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Karakaya Cirit, Didem; Aydemir, Selçuk – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The aim of this study was to investigate the levels of secondary school students' knowledge about three Global Environmental Problems: Global Warming, Acid Rain, and Ozone Layer Depletion. 638 7th grade (N=316) and 8th grade (N=322) students enrolled in five different secondary schools participated in this study. The survey method was used to…
Descriptors: Knowledge Level, Misconceptions, Scientific Concepts, World Problems
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Ürey, Mustafa; Çolak, Kerem; Bozdemir Yüzbasioglu, Hafife; Kaymakci, Selahattin – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
The aim of this study is to investigate and compare the prospective science and social studies teachers' knowledge of and misconceptions about atmospheric environmental problems. In this study, the causal-comparative design was used. The sample of the study consisted of 441 prospective science and social studies teachers studying at faculties of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Social Studies, Science Teachers, Knowledge Level
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Kiryak, Zeynep; Candas, Bahar; Özmen, Haluk – Journal of Science Learning, 2021
Environmental knowledge and awareness of individuals affect their attitudes and behavior toward the environment. In this regard, it is essential to specify how environmental issues are interpreted in individuals' cognitive structures. This study aims to investigate preservice science teachers' cognitive structures on environmental issues. The…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Undergraduate Students, Cognitive Structures
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Urbanska, Magdalena; Charzynski, Przemyslaw; Gadsby, Helen; Novák, Tibor József; Sahin, Salih; Yilmaz, Monica Denise – Education Sciences, 2022
Teaching geography creates an opportunity for the transfer of knowledge about environmental problems and ways of solving them. Teachers from the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Turkey, and the United Kingdom indicated strengths and weaknesses of physical geography as well as the selected geographical concepts of: Maps/Cartography,…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Teaching Methods, Environmental Education
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Yastibas, Ahmet Erdost – Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics, 2021
The new geological epoch, the Anthropocene reveals the negative impacts of human activities on the environment, which makes environmental education significant to deal with the negative effects of people on the environment and sustain the environment for the future of the world. As a branch of education, English language teaching (ELT) can…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Course Content