A comparative study of environmental curriculum theories and approaches
Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum PlanningMahboubeh Soleimanpour omran 1 , Mohammad H. Yarmohammadian 2 , Narges Keshtiaray 3
1 - Assistant professor Bojnourd- Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd- Iran
2 - 2استاد مرکز تحقیقات مدیریت و اقتصاد سلامت، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران
3 - 3استادیار گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی واحــد خوراسگــان (اصفهان)، اصفهان، ایران
Keywords: Curriculum, Environmental Education, environmental education theories, environmental approaches,
Abstract :
Through the development of the environmental crisis, environmental education has become an integral part of the educational systems. Because the basis of the environmental problems is naturally interdisciplinary, multi-sectorial, and holistic, so theoretically it can be seen with different approaches and the related education to this can be considered from different views and approaches. Therefore, the purpose of the current study has been to identify and consider the environmental views and approaches and awareness of education thoughts, environmental curriculum and comparing them together and achieving a general classification in this field. This study has done by using descriptive and analytical method and a lot of references has been reviewed. The results show that type of attitude to the environmental problems causes different education and in a general classification, the environmental approaches are classifying into two groups: human-oriented and environment-oriented. And the curriculum approaches are classifying into two groups: technical & hardware and non-technical & software. In this classification, environmental education approaches can be considered in the group of non- technical, flexible, and human-oriented approaches of the curriculum.
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