Prospective Teachers’ Levels of Associating Environmental Problems with Science Fields and Thermodynamics Laws

dc.creator	Neşet DEMİRCİ
dc.creator	Vahide Nilay KIRTAK AD
dc.date	2012-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:24:15Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:24:15Z
dc.identifier	1302-5007
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/897733cb03584dc4bf1ba0705f1d0bc2
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29880
dc.description	The purpose of present research is to designate the science fields that prospective teachers of physics, chemistry and biology departments associate environmental problems with and also to explore the level of association prospective teachers establish between thermodynamics laws and environmental problems. Research sampling is composed of 245 prospective teachers from physics, chemistry and biology departments during the academic year 2009-2010 in Balıkesir University, Necatibey Faculty of Education. In data-gathering stage Association Test of Environmental Problems with Science Fields (ATEPSF), Word Association Test (WAT), and Association Test of Environmental Problems with Laws of Thermodynamics (ATEPLT) developed by researcher have been employed. According to findings obtained from ATEPSF prospective teachers from physics, chemistry and biology departments associate environmental problems mostly with biology which is followed by chemistry, earth science and physics. Besides “air pollution” is considered to be the most critical environmental problem. As manifested by WAT and ATEPLT findings, prospective teachers have failed to establish a connection between thermodynamics and environmental problems as well as energy pollution and thermal pollution and that prospective teachers have experienced difficulty in practicing thermodynamics laws within the scope of daily environmental problems.
dc.language	Turkish
dc.publisher	Ahi Evran University
dc.relation	http://kefad.ahievran.edu.tr/archieve/pdfler/Cilt13Sayi3/JKEF_13_3_2012_19-46.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1302-5007
dc.source	Journal of Kirsehir Education Faculty, Vol 13, Iss 3, Pp 19-46 (2012)
dc.subject	Thermodynamics
dc.subject	Thermodynamics laws
dc.subject	Environmental problems
dc.subject	Environmental pollution
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
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dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Education (General)
dc.subject	L7-991
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	Prospective Teachers’ Levels of Associating Environmental Problems with Science Fields and Thermodynamics Laws
dc.type	article