Prospective Science Teachers’ Attitude Toward The Environmental Problems and Their Metaphorical Perceptions About “Environmental Pollution”
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The aim of this study is to find out prospective science teachers’ attitudes towards
environmental problems and their metaphorical perception of “environmental pollution”. The
research was performed in 2013-2014 fall semester at Gaziosmanpasa University in Tokat. The
study group of this research was (n=132) prospective science teachers. The data collection tools
were the “Environmental Attitude Scale” (Yoldas, 2009) and metaphor collection form. The
survey method, which is one of the quantitative research methods and the phenomenographic
design, which is one of the qualitative research methods, were used in this study. The
quantitative data of this research were analysed descriptive analysis and One-Way ANOVA
methods and the qualitative data was analysed content analysis. The result of this research
showed that prospective science teachers became familiar with environmental problems but
their environmental attitude scores were intermediate level. Also their environmental attitude
was significant difference according to their gender, but their environmental attitude wasn’t
significant differences according to their age, the type of high school that they graduated
from, the type of place of residence, parents’ education level, parents’ occupation, families
economic status and whether their membership in the environmental association. A total of 103
metaphors were produced for the concept of “environmental pollution” by the participant and
these metaphors were divided into a total of eleven different categories.
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