2022 Volume 7 Issue 1 Supplementary
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Investigating the Role of Environmental Education on the Attitude and Perspective of Elementary School Students in Joveyn and Sabzevar Cities


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Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of environmental education on the attitudes and perspectives of primary school students in Joven and Sabzevar. The current research is a qualitative research that has been carried out by comparative method and vector model as well as descriptive-analytical method.
Method: In this study, a standard researcher-made questionnaire on environmental attitudes was used. The statistical population is 467 people, which according to Krejcie and Morgan table, 120 people were selected by simple random sampling. Independent group t-test is used to test the hypotheses. All statistical operations were performed using SPSS20 software.
Findings and Conclusion: The results showed that; 1- Environmental education has an effect on the attitude and perspective of elementary students in Joven and Sabzevar. 2- The variables of environmental knowledge, environmental attitude, relationship with nature, age, sex, socio-economic status explain the environmental behavior of individuals. 3- The variables of environmental knowledge, environmental attitude, relationship with nature, age, sex, socio-economic status explain the behavior of "waste segregation" in individuals. 4. The variables of environmental knowledge, environmental attitude, relationship with nature, age, sex, socio-economic status explain the "consumption-saving" behavior of individuals. The results of the study show the predictive power of environmental knowledge on communication saving behavior 0.420, environmental attitude on consumption saving behavior 0.412, relationship with nature on communication saving behavior 0.403, age on communication saving behavior communication Has predicted 0.391, gender on communication saving behavior 0.262 and also socio-economic status on communication saving behavior has predicted 0.379.
 


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