Abstract:
The lack of a national plan and suitable model for educating the environment in Iranian educational system (particularly in the primary schools in particular) in terms of the needs of current Iranian society made the researcher conduct the following research activities in order to meet the objectives of his study: we conducted a content analysis on the Sciences book of the primary school in order to determine the implicit and explicit aspects of the books. We found that some materials and contents have not a clear, coherent and consequent expression and thus, they reduce the attention of the students to the environment. Thus, we recommend a more inclusive and more coherent vision on the environmental entries in the science book of the primary students. Considering the classification system of UNESCO, Japan, Germany, Kuwait, Kenya, Malaysia and Venezuela we studied comparatively in order to extract, explain and analyze the goals, policies, planning and methods of educating the environment in the primary schools of the mentioned countries and to compare them to the Iranian educational system. In this process, we managed to formulate a framework for the theoretical model of educating the environment based on the finding of the research. Then we evaluated the model based on the sample size formula