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Item Open Access A comparison of selected elementary curricula in regard to an action based environmental curriculum for elementary schools in Turkey(2012) Dinçer, ZeynepAn action based curriculum aims to enhance the formation and development of the human personality by teaching ecological values, knowledge, attitudes, and skills with respect to environmental issues, their understanding, and commitment to be involved in environmental action. In this thesis, five curricula from selected various countries were analyzed, explored, and compared in order to investigate whether they contained certain objectives, environmental terminology and activities that lead students to take environmental action. Four curricula, Ontario, Canada; England, Britain; Turkey; and International Baccalaureate Primary Years programme (IBPYP), were analyzed and compared to the Environmental Education Curriculum for Middle School from the United Nations Environmental Programme in order to be able to determine best practices that encourage and teach environmental action. Educators from elementary education and officers from non-governmental environmental organizations were interviewed to determine their opinions on environmental education within Turkey and the basic elements of an action-based curriculum. Curriculum analysis results and the transcription of interviews were used to prepare recommendations for an action-based environmental curriculum that enables students to acquire environmental knowledge, skills and activities that would lead them to action in finding and implementing solutions to environmental problems.Item Open Access Environmental education preparation in pre-service teacher programs in Turkey(2016-05) Güntürkün, EfeThe purpose of this study is to gain insights into how environmental education is implemented into pre-service teacher preparation in Turkey. The format of the courses, their duration, the strategies that are being used, and suggestions to improve these methods were explored. In addition to these data, the missing points in the environmental education in the faculties were analyzed. Two data collection tools were used in this study. One instrument was a questionnaire that was adapted from Ashmann (2010) and the other was an interview designed to ascertain important points of environmental education delivery and to learn suggestions for improving environmental education. The questionnaire was administered to 29 faculty members from institutes that offer teacher education programs in Turkey. The response rate of the questionnaire was 24.14% with seven responses out of 29. The interviews were one with four of the instructors who responded to the questionnaire. One of the most remarkable findings of this study is that environmental education is considered an important subject by instructors who put efforts into their courses. However, the low response rate indicates there is a lack of interest in participating in studies to assess environmental education.Item Restricted The Liberal Arts, the Campus, and the Biosphere(1990) Orr, David W.