Investigating Teachers and professors' Viewpoint on the Current Status of Environmental Education in the Secondary School Curriculum

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Curriculum planning Ph.D- Assistant Professor and Head of Education Department. Islamic Azad University Arak Branch, Arak-Iran. *(Corresponding Author).

2 Ph.D of Education Manejment- Assistant Professor - Islamic Azad University Arak Branch, Arak-Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the Teachers' and professors' Viewpoints on the Current Status of Environmental Education in the Secondary School Curriculum. The current study is an applied and qualitative-quantitative research with exploratory design. The statistical population consisted of all teachers of six educational districts of Isfahan (2259), 329 of which were selected by random sampling method and 15 professors (curriculum planning, literature, educational technology, philosophy, sociology, Management) of Markazi, Isfahan, and Yazd Provinces were selected by purposeful sampling. In order to collect data, a researcher-made questionnaire consisting of 41 items was obtained using document analysis results. The results showed that the current status of environmental education in terms of curriculum elements (purpose, content, teaching-learning method, evaluation) in the teachers' group has the highest average with 4.15 related to teaching-learning methods and the lowest average with 3.98 related to the purposes and evaluation of environmental education curriculum. In the teachers' group, the highest average with 4.11 was related to the content and the lowest average with 3.92 was related to the purposes of environmental education curriculum.

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Journal of Environmental Science Studies
Volume 4, Issue 4
November 2019
Pages 1963-1973

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