The Academic Events Group, 6th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION

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Investigation of Pre-service Teachers' Attitudes Towards Recycling
Yusuf Ziya OLPAK, Hüseyin ATEŞ, Yeşim TAKTAT ATEŞ

Last modified: 2017-05-11

Abstract


In today's world, the greatest cause of environmental problems is human behavior. Consumption, waste disposal, global warming, acid rain, toxic pollution and loss of biodiversity are only a small part of important environmental problems. Recycling, which is environmental behavior, is a process of creating a new product that has not been changed before and has an important place in solid waste management (Vining & Ebreo, 1992). The aim of this research is to examine the attitudes of pre-service teacher who study in different departments towards recycling. Within the scope of this general objective, answers to the following questions will be sought.

  1. What are the attitudes of preservice teachers teachers towards recycling?
  2. Are the attitudes of the preservice teachers towards recycling significantly different in terms of gender?
  3. Are the attitudes of the preservice teachers towards recycling significantly different in terms of grade level?
  4. Are the attitudes of the preservice teachers towards recycling significantly different in terms of departments pre-service teachers study?

Mixed method study will be used in the research. This research will be carried outone with pre-service teachers at Ahi Evran University. In this scale, "Recycling Attitude Scale" developed by Karatekin (2013) will be used to determine the attitudes of the individuals towards recycling. The data is planned to be collected within one month of the 2016-2017 academic year spring semester and all the process will be completed until end of the semester. In this research, descriptive analysis, inferential statistics and content analysis will be used as data analysis. The results of the research will be the basis for the future studies.