Environmental Education
Yazdan Shirmohammadi; Enayatullah Yazdanpanah; Afsane Yaaqoubi por fard; Fatemeh Takallou
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The best way to make individuals more conscious of the concerns and difficulties facing society is through education. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of tourists' experiences on environmental education through the resonance of the nature tourism destination brand and environmental ...
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The best way to make individuals more conscious of the concerns and difficulties facing society is through education. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of tourists' experiences on environmental education through the resonance of the nature tourism destination brand and environmental education to visitors. The knowledge of the environment among tourists can be raised through travel and nature tourism. People's knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding the environment are influenced by their experiences in the environment. The host society suffers when tourism numbers exceed an area's ecological capacity, which lowers the quality of the tourism experience. If this problem is ignored, society will face social and environmental challenges. The greatest and most efficient method for educating people and instilling a sense of responsibility in them is through environmental education. The sample size was determined by Cochran's formula of 384 people. The sample technique was convenience sampling, and the study's statistical population consisted solely of domestic tourists to Borujerd city. Expert judgments validated the research's validity, while Cronbach's alpha assessed its reliability. Through the resonance of the nature tourism destination brand and environmental education to tourists, as well as the resonance of the nature tourism brand on public environmental education, the research findings demonstrated that tourists experience has a positive and significant effect on environmental education.
Environmental Education
fatemeh rezaei; Mojtaba Tabari; ali Farhadi Mahalli; Toraj Mojibi
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Among the major actions toward sustainable development is public policymaking that seeks to fundamentally address and resolve environmental issues. The purpose of this research is to explain an exigency model of the government public policy gap analysis in the subject area of environment. This is an ...
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Among the major actions toward sustainable development is public policymaking that seeks to fundamentally address and resolve environmental issues. The purpose of this research is to explain an exigency model of the government public policy gap analysis in the subject area of environment. This is an applied research conducted through a survey. The statistical population included 121456 Iranian graduates with a master's degree or PhD in the field of environment. Of this population, based on the Cochran formula, a sample consisting of 384 respondents was formed, the individual members of which were selected using stratified random sampling. The validity and reliability of the measurement tool were assessed and confirmed using content validity (of face validity type) and Cronbach's alpha, respectively. The results indicated the dimensions of the link between organization policies and goals, community expectations and feelings, and reflecting stakeholders' views as relevant in the gap analysis model. In addition, the results indicated that the exigent policy gap analysis model of the environment had the required validity. The proposed model in this research which has been further improved by expert views may serve as an applied model for policymakers, practitioners, and executives of environmental policies, and particularly, the Iranian Department of Environment.
Environmental Education
Parvaneh Safarialamouti; Esmail Karamidehkordi; Jaber Aazami
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Stakeholders’ knowledge is one of the essential elements of biodiversity management. This research assesses local communities’ knowledge and its impact on the perceived biodiversity loss in the Sorkhabad Protected Area of the Zanjan Province using a quantitative (descriptive-correlational) ...
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Stakeholders’ knowledge is one of the essential elements of biodiversity management. This research assesses local communities’ knowledge and its impact on the perceived biodiversity loss in the Sorkhabad Protected Area of the Zanjan Province using a quantitative (descriptive-correlational) methodology. A sample of 250 out of all rural households dependent on the protected area (N = 5095) was identified using Cochran's formula as the sample size who were selected by a multi-stage random sampling technique. The results showed that the respondents' knowledge about the ecosystem services and the challenges of biodiversity was at high and moderate levels, respectively. The results of regression analysis showed that the variables of knowledge about ecosystem provisioning services, knowledge about the impact of human factors related to unsustainable local community activities on biodiversity, knowledge about the impact of poor community livelihood conditions on biodiversity, knowledge about the impact of factors related to ineffective intervention conditions on biodiversity and knowledge about the impact of natural hazards to biodiversity accounts for 52 percent of the variance of perceived biodiversity loss in the protected areas.
Environmental Education
Mohammad Yazdi
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Ayatollah Khamenei supreme leader of Iran and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli are two prominent jurists in the Shiite world who have dealt with environmental issues. Ayatollah Khamenei is not only supreme leader of Iran but also, he is one of the eminent religious leaders in the world. For evaluation of his opinions ...
