Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
The National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), Florida, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 3 - 06 Nisan 2011, ss.98-99
The study aimed to investigate how pre-service science teachers perceived local and non-local
environmental problems and whether there were any differences in their perceptions. A convenience sample of 114
pre-service science teachers participated to the study. For data collection four local and four non-local environmental
cases about deforestation, e-waste, oil spill, and global warming environmental problems were prepared by the
researchers and ten questions about the certainty, tangibility, and seriousness of the causes and the consequences of
the problems, participants’ knowledge levels and concerns as well as their perceptions about the trend of the
environmental problems after 20 were asked for each of the environmental cases. The participants were found to be
aware of the certainty, tangibility, and seriousness of the causes and the consequences of both local and non-local environmental problems and the fact that their lives would be affected by them. Moreover, descriptive findings of the
study revealed that there were some differences their perceptions –including their risk perceptions- in favor of local
environmental problems indicating that emphasizing local environmental problems both in mass media and
environmental education programmes may lead people to behave more pro-environmental.