The role of education in environmental protection

Given that the present study examines the role of education in environmental protection.

the research method was applied in terms of purpose, cross-sectional in terms of the time of research, quantitative in terms of the data type, and descriptive-correlation in terms of the method of data collection or the nature and method of research. The statistical population of the present study included all primary school teachers in Tehran with 4300 people. Using the sample size calculation in structural equations and stepwise cluster random sampling method, 700 people were selected as the sample size. Two questionnaires were used to collect data. First, the standard environmental attention questionnaire of Emamgholi (2011) was used to measure environmental attention. Second, Salehi and Ghaemi Asl's environmental protection education questionnaire (2013) was used. After collecting the questionnaires, describing the data through means, standard deviation, etc. through SPSS21 software and statistical inference of data through structural equation modeling using LISREL-v8.80 software were done. The technical characteristics of the questionnaires including reliability, convergent and divergent validity were examined. The content validitiy and reliability of the questionnaires were confirmed by the specialist and the reliability of the questionnaires were assessed by Cronbach's alpha coefficient.  The path coefficients and significance coefficients of the software were used to test the research hypotheses.

 The results indicated that education is related to environmental protection.