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Ayatollah Khamenei supreme leader of Iran and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli are two prominent jurists in the Shiite world who have dealt with environmental issues. Ayatollah Khamenei is not only supreme leader of Iran but also, he is one of the eminent religious leaders in the world. For evaluation of his opinions and thoughts about environment and natural resources his 57 statements with the keywords of environment, nature, natural resources, air, water, soil, tree, planetary, forest, destruction, energy, pollution, environmental culture, awareness, law and crime statistically were analyzed. The data analysis shows that tree and planting 205 cases (maximum) and environmental awareness 4 cases (minimum) occur in his statements. It is important to note that his special attention to tree and planting is similar to special attention of tree and planting in Quran. The data analysis of Quran words show that tree 27 cases and tree of Date 20 cases have been repeated. Ayatollah Javadi Amoli is another eminent jurists and philosopher in the Shiite world who have specially dealt with environmental issues. The result of this research show that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Javadi Amoli opinions and thoughts about environment and nature have been deeply iinfluenced by Quranic literature, hadiths and narrations mentioned by the Holy Prophet of Mohammad and Imam Jafar Sadiq, Shiite jurist’s principles such as the rule of no harm, the rule of causation, the rule of loss and Islamic philosophers, especially Mulla Sadra. It clears that their view about environment, nature and natural resources is not only scientific, executively and expertise but also it is deeply moral and on the basis of environmental ethics.
Environmental Education
Mar Mar Khanmohammadi; Mohammad Seifi; faezeh Nateghi
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of teaching philosophy to children on epistemological beliefs and learning environmental concepts in 11th- grade students. The research method was quasi-experimental and pre-test-post-test with a control group. The statistical population consisted ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of teaching philosophy to children on epistemological beliefs and learning environmental concepts in 11th- grade students. The research method was quasi-experimental and pre-test-post-test with a control group. The statistical population consisted of 11th- grade students in Arak city, 44 of whom were selected by convenience sampling method and were randomly divided into two groups of 22 control and experimental groups. Subjects in the experimental group were taught human and environmental lessons for 12 sessions based on the principles of the philosophy for children program. Whereas in the control group the training method was conventional. Data collection tools were Schumer's Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire (1990) and a researcher-made environmental concept test. Analysis of covariance was used for data analysis. The results showed that applying philosophy in the children programs had a positive and significant effect on epistemological beliefs and their components as well as learning environmental concepts of students (p = 0.001). Based on the results of the study, it is suggested to incorporate the principles of philosophy for children in the curriculum rather than being implemented separately.
Environmental Education
Seyedeh Fatemeh Alavi Foumani; Ali Gholipour Soleimani; Hamidreza Rezaee Kelidbari
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The state of the world's environment reveals the fact that in recent decades, due to human activities and increasing consumerism, Earth has suffered irreparable damage and the world is witnessing unprecedented growth in environmental degradation, just as consumers activities can lead to deteriorating ...
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The state of the world's environment reveals the fact that in recent decades, due to human activities and increasing consumerism, Earth has suffered irreparable damage and the world is witnessing unprecedented growth in environmental degradation, just as consumers activities can lead to deteriorating environmental conditions. The environmentally conscious behaviors such as green purchase behavior, can be agents of change, motivation and attention to the environment. The purpose of this research is to develop a model for implementing green purchase behavior that recognizes the dimensions of this behavior to determine the effective factors, operational strategies, and consequences of its implementation.The overall approach is qualitative and Grounded Theory has been done. Using purpose foul and snowball sampling methods, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 13 experts from the field of business researchers and environmental activists.The results of data coding led to the identification of 448 initial codes which finally cited the approach Systematic in the given data theory, paradigm model show that causal categories (environmental belief, health concern, green attitude, mental norm), causal categories (green purchase behavior), background categories (economic indicators, government support for capital Eco-friendly investments, the country's environmental policies, the impact of green consumption culture), interventionist category (distribution of green products, financial and economic constraints of households and promotion, encouragement to green purchase), strategies (Indian market strategies, prices, innovation), and the consequence (at the macro-level including increasing the level of health in society, development, and growth of organizational performance and promoting green lifestyle and at the micro-level including preference to buy environmentally friendly products and increase the repetition of purchases behavior) Impact on the implementation of green purchases behavior.
