 5, Issue 4 , September 2017, , Pages 63-75
Abstract
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.
N. Mobarghai Dinan; A. Shahryari
Volume 5, Issue 2 , March 2017, , Pages 77-88
Abstract
Women as the half of the world’s population, are also the managers of the resources consumption in the family. Women have a key role in the environmental management. So awareness of their environmental knowledge level and identifying current needs and shortcomings on this regard can have a significant ...
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Women as the half of the world’s population, are also the managers of the resources consumption in the family. Women have a key role in the environmental management. So awareness of their environmental knowledge level and identifying current needs and shortcomings on this regard can have a significant role on improving of the environmental culture in the society. In this research "training needs assessment" has been done for knowing the women different environmental training level and estimating their educational needs among the housewives in Tehran municipality of region 15. The research method for data collecting is descriptive and survey based. Data has been collected via questionnaires of housewives in region 15 which among them 1082 were selected as statistical sample. The reliability coefficient was confirmed by Cronbach alpha (0/86) and its validity has been assessed by expert comments. Data Processing and analysis also has been done with SPSS software. The results showed that the environmental knowledge and awareness level of the women in this region is high (0/88) but they have some problem about the recognition of the cause of some environmental problems. They think that all communicational methods are useful for environmental education. Furthermore face to face training and using TV programs as a social media are the most effective ways for their learning compared to the other ways.
