Investigating the Role of Educational Factors to Protect Urban Landscapes in Tehran Metropolitan

The purpose of this research was to assess the role of educational factors in protecting urbanlandscapes in Tehran Metropolitan. This is a quantitative research, applied and descriptivecorrelationmethod was used. The research population consisted of all participants in educationalcourses held by Tehran municipality (N=300) and 172 of them selected by using simple randomsampling method. To gather data in the field a questionnaire was employed. The content and facevalidity of the research instrument was confirmed by specialists in the field of agriculturalextension and education. Cronbach Coefficient was applied for the purpose of reliability and 0.90was obtained. Findings indicated that there was a statistically significant relationship betweencommunication channels, interest of participants, skill of participants, teaching methods,participants' motivation, educational content program, educator, educational objectives and peoplemotivation and dependent variable. The obtained results from multiple regressions could explainthe variance of dependent variable (participant’s motivation to protect urban landscapes) fromindependent variables showed that communication channels, skill and interest of participantscontribute to the variation of dependent variable.