Teacher candidates' attidues towords the sustainable environmental education in out-of-school learning environments

The aim of this research is determine teacher candidates' attıdues towords the sustaınable envıronmental educatıon ın out-of-school learnıng envıronments. The research has a survey model, which is considered as one of the quantitative research models. The sample of the study consisted of 514 teacher condidates' participating in the faculty of education and sports science faculty of Akdeniz Unıversity durind the 2018-2019 academic year and the data were collected with semi-structured interviews. This research has employed "Attitude Scale Towards Sustainable Environmental Education" developed by Afacan ve Demirci Güler (2011) with a reliability coefficient of 0.904. For independent groups t-test and one way variance analysis were used for data analysis. Research results have revealed that then participants have a high level of sustainable environmental attitude. The findings of the study indicate that there is a significant difference in teacher candidates' variable attiudes towards the sustainable environment in terms of gender variable. According to results, male students‟ attitudes were higher than female students. İn addition, in the education of teacher candidates' for sustainable environment have been stated to be the most effective method of out-of-school learning environments Keywords: Enviromental Education, Sustainable Environment, Out of School Learning Environments.