The effect of the course "Man and Environment" and Voluntary Environmental Organisations on secondary school students' knowledge and attitude towards environment

Uzun N., SAĞLAM N.

HACETTEPE UNIVERSITESI EGITIM FAKULTESI DERGISI-HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF EDUCATION, sa.33, ss.210-218, 2007 (SSCI) identifier

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In this study, it is aimed to determine the effect of the course "Man and Environment" provided as an elective course in the secondary school curriculum, as well as the Voluntary Environment Organisations, to the students in terms of providing environment-oriented knowledge and attitude. The developed "Environmental Attitude Scale" and "Environment Knowledge Test" are applied in education period 2004-2005 to 1013 students, having education in Ankara, district Cankaya. Obtained data is evaluated by Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). According to MANOVA results, there is a significant difference in favor of students that have attended the "Man and Environment" course, in terms of environment-oriented knowledge and attitude average of the students. On the other hand, with the evaluation considering active participation in the voluntary environment organisations, no significant difference is found between the students in terms of envorinment-oriented attitude and knowledge average.