Environmental Education
Sorena Zandi; Behzad Barekat
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Ecocriticism as a field of study into the state of both human and non-human entities in an act of colonization. As such three of its most important concepts, Agency, Development and Displacement, are discussed to facilitate the understanding of this approach for the readers. Non-human agency advocates ...
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Ecocriticism as a field of study into the state of both human and non-human entities in an act of colonization. As such three of its most important concepts, Agency, Development and Displacement, are discussed to facilitate the understanding of this approach for the readers. Non-human agency advocates against a human-centric agency and for a dynamic relationship between human and non-human agency instead. As often witnessed in the aftermath of natural disasters such as an earthquake, natural events are unpredictable and not all in control of human beings. Then it can be stated that humans are not the only active agents in the environment but that instead we need to study the dynamic relationship between human and non-human agencies. The second concept, Development, is a bridge between colonialism and non-human agency, which entails the process of changing an environment in course of monopolizing certain products in a colonized country. Such changes usually have negative effects on the natives’ lives, such as losing their jobs, homes and impoverishment. This then leads to their displacement, seeking a new area where they can find new resources to survive and build their lives around. This is then a chained set of events as explained in the article, from the promise of a development that is in truth monopolizing one or more products, to the displacement of the natives from their homes and their struggle to survive.
Environmental Education
Golbahar Pouranjenar; Habibollah Salarzehi; Ali Asghar Tabavar; Nour Mohammad Yaghoubi
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This study aimed to explore the antecedents and consequences of a sustainable and environmentally friendly university using a mixed approach. This research is in the category of exploratory and applied research and the inductive deductive (mixed) approach. The statistical population of the research consists ...
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This study aimed to explore the antecedents and consequences of a sustainable and environmentally friendly university using a mixed approach. This research is in the category of exploratory and applied research and the inductive deductive (mixed) approach. The statistical population of the research consists of fifteen experts, professors of higher education and environmental experts active at universities. To collect information in the qualitative part of the research, in-depth (semi-structured) interviews were conducted and in the quantitative part, a structured researcher-made questionnaire was used, the validity and reliability were confirmed by content validity and retesting. In the qualitative part, the data obtained from the interview were analyzed using Atlas TIA software and the content analysis method. Additionally, in the quantitative part of the research, using the fuzzy Delphi technique, the prerequisites and the extractive prerequisites were confirmed and prioritized. The findings of the study indicated the extraction of 7 antecedents and 7 postpositions, among which there were supportive, legal, and sustainable policy-making contexts, as well as organizing ideological, structural, environmental, functional, managerial, and sustainable evaluation requirements and the existence of a government support platform and a sustainable financing system, and among the consequences, a sustainable education system; sustainable research system and community cooperation with universities had the highest priority in solving environmental problems respectively.
Environmental Education
Mohammad Yazdi; Mohammad Medadi
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The subject of present article has to do with the importance of environment and natural resources in the political view of supreme leader of Iran. Ayatollah Khamenei is not only supreme leader of Iran but also, he is one of the eminent religious leaders in the world. For evaluation of his thoughts about ...
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The subject of present article has to do with the importance of environment and natural resources in the political view of supreme leader of Iran. Ayatollah Khamenei is not only supreme leader of Iran but also, he is one of the eminent religious leaders in the world. For evaluation of his thoughts about environment and natural resources his 57 statements from 1991-2021 with the keywords of environment, nature, natural resources, air, water, soil, tree, planetary, forest, destruction, energy, pollution, environmental culture, awareness, law and crime statistically were analyzed. The data analysis shows that tree and planting 205 cases (maximum) and environmental awareness 4 cases (minimum) occur in his statements. It is important to note that his special attention to tree and planting is similar to special attention of tree and planting in Quran. The data analysis of Quran words show that tree 27 cases and tree of Date 20 cases have been repeated. It is clear that there is religious, justices and morality spiritual in his statements about environment, nature and natural resources. It seems that his view about environment, nature and natural resources is not only scientific, executively and expertise but also it is deeply moral and religious ideas.
