Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to determine the environmental knowledge, attitudes towards environmental problems and environmental behaviors of primary school teachers. In this study, the levels were also examined in terms of gender, seniority, residential area of workplace, educational background, membership to the non-governmental organizations related to the environment and availability of previous project experience on environment. Survey method was used in the study. The study group of the study is composed of 371 class teachers working in state primary schools in the province of Afyonkarahisar in the academic year of 2016-2017. Environment information test, attitude scale towards environmental problems and environmental behavior scale were used as data collection tools in the study. The data obtained were analyzed by using the SPSS 20 statistical program. Independent-samples t-test, and one way ANOVA were used in the analysis of results obtained from this study. As a result of the research, it was determined that both primary school teachers' environment behavior levels and their environmental knowledge levels are moderate and their attitudes towards about environmental problems are high. Furthermore, while it was determined that the knowledge, attitude and behavior scores of the teachers did not change according to gender, educational background and membership to non-governmental organizations, it was observed that there were differences in terms of the variables of seniority, residential area of workplace and availability of previous project experience on environment.

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