Exploring Turkish Preservice Teachers' Mental Models of the Environment: Are They Related to Gender and Academic Level?

Autor/inn/en	Ahi, Berat; Balci, Sibel; Alisinanoglu, Fatma
Titel	Exploring Turkish Preservice Teachers' Mental Models of the Environment: Are They Related to Gender and Academic Level?
Quelle	In: Journal of Environmental Education, 48 (2017) 3, S.182-195 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-8964
DOI	10.1080/00958964.2016.1267102
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Preservice Teacher Education; Preservice Teachers; Student Attitudes; Visualization; Environment; Gender Differences; Instructional Program Divisions; Elementary School Teachers; Preschool Teachers; Freehand Drawing; Cognitive Structures; Environmental Education; Questionnaires; Scoring Rubrics; Statistical Analysis; Qualitative Research; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung; Schülerverhalten; Visualisation; Visualisierung; Umwelt; Geschlechterkonflikt; Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Erzieher; Erzieherin; Kindergärtnerin; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Drawing; Zeichnen; Cognitive structure; Kognitive Struktur; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Fragebogen; Scoring formulas; Auswertungsbogen; Statistische Analyse; Qualitative Forschung; Türkei
Abstract	The current study aimed to establish Turkish preservice teachers' mental models of the environment and to determine the relationship these models have with gender and grade level. The study group comprised 463 Turkish preservice teachers from primary school education and preschool education departments. The data from the study were collected from drawings made by the participants. The drawings were evaluated using the Draw-an-Environment Test Rubric (DAET-R). The results of the study revealed that preservice teachers provide only superficial and scientifically deficient descriptions of the environment and that they constructed their mental models by perceiving the environment not as a unity of systems but as an object. On the basis of the findings, which showed that many preservice teachers do not include humans in their drawings, or draw biotic factors without other elements, it was concluded that preservice teachers perceive the environment as "nature" only. Although no statistically significant difference was found between females and males with respect to their mental models, significant differences occurred between second-year and fourth-year students and between third-year and fourth-year students, in favor of second- and third-year students. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01