For a sustainable environment, the notion of educating
the children from the early years regarding the environment is becoming more
commonplace. Therefore the subject of environment in the current education
system shall be reviewed. Contrary to popular belief, environment do not only
consist the natural formations and the importance of built environment and its
relation to ecological balance is not fully understood. For this reason, the
aim is to improve the current environment education in terms of context and
governance and the field studies conducted for this purpose include architecture
based environment education events. For this study, the different methods for
processing the issue of environment in lessons are reviewed and consisted 65
students, 30 being the experiment group, that are in 4th grade in 2 different
schools. The quantitative and qualitative research methods are used in tandem.
As the results of the study is reviewed, it is seen that the students who
participated to the workshop have become more knowledgeable in terms of
“environment, ecology and sustainability” and are able to apply their knowledge
by constructing models. Based on these results, the studies that will be
conducted in the future regarding environment education, it is recommended that
a holistic approach that includes the built environment to be adopted.
Primary Language | English |
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Journal Section | Research Article |
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Publication Date | February 13, 2018 |
Submission Date | January 28, 2018 |
Published in Issue | Year 2018 Volume: 8 Issue: 1 |
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