Study of Environmental Attitudes among Elementary School Teachers. This item is unavailable.Study of Environmental Attitudes among Elementary School Teachers

Environment education is increasingly enhanced as an accepted mean for promotion of sustainable development and environment management; and teachers play a highly important role in promoting positive environmental approaches as well as sustainable development. This research, aims at examining environmental approaches of Iran-Ahvaz elementary school teachers, in order to meet sustainable development goals. In academic year of 2011-2012, 346 elementary school teachers in Ahvaz took part in this research, answering to a questionnaire comprising of 20 questions. These questions were set to review four sub-factor including The Need for Education about Environmental Problems; The Importance of Fieldwork and Activities for Environmental Education; The Environmental Contamination and the Need for Conservation, and also The Environmental Protection Action measures on the basis of gender, education level, teaching experience and teachers’ residential background.

Forouzan Farrokhian, Assistant professor in Department of Environmental management, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khouzestan, Iran.Atousa Soleimani,She completed her M.Sc. in Environmental management. She is a member of Young Researchers club, Khouzestan Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran