The Study of the Validation of the model of Interdisciplinary Curriculum of Environmental Literacy Teaching: regarding the Secondary Education System in Iran

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Mahboubeh  Soleimanpour Omran ¹ (استادیار گروه علوم تربیتی، واحد بجنورد، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، بجنورد، ایران)
Mohammad H.  Yarmohammadian ² (استاد مرکز تحقیقات مدیریت و اقتصاد سلامت، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی اصفهان، اصفهان، ایران)
Narges  Keshtiaray ³ (استادیار گروه علوم تربیتی، واحــد اصفهان (خوراسگان)، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، اصفهان، ایران)

Received: 2017-10-17 Accepted : 2017-10-17 Published : 2016-02-20

Keywords: disciplinary curriculum, Environmental literacy, Curriculum planning, Secondary school  ,

Abstract :

The aim of this research is to study about the validation of the model of interdisciplinary curriculum of environmental literacy teaching of secondary education system in Iran. The research type is of descriptive-survey one. The proposed environmental literacy education framework is developed in the form of the four curriculum elements (objectives, content, teaching/learning methods and assessment) and the three components of environmental knowledge, skills, and environmental attitude. It is, then, offered to the environmental experts and curriculum developers. The results of binomial distribution test and one-group t-test, at the level of (P≤0.05) ,indicates the significance of items from the viewpoint of the experts of the field.  The confirmed environmental literacy curriculum framework is, then, assessed, in the form of a questionnaire; by 108 male and female teachers of biology, chemistry and geography in Amol city .the obtained results have been validated using confirmatory factor analysis. The results of validation suggest suitable fitness of the proposed model based on Chi-square test (P=0.000001) and X2=1062.38) and error indicators of the mean square error indicators (RMSEA=0.065) and residual variance (RMP=0.054).

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