Özet:

With the increasing importance of the natural environment in the 21st century, it is important to determine what the limits of citizenship and responsibility are in the focus of environmental education and environment. The responsibility of education in the field of citizenship lies to teachers in the field of education. In this context, the purpose of the research is to identify what social information teachers candidates add to the concepts of environmental, environmental education and environmental citizenship. The research is conducted with a proper approach. In this context, the social information teaching bachelor’s program in class 2 with 14 teachers candidates studying in the semi-structured conversations, the data obtained by conducting content analysis has been analyzed. In the analysis of the data, the NVIVO 10 quality analysis program was used. As the results of the study, the participants have found that they do not experience the concept errors by explaining the concept of the environment in a complete and accurate manner and that the perceptions of the environment are based on nature. The role of environmental education in the protection of the environment has also been achieved; they see people as informing about the environment, educating people sensitive to the environment with awareness and responsibility. In this context, the environmental citizen has achieved the conclusion that they see as a person who is actively fighting environmental problems, conscious, awareness of the environment, who is educated about the environment and who informs the individuals around the environment about nature, but also protects the environment and is sensitive to the environment. However, even though they indicate that they see themselves as an environmental citizen identity, they have achieved that the environmentally friendly behavior practices they show in their daily lives in the sense of active participation are active and active. The study has been suggested to give participants the opportunity to choose environmentally-oriented courses, to ensure the environmentally-qualified active use of university student social clubs and to support the environmental projects developed by university students by universities and civil society organizations as external stakeholders and to contribute to the development of environmental knowledge, sensations and attitudes of teachers candidates in the environmental citizen focus.