Environmental Literacy Levels Of The Classroom Teachers In Turkey: A Research Towards The Classroom Teachers Servıng In Bursa

• Published in: The online journal of new horizons in education Vol. 6; no. 3
• Main Author: Tosun,Elif Karakurt
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Sakarya Üniversitesi Yayınları 01.07.2016
• Subjects: Eğitim Bilimleri; Sakarya; Türkiye; Classroom Teachers; Environmentally Beneficial Behaviour; Environmental Knowledge; Bursa; Environmental Literacy
• ISSN: 2146-7374; 2146-7374

The educators and the teachers who will give environmental education to children are supposed to have knowledge about the basic issues regarding the environment, to be at a certain sensitivity level about the environmental issues, to assume active roles in the process of reducing the environmental problems and, in this acpect in their daily lives, to exhibit behaviours towards protecting the environmental values. The teachers who have important duties and responsibilities in the individuals becoming environmentally literate citizens are must be invorenmental literate individuals at the operational level. The primary school period during which the social relations and personalities of the children develop is very important. The classroom teachers educating the children at the age of primary school being "environmentally literate" and these teachers educating their students in this direction will be one of the components contributing to the protection of the environmental values, creation of the awareness concerning the environmental issues and eventually, construction of a sustainable furture. In the research carried out with the classroom teachers at the primary schools and depending on the basis of voluntariness within the scope of "the Survey for the Invironmental Literacy of the Classroom Teachers", an environmental literacy survey has been applied to 310 teachers.