Environmental Education in Primary School Curriculum
Öz
The increases in environmental problems in recent years have caused the rise in the number of researches related to environment. Researchers have emphasized that the
first way to reduce this damage is to raise people who have environmental literacy. Thus, environmental education plays a crucial role in raising people who are environmentally
literate. In this study, the place of environmental issues in primary school curriculum in Turkey has been determined. For this purpose; a) the courses that are related to environmental
education have been specified, b) the themes, units and objectives in these courses have been determined, c) these objectives have been analyzed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Asa result of this analysis, which has been carried out as a content analysis, the total percentage of the objectives related to the environmental issues is found to be 11,82 %. It is also ascertained that these objectives are concentrated on the primary concepts of environment and ecology, earth’s structure, natural disasters, depletion of the sources, environmental cleanup, climate and atmospheric events. Turkish primary school curricula, which focuses on these themes about environmental issues, resembles to the Canadian curricula, because both countries give opportunities to the teachers for emphasizing the environmental issues and problems in their lessons. Furthermore, it also resembles to Indian school curricula, because both of them realized the importance of environmental education and reflect this realization to their school curricula.
Key words: Primary school curricula, environmental education, educational
policies.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
- Yılmaz, A., Morgil, İ., Aktuğ, P., ve Göbekli, İ. (2002). Ortaöğretim ve üniversite öğrencilerinin çevre, çevre kavramları ve sorunları konusundaki bilgileri ve öneriler, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi Dergisi, 22, 156-162.
- Yılmaz, Ö., Boone, W.J., & Andersen, H.O. (2004). Views of elementary and middle school Turkish students toward environmental issues. International Journal of Science Education, 26(12), 1527-1546.
Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
en.
Konular
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Bölüm
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Yayımlanma Tarihi
11 Ekim 2013
Gönderilme Tarihi
11 Ekim 2013
Kabul Tarihi
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Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2009 Cilt: 30 Sayı: 30