This
research has been handled for two purposes: First, determining the level of
ecological citizenship of teachers; secondly, the level of curiosity about the
environment, the frequency of participation in environmental activities, investigating
the relationship between the dimensions of Ecological Citizenship Scale (ECS).
In line with this aim, in 2017-2018 academic year, a total of 296 teachers
working in different branches in the public educational institutions affiliated
to the Ministry of National Education Ecological Citizenship Scale (ECS)
developed by Karatekin and Uysal (2018) was applied. As a result of the study,
it was determined that the teachers' ecological citizenship levels were low in
the dimension of participation, moderate in the responsibility dimension,
sustainability and high in the dimension of rights and justice. It was seen
that teachers’ ecological citizenship levels which were composed of all
dimensions of the scale were at moderate level. External variables in the
structural equation model; the level of curiosity about the environment and the
frequency of participation in environmental activities; and internal variables
were formed from the variables of participation, sustainability,
responsibility, rights and justice. Goodness of fit indexes of model (χ2/sd= 2.03,
p=.13 RMSEA=.059, % 90 RMSEA CI= .000-.014, AGFI=0,95, NNFI=0,97 ve SRMR=.016) show
that the model is at acceptable level. According to the results of path
analysis, the level of curiosity about the environment significantly affects
the sustainability, responsibility, rights and justice dimensions of the
ecological citizenship scale. It was determined that the frequency of
participation in environmental activities directly affected all dimensions of
ecological citizenship. The results showed that, they positively predicted the
sustainability and responsibility dimensions of rights and justice,
responsibility of sustainability dimension and participation of responsibility
dimension as well.
Ecological citizen ecological citizenship education teacher environmental education
Birincil Dil | İngilizce |
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Bölüm | Research Papers |
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Yayımlanma Tarihi | 8 Aralık 2018 |
Yayımlandığı Sayı | Yıl 2019 Cilt: 9 Sayı: 1 |