Environmental Education
Maryam Rahimi; MohammadHashem Rezaee; Faezeh Nateghi
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The present study aims to investigate the components of the human and nature relationship in the human and health cluster curriculum in secondary high school. Because of the importance emphasized in “The Fundamental Reform Document” and “The National Curriculum” by the Ministry ...
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The present study aims to investigate the components of the human and nature relationship in the human and health cluster curriculum in secondary high school. Because of the importance emphasized in “The Fundamental Reform Document” and “The National Curriculum” by the Ministry of Education, the subjects of “Human and Health” were considered strongly to be in the secondary school curriculum by the curriculum planners. If the content of these courses is tailored to the educational needs of students, it can play an effective role in improving the relationship between human and nature. The main question of this study: What are the features of the relationship between humans and nature in the curriculum with the subjects of humans and health in the second year of high school? The descriptive-analytical method of this research has been done manually by Shannon's entropy content analysis. The statistical population of the research was the secondary high-school human and health textbooks and their teacher guide in the year 2020-2021. The content of the study was (all books),7162 primary codes obtained and 15 main components, and 161 sub-components. Findings show that the greatest attention was paid to the highest information load and significance coefficient (WJ) of the authority (0.163), ecotourism (0.127), water (0.108), relief and rescue (0.107), biodiversity (0.1), air (0.093), waste (0.091), energy (0.079), soil (0.051), religious belief and national (0.027), soft war (0.025) and the lowest coefficient of the importance of the component is the stable security (0.006), Welfare and Social Security (0.003), nutrition and health (0.012), lifestyle (0.01). The findings of the present study indicate the revision of the curriculum of the Human and Health cluster is an undeniable necessity.
Environmental Education
Shahnaz Karami; Kourosh Fathi Vajraghah,; Ali Akbar Khosravi Babadi; Manuchehr Farajzadeh Asl,
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Recontextualisation is one of the new approaches in the field of curriculum studies. This approach investigates the entry of the curriculum into other subjects and disciplines. One of these subjects is the environment and especially climate change. The main goal of this research is analyzing the new ...
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Recontextualisation is one of the new approaches in the field of curriculum studies. This approach investigates the entry of the curriculum into other subjects and disciplines. One of these subjects is the environment and especially climate change. The main goal of this research is analyzing the new emphasis on environmental issues in curriculas during the post-pandemic period. This research has been done with a qualitative approach and contractual content analysis. A total of 11 climatologists and curriculum experts were selected by purposive sampling method. Data were collected through semi-field interviews. Greenham and Landman's method was used to analyze the data. Global and Lincoln's methods were used to validate the data. According to the purpose of the research, 4 categories including crisis preparedness, respect for laws, national solidarity, and protection of environmental values, and 9 subcategories including identification of threats, understanding of opportunities, protection of laws, strengthening the rule of law, development of public participation, expansion of empathy, water protection, combating air pollution and forest protection were identified. According to the participants’ view; it can be concluded that for a more environmentally concerned curricula in the post-corona period, the main themes of environmental knowledge and environmental awareness in the framework of the curriculum can be used.
Environmental Education
Farzaneh Askari; Fatemeh Parasteh-Ghombavani; Fahimeh Alsadat Haghighi
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The present study was conducted to aim at investigating the necessity to pay attention environmental education based on futures studies in elementary school. This study is a practical and descriptive research has been done in two parts. Content analysis and Delphi technique. In content analysis, statistical ...
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The present study was conducted to aim at investigating the necessity to pay attention environmental education based on futures studies in elementary school. This study is a practical and descriptive research has been done in two parts. Content analysis and Delphi technique. In content analysis, statistical sample, all textbooks of elementary school in the year 2019-2020 were done through descriptive statistics and with checklist tool through Excel. The checklist consisted of 7 main components and 30 sub-components, the validity of which was confirmed by experts in educational sciences and its reliability was calculated by to Holste’s method be 0.92. In the second part, the results of content analysis were provided to 30 experts in the field of futures studies, environment and curriculum through Delphi technique, who were selected by snowball method. This technique was continued in three rounds until the maximum information was reached. The agreement in the second and third rounds of Delphi in SPSS 26 was calculated by Kendall as 0.584 and 0.787. Finally, the results of the Delphi showed that, in the opinion of experts, the content of elementary school textbooks in terms of environmental education need to be revised and modified. And the two issues of waste and air should be given priority due to the crises that they will create in the future. It was also suggested that in reviewing the environmental content of textbooks, in the first period of elementary the skill-based approach and in the second period the research-based approach should be considered.
Environmental Education
Zahra Najar; Behnam Talebi; Moosa Piri; jahangir yari
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the compiling a decentralized curriculum based on spatial planning in the primary school. The study is a descriptive survey in terms of purpose, and applied research in terms of data collection. The statistical population of this study is all elementary school ...
