The Impact of Acquiring Cultural Capital Training on Environmental Behaviors Students

Subject Areas : environmental Health

Vajiheh  Zohoorparvandeh ¹ (Assistant Professor, Department of educational sciences, Payamnoor, university(PNU), P.O.Box 19395-4697, Tehran, Iran)
Azam  Hajizadeh ² (MA., Department of educational sciences, Payamnoor university, (PNU), P.O.Box 19395-4697, Tehran, Iran)

Received: 2018-11-26 Accepted : 2019-08-24 Published : 2022-06-22

Keywords: environmental behavior, students, Educational acquisition of acquired capital,

Abstract :

Background and Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the acquisition of acquired cultural capital on the environmental behaviors of students in Tehran. Analysis methodology: The statistical population of this research includes all elementary students in district 4 of district 5 of Tehran city, which was selected by multistage cluster sampling method and 50 students who were willing to cooperate were selected as sample. These 50 fully peer groups were selected in two groups of 25 and A and A, group A received 13 sessions of cultural training group training, and group B was the control group. Analysis of variance was also used to analyze the data. Findings: Findings showed that acquisition of acquired cultural capital significantly increased the positive environmental behaviors. The students who were in the experimental group had a significant environmental behaviors (environmental protection, familiarity with recycling, saving on consumption, proper use and reuse of waste from students who were in the control group) Recoverable) and this positive effect was constant over time. Discussion and Conclusions: Today, the development of cultural capital and its promotion is emphasized in order to reduce and control social issues such as environmental crises, and it seems that sustainable development, especially its environmental aspect, depends on the promotion of cultural capital. . Based on this, it seems that with the developments of the last few years, we can benefit from the concept of cultural capital as a predictive variable in the analysis of socio-cultural issues such as behaviors and environmental attitudes.

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