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The main Purpose of this research was the analysis and appraisal of the environmental education standards in science and social studies textbooks of junior high schools books in were analyzed based on 2 aspects: contents and pictures. Environmental education standards investigated in this research included the skills of questioning and analysis, knowledge of environmental processes and systems, environmental issue investigation skills, decision and action skills and personal and civic responsibility. The research method used was content analysis. The findings showed that attention to environmental education standards in social studies textbooks is distributed in both the science and second and third grades and science textbooks are related to first, third and second grades. Social studies books pertaining to all the 3 grades of the junior high school. On the whole these findings showed that an environmental education standard in the above mentioned textbooks was superficial and incomplete.
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