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The purpose of this study was to evaluate the compiling a decentralized curriculum based on spatial planning in the primary school. The study is a descriptive survey in terms of purpose, and applied research in terms of data collection. The statistical population of this study is all elementary school teachers and teachers in Kermanshah city. The research tool was a questionnaire with eight variables and 46 items and extracted from theoretical bases. Data analysis was performed using confirmatory factor analysis and using LISREL software. The findings showed that decentralized curriculum development infrastructures include macro environment policies, empowerment, human and social infrastructure, cultural infrastructure, regional management system, financial infrastructure, legal and legal infrastructures, and adaptation of curriculum to spatial planning. Also, the results of confirmatory factor analysis for infrastructure validation indicated acceptable reliability of decentralized land-based curriculum development infrastructure.
Somayeh Asadzadeh; Maryam Seif Naraghi; Ezatollah Naderi; Ghodsi Ahghar
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The present study aims to explain the elements of the extracurricular curriculum with emphasis on Environmental education for second-year elementary school students The research method is practical. Accordingly, by studying and reviewing the documents Curriculum of extracurricular activities in some ...
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The present study aims to explain the elements of the extracurricular curriculum with emphasis on Environmental education for second-year elementary school students The research method is practical. Accordingly, by studying and reviewing the documents Curriculum of extracurricular activities in some countries a model for curriculum mined and validated by specialists and teachers of the second elementary school The statistical population of this study includes all curriculum specialists and teachers of the second elementary school of Miandoab city (35 specialists and 445 teachers). all the curriculum specialists of the curriculum selected by using Morgan 210 teacher table with simple random sampling.Data collected by a researcher-made questionnaire. Then for Data analysis descriptive statistical methods (frequency, frequency percentage) and inferential statistics (Chi-square test) were used. Research results showed more than 90% of the curriculum specialists and teachers have been confirmed goals, content, teaching-learning,g and evaluation strategies in the above model(P >.05).
Ehsan Khajouie; Asghar Soltani; Keramat Esmi
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The purpose of this study was to a comparison of environmental education in the elementary schools curriculum of Iran and the selected countries based on the four elements of objectives, contents, teaching methods, and evaluation methods of curriculum. This study is qualitative research and comparative ...
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The purpose of this study was to a comparison of environmental education in the elementary schools curriculum of Iran and the selected countries based on the four elements of objectives, contents, teaching methods, and evaluation methods of curriculum. This study is qualitative research and comparative one, which has used Bereday model to compare the research data. Population includes countries all over the world, and the sample was comprised of United States of America, Britain, Canada, Australia and Iran that were selected through a purposeful sampling method. The most important environmental education documents were collected through websites of the selected countries and library resources and then analyzed using the four-stages method of Bereday. The findings showed that the objectives and contents of the Iranian curriculum are well explained and do not differ significantly from the objectives and content of the environmental education curriculum of the selected countries. Also, the use of simulation teaching methods, brainstorming and multimedia resources and ICT in environmental education has been neglected. Furthermore, the use of evaluation methods such as diagnostic evaluation and standardized tests have been ignored in the elementary schools of Iran.
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.
Environmental Education
S.Z Shamsi Papkiadeh; S.M Shobeiri
Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2013, , Pages 55-65
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Literacy can be defined as new thought system in which values, attitudes and behaviors , as well as individuals and social responsibility should be developed according to and in full harmony with nature. In this study we have considered introducing math literacy into primary school curriculum as a prerequisite ...
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Literacy can be defined as new thought system in which values, attitudes and behaviors , as well as individuals and social responsibility should be developed according to and in full harmony with nature. In this study we have considered introducing math literacy into primary school curriculum as a prerequisite to establish and promote this new system based upon this program student , using environmental concept , would be able to think and explore problem solving and logical reasoning , therefore learn math and environmental issue . so in this research , we have considered math textbooks concepts and elements improve math literacy development that follows by promoting awareness , knowledge and behavioral changes towards environment. This study is an applied one and the research method is descriptive based on content analysis . The results that environmental resources showed have bee taken into consideration most, and some other elements are absent completely .
Seyed Mohammad Shobeiri
Volume 2, Issue 5 , November 2013, , Pages 1-10
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Environmental problems, the spread of knowledge and the development of new technologies need Environmental curriculum in higher education and academic thinking on development planning for the dynamics of the relationship between past, present and future .In this regard, the present survey studies the ...
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Environmental problems, the spread of knowledge and the development of new technologies need Environmental curriculum in higher education and academic thinking on development planning for the dynamics of the relationship between past, present and future .In this regard, the present survey studies the "Analysis of environmental education programs to identify opportunities and threats in Higher Education". The research method is descriptive andapopulation of 739 people including Aoteachers and 719 students of environmental education of Ivan’s universities. Students are to simple random sampling. The table suggests that the sample size of 250 was selected and Morgan Krjysy. And practices for teacher’s census. The data in this study is a questionnaire developed by the researcher. The formula for determining the validity of the opinions of experts and LA and will 0/8 and reliability based on Cronbach's alpha coefficient was calculated to be equal to %806 EFE Matrix is based on the analysis and interpretation of data Citing the results of 8 opportunities and threats were identified 8. That's according to the results of the component under study.
