Abstract:

The aim of this study is to determine the awareness of primary school teacher candidates about environmental problems and to examine their awareness of environmental problems according to gender, age, staying at a dorm, keeping pets, participating in environmental activities and projects. The method of the research is correlational survey model. In the research, 269 primary school teacher candidates are participated. The data in the study were collected using the "Awareness Scale on Environmental Problems". In the analysis of the research, t-test and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and descriptive statistics were used. In the study, it has been determined that primary school teacher candidates' awareness of environmental problems is at a moderate level. There is no significant difference between the total scores of awareness of environmental problems and gender, age, staying at a dorm, keeping pets, participating in environmental activities and projects. On the other hand, it was determined that there was a statistically significant difference between some sub-dimensions of awareness of environmental problems and the variable of keeping pets and gender. The findings show that awareness of environmental problems should be increased and the adoption of environmental behaviors can be encouraged.

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