An Evaluation of Elementary Teacher Candidates' Environmental Approaches, Environmental Risk Perceptions and Environmental Behaviours
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Tarih
2012
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Elsevier Science Bv
Erişim Hakkı
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Özet
The purpose of this research is to determine elementary teacher candidates' environmental approaches (environmental-based or human-based), environmental risk perceptions and environmental behaviours. Furthermore this research intend to determine if there is a significant difference in elementary teacher candidates' environment-centered or human-centered approaches, environmental risk perceptions and environmental behaviours according to the variables of gender and class, or not. The research was carried out with a total of 243 teacher candidates (131male and 112 female) from Elementary Department of Faculty of Education at Siirt University in Turkey. It was used the New Environmental Paradigms Scale, which was first time developed by Dunlap and Van Liere (1978) and revised by Dunlap et. al. (2000) and adapted into Turkish by Furman (1998), to determine the environmental approaches of the teacher candidates, the Environmental Risk Perceptions Scale, which was developed by Slimak and Dietz (2006) and adapted into Turkish by Altunoglu and Atav (2009), was used to determine the teacher candidates' perceptions of environmental risk and it was used Environmental Behaviour Scale, which was developed by Uzun and Saglam (2006), to determine their environmental behaviours. At the analysis of data; it was consulted from descriptive statistical techniques and Pearson Moment Correlation coefficient. In our research, it was calculated that the Cronbach alpha reliability coefficient of environmental approaches scale as .65, the scale of environmental risk perceptions as .93 and the scale of environmental behavior as .85. As a result of this research, it was found that the teachers candidates' environmental-centered approach mean score (M=4.21) is higher than human-centered approach mean score (M=3.35). Moreover, it was found that there is a significant and positive relation between the elementary teacher candidates' human-centered approaches, environmental risk perceptions (r=.41; p<0.01) and environmental behaviours (r=.20; p<0.01). (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of The Association of Science, Education and Technology
Açıklama
3rd International Conference on New Horizons in Education (INTE) -- JUN 05-07, 2012 -- Prague, CZECH REPUBLIC
Anahtar Kelimeler
Environmental paradigms, environmental risk perceptions, environmental behaviors, elementary teacher candidates
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3rd International Conference on New Horizons in Education - Inte 2012
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