Study the role of Communication media in environmental training from the viewpoint of teachers in schools of Sarpolzohab city
Subject Areas : environmental managementTayebeh Shahbazi 1 , seyed Mohammad shobiri 2 , Bahman Zandi 3
1 - MSc in Curriculum, Payam Nour University, Tehran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Payam Nour University, Tehran.
3 - professor Payam Nour University, Tehran.
Keywords: Environment, media, Communications Medias, Education,
Abstract :
IN today s world the environment preservation is considered as one of the majorcomponents of justice and stable development .the very concept and definition of justice connotes thisright and access to it so far as the destruction and pollution of the environment inflicts irreparabledamage on people not least the poor. The environment crisis has global dimensions .Enhancing thepublic culture of the environment preservation calls upon educating people of all walks of life,particularly adolescents as the societys bio-environmental harbingers. this research has beenundertaken in the interest of upgrading the public awareness of the environment preservation under thetitle of "the effect of mass media on bio-environmental education from the standpoint of secondaryschool teachers in the city of sar-pole zahab".the statistical society of the research comprised thesecondary school teachers of the city of sar pole zahab (201 members) out of wich 100 were selected.Material and method: the means of the research was the researcher-made questionnaire assessed byway of the simple random sampling. The questionnaire was then handed out among the samplemembers and their responses were collected. following this the questions of the questionnaire as wellas the four variables of the research( The effect of the media on realizing the environment, spreadingthe bio-environmental events on the part of the media, the hnfiuence of the media on the awarenessand attitude of students with regard to environment, the hnfluence of the media on the behavior andactivities of students as regards the environment were analyzed by means of descriptive statistics(absolute, relative and accumulative frequencies) and non-parametric binomial test.Result: the findings hmplied that answering all the questions on the effect of the mass media onextending the public awareness of the bio-environmental concerns(the eighth question of thequestionnaire concerning the encouraging and rewarding the exemplary environment preservingstudents)was approved with over% 60 with respect to the variables of the research, except thevariables understanding the environment and positive attitude at the significance level of 5%,the zerohhypothesis was not rejected and the effect of the media education on the awareness and attitude ofstudents was approved at 70% or less. Considering the other variables (The effect of media education1- MSc in Curriculum, Payam Nour University, Tehran.2- Assistant Professor, Payam Nour University, Tehran.J.Env.Sci,TechJ.Env. Sci. Tech., Vol 17, No.2, Summer 2015193on spreading the bio-environmental events, the effect of media education on the behavior andactivities of students concerning the environmental preservation), the zeroth hypothesis was rejected atthe significance of 5%showing that the effect of media education on these cases is effective with morethan 70%.
