Design and Validation a Pattern of Integrated Curriculum in Environmental Education for Pre-Primary School Children

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. student of Environmental Education,Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

2 Professor of of Educational Science, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

3 Associate Professor of Educational Science, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

4 Professor of Environmental Education,Payame Noor University and The Head of UNESCO Chair on Environmental Education, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

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.

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Journals of Environmental Education and Sustainable Development
Volume 7, Issue 1
October 2018
Pages 115-126

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