Opinions of Preservice Teachers About Teaching Environmental Pollution and Recycling Lessons with Creative Drama

Year 2018, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 4 - 14, 17.12.2018

Zeynep Başcı Namlı

Abstract

The main objective of this research is to introduce
the views of students about the effects of creative drama on “Environmental
Pollution and Recycling”. A case study from qualitative research patterns was
adopted in the study. The study was carried out with 34 preservice class
teachers studying in the Department of Primary School Education in Division of
Basic Education of Kazım Karabekir Faculty of Education of Atatürk University
in 2017-2018 academic year. The course is taught with a 90-minute workshop plan
and the book named “Garbage and Recycle” of TUBITAK Popular Science Books. After
the workshop has been implemented, the research data were collected through an
open-ended interview form developed by the researcher and were evaluated by
using content analysis from qualitative data analysis techniques. The results
obtained from the data analysis show that teaching the lessons of environmental
pollution and recycling to preservice teachers by using creative drama
technique provides an easy learning and leading them to have consciousness and
awareness concerning the subject; besides, the results indicates that the
preservice teachers, when they become teachers, think to make use of creative
drama technique for giving the lesson of environmental pollution and recycling

Keywords

Creative drama, environmental pollution, recycling

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