Evaluation of Environmental Training in Primary School Text Books

Document Type : Scientific Research

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The main objective of the study is the attention level to environmental education in primary school textbooks. Due to the intended purpose and nature of the subject, the content analysis method was used.  The  study population was consisted of primary school textbooks that to achieve this goal, third-grade textbooks in the 95-94 school year were selected and analyzed as the sample research. The unit of analysis in this study are text books sentences and images that are associated with the four biological factors : water, air, soil and sound and  directly or indirectly  are related to the environment.
The results showed that in relation to environmental education, images are more than sentencs and texts in primary school textbooks. Regarding pictures, the highest frequency belonged to the Social Training text books and the least to Persian writing books. For texts also the highest frequency belonged to Persian  reading  books and there was no images or sentences  related to environment in other books, that is Quran, Mathematics or empherical sciences

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