Okul Öncesi Öğretmen Adaylarının Sürdürülebilir Çevreye İlişkin Davranış Düzeylerinin İncelenmesi

Abstract

The purp.ose of this study is to determine candidates of pre-school teachers' behavior levels towards sustainable environment. The cross-sectional survey was employed in the present study, which was conducted within the quantitative paradigm. The population of the study consists of pre-school teachers attending the undergraduate programs of pre-school education at state universities in Turkey, and the sample of the study is composed of 1,049 pre-service teachers studying at the undergraduate programs of pre-school education at Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, Anadolu University, Ege University, Kastamonu University, and Muş Alparslan University in their first, second, third, or fourth years and were voluntary to participate in the study. The research data were collected via personal information form and The Behaviour Scale for Sustainable Environmental Education, developed by Demirci Güler and Afacan (2012) for administration to instructors, in May and June 2014. This scale is a 5-point Likert-type scale consisting of three subdimensions and 29 items. Its Cronbach's alpha coefficient is 0.94. Based on the opinions taken from the domain experts specialized in pre-school education for the administration of the scale to the pre-service teachers, no modification was made in any item, and the internal consistency of the scale was recalculated and found to be 0.89 over the data obtained from 493 pre-service teachers. The data obtained from 556 pre-service teachers were analyzed through appropriate statistical analyses. It was found out that the pre-service teachers' behaviors towards sustainable environment vary by gender and the university attended, but do not differ by grade, status of receiving a course about sustainable development, and status of being a member to a non-governmental organization.

The Relationship between Pre-Service Early Childhood Teachers’ Environmental Education Self-Efficacy Beliefs and Their Attitudes towards Sustainable Environment

“…Because there is an environmental education course in the second year, second grade students might have higher attitudes towards sustainable environment than their counterparts (Çimen & Benzer, 2019). However, results of the study conducted by Uludağ, Karademir and Cingi (2017) indicated that preservice early childhood teachers did not differ from each other in terms grade level. The last inquiry of this study elicited a small relationship between pre-service teachers' environmental education self-efficacy beliefs and their attitudes toward sustainable environment.…”

Okul Öncesi Çevre Eğitimini Konu Alan Çalışmalara Yönelik Betimsel İçerik Analizi

“…Bu çalışmalarda da en fazla nicel araştırma yöntemlerinden biri olan tarama deseni kullanılmıştır. Çalışmaların amaçları incelendiğinde genellikle mevcut durumun ortaya koyulmasının amaçlandığı görülmüştür (Uludağ, Karademir ve Cingi, 2017;Ültay, Ültay ve Çilingir, 2019;Toran, 2016). Var olan durumun ortaya koyulması, ilgili yöntem olarak, tarama yönteminin seçilmesini gerektirmiş olabilir.…”

Okul Öncesi Eğitim ve Permakültür

“…Preschool period is a period in which children's curiosity and desire to learn are intense. In this respect, the preschool period is very important for children to get to know the environment they live in, to develop a positive attitude about their environment, to gain awareness of environmental problems and environmental protection (Uludağ, Karademir, & Cingi, 2017). For this reason, permaculture education to be given to children at an early age; will be able to raise the awareness of children on issues such as their nature and environmental problems and finding solutions to these problems, being sensitive to the environment, and ecological sustainability.…”

“…Okul öncesi dönem, çocuklarda merak duygusu ve öğrenme isteğinin yoğun olduğu bir dönemdir. Bu açıdan okul öncesi dönem, çocukların yaşadıkları çevreyi tanıma, çevrelerine dair olumlu tutum geliştirme, çevre sorunlarına karşı farkındalık ve çevre koruma bilinci kazanmalarında oldukça önemlidir (Uludağ, Karademir ve Cingi, 2017). Bu nedenle çocuklara erken yaşlarda verilecek permakültür eğitimi; onların doğa ve çevre sorunlarına ve bu sorunlara çözüm yolları bulma, çevreye duyarlı olma, ekolojik sürdürülebilirlik gibi konularda çocukları bilinçlendirebilecektir.…”