S. Talebi; A.R. Akbari
Volume 5, Issue 4 , September 2017, , Pages 25-34
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The aim of the present research is to evaluate environmental health and nursing course content based on the criteria for selecting curriculum content. The research is descriptive and statistical population includes all nurse students of Darab Islamic Azad University. By using Morgan table and stratified ...
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The aim of the present research is to evaluate environmental health and nursing course content based on the criteria for selecting curriculum content. The research is descriptive and statistical population includes all nurse students of Darab Islamic Azad University. By using Morgan table and stratified random sampling and deleting incomplete questionnaires, 302 questioners were analyzed. Regarding the experts emphasis on triple indexes, an 18-items questionnaire with five Likert scale was designed.In evaluating of cultural and social scales, the results showed that the scales of students familiarity with community regulations for protecting environment (t=-2.315) and the scales of increasing students general awareness and seriously accepting the words of authorities for protecting the environment (t=-2.174) are in undesirable situation.Moreover by assessing the scales of psychosocial principle it was found out that the lowest average (3.247) is relating to providing the practical activities for protecting environment by studentsand in evaluating the scale of content appropriateness to nursing knowledge and environmental health, the results showed that the highest average(3.352) belongs to the scale of teaching all sorts of pollutions and its criteria (t=5.152), and that the lowest average (3.147) belongs to the scale of teaching chemical damages on the environment(t=2.209).In general,among the seven scales of cultural factors in environmental health and nurse course content, three scales are in undesirable situation (state) and four scales are in relatively desirable situation. All the scales of psychological principle are in relatively desirable situation. Finally, the presented content in nursing and environmental health course in the light of content appropriateness to knowledge structure is in a relatively desirable state.
S. Zare; H. Zeinalipour; E. Zaree; M. Mohammadi
Volume 6, Issue 2 , March 2018, , Pages 25-36
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In this research, it has been tried to present a Sustainable Development Education Curriculum content design in Iran's Higher Education system.The research method was a qualitative case study. In this regard, with using a targeted approach and applying the theoretical saturation criterion, open interviews ...
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In this research, it has been tried to present a Sustainable Development Education Curriculum content design in Iran's Higher Education system.The research method was a qualitative case study. In this regard, with using a targeted approach and applying the theoretical saturation criterion, open interviews were conducted with 25 faculty members in the field of curriculum, agriculture, civil engineering and architecture from Shiraz University.The data obtained analyzed using Nvivo software and through thematic analysis , then clustered in three basic, organizing and global themes and thematic network were organized. The results of the analysis showed that,a matrix within the dimensions of Sustainable Development of higher education (environmental, social-cultural, institutional, economic) and curriculum Element (content) was formed. Then sustainable development education curriculum content design in Iran's Higher Education System (global theme) including dimensions of Social and cultural - content, environmental- content, economic- content, institutional- content (organizing themes) that each of which was found to have different dimensions (basic themes).
Sima Alipour; Ardalan Feili; Abbas Sabet
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Because of the rising energy prices and the spread of environmental crises; today, societies need to purposive education for Sustainable Development of the Environment (SDE). Therefore, it seems that universities, as the organizations for teaching, are suitable to be chosen as the starting point for ...
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Because of the rising energy prices and the spread of environmental crises; today, societies need to purposive education for Sustainable Development of the Environment (SDE). Therefore, it seems that universities, as the organizations for teaching, are suitable to be chosen as the starting point for environmental protection. Hence Green Universities (GU) can play an important role in the SDE through education for environmental awareness and the use of Green Information Technology (GIT). The aim of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of GIT Acceptance in the relationship between GU and SDE. The study is categorized as applied research in terms of purpose and designed as a descriptive correlational study in terms of the data collection method. The statistical population of the research included the staff of the science and research branch of Azad University in the year 2018, from which 168 people were selected according to Cochran’s formula by stratified random sampling. The data collection tool was a questionnaire. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed to be convergent and consistent, and the reliability was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. In order to analyze the data, the SPSS 25 software was used for the inferential statistics, and the LISREL8.8 software was used to fit the path. The results showed that the dimensions of GU had a positive and significant relationship with acceptance of GIT and SDE. Also, GIT, as a mediator variable, generated a positive relationship between the dimensions of GU and SDE.
