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Kahriman-Pamuk, Deniz; Ahi, Berat – Journal of Education in Science, Environment and Health, 2023
The current study aims to understand the expectations of pre-service preschool teachers regarding what kind of environment we will live in in the future and the reasons behind these expectations in terms of sustainable development (SD). To this end, the current study was conducted based on a phenomenological model with the participation of 77…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preschool Teachers, Sustainable Development, Conservation (Environment)
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Ahi, Berat; Kahriman-Pamuk, Deniz – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2021
The purpose of the current study is to determine the opinions of children attending forest kindergarten about the concept of environment. The participants of the study are thirty six 50-70 month-old children attending a forest kindergarten. In line with the purpose of the study, the triangulation design, one of the qualitative research models, was…
Descriptors: Young Children, Childrens Attitudes, Kindergarten, Outdoor Education
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Akar, Ibrahim; Ahi, Berat – International Electronic Journal of Environmental Education, 2020
The purpose of this phenomenology study is to elicit and understand the gifted elementary school students' opinions about environment. A total of three gifted elementary school students selected by means of the homogenous sampling technique participated in the current study conducted in line with the phenomenology design of quantitative research.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Academically Gifted, Elementary School Students
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Ahi, Berat; Balci, Sibel – International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education, 2018
The purpose of the study is to reveal the knowledge level of pre-school children aged four to five about the concepts of forest and deforestation. The study group of the research consists of 29 children having pre-school education. The data were collected using a standardized open-ended interview technique. Results of the study showed that…
Descriptors: Ecology, Knowledge Level, Preschool Children, Forestry
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Ahi, Berat; Balci, Sibel; Alisinanoglu, Fatma – Journal of Environmental Education, 2017
The current study aimed to establish Turkish preservice teachers' mental models of the environment and to determine the relationship these models have with gender and grade level. The study group comprised 463 Turkish preservice teachers from primary school education and preschool education departments. The data from the study were collected from…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes
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Kildan, A. Oguzhan; Kurnaz, Mehmet Altan; Ahi, Berat – European Journal of Educational Research, 2013
The aim of this study was to determine mental models of 334 pre-school children concerning school. Children in the city center of Kastamonu in the Western Black Sea region of Turkey were included. Content analysis was conducted on pictures drawn by the children, and the models were split into two groups, scientific and nonscientific. The…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Cognitive Processes, Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries
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Özsoy, Sibel; Ahi, Berat – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2014
The purpose of the present study is to investigate first level of elementary school students' perceptions of the future state of the environment through the pictures they draw. The participants of the study are 131 first-grade students, 127 second-grade students, 160 third-grade students, 188 fourth-grade students, and 222 fifth-grade students,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes, Environmental Education, Grade 1