Abstract:

This research was conducted with the aim of assessing the relation between the self efficacy beliefs towards environmental education and learning styles of pre‐service teachers. The research was carried out with a total of 235 elementary class and science pre‐service teachers (109 female, 126 male students) from elementary department of Faculty of Education at Siirt University. The data was collected within the fall semester of 2009‐2010 education year by means of self‐efficacy belief towards environmental education scale developed by Özdemir (2009) and learning styles inventory developed by Kolb (1984) and translated into Turkish by Aşkar and Akkoyunlu (1993). The result of research showed that the scale of environmental education self efficacy of elementary pre‐service teachers is at a medium level. Moreover, analysis result demonstrated that the dominant learning styles among pre‐ service teachers is divergent and accommodator learning style, Additionally, there is no significant differences between self efficacy elementary class and science pre‐service teachers towards environmental education and their learning styles

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