Environmental Trainings Needs Assessmentfor the Housewives Case Study:Tehran Municipality of Region 15

Women as the half of the world’s population, are also the managers of the resources consumption in the family. Women have a key role in the environmental management. So awareness of their environmental knowledge level and identifying current needs and shortcomings on this regard can have a significant role on improving of the environmental culture in the society. In this research "training needs assessment" has been done for knowing the women different environmental training level and estimating their educational needs among the housewives in Tehran municipality of region 15. The research method for data collecting is descriptive and survey based. Data has been collected via questionnaires of housewives in region 15 which among them 1082 were selected as statistical sample. The reliability coefficient was confirmed by Cronbach alpha (0/86) and its validity has been assessed by expert comments. Data Processing and analysis also has been done with SPSS software. The results showed that the environmental knowledge and awareness level of the women in this region is high (0/88) but they have some problem about the recognition of the cause of some environmental problems. They think that all communicational methods are useful for environmental education. Furthermore face to face training and using TV programs as a social media are the most effective ways for their learning compared to the other ways.