Analyzingthe theses in the field of nature and environment education in 2010 and following years in Turkey in terms of qualitative and quantative methods

The rapid increase in the world population, the efford of people to find new living spaces, in addition to this, the development of industry and the necessity of using technology have increased the destruction of nature. This destruction has reached to a global extent and people began questioning their relationship with the nature. Facing with the danger of damage and decrease of living beings' habitats and natural resources have led to the researchers to the studies about nature and environment. Reachers genarally aimed to recognize the nature and find the ways of saving the nature by their studies. In this study, the postgraduate and phd theses on nature and environment education in 2010 and following years in Turkey have been analayzed. In this study, acquired theses have been examined under the titles of studying year, the school that study was carried out, participants, method of study, data collection tool, etc and then common tendency has been revealed. In this study, qualitative research method was carried out, 391 theses were analayzed, of these 28 theses were about the nature education and 363 theses were about the environmental education. There are 334 postgraduate and 57 phd theses in this study. When these theses were studied in terms of qualitative and quantitative measurement, it has been seen that researchers had carried out their theses with different sample groups in different years and they published them in different universities, they used different methods and patterns in these theses. It has been identified that scanning method is the mostly used method by researchers; the secondary school students were the most prefered sample group by researchers. When thesis studies examined by years, it was observed that there was an intensity in 2019. In following years, a meaningful difference wasn't observed in distribution. However, 2019 is the year that most studies were carried out with 59 studies (%15.08), the year of 2021 draws attention with 20 studies (%5.11). When the universities where theses were studied were examined, these subjects were studied in 75 universities and it has been seen that the most study was carried out in Gazi University with 57 (%14.57) studies and each 22 universities has only one study. When the distribution of postgraduate and phd studies were analyzed It has been seen that there have been only 2 doctor's degree and 26 postgraduate theses about nature education, 55 doctor's degree and 308 postgraduate theses about environmental education.