Designing and Validating a Curriculum Framework of Natural Disaster Risk Reduction Education in Primary School

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

ahmad gholami ¹ (Assistant Professor, Educational Sciences Department of Farhangian University, Shiraz, Iran.)
mohammad javdani ² (استادیار، گروه علوم تربیتی، دانشگاه فرهنگیان، شیراز، ایران)

Received: 2018-11-27 Accepted : 2019-08-04 Published : 2020-04-20

Keywords: Validation, primary school, Curriculum, natural disasters,

Abstract :

The purpose of the research was to designing and validating a curriculum framework of natural disaster risk reduction education in primary school. This study is a sequential exploratory mixed method. In the qualitative section 12 experts and professors of the Institute of Seismology and the universities of Iran and crisis management specialists were selected by purposeful sampling and snowball technique. In this section, the interview method, literature reviews of research and study of resources, texts and upstream documents were used to attain concepts, phrases and key words related to the framework, and initial qualitative data were obtained. qualitative data was analyzed by thematic analysis method and the initial framework was formed. Qualitative validation criteria were used to validate the framework. In the quantitative section, the statistical population consisted of university specialists in the field of curriculum studies and primary school teachers, Which 20 of university specialists and 110of primary school teachers in the sarchehan district(400) that were selected by simple random sampling method. to collect quantitative data a teacher made questionnaire was used. To confirm the validity of the questionnaire, face and content validity and factor analysis and for calculating reliability, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient were used. The results of factor analysis showed that teaching methods with factor load of 0.96, content 0.94, evaluation methods 0.93, materials & resources 0.97, and logic with load factor of 0.93 explained the curriculum framework of natural disaster risk reduction education in primary school. Also, the coefficient of Cronbach's alpha above 0.90 confirmed reliability of curriculum elements. Therefore, the validity of the final curriculum framework was confirmed.

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