Green Curriculum in the Higher Education of Iran: Water Crisis, Climate Change, Sources of Knowledge

Karami, Shahnaz; Fathi Vajarghah, Kourosh; Khosravi Babadi, Ali Akbar; Farajzadeh Asl, Manuchehr

doi:10.30473/ee.2020.7228

Green Curriculum in the Higher Education of Iran: Water Crisis, Climate Change, Sources of Knowledge

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Ph.D. Student in Educational Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran.Iran

² Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Shahid Behshti University, Tehran, Iran

³ Associate Professor of Educational Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran.Iran

⁴ Professor, Department of Physical Geography, Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran

10.30473/ee.2020.7228

Abstract

Decreasing the water sources is one of the problems which have been originated from climate change which consist most of it and is one of our country problems. Giving awareness to our students about this problem is one of the duties of the universities and educational institutes which becomes possible by means of a green curriculum. This article has been pointed out in order to use the possibility of applying this green curriculum at the universities and higher education centers which has been based on the pointed sources in southern theory dealing with prevention or adaptation with the water crisis. This research is in terms of research purpose, applied in terms of method, descriptive, and documentary-analytics. For this purpose, various articles and websites have been surveyed through a method of documentary analysis of the related texts. Using the Southern theory in dealing with water crisis or water stress helps to break the monopoly of the knowledge that is under the exclusion of some group in special regions and to share the experience of different regions of country and universities can be considered as a place in order to training correct use of water in modern life. The results of this study revealed that the water crisis can be used in the academic curriculum.

Keywords

20.1001.1.23223057.1399.9.1.5.8

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