Fatemeh Parasteh Ghombavani; Fahimeh Al-Sadat Haghighi; Seyed Milad Ramin Azad
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The book of "Human and the Environment" base on curriculum general approach (Flourishing divine nature) and according the five elements (Science, Thinking, Faith, Ethics and Practice) in four areas (self, people, creation and almighty creator) have been compiled to teach in the eleventh year in all disciplines. ...
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The book of "Human and the Environment" base on curriculum general approach (Flourishing divine nature) and according the five elements (Science, Thinking, Faith, Ethics and Practice) in four areas (self, people, creation and almighty creator) have been compiled to teach in the eleventh year in all disciplines. Since this lesson has entered to the country's educational system for the first time as an independent course and attend on the environmental issues seriously and with specific plans, the aim of this study is analysis of the internal aspect and the dimensions of appearance and content. This research was carried out using the descriptive analytical – survey method. The research sample includes three sections: the book of Man and Environmental (whole content), eleventh grades students (1931 person) and the teachers who taught the book (185 person) that participated randomly in this research of 11 provinces and 29 cities. In the book analysis section, the dimensions (categories) obtained from the content analysis are: text, assignments, questions, pictures, tables, charts, discussions, verses, know more and impact of content on the promotion of skills and individual interests. These dimensions are evaluated less than the hypothetical average for students and more than the hypothetical average for teachers with ranking and grade of importance differ from students. Accordingly, correction and alignment of dimensions with details in each of items has been suggested to remove the disadvantages and also ease of student learning and teacher training.
Environmental Education
Mohammad Ahmadi Deh Qutbaddini; akbar jadidi mohammadabadi; Elham Saddat Fallah; Elham Mahmoudabadi
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This study aimed to investigate the fitness of the mediating role of environmental experience, environmental values, and environmental identity in the relationship between gender and environmentally conscious behavior of second high school students in Yazd. For this purpose, a quantitative research design ...
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This study aimed to investigate the fitness of the mediating role of environmental experience, environmental values, and environmental identity in the relationship between gender and environmentally conscious behavior of second high school students in Yazd. For this purpose, a quantitative research design with a correlation approach was used. data collected from a sample of 348 students through multi-stage cluster sampling using Allen's (2013) environmental experience scale as well as environmental values scale by Tronu et al (2011), Clayton's (2003) environmental identity scale, and environmentally conscious behavior scale by Kaiser & Wilson (2004). The validity and reliability of the scales were analyzed by exploratory factor analysis and principal components method and Cronbach's alpha with SPSS24 software and showed relatively good characteristics in the Iranian sample. In the model analysis, structural equation modeling with maximum likelihood method and with Amos24 software was used. The results showed that the direct effect of environmental identity on environmentally conscious behavior was positive, the effect of gender and self-transcendence value orientation on environmental identity was positive, the effect of environmental experience on environmental identity was negative, the effect of gender on self-transcendence value orientation was negative and the effect of environmental experience on self-transcendence and self-enhancement value orientation was positive and significant. The results also showed that environmental identity was a positive and serial indirect effect of environmental identity and self-transcendence value orientation in the relationship between gender and environmentally conscious behavior was negative and significant. The results showed that environmental identity has an important role in the formation of environmentally conscious behavior and the effect of gender on environmentally conscious behavior is facilitated through environmental identity.
Environmental Education
Nafiseh Paivandi; Saeed Shahhosseini; Sirus Mansoori
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One of the most important recent concerns in the world is the environment and its protection. Environmental education by storytelling, which is based on children's thinking mechanisms, can be considered a method for child education. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness ...
