A Closer look into Turkish elementary teachers regarding education for sustainable development

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The main aims of the current study are five fold (1) to develop a valid scale for measuring beliefs about education for sustainable development, (2) to adapt the values on sustainable development scale to the context of Turkey, (3) to explore elementary teachers’ familiarity with and understanding of sustainable development, (4) to determine the elementary teachers’ values on sustainable development, (5) to investigate their beliefs about education for sustainable development. In addition, the barriers elementary teachers have perceived regarding education for sustainable development, teaching strategies they have used in education for sustainable development and the possible relationship between barriers they have perceived and their beliefs about education for sustainable development was examined. The data of this study obtained from 211 elementary teachers who enrolled in the Green Pack and the Eco-Schools projects via direct administration and web-survey data collection methods in May to September 2012. The results revealed that Turkish elementary teachers lack of sufficient understandings of sustainable development. On the other hand, elementary teachers have favorable beliefs about education for sustainable development and favorable values on sustainable development. In addition, lack of the knowledge about sustainable development and lack of the knowledge about teaching sustainable development were relatively common barriers for these elementary teachers. Lastly, negative correlation between elementary teachers’ beliefs about education for sustainable development and barriers they have perceived was found.
Sustainable development, Sustainable living, Environmentalism, Environmental protection, Elementary school teachers
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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/22520
Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis

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A. Sağdıç, “A Closer look into Turkish elementary teachers regarding education for sustainable development,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2013.
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