EXAMINATION OF THE EFFECT OF THE ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION APPLICATION ON THE ENVIRONMENTAL ATTITUDES OF PROSPECTIVE PRESERVICE PRE-SCHOOL TEACHERS

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of Activity Based Environment Education Program on the environment motivation of prospective presevice pre-school teachers. Experimental design with pre-test and post-test control group was used in the research. 40 prospective teachers (20 of them are in experimental group, 20 in control group) attending to Pre-School Education Department in Education Faculty of Amasya University participated in this research. Activity based Environment Education was given to the prospective teachers in the experimental group three times a week for 8 weeks. The data was obtained through ‘Motivation Scale Towards Environment’ ’developed by Pelletier et al. (1998). The data was analysed by using covariance analysis (ANCOVA) and t-test. At the end of the study, a significant difference between the motivation scores against environment of experimental and control groups was found. Results show that the Activity Based Environment Education Program has a positive effect on the environmental motivation of the experimental group. Article visualizations