Current state of environmental education in Turkey: a case from Ankara

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Yıldırım, Nuray
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The purpose of this study is to explore the current state of implementation and the needs of elementary school program and teacher education program in Turkey in the words of the people who engage in teaching; university lecturers, pre-service science teachers and in-service science teachers. Mixed methods research design, which includes both qualitative and quantitative data collecting strategies, is utilized in this study. The steps followed for the study involves reviewing the related literature, constructing the sample, developing the instruments for data collection, pilot testing of the instruments and data collection. The participants of the study is composed of 4 university lecturers, 150 pre-service science teachers and 250 in-service science teachers that was selected from Ankara by convenient-sampling. Two instruments, which have been developed by the researcher, were used in this research. One of them is EE SoAQ that aims to follow up the progress and determine the needs about EE implementations in elementary schools in Turkey. The other instrument is EE-U IP that aims to recognize current state and the needs about EE applications in both elementary schools and teacher education program in Turkey. For data collection, pre-service science teachers and in-service science teachers were implemented the questionnaire, and university lecturers were applied the interview. As a result, perceptions of the participants were investigated, and intersecting and distinctive points was revealed in order to contribute to the development of EE implementations in Turkey.
Environmental protection, Environmentalism, Science teachers, Science teachers, Student teachers, Student teachers, Elementary school teaching.
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12618685/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/24596
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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N. Yıldırım, “Current state of environmental education in Turkey: a case from Ankara,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2015.
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