Environmental Education
Mahtab Eghtedari; Reza Saboonchi; Nazanin Rasekh
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the pathology of environmental education in the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population of the study consisted of all experts from the Ministry of Sport and Youth, with a total of 330 reports. ...
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the pathology of environmental education in the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population of the study consisted of all experts from the Ministry of Sport and Youth, with a total of 330 reports. According to Morgan's sample size table, 169 individuals were identified as the study sample. The sampling method in this study was classified sampling. The data gathering tool in this research was a researcher-made questionnaire with 22 questions. The validity of this questionnaire was evaluated by experts' opinions and the reliability of the questionnaire was calculated 0.81. For analyzing the data of the study, statistical methods such as Kolomography Smirnov, Exploratory Factor Analysis Test, and T-Test were used. The results of the study showed that 6 damages of goals, structure, reward, useful mechanisms, communication and leadership were among the damages related to environmental education in the Ministry of Sport and Youth. The results of the study also showed that the goal-related injury with a mean of 4.17 compared to other injuries was the most important issue. Among the target-related injuries, non-monitoring and evaluation of the extent to which environmental education goals were achieved with a factor load of 0.874 were identified as the most important target-related damages. Given the lack of comprehensive goals and planning and the lack of proper monitoring and evaluation of environmental education at the Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs, the environmental education of the objectives has led to relative harm.
Environmental Education
Zahra Hooshmandan Moghaddam Fard; Ali Shams; Jafar Yaghoubi; Hossein Asakereh; Jalal Saba
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In recent years, climate change has affected the agricultural sector worldwide as well as Iran. Farmers in each region have a different understanding of these changes, and many factors influence their perception. The purpose of this descriptive study is to evaluate farmers' perceptions the factors affecting ...
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In recent years, climate change has affected the agricultural sector worldwide as well as Iran. Farmers in each region have a different understanding of these changes, and many factors influence their perception. The purpose of this descriptive study is to evaluate farmers' perceptions the factors affecting their perceptions. The statistical population was all 83261 farmers’ households in Zanjan province. Using the Krejcie and Morgan sampling table, 393 farmers were identified and selected through randomized multistage sampling method. The results showed that 74.6% of the farmers had average climate change perception. Results of Correlation showed that there was a significant and positive relationship between farmers' perceptions of climate change and thier education level, social capital, climate change consequences, educational course, rainfed area, access to inputs, agricultural income, age, rainfed quality, irrigated area, information resources used and agricultural experience. Multiple regression showed that social capital, climate change consequences, educational course, dryland area, agricultural income, and information resource used accounted for 58 percent of farmers' perceptions of climate change.
Environmental Education
Meimanat Abedini Baltork; Hojjat Saffar Heidari
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of attention to the environmental crisis issue in elementary school textbooks. The method is Shannon entropy. The unit of analysis contains texts, activities, and images that 3961 pages were totally reviewed. The statistical population consisted of ...
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the level of attention to the environmental crisis issue in elementary school textbooks. The method is Shannon entropy. The unit of analysis contains texts, activities, and images that 3961 pages were totally reviewed. The statistical population consisted of elementary school books and all of them were selected as samples. The components and indicators of the environmental crisis were extracted from documents and earlier sources and checked out in the books. The research content validity was obtained using CVR which was 0.90 and confirmed, and the reliability was 0.98 based on the agreement coefficient. Findings have shown that in elementary books, a total of 68 cases were referred to the environmental crisis; 19 cases were related to the soil crisis, 18 cases were related to water, 18 of them were related to noise crisis and 13 subjects were related to air crisis. Also, the highest coefficient of importance was related to the soil crisis component (0.411) and the lowest coefficient of importance was related to the air crisis component (0.204). Among the textbooks; science books dealt with the environmental crisis more than any other book. In the next place were the Farsi books (reading) and finally the social studies books. No other cases for the attention to the environmental crisis were observed in the other elementary school textbooks.
