Investigation of Changes of Pre-service Teachers' Opinions about Environmental Education with Drawing Analysis

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of the project “Nature Education in Ihlara Valley (Aksaray) and Its Surrounding Area III” supported by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) on the pre-service teachers’ environmental opinions. Drawings were used to collect data in the present study. Two questions were asked pre-service teachers to determine their opinions about environment and environmental education before the project and at the end of the project: The present study is an attempt to seek answers to these questions asked to pre-service teachers “In what kind of environment do you want to live? Please draw it” and “What kind of environmental education do you want to give to your students? Please draw it”. Then, the opinions of the students expressed in their drawings are collected under the suitable categories. The opinions of the pre-service teachers are conceptualized under the emerging categories and tables of frequencies are formed for the concepts

Keywords

• drawings, environmental education, pre-service teachers

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