The purpose of this study is to examine Tukish pre-service teachers perceptions
about global versus local environmental issues and determine gender and major
effect on their perceptions of global and local environmental issues. The
information will be collected from Elementary Education pre-service teachers from
Middle East Technical University. Their concerns and attitudes toward 9 global
and 5 local environmental issues will be measured by using a survey questionnaire.
The questionnaire has been adopted from the one originally used by Duan and
Fortner (2005). The local issues were selected according to report about the major
environmental problems declared by the Ministry of Environment and Foresty of
Turkey and the global issues were kept same as the original questionnaire. The
results of the study were analysed by means of descriptive and inferential statistics.
The results revealed that elementary education pre-service teachers mostly gave
more importance to global environmental issues / females had higher attitudes and
concerns about environmental issues than males and Early Childhood Education
students have higher attitudes and concerns for environmental issues than students
from departments of Elementary Science Education and Elementary Mathematics
Education. In the stage of preparing environmental education courses as a must
course for the faculty of education students in Turkey, the outcome of the study is
expected to propose an insight for environmental education for the future teachers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12609963/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2008 |
| Creators | Unal, Nilufer |
| Contributors | Tuncer, Gaye |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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