A Survey of Environmental Trainings Conducted by Non-Governmental Environment Organizations of Iran

Subject Areas : مدیریت ، برنامه ریزی و آموزش محیط زیست

Neda Mohammadi ¹ (Master of Management, Planning and Environmental Education - Education, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran)
Farzam Babaie ² (Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran *(Correspondence Author))
Ali Mohammadi ³ (Assistant Professor, Department of Environmental Management, Faculty of Natural Resources and Environment, Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran)
Davood Hayatgheib ⁴ (Deputy of the Office of Research and Development of Environmental Technology, Deputy of Education and Public Participation, Environmental Protection Organization of Iran)

Received: 2017-06-16 Accepted : 2017-08-16 Published : 2020-03-20

Keywords: Environmental education, Environmental NGOs, NGOs,

Abstract :

Background and purpose:  The present practical research by surveying the evaluating factors of environmental education in NGOs is going to examine the present condition of NGOs according to statistics studies and distinguishing the backwardness reasons of these NGOs in environmental effective training for target societies and addresses. So in this case, the present gaps among the NGOs, government and public, unfortunate reasons to NGOs were recognized and removed.Method: Environmental education and NGOs are among the studied variables. In order to collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire was designed to receive information about the educational activities of the seminaries and another questionnaire was designed to receive the opinions of intellectuals on environmental education and environmental semantics.The sample of this study was 125 NGOs that were selected among 760NGOs by random sampling and 26 environmental education experts filled those questionnaires, after filling the questionnaires at first step descriptive statistics were reported, and then the analysis of data was done by statistical software.Results: The research shows that probably, the condition of environmental education of NGOs can't perform the necessary education of citizens for protection of environment. The present quality of environmental education produced by NGOs must be re-examined. The determination of evaluating factors causes the promotion of quality of environmental education of NGOs.Discussion & Conclusion: According to the results of indicators investigated in this study, the quality and quantity of trainings provided by environmental NGOs were medium upward, but they aren’t suitable for the lack of citizens, environmental information and awareness.Furthermore the determination of evaluation indicators and the ranking of environmental NGOs cause increasing the quality of environmental education provided to citizens.

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