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One of the most important recent concerns in the world is the environment and its protection. Environmental education by storytelling, which is based on children's thinking mechanisms, can be considered a method for child education. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of teaching environmental concepts through animism-based storytelling on children's environmental knowledge and attitude. The research is quasi-experimental, including two groups (experimental and control), a pre-test and a post-test. The statistical population includes all the first-grade elementary school students of Shazand, Markazi Province, Iran, in the academic year 2021-2022, with 17 people in each group selected by convenience sampling. The instrument was Leeming's (1995) questionnaire, which includes two subscales of environmental knowledge and environmental attitude. Data analysis was carried out using multivariate covariance analysis. The findings indicated that there is a significant difference between the environmental knowledge and attitude of the experimental group and the control group. The results indicated that presenting environmental concepts using animism-based storytelling had a significant effect on children's environmental knowledge and attitude. In conclusion, although storytelling can generally affect knowledge and attitude, animism-based storytelling has a more significant effect on children's environmental knowledge and attitude.
A. Zareshahababadi; Sayarkhalaj H.; Aghaabdollahmahootfooroosh A.
Volume 5, Issue 1 , December 2016, , Pages 27-39
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Global warming and climate changes caused by human activities is one of the major environmental problems which has attracted the attention of many scientific and political circles of the world in the last two decades. The research with the subject of Factors associated with environmental behavior in ...
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Global warming and climate changes caused by human activities is one of the major environmental problems which has attracted the attention of many scientific and political circles of the world in the last two decades. The research with the subject of Factors associated with environmental behavior in the urban environment has been done. The statistical population of this research were 1,614,626 Karaj citizens with 15 to 75 year old that 384 individuals were selected by using of cluster random sampling by using of Cochran formula. The research is of survey type and questionnaire is the tool of data collecting. The questionnaire Validity is of formal type and its reliability is measured using Cronbach's alpha. The results show that there is a significant relationship between the variables of education, awareness of climate changes, general knowledge about climate changes, the perception of the risk of climate changes, attitudes towards climate changes and pro-environmental behavior. Also, there is a significant difference in pro-environmental behavior between women and men. Results of regression analysis show that, according to the adjusted coefficient of determination variables in the regression equation, 29% of the variance of the dependent variable is determined by the independent variables; and perception of the risk of climate changes, has the greatest overall impact on the pro-environmental behavior.
Environmental Education
Fahimeh Eshghi; Reza Afhami; Afshin Danehkar; Roghayyeh Garmaeepour
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Because biological diversity and cultural diversity, while independent of one another, reinforce one another and because cultural services are a significant factor in raising the quality of life and human well-being, a correct understanding of all ecosystem services, but especially of cultural services, ...
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Because biological diversity and cultural diversity, while independent of one another, reinforce one another and because cultural services are a significant factor in raising the quality of life and human well-being, a correct understanding of all ecosystem services, but especially of cultural services, is necessary for the protection and sustainable exploitation of natural ecosystems. One of Iran's most significant natural ecosystems is Anzali Lagoon, and through contact with its neighbors, traditions, and lifestyles exclusive to this water body have developed, giving the locals a sense of culture and identity. Aiming to provide a basis for the development of regional culture and, by extension, appreciation and conservation of this natural environment, the present study aims to assess how marginal people of Anzali Wetland perceive its cultural services. Fieldwork and library research were both used for this project. A questionnaire with 109 descriptive statements and a 7-point Likert scale was created based on the categorization of the millennium ecosystem of cultural services and the perceptual territory for each. It was sent to 100 persons from 18 settlements around the wetland. Experts confirmed the questionnaire's validity; Cronbach's alpha revealed the questionnaire's reliability to be 0.99; and inferential analysis was conducted using the sign test. The findings revealed that perceptions of aesthetics and sense of place are highest, of knowledge systems, recreation, and ecotourism are middle, and of the remaining cultural services, perceptions are lowest.
