ÖĞRETMEN ADAYLARININ ÇEVRE VE ÇEVRE EĞİTİMİ İLE İLGİLİ GÖRÜŞLERİ ORDU ÜNİVERSİTESİ ÖRNEĞİ

Abstract

Largest contribution undoubtedly belongs to the teachers in nurturing en- vironment conscious individuals in our schools. The objectives of environmental edu- cation in teacher education programs in our country are; to ensure the environmental integrity of the teacher to understand the complex relationships between sustainable development; to help them recognize the environmental issues at the global level in local, national, regional levels; to equip teachers with sufficient information, to instill a sense of responsibility for environmental protection and to engage actively work for the improvement and value judgments; to train teachers in order to perform adequately the environmental education about the environment and socio-cultural development based problems and solutions. This study aimed at the determination of the awareness and sensitivity of the pre-service teachers about the national and global environmental problems, the activities they can use for the promotion of environmental consciousness and their opinions for the solution of these problems. This study also dwelled upon to find out whether social and academic sensitivities of pre-service teachers vary according to their gender and academic departments. The sample of this study was constituted by 134 pre-service teachers studying in the first year in Faculty of Education, Ordu Univer- sity in 2013-2014 academic year spring term. The data were collected by questionnaires. The scale used in the study was developed by Karadayı (2005) and adapted to its latest form by İbiş (2009) and Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient was calculated to be 0,96, which means the scale was reliable. The data gathered in this study will be evaluated by the use of frequency and percentage tables, independent samples t- test, and One-Way Anova analyses. The findings obtained in this study include the analysis of the appli- cation results. According to the sub-problems, findings are titled and presented in five stages. Teachers' views on the environment and the training of candidates examined under the title of academic and social sensitivity, and gender and education variables were analyzed according to the department. According to the findings obtained from the study participants results which are achieved by the light the findings; the teacher candidates see the excessive use of natural resources as the most important environmen- tal problem in Turkey and the world, and they said they see environmental organiza- tions as the most effective environmental groups in solving these problems. It was seen that most valuable contributions provided through the TV and radios in order to raise awareness in the community thought. It was also concluded that there is no significant difference between the opinions of the participants in terms of and "education field" dimension but there is a significant difference in terms of "gender" dimension related to social and academic sensitivity. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]