The Short Term Effectiveness of an Outdoor Environmental Education on Environmental Awareness and Sensitivity of In-service Teachers

Year 2015, Volume: 5 Issue: 1, 1 - 19, 14.09.2015

Emel Okur-berberoglu , Hasan Göksel Ozdılek Sukran Yalcın-ozdılek

https://doi.org/10.18497/iejee-green.03640

Cited By: 6

Abstract

Abstract Outdoor education is mostly mentioned in terms of environmental education. The aim of this research is to determine the short term effectiveness of an outdoor environmental education program on biodiversity awareness, environmental awareness and sensitivity to natural environment. The data is collected from an outdoor environmental education project which is financed by TUBITAK and its name is ‘Nature-based Outdoor Environmental Education in Canakkale and Suburbs, 2008.' There are 27 in-service teachers in the project and the project is only for 10 days. An environmental awareness and sensitivity scale is developed for the study. The research design is pre-posttest design. The data is analysed by Wilcoxon signed rank test because of the data is non-parametric. It is found that the nature-based outdoor education program is effective to improve environmental awareness and sensitivity to natural environment; on the other hand it is not successful to improve biodiversity awareness.

Key words:  Outdoor education, environmental education, in-service teachers, TUBITAK, Turkey

Keywords

Outdoor education, environmental education, in-service teachers, TUBITAK, Turkey

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