Environmental Education
Mohammad Montazeri; Ali Yaghoubipoor; Gholamreza Jalalian
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The aim of this study is to design a sustainable productivity model based on environmental knowledge and awareness in small and medium-sized industries using an interpretive structural modeling approach. The research approach was mixed with an exploratory design that consisted of two qualitative and ...
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The aim of this study is to design a sustainable productivity model based on environmental knowledge and awareness in small and medium-sized industries using an interpretive structural modeling approach. The research approach was mixed with an exploratory design that consisted of two qualitative and quantitative parts. The participants included 15 academic experts and managers of small and medium-sized industries of Kerman province that were selected through purposeful sampling and snowball sampling methods. The qualitative part was carried out with the aim of identifying the factors related to sustainable productivity by searching in the theoretical bases and analyzing the content of interviews with members of the panel, and the quantitative part was done through the formation of a Structural Self-Interaction Matrix (SSIM). After analyzing data and drawing the model, 16 variables were identified in the nine levels as the drivers of sustainable productivity in small and medium-sized industries. Meanwhile, two factors including green management and green innovation have the highest influence and guidance, and managers must consider these factors as the foundation stone of sustainable productivity in small and medium-sized industries.
Environmental Education
Parastoo Iranpour; Faezeh Taghipour; Seyed Behnam Sarvarinejad
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The aim of this study is to provide a model for promoting citizens' water literacy for sustainable media-based development. According to the purpose of this research, it is an applied and exploratory type that has been obtained by the method of Strauss and Corbin's systematic method of data foundation ...
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The aim of this study is to provide a model for promoting citizens' water literacy for sustainable media-based development. According to the purpose of this research, it is an applied and exploratory type that has been obtained by the method of Strauss and Corbin's systematic method of data foundation theory. Due to the qualitative approach of the research, in-depth and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 34 experts in the fields of environment, water, social sciences, and communications using theoretical sampling. Then the data were analyzed and 1120 primary codes of open coding, 71 categories of axial coding, and 23 main factors of selective coding were identified. The main contribution of this research is the promotion of water literacy, which have been formed according to the causal conditions (targeting and policy-making in water literacy, water valuation, water attitudes, water skills, water knowledge, literacy promotion), the underlying factors (media diversity) as well as the intervening factors (media politicization, journalists' dependence on sources of power), which was obtained through the strategies such as a change in educational system, pathology of educational master plans, interaction of industry, educational institutions and universities, promotion of social capital, interaction with media, audience, media greening, complete and rich media content, institutionalization of water discourse, agile media interaction. In the second stage, in order to weigh the causal conditions and strategies, hierarchical analysis was used. The results revealed that among the causal conditions, targeting and policy-making were the most important priorities in water literacy.
Environmental Education
Seyed Habib Moosavi Rashedi; Vahid Makkizade; esmail hassanpour
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The sudden increase in population in recent years has led to an increase in over-consumption of resources, climate change, an increase in greenhouse gases, and the extinction of rare species. Efforts to protect the environment have become a global concern. The purpose of this study is to identify and ...
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The sudden increase in population in recent years has led to an increase in over-consumption of resources, climate change, an increase in greenhouse gases, and the extinction of rare species. Efforts to protect the environment have become a global concern. The purpose of this study is to identify and classify the factors affecting Green Purchase behavior by consumers. The most important research need in the current situation is to identify the factors affecting the change in consumer behavior when purchasing. The research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of implementation method. Documentary, library and field studies have been used to collect the required information and data. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire and it was distributed randomly among the clients of shared businesses in Tehran. The reliability of Cronbach's alpha in this study was 0.83. The size of the statistical population was determined based on Cochran's formula of 384 people. Exploratory factor analysis, KMO test, Bartlett and Scree Cattle in SPSS software were used to analyze the internal overlap and factor correlation matrix. The results showed that the factors affecting Green Purchase behavior are: expansion of environmental knowledge, change in attitudes, behavioral control and social responsibilities, mental norms and self-perception and lifestyle and values perceived by consumers, respectively.
