Investigating the Relationship between Human and Nature in the Curriculum of Human and Health Cluster of Secondary High School Course

Rahimi, Maryam; Rezaee, MohammadHashem; Nateghi, Faezeh

doi:10.30473/ee.2023.61758.2441

Investigating the Relationship between Human and Nature in the Curriculum of Human and Health Cluster of Secondary High School Course

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

¹ Ph.D. Student in Curriculum Planning, Department of Educational Sciences, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran

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

³ Associate Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Arak Branch, Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran.

10.30473/ee.2023.61758.2441

Abstract

The present study aims to investigate the components of the human and nature relationship in the human and health cluster curriculum in secondary high school. Because of the importance emphasized in “The Fundamental Reform Document” and “The National Curriculum” by the Ministry of Education, the subjects of “Human and Health” were considered strongly to be in the secondary school curriculum by the curriculum planners. If the content of these courses is tailored to the educational needs of students, it can play an effective role in improving the relationship between human and nature. The main question of this study: What are the features of the relationship between humans and nature in the curriculum with the subjects of humans and health in the second year of high school? The descriptive-analytical method of this research has been done manually by Shannon's entropy content analysis. The statistical population of the research was the secondary high-school human and health textbooks and their teacher guide in the year 2020-2021. The content of the study was (all books),7162 primary codes obtained and 15 main components, and 161 sub-components. Findings show that the greatest attention was paid to the highest information load and significance coefficient (WJ) of the authority (0.163), ecotourism (0.127), water (0.108), relief and rescue (0.107), biodiversity (0.1), air (0.093), waste (0.091), energy (0.079), soil (0.051), religious belief and national (0.027), soft war (0.025) and the lowest coefficient of the importance of the component is the stable security (0.006), Welfare and Social Security (0.003), nutrition and health (0.012), lifestyle (0.01). The findings of the present study indicate the revision of the curriculum of the Human and Health cluster is an undeniable necessity.

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Main Subjects

environmental education in formal and informal systems

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