The recontextualization of climate change in the Higher Education Curriculum

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

shahnaz karami ¹ , kourosh fathi vajargah ² , aliakbar khosravi babadi ³ , Manuchehr Farajzadeh Asl ⁴

1 - PhD Student in Department of Educational Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Professor, Department of Education, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Behshti University, Tehran, Iran. Tehran, Iran.
3 - Associate Professor. Department of Educational Sciences, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Professor, Department of Physical Geography, Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2020-11-26 Accepted : 2021-01-26 Published : 2021-02-19

Keywords: Bernstein, Recontextualization, Climate Change, higher education curriculum,

Abstract :

Recontextualization is one of the new subjects that has been discussed in Iran and tries to study various sciences in the context of curriculum studies. Climate change is a science that deals with climate change and its effects. The purpose of this study is to introduce a new context in the higher education curriculum and tries to incorporate climate concepts into curriculum studies. Hence, this is applied research with regard to the goals that have been and qualitative in terms of the type of data and is conducted within a research analytical of documentary type framework. The data for this study was gathered through a documentary study. Among the documents discussed in this regard, the documents available to the researcher in the period from 2018 to 2020 related to Bernstein's Theory have been used. The result is that by modeling Bernstein's theory, a new context can be created in the higher education curriculum called climate change and made the classrooms a place to base lofty thinking on the protection of life on earth.

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