Investigation of Pre-Service Science Teachers’ Behavior towards Sustainable Environmental Education

Year 2020, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 110 - 121, 01.01.2020

Özlem Afacan

Abstract

The purpose of this study
is to investigate pre-service science teachers’ sustainable environmental
education behaviour and the factors affecting them in terms of some variables
(gender and grade level). The study group of the current research is comprised
of 206 pre-service teachers attending the Department of Science Education in
the Faculty of Education of Kırsehir Ahi Evran University. The study employed
the descriptive survey method, one of the qualitative research methods. As the
data collection tool, “The Sustainable Environmental Education Behavior Scale”
developed by Demirci Güler and Afacan (2012) was used in the study. The
Cronbach alpha reliability of the scale was calculated to be α=.944. In the
statistical analysis of the data, SPSS was used. In the analysis of the data,
Independent Samples t-Test and One Way ANOVA were run. It was found that the
pre-service science teachers’ scores of behavior towards sustainable
environmental education do not vary significantly by gender.

Keywords

sustainable environmental education, behaviour, pre-service science teachers, gender, grade level

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