Opinions of biology pre service teacher about national and global environmental problems

This study aimed at the determination of the awareness and sensitivity of the pre service biology teachers about the national and global environmental problems, the activities they can use for the promotion of environmental consciousness and their opinions for the solution of these problems. This study also dwelled upon to find out whether social and academic sensitivities of pre service biology teachers vary according to their gender and academic years.The sample of this study was constituted by 153 pre service biology teachers studying in 1-5 years of Department of Biology Education, Faculty of Education, Gazi University in 2008?2009 academic year spring term. The data were collected by questionnaires. The data were evaluated by the use of frequency and percentage groups , independent groups t- test, and one- way Anova analyses.The results indicate that pre service biology teachers believe that the most important national and global environmental problem is the use of natural sources, the most effective group for the solution of environmental problems is the educators, the pre service biology teachers must be effectively acquainted with the environmental organizations and the environmental education should be started from the pre school stage. The social and academic sensitivities of the pre service biology teachers do not show a significant variation according to their gender however their social sensitivity is significantly depended upon their academic years while their academic sensitivity do not have a significant correlation to it.