Pre-service teachers' attitudes towards some environmental problems

Keskin M., AKIN B., Armagan F. O., Samanci N. K.

ENERGY EDUCATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PART B-SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL STUDIES, cilt.4, sa.1, ss.97-104, 2012 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 4 Sayı: 1
  • Basım Tarihi: 2012
  • Dergi Adı: ENERGY EDUCATION SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PART B-SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL STUDIES
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.97-104
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: Environmental problems, Environmental behavior, Pre-service science teachers, RENEWABLE ENERGY, EDUCATION, STUDENTS, SCHOOL, ELEMENTARY, VALUES
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Understanding environmental problems is quite important simply because our knowledge, values and skills are determine to what extend we can solve our environmental problems [1]. With this in mind, pre-service teachers' attitudes toward environmental problems were studied in this study. In this context, another aim of the study was to investigate whether pre-service teachers' attitudes toward environmental problems differ in terms of some variables such as gender and department. In the study "Attitudes towards Some Environmental Problems Questionnaire," developed by Al-Rabaani and Al-Mekhlafi [2] was used after adapting the instrument to the Turkish. The questionnaire consists of 48 items under 5 dimensions which are energy problems, water problems, air pollution problems, waste problems and desertification problems. The Cronbach's alpha reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was .84, suggesting high reliability. According to the results of the study, no statistically significant difference was found in the total attitude scores between pre-service biology and elementary science teachers and there was statistically significant difference in the total attitude scores between genders in favor of females.