S. Salehi; L. Emamgholi
Volume 4, Issue 3 , June 2016, , Pages 12-21
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To foster environmental friendly behavior, it is necessary to understand individual an social norms. Thus, this study aims toanswer the question that to what extent these norms are facilitating individual’s environmental behaviorand to what extent, they are filling the gap between attitudes and ...
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To foster environmental friendly behavior, it is necessary to understand individual an social norms. Thus, this study aims toanswer the question that to what extent these norms are facilitating individual’s environmental behaviorand to what extent, they are filling the gap between attitudes and behaviors towards environmental behavior. This study was conducted among urban dwellers of Mazandaran province in 2016 with utilizing survey method. To identify the sample, a cluster sampling method was applied and 467 people were surveyed. The questionnaire was used as a mean of data collection and the validity was measured by utilizing some experts, while reliability of the questionnaire was measured by using Alpha Cronbach technique. The results of the study show that levels of individual and social norms are not so strong among surveyed people. However, the results indicate that above mentioned norms affectenvironmental behaviors. These types of norms also help to fill the gap between attitudes and environmental behaviors. The results of regression analysis also show that social norms have most influence on environmental friendly behavior and are a strong predictor compared with other surveyed variables. The paper is ended up with some explanation about norms weaknesses.
A. Araghieh; N. Borzabadi Farahani; A. Pashaii Arzaneh
Volume 1, Issue 1 , December 2012, , Pages 17-22
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The purpose of this study is to provide an opportunity for the discovery of the methods for teaching environment from the elementary students' points of view. Based on the assumption of this research, the student is an individual who is capable of facing the socio-academic issue of environment and, intellectually, ...
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The purpose of this study is to provide an opportunity for the discovery of the methods for teaching environment from the elementary students' points of view. Based on the assumption of this research, the student is an individual who is capable of facing the socio-academic issue of environment and, intellectually, analyze the common issues and determine his/her position. The simple random sampling method of this research has been 150 elementary students from 11 and 18 districts of the board of education in Tehran. In the research method the Delphi technique is used and based on it, the students were, accordingly, asked to prepare a list of methods that has been used for teaching environment. Then a preliminary list that has been extracted out from the collection of all the lists was given to students so that they could reflect changes and improvements they deemed to be necessary. Ultimately, the new list was prepared based on the presented views and changes made and again it was put up for polling by students. Finally, the findings of the research based on the methods of teaching environment from the students' points of view have been computed and presented.
Environmental Education
A Zamani moghadam; M Saedi
Volume 1, Issue 3 , December 2013, , Pages 19-30
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This research is conducted to investigate the impact of environmental education on teachers knowledge, attitude and skills at Tehran district 12. The statistical population was all elementary school teachers. 60 teachers were chosen using simple random sampling; then the group was divided in to two 30 ...
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This research is conducted to investigate the impact of environmental education on teachers knowledge, attitude and skills at Tehran district 12. The statistical population was all elementary school teachers. 60 teachers were chosen using simple random sampling; then the group was divided in to two 30 teachers subgroup. The data were collected using a questionnaire and the reliability coefficient was calculated through cronbach alpha. The information processed and analyzed by independent t-test. Result showed that there is a significant difference in teachers environmental knowledge, attitude and skills before and after work shop and environmental education has had a positive impact on teachers skills.
Environmental Education
Elham koohi; Hossein Meiboudi; Mostafa Taleshi; Elahe koohi
Volume 2, Issue 5 , November 2013, , Pages 19-30
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The present study aimed to investigate the role of mass media in the development of sustainable tourism in the Amol City. Data collection has been done by questionnaire which its validity was confirmed by relevant experts and specialist and reliability of the questionnaire was validated by Cronbach's ...
