Fen Bilgisi Eğitimi Anabilim Dalı’ndaki Öğretmen Adaylarının Kaynakların Tasarruflu Kullanımı Hakkındaki Görüşleri

Abstract

In this study, it was aimed to determine the opinions of science teacher candidates about the efficient use of resources. The study was carried out with 127 volunteer teacher candidates studying in the Department of Science Education in the faculty of education of a state university in the spring semester of 2018-2019 academic year. The research was qualitative and case study method was used. As the data collection tool, the opinion form, including six open-ended questions, developed by the researcher by asking the opinions of 4 experts after an extensive literature analysis about the topic in Turkey was used and collected data were analyzed using content analysis. The most frequent frequencies of the questions are as follows. About what comes to your mind about sustainable development "saving use of resources", about whether they had education in saving use of resources "they didn't have", about whether they are saving water by taking simple measures "eliminating technical problems in taps", about whether adequate education is provided on the efficient use of resources in the universities in our country "not adequate education", about whether the 2018 science curriculum in secondary schools includes sufficient information on the efficient use of resources "not sufficient information", about whether in our country, since January 1, 2019, the demand of 25 cents for the transport bags given in the markets is sufficient for the efficient use of resources "not sufficient" have the highest frequency.