Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
EJER Congress , Ankara, Türkiye, 8 - 11 Haziran 2023, ss.463-475
This study examined the effects of forest education on the environmental awareness and environmental attitudes
of vocational high school students and their self-evaluations toward forest education. The study, in which the
mixed research method was adopted, was designed with an explanatory design. Forest education was given within
the scope of the experimental study carried out at the quantitative level. The importance of the education was
emphasized and forest ecology, eco-social functions of forests, forest products were discussed with an
interdisciplinary approach. The study group consists of 32 vocational high school students studying at vocational
high schools in different provinces from the Thrace region. Data collection tools are the sustainable environmental
awareness scale and environmental attitude scale at the quantitative level and structured interviews at the
qualitative level. Related samples t-test was used for quantitative data and content analysis was performed for
qualitative data. The results of the study show a permanent increase in environmental awareness and attitude of
vocational high school students thanks to forest education. According to the self-evaluations of vocational high
school students, it can be said that forest education provides positive environmental and academic contributions to
them. Based on the results obtained, it can be suggested that forest education should be given importance to direct
qualified intermediate staff candidates who can have a say in human-environment interaction to sustainable proenvironmental behaviors.