Research and Trends in the Field of Environment Education from 2012 to 2016: A Content Analysis of MA Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations in Turkey*

Year 2018, Volume: 8 Issue: 1, 1 - 14, 08.01.2018

İkramettin Daşdemir

Abstract

Abstract

This paper aims at making a
content analysis of 124 MA and Ph.D. theses in the field of environmental education
that were published by Turkish universities from 2012 to 2016. These were
selected based on keywords about environmental education. Among the 133 theses
on environment by in the Turkish universities, 124 out of them were identified
as being related to the topic of solely environment education. In the analysis,
first, these theses were cross-analyzed by published years, university,
department and research topic. Next, these theses on different sub-topics were
analyzed according to their research settings, participants, research design
types, and research methods. The findings showed that the highest number of
theses  were carried out in Gazi
University, MA, most theses were carried out in the department of sciences,
mixed method was mostly used in these theses, the setting of environmental
education and the importance of environmental education were mostly chosen as
research topics, the population of the study was mostly chosen among the
university students and secondary school students, environmental attitude scale
was mostly used as data collection tool and parametric tests were frequently
used. Suggestions about the future studies on
environmental issues were made at the end of the study.   

* This
article was presented as summary This article
was presented as summary 2^nd International
Scientific Researches Congress 

Keywords

Environmental Education, MA theses, Ph.D. dissertation, Qualitative research

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