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Ghesami F, Yoosefi Roobiat E. Provide a conceptual model of teaching with an environmental approach in Iranian schools. Journal title 2019; 6 (39) :76-102
URL: http://erj.khu.ac.ir/article-1-422-en.html

Environmental education is education that increase public awareness and knowledge about environmental issues. Environmental education should incorporate three elements: learning in the environment, learning about the environment and learning to look after the environment. In this paper, be reviewed characteristics of environmental education programs with analytical-descriptive methods and also be reviewed methods of environmental education in schools in both teacher-centered and student-centered approaches. Finally, with the conclusions of studies are presented a conceptual model for teaching various courses with an emphasis on environmental education. The results of this study indicating that use of student-centered approaches to enhance students higher-order cognitive skills, and teaching different subjects in an environmental context can be very effective in institutionalizing students' environmental attitudes and behaviors.