THE OPINIONS OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS REGARDINGENERGY AND ITS PROBLEMS


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Çakırlar E., Turan S. L.

International Trends and Issues in Communication & Media Conference, Sankt-Peterburg, Rusya, 2 - 04 Eylül 2015 identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Sankt-Peterburg
  • Basıldığı Ülke: Rusya
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Energy is an element that we need in every aspect of our lives. Especially because of reasons such as growth of population and increase of life standards, technological advances, industrialization need for energy has increased very much. The necessity of considering energy supplement safety, providing source variety as well as environmental effects in choice of energy sources comes forth. In this study, by using qualitative research techniques, it is aimed to determine the opinions of the secondary school students, being the adults of the future, about energy issues as the energy is indispensable part of our lives. In line with this purpose, as a tool of data collection, a semi-structured interview form, developed by researchers by taking into consideration the secondary education curricula, is used and it took it’s final shape in accordance with expert opinions. The semi-structured interview form is applied to 32 students who take education at different Anatolian High Schools. By the analysis we did in light of this study some advices about energy and environmental education have been pointed out.