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This study deals with the effects of pre service teachers’ critical thinking dispositions on environmental ethics approach. Its study model is relational screening model. Study population involves 641 pre service teacher who are studying science, preschool and primary school teaching at Faculty of Education of two state universities. Data collection tools are “Personal Information Form”, “California Critical Thinking Disposition Inventory” and “Environmental Ethics Approaches Scale”. SPSS-17 program was used in data analysis and Pearson product-moment correlation model was used in order to establish a regression model. Then, multiple regression analysis was carried out in order to find out whether pre service teachers’ critical thinking dispositions predicted their environmental ethics approach. Analysis indicated that being analytic, one of the critical thinking dispositions predicted all three environmental ethics approaches. It was also found out that several other critical thinking dispositions predicted various environmental ethics approaches while open-mindedness had no predictor effect on environmental ethics approaches.

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