Environmental Education
Bahram Sarmast; Ahad Rezayan Ghayehbashi; Amin Moeinian; Afsaneh Abbasi
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Despite nearly two decades from Agenda 21 adoption, emphasizing the design and implementation of sustainable development indicators, there is no consensus on Sustainability indicators for designing and evaluating it to be acceptable to all elites and experts around the world. Recently, the issue of Intergenerational ...
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Despite nearly two decades from Agenda 21 adoption, emphasizing the design and implementation of sustainable development indicators, there is no consensus on Sustainability indicators for designing and evaluating it to be acceptable to all elites and experts around the world. Recently, the issue of Intergenerational justice in sustainable development has been of great importance. This paper addresses the identification of environmental indicators related to intergenerational justice for sustainable development. The method of this research is qualitative and with respect to the target, it is an exploratory study. The participants in this study were 18 academic and executive experts selected by purposeful and non-probable methods. Interviews were analyzed through the thematic analysis method, and later the MAXQDA software was used to display the grid. The result of this research was the identification of 43 sub-themes in the form of nine themes. The themes were natural resources, social capital, laws and regulations, spatial planning, renewable energy, environmental vulnerability, environmental health and sustainability, environmental performance, and ecological footprint.
Sa'd-ollah Pourmirza; Shahab Bahrami; Hoseyn Eydi
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effective factors on improving the health, safety and environmental culture in sports facilities. The present study is a descriptive analytical study. The statistical population of the study includes managers who have a good knowledge of the field of health, ...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the effective factors on improving the health, safety and environmental culture in sports facilities. The present study is a descriptive analytical study. The statistical population of the study includes managers who have a good knowledge of the field of health, safety and environment, who have a lot of experience and experience in the field of sports and sports facilities. Based on the bullet selection, 18 individuals were identified as the sample of the study. In the present study, in order to design the conceptual framework of the research, three-branch theory was used. The research questionnaire included a researcher-made questionnaire. The questionnaire was designed on TOPSIS method. Topsis method was used to prioritize these factors. All data analysis process was performed using BT TopSis SoLver software. the result showed monitoring of the behaviors and performance of staff and managers of sporting facilities in the HSE area was identified as the most important factor with the coefficient of 0.7945. Also, the results showed that fitting the description of occupations of employees and managers of sporting places with HSE goals with a coefficient of 0.8650 and considering the attitude and skills of HSE employees and managers at recruitment and employment with a coefficient of near 8388 other factors It was important to improve the HSE culture in sports venues.
Maryam Afereydouni; Mehdi Nooripoor
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Agriculture is the most important sector in the supply of food products. Since farmers are using new technologies to produce more products, they cause harmful effects on the environment. In this regard, the important factor is the effect that environmental knowledge has on improving environmental behaviours ...
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Agriculture is the most important sector in the supply of food products. Since farmers are using new technologies to produce more products, they cause harmful effects on the environment. In this regard, the important factor is the effect that environmental knowledge has on improving environmental behaviours of any person. Therefore, the present study was conducted to analyse factors affect wheat farmers' environmental knowledge. The statistical population of the research was 380 wheat farmers in the central district of Kohgiluyeh County which based on Morgan table, 181 farmers were selected as samples using random sampling. The face validity of the questionnaire was confirmed through subject matter specialists. The Cronbach's alpha ranged from 0.56 to 0.83, indicating an appropriate reliability of the questionnaire. Data analysis was performed using SPSS21 software. The findings of the research showed that wheat farmers do not have appropriate environmental knowledge. Variables including non-farm income, adherence to the custom, participation in educational-extensional courses, membership, wheat cultivation experience and education were the most important determinants of their environmental knowledge.
Mehdi Pendar; Sajad Bahrami; Farzam Pourasghar Sangachin
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The index of sustainable development goals have attracted attention of many researchers and policy makers in recent years. The Human Development Index, which is based on several key indicators, although an older approach to comparing countries is often considered as a health and education issue, but ...
