Green education in Iran’s Higher Education System: Analysis of Strategic Educational Documents

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Since the administration of affairs related to compiling, revising, changing and approving curricula in Iran's higher education follows a spectrum between a centralized approach and a semi-centralized approach, hence the activity of the educational systems, especially the higher education system, in line with The management of environmental crises is influenced by the policies and ideals of macro and upstream levels. Based on this, this research was conducted with the aim of investigating the amount of attention paid to the goals and concepts of green education in digital documents that have an effect on higher education, using the qualitative method of document analysis. In this research, four long-term, medium-term and short-term upstream documents of the country were examined using content analysis. The results of the present research indicate that the concepts of green education have been paid attention to to a great extent in the hand-held documents, but the amount of attention to these matters is reduced at micro levels. In other words, attention to the ideals and goals of green education at operational levels becomes less. Therefore, the proposal of this research is to establish and establish an institution consisting of experts and experts in the field of green education in order to prepare and formulate operational strategies for the implementation of goals and policies in the field of green education.

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