Investigate the influence of citizenship education on social responsibility, social skills and environmental skills of Bojnord municipal employees

Subject Areas : مدیریت ، برنامه ریزی و آموزش محیط زیست

shima mohammadzade ¹ , Mahboubeh Soleimanpouromran ²

1 - M.A Department of Educational Management, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Bojnourd branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd, Iran. * (Corresponding Author)

Received: 2018-04-04 Accepted : 2019-01-29 Published : 2021-01-20

Keywords: citizenship education, environmental skills, Social skills, Social responsibility,

Abstract :

Background and Objective: The present study was carried out in order to investigate the influence of citizenship education on social responsibility, social skills and environmental skills of Bojnord municipal employees. Method: This study is practical quasi-experimental pre-test post-test type with a control group. The statistical population includes all the 810 municipal employees of Bojnord, from which 60 employees were chosen using simple random sampling. The chosen employees were divided into two 30-member groups. One group was control and the other was considered the test group. The pre-test was administered for both groups. After holding 12 sessions of citizenship education for the test group, the post-test was administered for both groups. Matsun social skills questionnaires (1983), Emam Goli environmental behavior (2012), Five NEO personality traits of responsibility subscale (1985) were used for data collection. The validity of questionnaires was of face and content validity, which was approved by professors. The validity of Matsun social skills questionnaires (1983), Emam Goli environmental behavior (2012), Five NEO personality traits of responsibility subscale (1985) was 0.859, 0.899, and 0.821, respectively. Descriptive statistics (frequency distribution table, mean, standard deviation), inferential statistics (the investigation of data normality via Kolmogrov-Smirnov, covariance analysis, t-test), SPSS 22 and PLS 3 were used for data analysis. Findings: Factor analysis results revealed that citizenship education influences social responsibility, social skills and environmental skills 25%, 39% and 79%, respectively. Hence, it can be claimed that citizenship education has had a positive meaningful influence on social responsibility, social skills and environmental skills of Bojnord municipal employees. Discus s ion and Conclusion: According to the results of factor analysis in the post-test phase on the experimental group, citizenship education had the greatest impact on responsibility. Therefore, as citizenship education increases, employees' responsibility for the two components (social and environmental skills) is more affected and improved.

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