Environmental Educational Need Assessment of school students in the khouzestan province

Environmental education can be called a new discipline by which human being can continue his living by nature better. In this discipline, principal, values, personal responsibility, professional even behavior customs should move in according to nature and develop. In order to establish this educational and intellectual system, the current investigation attempts to analyze and assess the environment’s educational needs of students in Khouzestan province. This study is an applied and descriptive type of survey and from the study method perspective has employed a synthetic need assessment model. Sampling population consisted of the girl and boy students of secondary schools and high schools of Khuzestan province, in academic year 1386-1387(2007-2008). Sample of investigation consisted of 1067 students which selected through cluster sampling from Ahvaz, Behbahan, Masjed Soleiman, and Bandar-e-Emam cities. The questionnaire for gathering information was prepared based on experts’ opinions in environmental education and has had considerable validity and reliability. The research data analysis was done whit the help of descriptive statistic, including various distribution tables, mean and standard deviation as well as inferential statistic F test , chi-square test, Analysis Of Variance,correlation coefficient, Duncan test, and factor analysis. Some of the findings of the research are as follows:1)The textbooks’ contents do not provide the students with adequate information and stimulant about the student’s living environment. 2) School teachers in Khouzestan don’t supply the students with information and stimulant in accordance with the area’s environment. 3) Extracurricular and side activities related to environment are rare in Khouzestan province’s schools, and the students lack enough information and stimulant about their living environment and surroundings.
4) Extracurricular activities proved more effect in stimulating the students to environment and their knowledge than the two other variables: textbooks’ content and teachers.