Content Analysis of the Tenth Grade Chemistry Textbook in terms of the Main Components of Environmental Education based on Shannon Method

Document Type : Original research

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Basic Science, Farhangian, Ahwaz, Iran

Abstract

      In this study, the main components of environmental education in the tenth grade chemistry textbook in the academic year 1398-99 have been studied by Shannon method. The present study is applied-descriptive and content analysis. Due to the limitations of the statistical population, which the nature of the subject under study required, sampling was not performed and the entire content of the book, including text, shape, margin, question and other items in it, was selected as a sample and examined. Six components of water, air, soil, animals and plants, noise pollution, and energy were considered as the main components of environmental education. Analysis of the data by the above method showed that, unlike the air component, which had the highest frequency, the water component with a significance coefficient of 0.2611 had the highest weight load, in contrast to noise pollution with a significance coefficient zero has the lowest degree of importance, and soil, energy, animals, plants, and air have less weight and degree of importance, respectively.

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