Survey of Students Views of secondary curriculum around Environment Conservation, Case a Study: Meshkinshar County
Subject Areas :
environmental management
Vakil Heidari Sareban
1
,
Shararhe Saeb
2
1 - Associate Prof. Geography and Rural Planning, Department of Geography and Planning, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.*(Corresponding Author)
2 - MA in Geography and Rural Planning, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran.
Received: 2012-01-10
Accepted : 2015-01-19
Published : 2019-04-21
Keywords:
Students Views,
Sustainable development,
Environment Conservation,
secondary curriculum,
Meshkinshahr County,
Abstract :
Background and Purpose: In our country the generation of youth includes the most percentage of the whole population. The education of environment can help fostering of environmental culture and attainment to sustainable development purposes. It is clear that acquaintance of youth with environmental basic science in the education of different degrees can foster compatibility, mentality and conversation of natural conservation and creasing of sense of responsibility in young population. The aim of this essay is to survey of students’ views of secondary curriculumaround environment Conservation in Meshkinshar County. Methodology: This survey is functional type and its analytical-explanatory. The population of this study is over 16 students who were selected by multistage random sampling, and the tool is researcher's questionnaire. Formal validity of questionnaire was proven by expert panels. A survey with the same population with 30 questionnaires was held and a finding by the use of Cronbach alpha formula in the SPSS software obtained stability was 0.85. Findings: For attaining the sustainable development namely harmonious development and with protecting environmental values and natural dynamics must think of the evolution of society’s subsistence culture until society accord their character with sustainability and nature dynamics. Hence, outbreak of environmental crisis and devastation and decomposition of natural sources with promoting of population have been caused that current human attempt to prevent their environment devastation. Discussion and resulting: The findings showed that expert from variable orientation for creating of environmental complexes , rate of visit from parks and green spaces, using from educational films regarding environment, between all variables ( rate of environmental educational material on the reading book, attitude regarding environmental conservation, rate of environmental interests, rate of schools books, rate of use from environmental journals and publication, information technology of teachers regarding environment) had positive and significant correlation with students’ views regarding environment conservation. Finally, it is presented based on findings of practical research suggestions.
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Davari, A. and Sharifian, H.R (2009), survey of consumed domestic batteries environmental effects on decreeing of compost quality, Journal of environment, 4:6, pp: 42-52. (In Persian)
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