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The present study aimed to investigate the role of mass media in the development of sustainable tourism in the Amol City. Data collection has been done by questionnaire which its validity was confirmed by relevant experts and specialist and reliability of the questionnaire was validated by Cronbach's test with 0.74coefficient. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistic (frequency, net percentage, etc.), inferential statistic (one sample t test) and SPSS software. The findings indicate that there is a relation between the level of access to the mass media, cultural influence, media advertising, and access to amenities (Audiovisual). Results showed that in the study area considering distributed field works between tourists, mass media had an effective role in the introduction and development of sustainable tourism of that area.
Environmental Education
vahid Azizi; Moslem Savari; Moein Sadeghi; Golamreza Yavari
Volume 1, Issue 4 , July 2013, , Pages 20-28
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This study analyzes the attitude of high school students in City of Hamadan toward environmental protection. A survey of 4104 high school students in Hamadan using the Cochran test, 240 persons were selected. To enhance the credibility of findings using stratified random sampling, 270 questionnaires ...
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This study analyzes the attitude of high school students in City of Hamadan toward environmental protection. A survey of 4104 high school students in Hamadan using the Cochran test, 240 persons were selected. To enhance the credibility of findings using stratified random sampling, 270 questionnaires were proportionally completed. The validity of the questionnaire by a panel of experts and its reliability through using Cronbach's Alfa were approved and the amount was calculated above (7/0). Data analysis was performed through using SPSS software. The majority of the students had positive attitudes towards environmental protection. Correlation analysis also showed that there is 1% positive and significant relationship between their attitude towards environmental protection, the use of the Internet and father's occupation. Also, one of the most important strategies to improve students' attitude towards environmental protection is using educational videos and creating environmental organizations.
S.E. Rad; A.R. Faghihi; F. Nateghi; M. Moeinikia
Volume 6, Issue 1 , December 2017, , Pages 29-40
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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 ...
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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.
Faranak Mousavi; Soudabeh Rahmanirad
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The importance of geography is due to the description of the world around us although most of the subjects of it are intangible for the students, So one of the ways to solve this problem is using information technology to improve geography and its teaching and learning. The present study is conducted ...
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The importance of geography is due to the description of the world around us although most of the subjects of it are intangible for the students, So one of the ways to solve this problem is using information technology to improve geography and its teaching and learning. The present study is conducted by the aim of indicating the determinative role of visual media of intangible Geographic phenomena on learning level of cognitive and emotional domain in third- year girl students of secondary schools of Kermanshah city. The study was conducted in an experimental method. The population was all the third-year girl students of secondary school. 44 subjects were selected by multi-cluster random sampling (22 experimental group, and 22 control group). collecting data was done by using two course and emotional development questionnaire. The data was analyzed by multi -variance analyzing test and Covariance test. The finding showed that there is a meaningful difference between the experimental group and the control group (p=0.001). The results of finding showed that the planning of visual media of intangible Geographic phenomena on the learning level of the cognitive and emotional domain of students, in the experimental group was meaningful (p
E. Shirani Bidabadi; M. Larijani; M. Farajollahi
Volume 4, Issue 2 , March 2016, , Pages 30-37
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The aim of this study was to determine the impact of urban environmental education on the valuation and environmental behavior of middle school female students in District 5 of Isfahan province. Type of research is based on the objectives of applied researches. The research method was semi-experimental ...
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The aim of this study was to determine the impact of urban environmental education on the valuation and environmental behavior of middle school female students in District 5 of Isfahan province. Type of research is based on the objectives of applied researches. The research method was semi-experimental or pre-post test and control group. To achieve this goal, from junior schools in district 5 of Isfahan with Multistage random cluster sampling, two 25-member classes in two secondary schools, one as a control group and another as experimental group were selected , And then for ten sessions (each session 75 minutes), the experimental group were trained under urban environmental education. The results of research showed that the education of the urban environment on student behavior in the experimental group in three fields green space conservation, waste management and energy management is obviously effective. also, the urban environment education on the valuation of students in the experimental group in two topics of green space protection and energy management is obviously effective and on the valuation of students of experimental group in the field of waste management is ineffective.
