Zamaneh Media
  • Latest Articles
  • Latest News
  • About Zamaneh Media
    • Exiled Media Report
    • Sponsors
    • Donate
    • Contact us
    • Legal
  • Advertise
No Result
View All Result
  • Latest Articles
  • Latest News
  • About Zamaneh Media
    • Exiled Media Report
    • Sponsors
    • Donate
    • Contact us
    • Legal
  • Advertise
No Result
View All Result
Zamaneh Media
No Result
View All Result

60 new Iranian schools to promote environmental awareness

by Zamaneh Media
April 22, 2015
in Latest Articles
Reading Time: 2 mins read
0
60 new Iranian schools to promote environmental awareness

Iran’s Department of Environment has announced that sixty schools focused on environmental studies will be launched in the different climate regions of the country beginning this September.

Environment-Training_Children_Iran

The Schools starting from kindergarten to elementary levels up to grade nine will incorporate teaching strategies to engender environmental awareness in children, and from Grade nine environmental studies will be taught as a major part of the curriculum throughout high school.

Mohammad Darvish, head of the Department of Environment’s Public Education and Participation announced the news to Mehr News Agency explaining that providing students with environmental awareness and knowledge is the chief objective of the initiative’ He went on to add that the schools will be set up in the five different ecozones of the country as well as the capital and referred to as Comprehensive Environmental Schools. Ten schools will reportedly be set up in each of the five ecozones, five for each gender. He added that Tehran will also get ten Comprehensive Environment schools.

Darvish reported that the schools will be a pilot project and during the first year they will be closely monitored and evaluated in order to improve the program so that within the next ten years all schools across the country can be transformed into the program.

The school buildings will also be ecofriendly incorporating all forms of energy saving techniques, use of renewable energy as well as recycling, reducing use of paper and minimizing garbage.

The students will also spend half a day each week on outdoor field trips to identify and appreciate environmental issues.

Iran’s Department of Environment is heavily burdened with serious concerns about environmental issues all across the country. Water shortage, drying out of lakes and wetlands, loss of wildlife habitats and species as well as serious air, water and soil pollution are pressing concerns demanding immediate solutions.

Environmental studies has never been formally incorporated into school curricula in Iran to date. There have been however isolated efforts by specific principals or teachers to bring a level of environmental awareness to children in the wake of all the pressing environmental issues faced by the country.

The Department of Environment has also collaborated with the Ministry of Science to bring to the foreground environmental studies in all university programs. Iranian university students will now need at least four full credits in environmental studies in order to graduate from any university program at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Tags: Comprehensive Environmental SchoolsEnvironmental issues

Related Posts

Navvab Security Ranger Company: Quds Conquerors or Suppressors of the People?
Featured Items

Navvab Security Ranger Company: Quds Conquerors or Suppressors of the People?

January 31, 2023
Sarina Saedi, a 15-year-old Teenager Killed by Severe Baton Blows in Sanandaj
Featured Items

Sarina Saedi, a 15-year-old Teenager Killed by Severe Baton Blows in Sanandaj

January 11, 2023
Iranian Uprising of “Woman, Life, Freedom”: Redeeming the Universals
Featured Items

Iranian Uprising of “Woman, Life, Freedom”: Redeeming the Universals

January 3, 2023
Workers in the "West Oil and Gas Production Company" located in Cheshmeh Khosh protest on 11 Aug 2022 as part of a nationwide protest of oil and gas workers in more than 60 production and support units in this sector.
Latest Articles

Download Zamaneh’s 22nd Labor Rights Report

January 1, 2023
Iran Adds Radio Zamaneh, EU/UK Individuals and Entities to Blacklist
Latest News

Iran Adds Radio Zamaneh, EU/UK Individuals and Entities to Blacklist

December 13, 2022
Latest Articles

Student Day in Iran: The Uprising Carries On Despite Threats

December 8, 2022

RSS Iran in Other Media

  • French Prisoner Held In Iran On Hunger Strike For Second Time - ایران اینترنشنال February 6, 2023
  • The look from inside Iran after nationwide protests - Northern Public Radio (WNIJ) February 6, 2023
  • Iran's Natural Gas Ambitions Face A Tough Geopolitical Reality - OilPrice.com February 6, 2023
  • Biden Gives Iran and Russia Green Light To Continue Nuclear Work - Washington Free Beacon February 6, 2023
  • Iran keeps sending drones to Russia, set to deepen cooperation with Moscow - White House - Ukrinform February 6, 2023
  • Power of peace in Iran's protests - CSMonitor.com - The Christian Science Monitor February 6, 2023
  • San Francisco's Asian Art Museum Lends Its Facade to Iran's Protest Art - Hyperallergic February 6, 2023
  • Iran, Russia catch their breath with new banking deal: Expert - Press TV February 6, 2023
  • Antique Rugs From Caucasus, Iran, Turkey Reflect History in Patterns - Voice of America - VOA News February 6, 2023
  • Iran’s Government Tries To Ram Through Shady ‘Privatization’ Scheme - ایران اینترنشنال February 6, 2023
  • Protests in Iran: Supreme leader pardons 'large number' of prisoners - FRANCE 24 English February 6, 2023
  • Russia to Swarm Ukraine's Air Defenses With Fresh Batch of Iranian Drones - Newsweek February 6, 2023
  • Jill Biden at the Grammys: Story Behind the First Lady's Special Appearance - PEOPLE February 6, 2023
  • Why Iran's Unofficial Protest Anthem 'Baraye' Won a Grammy - TIME February 6, 2023
  • Exclusive: Iran to start revamp at Venezuela's largest refining complex within weeks - sources - Reuters.com February 6, 2023
  • Jill Biden honors Iranian singer with Grammys' new 'social change' award - Daily Mail February 6, 2023
  • Iranian Singer Who Faces Prison Wins Grammy For Protest Anthem - HuffPost February 6, 2023
  • Freezing Cold Puts Iran's Natural-Gas Ambitions On Ice - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty February 6, 2023
  • Iran Singer Who Faces Prison Wins Grammy for Protest Anthem - Voice of America - VOA News February 6, 2023
  • Iran’s revolution of freedom - European Council on Foreign Relations February 6, 2023
Zamaneh Media

© 2020 Zamaneh Media

More information

  • Sponsors
  • Donate
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Legal

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Latest Articles
  • Latest News
  • About Zamaneh Media
    • Exiled Media Report
    • Sponsors
    • Donate
    • Contact us
    • Legal
  • Advertise

© 2020 Zamaneh Media