Challenges of Evaluating Environmental Education in Iran's Green Schools and Strategies to Improve the Current Situation

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1 Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Farhangian University,, Tehran, Iran

2 Department of Consultation, Farhangian University, Mashhad, Iran

Abstract

Acquiring environmental knowledge is the first step towards environmental sustainability, and basically, the condition for the future survival of humanity is environmental knowledge, the ability to understand the principles of knowing the environment and living based on them. Green school standards, which include physical space, organizational culture, and educational goals, provide an overview of a green school. One of the important duties of green schools is to provide a suitable field for environmental education for students. The aim of the current study is to identify the challenges of evaluating environmental education in green schools in Iran. In this paper using a survey method challenges were identified and investigated and then the data were analyzed by using SPSS software. After calculating the Pearson correlation coefficient between the variables and the determination coefficient, the research hypotheses have been examined using the correlation coefficient significance test. The results show that only the diversity of educational content and ambiguity in information sources are considered challenges in evaluating environmental education in green schools. Together, these two variables can predict up to %18.1 of the variance of challenges.

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Journals of Environmental Education and Sustainable Development
Volume 11, Issue 2
2023
Pages 107-117

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