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The index of sustainable development goals have attracted attention of many researchers and policy makers in recent years. The Human Development Index, which is based on several key indicators, although an older approach to comparing countries is often considered as a health and education issue, but an indicator is still acceptable amongst researchers and policymakers. The purpose of this study is to survey the status of Iran in the human development index and the indicators of sustainable development goals and also analysis the correlation between these two indicators based on the information of all countries. In this research, Pearson correlation and linear regression were used in SPSS software to verify the relationship between two indicators. The results show that there is a meaningful and strong correlation between these two indicators. In the survey of correlation between the 17 goals of SDGs and HDI, it is clear that goals of 15 and 17 do not have a meaningful relationship with the human development index. While other communication goals were meaningful with the human development index. In general, it can be concluded that there is a significant relationship between the human development index and the index of sustainable development goals. One of the drawbacks of the SDGs is the ambitious Goals that will make it hard to mobilize people and rulers to achieve all these ideal goals.
Saeed Shahhosseini; Tooraj Sepahvand
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The environmental crisis is increasing today and this makes it imperative for people more than ever to expand their understanding of the environmental concepts. Accordingly, films can be an effective tool to do that, but finding the right medium is a matter of debate. Needless to say, different forms ...
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The environmental crisis is increasing today and this makes it imperative for people more than ever to expand their understanding of the environmental concepts. Accordingly, films can be an effective tool to do that, but finding the right medium is a matter of debate. Needless to say, different forms of films have different effects. Within the same line, the current paper aims to test out the effectiveness of narrative and non-narrative documentary films on the learning and retention of the environmental concepts. The research method was quasi-experimental, administering a pre-test and a post-test on 20 male and 20 female participants between 20-27 years old. The samples were randomly categorized into two groups. Both groups had an equal number of participants who did not have any earlier environmental activities and their majors were not related to environment and natural resources studies. They were from a variety of educational backgrounds. The groups were homogenous in terms of GPA, too. Firstly, the pre-test was administered to both groups. One group watched a narrative documentary on environmental and natural resources for 8 weeks, while the other group watched the non-narrative version of the same film for the same period. Then, a learning and retention test was given to both groups. The MANCOVA test was administered on the data and the findings showed a significant difference between the two groups in terms of learning and retention. It was concluded that narrative films can have a more significant effect on the learning and retention of the variables.
Bibi Eshrat Zamani; Sayyed Amin Azimi; Nasim Soleimani
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Hard educational technologies received more attention today while soft educational technology has been considered as one of the keys and effective technologies in teaching and learning. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the use of soft educational technologies in teaching environmental ...
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Hard educational technologies received more attention today while soft educational technology has been considered as one of the keys and effective technologies in teaching and learning. The main purpose of this study was to investigate the use of soft educational technologies in teaching environmental issues in the first to the third grade of elementary science textbooks of Iran and Russia. This study is a descriptive analysis of the content. The statistical population of the study is all the first, second, and third-grade textbooks of sciences in Iran and the world around us in Russia. The statistical sample included environmental issues in the first, second, and third-grade elementary science textbooks of Iran and Russia. The research tool was a researcher-made checklist made by soft educational technology and an environmental health checklist from Yale University. The results showed that allegory and role-playing hadn't used at all to teach environmental issues in Iran. Questions and answers Iran 31.95, Russia 31.64)and comparisons of objects, the discovery of similarities and differences, and conclusions )Iran 20.61, Russia 17.72) have been widely used in both countries. In Iran, more emphasis has been placed on solving problems and carrying out projects(13.40), and more emphasis has been placed on the use of daily life activities(16.45) in teaching in Russia. The results also showed that the use of soft educational technology to teach environmental issues was given more significance in the third grade of an elementary school in both of the countries. Soft technology has been used less in the first grade of the elementary school of Iran but in the second grade of the elementary school of Russia.
Seyed Mehdi Mirhashemi; Farzin Haghparast; Mazyar Asefi
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Investigating the determinant of environmental Behaviour is an important gateway for controlling the environmental impact of a community, city, residential municipality or settlement. Environmental Behaviour is under the influence of several humanistic and situational factors and its study needs precise ...