M. Ranjbar; L. Gheyrati Arani; M. S. Jamshidi Rad
Volume 4, Issue 4 , September 2016, , Pages 32-17
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In this paper, an approach has been proposed considering strategies based on values and religious teachings. The aim of this paper is the study of villagers’ religious attitude style towards the water and its consumption which carried out by means of a survey. To this end, 270 people from rural ...
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In this paper, an approach has been proposed considering strategies based on values and religious teachings. The aim of this paper is the study of villagers’ religious attitude style towards the water and its consumption which carried out by means of a survey. To this end, 270 people from rural areas Ramsheh, the province of Isfahan (low- water area), and Izadkhast (high-water area) from Fars province were interviewed by the cluster sampling method. After determining the validity of the study, its reliability was determined by Cronbach Alpha Test whose standardized rate was 0.93. Likert scale was used to measure the attitude of villagers and non-parametric tests of SPSS software (Mann-Whitney U & Kruskal-Wallis -test) were used to analyze them.The results showed that, recognition and religious feeling of villagers about water is almost strong in both regions and their behavior towards water is proportional to the religious teachings. In terms of emotional attitudes, the rural housewives feeling about water was stronger than men. In contrast, the tendency to behave according to the religious teachings among rural men was more than women. Illiterate peasants and rural people older than 51 years had stronger feeling about water than literate and younger people. In the areas which villagers take the advantage of water surplus, there were stronger feelings towards water among the villagers. The Villagers who have fruit garden and villagers that use other types of drinking water sources such as wells, canals, rivers and rain have more appropriate behavior towards water than the villagers use the other types of water resources - such as water plumbing.
M. Ghofranfarid; R. Rezaei
Volume 5, Issue 2 , March 2017, , Pages 35-48
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The main aim of this descriptive- correlation research was to investigate the affecting factors on villagers’ use of renewable energies. The statistical population of the research consisted of all heads of households in the rural areas of Zabol city (N= 63736). According to the Bartlett et al., ...
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The main aim of this descriptive- correlation research was to investigate the affecting factors on villagers’ use of renewable energies. The statistical population of the research consisted of all heads of households in the rural areas of Zabol city (N= 63736). According to the Bartlett et al., (2001) table, 300 of them were selected by multistage sampling. A questionnaire was used to collect the data. The content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a panel of experts. A pretest was conducted to establish the reliability of the questionnaire. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient for the main scales of the questionnaire was at an appropriate level (ranged from 0.761 to 0.793). The descriptive statistics results indicated that the villagers level of using of renewable energies including solar, wind and biomass energies were at a very low level. The results of the correlation analysis revealed that variables of literacy level, distance between village to the nearest city, rate of the participation in training courses on renewable energies, the size of land, livestock unit, the number of agricultural products and vegetables, the cost of gas and electricity for home and level of using of information acquisition sources on the renewable energies had significant and positive relationship with the villagers level of using of these energies. Also, the results of regression analysis showed that 61.6 % variances of using level of renewable energies were explained by the six variables including: using level of information acquisition sources, rate of the participation in training courses, the number of agricultural products, the size of livestock unit, the number of vegetables and the size of land, respectively.
Z. Heybatollahpour; E. Panahpour; M. Hosseinpour
Volume 5, Issue 4 , September 2017, , Pages 35-44
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As far as agricultural education works as a tool for the acception of new technologies and applying scientific agricultural methods by producers and beneficiaries, this study was conducted in order to investigate farmers, information in Ahvaz city, regarding their awareness from soil and agriculture ...
