Akgül, Hasan Celal Sakarya Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - İlköğretim Bölümü, Fen Bilgisi Ana Bilim Dalı, Turkey

Determination of Prospective Elementary Elementary Teachers’ Awareness about Agricultural Concepts

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This research study investigated prospective elementary teachers’ awareness about currentagricultural problems. Data were collected with a questionnaire designed by the researcher and in which contains topics of global warming bird flu, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and mad cow diseases and interviews. The questionnaire was administered to 383 participants.. the interviews were semi-structured and included some items in questionnaire. In this survey study, quantitative and qualitative techniques were used together to analyze data. . SPSS 15,0 statistical program was used to analyze data from the questionnaire . Eventually, all of the participants have high level of awareness about mad cow disease and bird flu and their consequences. However, many participants think that Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever increased with culling of poultry due to bird flu. They also thought that Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever had nothing to do with global warming.

agricultural concepts , global warming , Crimean , Congo hemorrhagic fever , mad cow disease , bird flu , agricultural awareness

Mersin University Journal Of The Faculty Of Education