SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS' OPINIONS OF ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE RELATIONSHIP

Abstract

The humanbeing who is in the intensive interaction with the environment sometimes takes what the environment gives him without questioning, sometimes goes into effort searching the underlying facts at the root of this giving's. He often benefits from the science to find solution. For this purpose in this study, the Science and Technology teachers of future at university studying the environment - the relationship of science and technology, as well as awareness of views about solving the current problems related to the environment were tried to determine. The participants of this research are the students of Science and Technology Pre-Service Teachers training college in the Aegean Region. 2 and 3 grade students from the Department of Science Education in University of Adnan Menderes, Celal Bayar University, Dokuz Eylul University and Mugla University, Faculty of Education in the region 2010-2011 academic year, form the sample of this research. Within this study 'the opinion Survey on the Interaction of Environment, Science and Technology ' through Five point Likert Scale was applied to teachers that are studying in these universities. Data obtained from the result of opinion survey analyzed in the SPSS program and evaluated in terms of different variables.