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Investigating the determinant of environmental Behaviour is an important gateway for controlling the environmental impact of a community, city, residential municipality or settlement. Environmental Behaviour is under the influence of several humanistic and situational factors and its study needs precise evaluation of motivations, Behaviour as well as different social and personal factors. In this paper, through the use of field study; survey and in-depth interviews as well as analyzing data from interviews and observations using Grounded Theory; efforts were made to investigate the determinants of environmental Behaviour in a sample of the Iranian society. A survey was conducted with a focus on the experiences of participants in the context of a residential setting. The findings of this study are presented using the quadripartite paradigm of Stern, which showed that attitude factors had the vastest variation of determinants influencing environmental Behaviour. Accordingly, anthropocentric values are the most influencing factors. The final findings of this research (Central Category), called "Valued Based Vogue", showed that routines as commonly used Behaviours, along with proven values, have a significant effect on the environmental Behaviour of the population under study. Routines are the usual form of Behaviour that is supported and strengthened by values and have the potential of penetrating most Behavioural settings, including the residential setting.
Moslem Savari; Hamed Sheykhi; Kamran Almasieh
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This research was conducted with the general purpose of the role of educational channels to improve the participation of villagers in environmental protection projects. The population of the study consisted of all farmers in Divandareh city (N = 7931). Using the Cochran sampling formula, 260 of them ...
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This research was conducted with the general purpose of the role of educational channels to improve the participation of villagers in environmental protection projects. The population of the study consisted of all farmers in Divandareh city (N = 7931). Using the Cochran sampling formula, 260 of them were selected as samples. To increase the credibility of the findings, 290 questionnaires were distributed by proportional random sampling method. Finally, 274 questionnaires were completed and analyzed. The main instrument of the study was a questionnaire whose validity was confirmed by a group of experts and the reliability of its variables was confirmed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α> 0.7). Data analysis was done by SPSSwin18 software. The results of correlation analysis indicated a positive and significant relationship between the dimensions of educational channels (local, national and international) with the participation of villagers. In addition, the results of regression coefficient showed that the educational channels dimensions have a significant positive effect on improving the participation of villagers, which explained 90.08% of the variation of the dependent variable (participation). The results of factor analysis also identified ways to improve the participation of people in environmental protection schemes in strengthening the culture of participation and protection, management and cultural strategies, advisory and awareness strategies, effectiveness and effectiveness, structural and organizational strategy, and improving commitment, and responsibility. In this regard, based on the results of the research, suggestions were made to improve the participation of villagers in environmental protection projects.
Hasan Hasanzadeh; Mohammad Adiby Mehr; Davood Dadashnejad Delshad; Mohammad Javad Baghizadeh
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One of the rules of jurisprudence that is cited throughout jurisprudence and can be used in many economic and social issues, including the environment, is the rule of prohibition of detriment. This rule in the Islamic law; the basic principle is to protect the others from harm to others and to compensate ...
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One of the rules of jurisprudence that is cited throughout jurisprudence and can be used in many economic and social issues, including the environment, is the rule of prohibition of detriment. This rule in the Islamic law; the basic principle is to protect the others from harm to others and to compensate for them, is a strong basis for the enactment of the law. the inclusion of this rule on negative affairs will, in addition to deterring this principle, in environmental degradation, has a constructive role in management of environmental crises. Of course, in order to achieve development, man has not properly fulfilled his responsibility for protecting nature and ignores the right of future generations with unceasing exploitation, has caused damage to nature and extensive changes in the ecosystem and caused the environmental crisis. Therefore, it is possible to manage this crisis by the rule of prohibition of detriment and accepting its positive role, to compensate for the damage caused by the invasion of environmental capital. Because damaging to the most important natural of human capital should not be ignored as private and material spiritual capital. Therefore, due to existing vacuum, non-deterrence of laws in the face of environmental degradation. This paper describes the Role of the rule of prohibition of detriment in the management of the environmental crisis and the necessity of its acceptance in proving the relevant laws and regulations in Islamic law in a descriptive and analytical way.
