ERTEN, Sinan Hacettepe Üniversitesi - Eğitim Fakültesi - İlköğretim Bölümü, Fen Bilgisi Anabilim Dalı, Turkey

University Students’ Interests towards Environmental Issues and Their Origins

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This study handled out the state university students’ degree of concerns about the protection of the environment, the sources of concerns and factors that affect their concerns such as the people, courses and specially instructors in the universities. The scale which measures the sources of concerns about environment was used in this study. The stimulated factors which has a role in construction of concerns about environment were indicated and the roles which affect the concerns were investigated in this study. The factors which were ordered in sequence the third were identified as “Inconvenience of students about the nature and environment pollution”, “deformation of the world in terms of environmental problems” and “responsibility of students about environment”. Concrete suggestions about increasing the concern level of students about environment protection and their transfer process to schools and courses were developed and presented in terms of findings.

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Interest , environment protection , concerns and stimulated factors about environment

pamukkale university journal of education

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