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As far as agricultural education works as a tool for the acception of new technologies and applying scientific agricultural methods by producers and beneficiaries, this study was conducted in order to investigate farmers, information in Ahvaz city, regarding their awareness from soil and agriculture sciences to determine their educational priorities. The research population was determined to be 500 subjects using the Cocharane formula. The field study method was selected and a researcher-made questionnaire consisted of 42 questions in 8 pedagogical areas including “general agriculture”, “agronomy”, “soil”, “water”, “fertilizers”, “plant nutrition” and “primary and secondary luxury education” was used in which 10,6,4,5,4,7,3,3 items were available respectively. The questionnaire was developed based on Likert five degree spectrum. Descriptive and independent t-test methods were used to compare respondents, viewpoints. Finally, data analysis was done for each area by using LSD follow-up test by SPSS software. The results showed that the greatest educational need for farmers was in the area of aquatic issues in order to get familiar with affective parameters in irrigation quality. The mean was 1.79±1.341 and this type of education was in the first priority. The results also indicated that the lower score rate was in the area of agronomic with an average of 4.38±0.756, and this education was in the last priority. Accordingly, the educational needs for farmers in the region were recommended.
Elham Kanani; Mostafa Ahmadvand
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The aim of this paper was to investigate environmental behavior of wheat farmers and its’ affecting factors according to the Stern’s Value-Beliefs-Norm Theory. The statistical population was wheat farmers in Shahid-Abad Dehestan, Fars province that 110 wheat farmers were selected as a sample ...
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The aim of this paper was to investigate environmental behavior of wheat farmers and its’ affecting factors according to the Stern’s Value-Beliefs-Norm Theory. The statistical population was wheat farmers in Shahid-Abad Dehestan, Fars province that 110 wheat farmers were selected as a sample using Krejcie and Morgan sample size table and cluster random sampling method. The study instrument was a questionnaire which its validity confirmed by a panel of experts and its’ reliability was confirmed using a pilot study and calculating Cronbach's Alpha coefficient. The results indicated that Biospheric and Altruistic values and also place attachment, place dependency, ecological worldview, awareness of consequences, and sense of obligation to take action had significant effects on environmental ethics but environmental ethics remained uncertain in explaining environmental behavior. Therefore, it seems that some moderator variables may change the association between the two variables. Accordingly, two variables of subjective-social norm and access to agricultural resources were identified. The findings of the covariance test showed that environmental ethics in the presence of newly grouped variable has an impact on environmental behavior and the interaction of environmental ethics and grouped variable on environmental behavior is significant.
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.
S. M. Shobeiri
Volume 6, Issue 2 , March 2018, , Pages 37-43
Abstract
Social networking today is an important factor in influencing public opinion and directing social cultures. Despite the many environmental crises around the world, environmental issues have more socio-cultural content than technical terms. Therefore, the ultimate goal of environmental protection in relation ...
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Social networking today is an important factor in influencing public opinion and directing social cultures. Despite the many environmental crises around the world, environmental issues have more socio-cultural content than technical terms. Therefore, the ultimate goal of environmental protection in relation to the social environment is the development and increase of environmental awareness at the community level and the strengthening of the environmental culture at various levels of implementation. Accordingly, the main objective of the research is to investigate the role of the social network of telegrams in the culture of environmental values and rocks that were selected through random sampling from the 19 areas of education in Tehran. Three of the 340 teachers were selected for statistical sample size. In this research, an Internet questionnaire was used which individuals were assessed using the content provided in environmental education. To obtain the research findings, Tavlandand, Chi-square and multivariate regression models were used. The results of the research show that there is a reverse relationship between the amount of use and the actual perception of the content in the telegram, and there is a significant positive relationship between the amount of participation and activity of teachers in the use of telegrams and the environment of teachers. That is, the more use is increased the cultural prominence of their environment decreases. The findings also point to the fact that teachers use the telegram to fit their cultural needs.