Asghar Mirfardi
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Environmental problem nowadays the is known as one Environmental problem nowadays the is known as one of important concerns in human life. This research has been studied the environmental attitude and its relationship with Religiousness in 15 years and older residents of Noorabad Mamasani. Using survey ...
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Environmental problem nowadays the is known as one Environmental problem nowadays the is known as one of important concerns in human life. This research has been studied the environmental attitude and its relationship with Religiousness in 15 years and older residents of Noorabad Mamasani. Using survey method, Statistics society had been 15 years and older residents of Noorabad Mamasani, from which 400 subjects were determined based on Sampling method (1976) and were selected by classified-multi stage random sampling method. Structured questionnaire, which provided via the scale of Religiousness (Mirfardi & Shayani, 2014) and the scale of attitude toward environment (Salehi Omran & Aghamohamadi, 2008), was used as research tool for data collection, which face validity and Cronbach's alpha were used for its validity and reliability, respectively. Reliability for environmental attitude and religiosity were 0.76 and 0.79, respectively. The findings showed that the dependent variable has direct significant relationship with the variables of religiosity and indirect significant relationship with age. Religiousness determined 14.1 percentages of dependent variable. Study showed that religiosity has important role in pro-environmental attitude. Offering educational programs for enhancing religious commitments which related to environment is advised.
Mohammad Azadnia; Shamsossadat Zahedi; Abdorreza Majdeddin; Mohammad Reza Pourabedi
Volume 6, Issue 4 , September 2018, , Pages 19-36
Hassan Majidi; Seyed Mahdi Mousavinia
Volume 6, Issue 3 , June 2018, , Pages 79-90
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This paper aims to make known Ayatollah Khamenei, s environmental thoughts. It answers this fundamental Question: What are the dominant discourse factors on Ayatollah Khamenei’s environmental ideas? By using of under consideration views in the field of environmental valuation. The method of this ...
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This paper aims to make known Ayatollah Khamenei, s environmental thoughts. It answers this fundamental Question: What are the dominant discourse factors on Ayatollah Khamenei’s environmental ideas? By using of under consideration views in the field of environmental valuation. The method of this study is Laclau and, Mouffe discourse analysis. The findings of this paper show that Ayatollah Khamenei sees the issue of the environment from spiritual and political aspects. In the framework of this discourse by Ayatollah Khamenei in the field of environment tendency; religion element is as nodal point proving and it's people-oriented, the revolutionary mentality; and rationality as the other points and factors are articulated with religion. This providing changed to dominant meaning in society by public informing; making legal and observing methods, suitable pattern making, empower and making convergence in executive power, enjoying of scientific studies and enabling of environmental diplomacy. Because of the absence of divine looking in using of the environment in west discourse, is located in the discursive field and became the competitor of Ayatollah Khamenei,s view.
Sedighe kiani salmi; Mohsen Shaterian
Volume 6, Issue 2 , March 2018, , Pages 101-116
Abstract
Today, environmental issues have deeply social concept and totally environmental issues have cultural roots and in order to accept the cultural context of a society should be structured to deal with the issue. The research method is descriptive-analytical and survey. The aim of this study was identifying ...
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Today, environmental issues have deeply social concept and totally environmental issues have cultural roots and in order to accept the cultural context of a society should be structured to deal with the issue. The research method is descriptive-analytical and survey. The aim of this study was identifying the role of social and cultural factors affecting environmental protection in the citizens of Kashan. The statistical population included of 275325 people living in the old and new city of Kashan that by using Cochran sampling formula and with Cluster random sampling method selected 300 samples. The method is survey research by using self-made questionnaire. The results of the t-test indicated that the role of cultural capital, social solidarity, social participation, environmental knowledge, environmental education, religious education and cultural identity on the protection of the environment is significant. Also the results show that there is no significant relationship between the investment of cultural, socio-cultural identity and social cohesion and their impact on the environment. There is significant relationship between the social participation and social and cultural education on environmental issues and environmental protection; this means that whatever the social participation in society is more, the environmental protection by them more. As well as it is necessary to give training about environmental issues to members of society, especially young people and children, we will face with a group that cares more to the natural environment around themselves.
