Activities and Opinions of Science Teacher Candidates on Ecological Citizenship

Teachers undertake important tasks regarding awareness of the environment and raising ecological citizens. In particular, science courses include ecological issues, and science teachers are more responsible for being practitioners of these courses. The purpose of this study is to determine pre-servi...

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Main Authors: Elif Omca Çobanoğlu, Gamze Koca
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Language:English
Published: Anadolu University, Eskisehir 2024-07-01
Series:Anadolu Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi dergisi
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Online Access:https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/3113346
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description Teachers undertake important tasks regarding awareness of the environment and raising ecological citizens. In particular, science courses include ecological issues, and science teachers are more responsible for being practitioners of these courses. The purpose of this study is to determine pre-service science teachers' views on ecological citizenship, rights of nature, ecological constitution, participation, responsibility, sustainability, rights and justice, which are the features of ecological citizenship. In line with this purpose, the study uses phenomenological design, which is a qualitative research method. The study group of the research is composed of 21 science teacher candidates, except for senior year students, attending the education faculty of a state university in a large city in the Black Sea region in 2020-2021 academic year. Descriptive analysis method was used in the analysis of the interviews. According to the findings of the study, science teacher candidates thought individuals must first be aware of nature rights and their responsibilities to nature in order to qualify as ecological citizens. It was found that teachers thought all the creatures living in nature, just like humans, have the right to live. They also thought that the protection of nature should be secured by certain laws and rules. In this respect, environmental education programs applied from pre-school to university are recommended to be reexamined in terms of ecological citizenship.
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spelling doaj-art-dd8a2375e93940b0bcc2801ce929112a2025-08-20T03:25:06ZengAnadolu University, EskisehirAnadolu Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi dergisi2602-22492024-07-01831000102410.34056/aujef.129020826Activities and Opinions of Science Teacher Candidates on Ecological CitizenshipElif Omca Çobanoğlu0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3691-8273Gamze Koca1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5348-7647ONDOKUZ MAYIS ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİONDOKUZ MAYIS ÜNİVERSİTESİ, EĞİTİM FAKÜLTESİTeachers undertake important tasks regarding awareness of the environment and raising ecological citizens. In particular, science courses include ecological issues, and science teachers are more responsible for being practitioners of these courses. The purpose of this study is to determine pre-service science teachers' views on ecological citizenship, rights of nature, ecological constitution, participation, responsibility, sustainability, rights and justice, which are the features of ecological citizenship. In line with this purpose, the study uses phenomenological design, which is a qualitative research method. The study group of the research is composed of 21 science teacher candidates, except for senior year students, attending the education faculty of a state university in a large city in the Black Sea region in 2020-2021 academic year. Descriptive analysis method was used in the analysis of the interviews. According to the findings of the study, science teacher candidates thought individuals must first be aware of nature rights and their responsibilities to nature in order to qualify as ecological citizens. It was found that teachers thought all the creatures living in nature, just like humans, have the right to live. They also thought that the protection of nature should be secured by certain laws and rules. In this respect, environmental education programs applied from pre-school to university are recommended to be reexamined in terms of ecological citizenship.https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/3113346science teacher candidatesecological citizenshiprights of naturethe ecological constitutionphenomenologyfen bilgisi öğretmen adaylarıekolojik vatandaşlıktabiatın haklarıekolojik anayasaolgu bilim
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Activities and Opinions of Science Teacher Candidates on Ecological Citizenship
Anadolu Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi dergisi
science teacher candidates
ecological citizenship
rights of nature
the ecological constitution
phenomenology
fen bilgisi öğretmen adayları
ekolojik vatandaşlık
tabiatın hakları
ekolojik anayasa
olgu bilim
title Activities and Opinions of Science Teacher Candidates on Ecological Citizenship
title_full Activities and Opinions of Science Teacher Candidates on Ecological Citizenship
title_fullStr Activities and Opinions of Science Teacher Candidates on Ecological Citizenship
title_full_unstemmed Activities and Opinions of Science Teacher Candidates on Ecological Citizenship
title_short Activities and Opinions of Science Teacher Candidates on Ecological Citizenship
title_sort activities and opinions of science teacher candidates on ecological citizenship
topic science teacher candidates
ecological citizenship
rights of nature
the ecological constitution
phenomenology
fen bilgisi öğretmen adayları
ekolojik vatandaşlık
tabiatın hakları
ekolojik anayasa
olgu bilim
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