Understandings of Students’ Environmental Ethics About Importance of Biodiversity in Kars

Year 2018, Volume: 26 Issue: 3, 907 - 912, 15.05.2018

Sibel Gürbüzoğlu Yalmancı

https://doi.org/10.24106/kefdergi.415710

Abstract

Turkey is among the most important biodiversity areas of the world. For this reason Biodiversity education is a necessity for Turkey and researches on this issue is important. The identification of environmental ethics approaches that will form the basis for students’ thinking about important environmental issues such as biodiversity will present different perspectives for the solution of this issue which has become an environmental problem and will affect environmental behavior. The aim of this study is to determine tthe students’ environmental ethics approaches for the importance of biodiversity. The case study was used in the study within the qualitative research model. As a data collection tool, a questionnaire form consisting of open ended questions was used. Content analysis and percent value calculations were made for the analysis of collected data. Categories and codes were created in the light of the answers given to the questions. According to the results of the study, students answered the most anthropocentric ethical approach in all questions. It can be said that this approach is more dominant in students.

Keywords

biodiversity, environmental ethics, biodiversity importance, environmental education

Kars İlinde Öğrencilerin Biyoçeşitliliğin Önemine Yönelik Çevre Etiği Anlayışları

Abstract

Dünyanın
önemli biyolojik çeşitlilik alanları arasında Türkiye öncelikli bölgeler
arasındadır. Bu nedenle Biyolojik çeşitlilik eğitimi Türkiye için bir
gerekliliktir ve bu konuya yönelik araştırmalar önem oluşturmaktadır. Öğrencilerin
biyolojik çeşitlilik gibi önemli bir çevre sorununa yönelik düşüncelerinin
temelini oluşturacak çevre etiği yaklaşımlarının belirlenmesi, bir çevre sorunu
haline gelmiş olan bu konunun çözümü için farklı bakış açıları sunacak ve çevreci
davranışları etkileyecektir. Bu çalışmanın amacı öğrencilerin biyolojik çeşitliliğin
önemine yönelik hangi çevre etiği yaklaşımlarına sahip olduğunu belirlemektir.
Çalışmada nitel araştırma modeli çerçevesine bulunan durum çalışması kullanılmıştır. Veri toplama aracı olarak, bir eğitim
bilimleri uzmanı ile üç alan uzmanının görüşü alınarak araştırmacı tarafından
hazırlanan açık uçlu sorudan oluşan anket formu kullanılmıştır. Toplanan
verilerin analizi için içerik analizi ve yüzde değeri hesabı yapılmıştır. Sorulara verilen
cevapların ışığında kategoriler ve kodlar oluşturulmuştur. Araştırmanın
sonuçlarına göre, tüm sorularda öğrenciler en fazla insan merkezli etik yaklaşımına
yönelik yanıt vermiştir. Bu yaklaşımın öğrenciler üzerinde daha baskın olduğu
söylenebilir.

Keywords

biyoçeşitlilik, çevre etiği, biyoçeşitliliğin önemi, çevre eğitimi

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