Environmental Education and its Place in the Curriculum of the Second Elementary Course of the Iranian Educational System

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D. of Curriculum Studies, Tarbiat Modares University

2 Professor, Department of Curriculum Studies, Tarbiat Modares University,Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Technology, Tarbiat Modarres University, Iran

4 Professor, Department of Environmental Education, Payame Noor University, Iran

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the existing status of environmental education in the second elementary school based on the components of environmental education. The methodology was the content analysis method of Entropy Shannon, which presents data processing in the context of content analysis with a new, quantitative and qualitative look. The content of the project was responsive (all 4th, 5th and 6th grade books), and 9 main components and 43 sub-components. The results of content analysis showed that out of a total of 848 pages of the fourth elementary books, in total (189) pages, and 895 pages of the fifth grade of primary books in total (127) pages and from 914 pages of the sixth grade books in elementary The total (127) pages related to the key concepts of environmental education, and among all the components of environmental education, the greatest attention was paid to the component of biodiversity in 36 pages and the least attention was paid to the ozone layer component in (0). The most The coefficient of importance is related to biodiversity components (0.26) and the lowest coefficient of importance of the component is the effect of growth of ozone layer (0). According to the results of content analysis, it can be concluded that the environmental education of this period is very low, while explicitly in the upstream documents the issue of the environment, the necessity and importance of preservation and ways of its conservation as one The underlying dimensions of development are discussed in different dimensions.

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Journals of Environmental Education and Sustainable Development
Volume 9, Issue 2
March 2021
Pages 115-132

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