A Study on Environmental Education Research in Turkey: A Content Analysis Study

Abstract

In this study, a content analysis of study is aimed to identify the trends in field of environmental education in Turkey. The data in this study were gathered from the investigation of 179 articles, which were accessed from web in full text 2000-2013 years and which were published in the field of environmental education from 34 different national and international journals. As a data collection tool was adapted and used paper classification form developed by Ciltas, Guler ve Sozbilir (2012) to research in mathematics education and developed by Goktas et. al (2012) to educational technologies. The published environmental education articles is examined according to years, research types, methods, subjects areas, keywords, selected sampling, sample size, data collection tools, data analysis methods. The research findings chart, frequency and percentage table is presented. As a result, quantitative research is more preferred as method, questionnaire, concern and attitude scale, ability test is often used as data collection tools, faculty of education graduate students is more preferred as sampling group and were determined.