Özet:

In this study, the University of Giresun School of Education aims to determine the level of environmental literacy of students and to make an assessment in terms of various variables. The research was carried out in the scan model, the data collection tool was used as "Environmental Reading Scale (Kahyaoğlu, 2011)." The "Personal Information Form" was also used by researchers to learn the student's information. The research data was collected from 259 teachers candidates who studied in 4th grade at the Giresun University Education Faculty in the 2017-2018 educational-educational year. According to the research, the levels of environmental concern, which are from the lower dimensions of the environmental literacy scale of the teacher candidates, are "very high", the levels of environmental use are "high", their attitudes towards the environment are "mediate" and the environmental knowledge is "unsuitable" levels. The low dimensions of the scale are compared with demographic characteristics that the attitudes of girls teachers candidates towards the environment are more positive than men, and the attitudes of straight high school graduates towards the environment are more positive than the graduates of the anadolu high school, and the population of teachers candidates living in a large settlement is relatively greater than the environmental knowledge. The environmental education acquisition status and class levels can be said that the teacher candidates have no meaningful impact on concerns, use, attitude and information about the environment.

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