Abstract:
The data of this study was collected from 252 teachers, principals and vice-principals offemales’ high schools in district one through one researcher-administered questionnaire, and was then analyzed. The validity of the questionnaire was approved by seven university professors. Cronbach’s alpha was used in order to measure the reliability of the questionnaire. The total calculated alpha was 0.81, and it was 0.79 for the component of using sustainable resources, 0.71 for the component of using healthy food, 0.79 for the component of school’s distance from toxic substances available around it, and 0.72 for the component of using green education method. One-sample t-test showed that all of the four components are below the average in the study sample. The results from Friedman test in assessment of sustainable school indicators revealed that the four components had different rankings which should be considered by the principals in terms of importance. This ranking was as follows: school’s distance from toxic substances available around it with the mean of 1.26 is in the first rank, using green education method with the mean of 2.30 in the second rank, using sustainable resources with mean of 2.76 is ranked third, and finally, using healthy food with the mean of 3.68 is ranked fourth in terms of importance.The study concluded that the measures taken with respect to sustainable schools’ standards were not sufficient and further measures have to be taken in order to achieve these indicators.
Machine summary:
Given the existence of rich biological resources in Iran and government’s policies in support of nature-friendly plans with the goal of decreasing environmental pollution and optimizing energy consumption as well as given the country’s potential in terms of specialist human resources and on the one hand, limitation of environmental natural resources, the need for conducting basic, applied and development researches in relation to development of nature-friendly technologies and construction of nature-friendly (green) schools and universities for resolving fundamental problems related to environment and natural resources in consistency with country’s 20-year outlook is felt (Malakooti Khah, 2012).
It can be concluded based on table 11 and Friedman test that in order to achieve an average level of criteria of establishing sustainable schools as a goal, it is essential that in terms of importance and need, for changing the current conditions in schools, first of all we pay special attention to removing toxic substances and pollutants from schools; secondly, we emphasize on methods of green education and environmental protection, and do more effective activities in this matter; and finally, using sustainable resources and healthy food also reach closer to the average level of standards.