GENERAL ANALYSIS OF ARTICLES AND THESIS ON ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION WHICH WERE PUBLISHED IN TURKEY

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It is of great importance to study some issues such as unconscious resource consumption, environmental pollution, and recycling and to introduce these controversial issues to students under the title of environmental education in the field of science and technology in an interactive way in order to understand and model a sustainable life where future generations can live comfortably. Moreover, besides studying these issues, it is essential to reveal the current situation in relation to the existing studies in terms of content, method and analysis in leading further studies. The purpose of this study is to perform a general analysis of the theses and articles on environmental education, which were published between 2000-2016. A total of 47 national theses and 39 articles published in the journals within SSCI were analyzed as part of this study. The results of the study showed that the most commonly used concepts in these studies were “environmental attitude and behavior, environmental knowledge, environmental education, and environmental problems. The studies on environmental education were performed mostly with university students. Whereas the quantitative research method was frequently used as the research method, the most commonly used research model was descriptive/screening models. Scales and tests were the data collection tools mostly used in these studies.

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Environmental education , descriptive study , content analysis

Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi

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Abant İzzet Baysal Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi