Investigating the Necessity to Pay Attention to the Environmental Education Based on Futures Studies in Elementary School

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 M.A. in Curriculum, Department of Educational Science, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of Department of Educational Sciences, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

3 Ph.D. of Educational Science, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran

Abstract

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.

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Journals of Environmental Education and Sustainable Development
Volume 10, Issue 1
December 2021
Pages 111-129

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