Hoda Taie; Seyed Mohammad Shobeiri; Javad Hatami; Maryam Larijani
Abstract
As societies' sensitivity to the challenges of sustainability grows and expands, the development of sustainable cities has developed as another challenge, with education always being one of the tools of sustainable development. Schools play a wide role in planning and implementing education for sustainable ...
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As societies' sensitivity to the challenges of sustainability grows and expands, the development of sustainable cities has developed as another challenge, with education always being one of the tools of sustainable development. Schools play a wide role in planning and implementing education for sustainable development. The purpose of this study is to establish a framework and rank components of sustainable schools in order to develop sustainable cities in Iran. The present study is a mixed and exploratory study conducted in both qualitative and quantitative phases. In the qualitative phase, indicators of sustainable schools extracted by the study of literature and expert opinion, and in the quantitative phase, weighting of extractable variables using the method The ANP was conducted by 20 experts in the field. After analyzing the paired comparisons questionnaire, the weights of the indices were determined using EXCEL and Super Decision software. The results of the analysis showed that: student component with weight (0.33017), teacher (0.29086), curriculum (0.12801), school organization (0.11422), education (0.11382), and communication (0.1772). Have the most impact on the integration of school sustainability components in sustainable city design, respectively. Given the mission of education in the sustainability and growth of sustainable cities and in line with the gradual movement of schools towards sustainable development, changes to school standards are essential; and can be considered as one of the priority components of sustainable city development.
Environmental Education
H Taie; N Shah Hosseini; A Maleki
Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2013, , Pages 31-42
Abstract
Today is the information era, the information revolution information transfer occurs in huge amounts and whit extremely high speed. It is believed that, using virtual learning is the most effective and appropriate strategy for improving and promoting the efficiency of environmental education and trend. ...
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Today is the information era, the information revolution information transfer occurs in huge amounts and whit extremely high speed. It is believed that, using virtual learning is the most effective and appropriate strategy for improving and promoting the efficiency of environmental education and trend. Investigation the present general course curriculum shows that there is not any special text book on environmental education, and environmental concepts have come sporadically and insufficiently in different book. The method of this study is descriptive and the data were analyzed qualitatively. The results showed that right now in developing countries some schools are equipped whit environmental virtual learning sites and some necessary environmental activities are performed through these sites. More importantly, in order for the environmental mental education plans to be implemented, the environmental education curriculum should be set based on virtualization approach of the whole trend
