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Derginin Adı:
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International Journal of Environmental and Science Education
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Cilt:
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2009/4
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Sayı:
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2
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Makale Başlık:
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Teacher Candidates’ Perception Level of Environmental Pollutant and Their Risk Factors
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Makale Alternatif Dilde Başlık:
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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9.02.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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1
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Makale Özeti:
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It is generally accepted that the environmental education deals with a wide range of environmental
experiences, methods and processes. Teaching the subject of the environment
should not be considered as an easy task. It should not only cover pure ecology education;
but also include the citizenship responsibilities and the problems that are sourced from
other interdisciplinary factors. Therefore teachers should have the responsibility to facilitate
environmental issues. Hitherto no researcher has undertaken a comprehensive study
that focuses on environmental education in teacher training programs. This study aims to
detect basic environmental knowledge of Turkish teacher candidate at the onset of their
studies. This study has been conducted during in the fall of 2007 with a heterogeneous
group of 248 teacher candidates from Education Faculty in Turkey, 82 students chosen
from randomly from biology, science and 84 students from classroom teacher departments.
To detect respondents’ basic knowledge about environmental pollutants we administrated
the questionnaire during the 1st month of their last academic year. The results
found in this research have shown that teacher candidates possess less pro environmental
knowledge. An interpretation of these results is that the teacher candidates do not fully
comprehend the underlying ecological and environmental concepts related to environmental
issues. Therefore, the design of pre service programs should take into account the
characteristic of the student population which are the outcome of their social, cultural, and
physical environments, and include all the necessary components for adequately preparing
future educators to effectively address the environmental education of their future
students. This may reflect into pupils’ attitudes during teaching process in primary and
secondary schools.
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